| yorkie o1 | 03 Sep 2012 9:47 p.m. PST |
Hi, Having bought the book im quite looking forward to starting a few armies for this game. however, i have limited space to play but would like to still create large impetus size bases for my units, 120mm frontage. Question is, as the measurements are in base widths, that would mean id need a pretty big table, would it effect the game too much if i used say 60mm as the measurement unit? Ive thought about it but cant see it being too much of a problem. The max table size i can manage is 90mm – 150mm. although when i get back to the UK in a few years time ill have my larger gaming table back from storage… Steve |
| advocate | 04 Sep 2012 1:45 a.m. PST |
You won't have much room to manoeuvre even assuming a 150cm table. That may make it more like a shieldwall battle, but the game may lose some of the subtlety. I would imagine this would particularly hit cavalry. It might be worth considering making your impetus units up from two 60mm bases. |
| Tarleton | 04 Sep 2012 4:25 a.m. PST |
I use 120mm frontage for units but just use 4 inches as a base width. So the multiple are in 4 inches as opposed to base widths. Works fine. |
| Lewisgunner | 04 Sep 2012 4:54 a.m. PST |
Use 15mmm for the moment. An hour or two on Ebay would give you enough troops to make up two armies. Roy |
| yorkie o1 | 04 Sep 2012 6:16 a.m. PST |
Tarleton said, "I use 120mm frontage for units but just use 4 inches as a base width. So the multiple are in 4 inches as opposed to base widths. Works fine." Thanks for the info, that's exactly what im thinking of doing, do you find there is enough room to deploy etc, without it becoming crowded? Steve |
| Tarleton | 04 Sep 2012 10:41 a.m. PST |
Yes, we deployed both sides 2 foot in from their base edge to start with, to speed things up. There was still room enough for some manouvreing. |
| yorkie o1 | 04 Sep 2012 11:01 a.m. PST |
Sounds good, cheers for the advice, now ive just got the small matter of collecting some armies….:) |
| vtsaogames | 04 Sep 2012 12:28 p.m. PST |
Tarleton, how big is your table? |
| Tarleton | 05 Sep 2012 1:35 a.m. PST |
We only used 6' x 6' for the Dux Bellorum game but theres another 2' on the end. So overall 8' x 6', plenty of room. |
| yorkie o1 | 05 Sep 2012 1:45 a.m. PST |
Ah, so you have a big table, so maybe I would struggle with my 3ft by 5ft after all….. |
| Gnu2000 | 06 Sep 2012 12:38 p.m. PST |
Hi Steve As you will eventually be going back to a big table and want to get your 28mm figures based up for the future, then I suggest using the 120mm units and using the following conventions: a 3" nominal BW for measuring, to make the table seem a little deeper. I think that otherwise any cavalry-heavy armies will suffer from a lack of manoevring space. If its mainly infantry v infantry then 4" might still work. reduce the army size from 32 points to 24 or 26. Essentially you want the largest armies to fill the baseline but leave a couple of unit widths free on each flank. For a 5 foot table this means the largest army should have around 8 units I think (150mm table minus 48cm on flanks leaves 102cm for deployment). Once you get home then switch to 4" measurements, full size armies and a 6x4 table. Happy gaming Steve |
