The Loose Association of Wargamers

Been dabbling a little with Never Mind the Billhooks, WI's freebie WotR rules. The unit sizes started tickling my thought processes re basing approach, mostly because I prefer a more random basing look to medievals and earlier periods.

So, what looks best? Option 1 - 1 stand per unit 1x10:




or Option 2 - 2 standsper unit 2x3 :




Figure numbers don't actually matter. All views welcome.

Very nice

Have you considered rounding the corners?

I too prefer a more random basing, but the ten figure bases look just a little too deep......and cornery.

For some reason I liked the deep base for the men at arms but less so for the archers. No basis in fact for this opinion but it just looked appealing to have a deep base for the thuggish types.

Of course since you are a sabot man you could do both....

Why not use the zombie style bases either one large or two smaller per unit. Pikes or spears might be better on rectangles?

Do the Women's Institute do free wargames rules?

My local branch does - they usually give +2 at all times to Zulu mothers-in-law.

The zombie/rounded corners idea, this sort of thing:
https://warbases.co.uk/product-category ... bie-trays/
but it strikes me that they would work better for truly ‘barbarian’ style ancients (or Irish. Or Welsh). It also presents a problem as I use steel paper on the bottom of the MDF base (top layer only to get a thinner base) and getting a tidy cut is a little..........troublesome.

goat major wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 8:03 pm For some reason I liked the deep base for the men at arms but less so for the archers. No basis in fact for this opinion but it just looked appealing to have a deep base for the thuggish types.

Funny, I thought the archers would deploy deeper than MAA to get the depth of fire. There’s also the Billhooks’ idea of arrow supply (archers only get to fire 6 times) and I could use the rear rank for figures carrying up arrows or maybe a D6 marker. The deep base is this one from Warbases:
https://warbases.co.uk/product/infamy-infamy-mob-tray/
and I quite like the idea of reversing it for the more cautious/raw MAA units so that the rear rank is more packed than the front rank. Alternatively that might be the way they fought, swinging double-handed poleaxes required a bit of space and energy, I can see the various ranks swapping around as individuals opt in to a bit of H2H and then pull back for a breather.

Neanderthal wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 9:04 pm Pikes or spears might be better on rectangles?

Yes, certainly pikes. I did commission a 3x3 rectangular base from Warbases which I use for crossbow/pavise formations - pikes and better organised spears would benefit visually from that.

Hmmm, I’m starting to think a reorganisation of my WotR is on the cards

ERM made me some MDF oval 'holes'.

I can't send a photo at the moment, but imagine an individual MDF figure base. Cut a one mil border round the base so that you have the base and the hole into which it will fit. You can set these 'holes' out anywhichway you like - on a tablet base (not a square or rectangular base - because they are cornery) or something less regular.

Iain

That advice is written in faultless English, but I have no idea what it means.