ECW - just for arguments sake you understand

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Essex Boy wrote: Tue Feb 19, 2019 12:51 pm
garyp wrote: Tue Feb 19, 2019 12:05 pm How big are the grid squares for TTS?
2"x 2"....you'll have to rebase.
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In all seriousness, I've just about finished my first unit and the pike with 2 wings of shot has a 320mm frontage, so won't fit in a 1 foot square.

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Oooh goodie. Looking forward to seeing the piccies.
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Seems my job here is done
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Pike length? Any suggestions on height?
My friend would like a bit of advice you see
He's currently prepping some Empress Miniatures infantry and wonder how long to make the Pike
They come in a 10 cms length but my Italian wars pike were cut to 8 cms
On 28mm figures I think this is reasonable
Any recommendations for 8 or 10cms or different again? My friend would be grateful for your opinions
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Between 2.5 and 3 times the figure height. And your friend needs to join here for further advice.....
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If the figure is LT the pike should be 1.5x figure height. If it's Purps it should be 4X figure height.
In case it helps, the plastic Warlord ones are 8cm.
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80mm is about 16 feet in scale, which is about right for most "pikey" troops; by the time of the ECW they were being cut down to 14 (70mm) or even 12 (60mm) feet, but I think 70-80 looks impressive, as Fredd suggested.
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I am a touch confused by the layout of the Warlord sprues. The main sprue has 13 bodies, 8 musket men and 5 that can take pikes. But it only has 4 pikes.
There are spare options on the command sprue but the box will end up making 32 musket men, 16 pike and 10 unit command figures. I suppose that I'll just add a couple of figures to a battalion command base.
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