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Posted: **Thu Jan 14, 2021 11:23 am**

My bases are square, it's EB who has the agnoxix shaped ones.

Posted: **Thu Jan 14, 2021 11:55 am**

Wee derrick has a bunch of casualty markers on his website. If you are based for black powder, 3 caualty markers and the 4th is a base.

Posted: **Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:11 pm**

tim.w wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 11:23 am My bases are square, it's EB who has beautifully formed bases.

Fixed that for you, Tim.

Posted: **Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:48 pm**

tim.w wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 11:23 am .....it's EB who has the agnoxix shaped ones.

Can anyone explain the significance of 19 sheep in Essex Boy's basing methodology?

Posted: **Thu Jan 14, 2021 5:47 pm**

tim.w wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:16 pm Thanks gents all good food for thought. I think Charge is the way to go. Hadn't even considered it despite it being the most recent book I bought. I am no Napoleonic expert so may even go Imaginaps to an extent as with the Charge theme. I'm liking the new Perry Saxons so they might be the next unit.

So far I only have a 36man unit of Prussian line, 2 guns and a stand of Landwehr painted from years ago and more recently the horse gun. Cavalry still to paint. I can't see me with more than two or three line units a few guns and a couple of horse units done in the next few years alongside everything else. But that would be perfect Charge material.

I put some napoleonic flavoured amendments for Charge on my blog a while back.

https://ilkleyoldschool.blogspot.com/20 ... s.html?m=1

For my classic Napoleonics I am organising my infantry units with 61 figures each. 2 * 24 Infantry battalions, 12 skirmishers and a mounted officer. So a unit can lose 31 figures before it goes below 50% and retires losing effectiveness.

When I started wargaming there was a heated debate on the 50% rule that raged in the pages of the Miniature Warfare magazine.

Posted: **Thu Jan 14, 2021 7:44 pm**

Ilkley Old School wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 5:47 pm When I started wargaming there was a heated debate on the 50% rule that raged in the pages of the Miniature Warfare magazine.

I think it still goes on

I think most units would "bug out" long before they lost 50% if they had a choice!

Posted: **Fri Jan 15, 2021 8:16 am**

Presumably other rules allow that to happen, and the "51%" rule is a sort of reverse safety net that prevents it going any further?

Posted: **Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:12 pm**

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:11 pm My bases are square, it's EB who has beautifully formed buttocks.

That's what I read, until input my specs on.

Posted: **Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:14 pm**

Peeler wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:12 pm
Essex Boy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:11 pm My bases are square, it's EB who has beautifully formed buttocks.
That's what I read, until input my specs on.

Equally true.

Posted: **Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:29 pm**

Of course, he may have been trying to spell "botox".....

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