Base sizes

[Fraser]

Hi, coming back to wargaming later in life, have the rules and would love to use them. My question is around basing, my current table is 6x4, and my figures are based using big bases with 10mm figures ( so for earlier Renaissance infantry are on 50x30, 18 figures, 3 ranks and cavalry on 60x40, 7 figures, 2 ranks and for ECW I have combined P&S units on 80x40 bases of 27 figures). These don’t really fit in with the bases in a TUG and size of table - be really helpful if others have tweaked things to allow ReG with big bases, any help hugely appreciated

[Administrator]

Hi Fraser, and welcome. Just to reiterate what I said on FB. Horse frontage should typically be 2/3 of the width of Foot.

So in your example your horse is 60 and Foot is either 50mm (early) or 80mm later.  The obvious answer is use a 30mm BW. Technically that would leave Horse on 60mm frontage and Foot 90mm frontage. ( you have 80mm and 2x 50mm so a bit of a fudge but close enough not to make a difference) . Depth is must less important.

For when I do demo I use Epic on a 18cm frontage (with a 60mm BW) which looks like this -






Effective this is akin to playing with 28mm (TUG footprints)

For smaller games (but with bigger figures) 8/9cm Foot and 6cm Horse - so like this

[Administrator]

for completeness when I play 6mm Foot on 6cm and Horse on 4cm frontage (I use a 2cm BW - on a small table)

[Fraser]

Much info for thought ! Many thanks