Basing

Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 117 Location: Cheltenham

We play at brigade level but were working on divisonal with more points 5000pts roughly
i'd love to put battle report and pic on but at the moment our club is still developing armies and scenery www.cheltenhamwarchiefs.co.uk

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:11 am

we play in napow with the classic basing in France :

Infantry : 3 figures : 3 cm x 1.5 cm
Cavalry : 2 figures : 3 cm x 3 cm
artillery : 3cm x 4 cm

You have all informations here :
http://www.napow.fr

Very Happy

Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:02 am

Personally I prefer the larger bases with each medium base being a platoon with 3 platoons to a coy and 4 coy to a battalion plus a HQ stand. Gives lots of figures to play with (13 stands to a regiment) which is everyones real aim isnt it.

Chris

Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 55 Location: Washington

I wouldl love lots of figures but the problem is that would get very costly, but I would be willing to do it. Another problem is that most guys on here dont dig the massive amounts of miniatures and thats fine with me, but I like to see tons of miniatures and not pretend. Very Happy

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:33 am

You know it doesn't mater how many miniatures are on the base as long as the base size is consistent and the players have agreement on what a certain size of base actually represents (Coy, BN, Regt etc). If I want 10 minis on a base and want to pay for it thats fine but if my opponent wants 4 minis on a base because thats what he is happy with then thats OK too (Look a bit odd on the table top though Wink

). Even bases can be whatever you want them to be. If we have a system that has layers. You could play with the same bases from coy level games through to corps all that changes is what the base represents. Am I getting to deep here?

Chris

Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 55 Location: Washington

No not at all... Very Happy

Site Admin Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 174

chawkes wrote:

Even bases can be whatever you want them to be. If we have a system that has layers. You could play with the same bases from coy level games through to corps all that changes is what the base represents.

We've discussed much that very same idea here as well, Chris. The same miniatures could, it seems, be used for different scaled games.

Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 89 Location: Naples, Fl

I think we are all attracted to Napoleonics by the aesthetic appeal of the miniatures. Therefore, I think there has to be some consistency and convention to the number of figures per base. (Otherwise, we may as well as be playing a board game.) We can still have a sliding scale of 'a base can be a company, battalion, etc', but bases should be (basically) 4 figs vs 4 figs, 8 figs vs 8 figs....... x figs vs x figs.

Don

Site Admin Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 174

When we were speaking of possibly using the same armies at different scales (ie. Division level games and Army level games) we had planned to use the same bases with the same number of figures on them. It would just be a difference of what each base represented in that game (and the basing wouldn't change).

Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 89 Location: Naples, Fl

Oh, I totally agree with you. I was responding to a post Chawkes made farther up the page.

Don

Joined: 28 Aug 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Germany

I'm not pretty sure if I'm wasting time now. I didn't read all the post in this treat. Blame on me. Embarassed

We used for the basing the small-sized bases from FoW with six figures on it. This represents a company on our gaming. So four bases and 24 figures will be an infantry battalion. The long side of the small base shows to your opponent. Very Happy

The sqare formation looks excellent, when you place the four bases together.
For the cav we took the medium bases and used four figures as well. The small side shows to your opponent now. Six bases and 24 figs will be represent a whole unit again. They can overlap an inf batt without problem when they attack.
For the art we used the large ones with one gun each and the count of gunners represent the size of the gun.(small, medium, heavy, siege)
What do you think?
Cheers Cuckoo

Site Admin Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 174

Cherrybum wrote:

liked the Fire & Fury concept of wearing "Brigades" down.

Scruff wrote:

Anyone familiar with the fire and fury sets of rules?

We could base our formations etc on that, but use fow medium bases.
So you have ??? elements making up a brigade.

I had a chance to play Fire & Fury last week and was wondering just a few of the same things... both the unit arrangement (which I noticed matched what I'd done with my British army basing) as well as the wearing down of those brigades and the orders (good order/distordered) phase too. I couldn't help but feel that they would be good things to consider.

Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 4 Location: SW Ohio USA

Only problem with this is these rules have their own Napoleonic ruleset...Age of Eagles...

Very active yahoogroup and commercially available... Nice rule set even....Recommended...

Madcam.

Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 55 Location: Newcastle Australia

I want to rebase my existing 18mm AB figures to NapFoW using the following organisations.

French
3 Line Infantry battalions
2 Light infantry battalions
2 units of Light cavalry one of 4 squadrons and one of 3 squadrons
2 units of Cuirassiers each of 4 squadrons
3 batteries of regimental/battalion artillery
1 battery of horse artillery
1 heavy battery

Austrian
8 Line Infantry battalions
2 Grenzer battalions
3 units of Light cavalry each of 4 squadrons
2 batteries of artillery
1 heavy battery

Can any one suggest what bases to use and how many figures per base?

Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 89 Location: Naples, Fl

Basing has been the main point of contention here, and the polls I made have not produced a clear favorite. However, this link http://forumnapofow.free.fr/viewtopic.php?t=186 to Evan's AB French in the Gallery forum may shed some light, at least for your French. It seems the six figures to a medium base is acceptable to most people.

French and Austrian, eh? Are you looking at fighting the early war, or later in 1813-14? Post some picks when you can.

Don