The Loose Association of Wargamers

These, of course, are the ultimate in 'Old School' - they're what HG wells used.

They have several benefits - flexibility being one - but are also difficult in many ways.
Moving several hundred figures, one at a time, is both tedious & time consuming. That's why movement trays were developed.



These, however, have their problems. After a large AZW game, sorting through the numerous Zulu casualties to ascertain which regiment/movement tray each individual figure belonged to, is a chore.



You also get the phenomena of "shaky figures" where, say, 20 figures sit on a large tray none too securely and any sudden lurch when you're moving the tray results in an avalanche of loose figures.

I may have solved this one. A small blob of blue tac on the underside of the individual base allows a more secure attachment to the movement base. If you remove the figure, as a casualty, a quick squeeze of the blob back into a ball, as you replace the figure at game's end restores this attachment.

This certainly works short term as I believe blue tac to be eternally indestructible, should work long term too.

donald

I do use base & movement trays to differentiate between troop types - notably with Late Antiquity.



You'll notice light cavalry with oval bases, heavy with large round, heavy infantry on rectangular movement trays & skirmishers on irregular trays.

This helps differentiate some of the vital differences in units in 'War & Conquest'.

donald

I'm afraid that, for me, they will always be "bloke with a spear" and "bloke with a spear, on a horse". Lovely collection, though, and I am always glad to see the pleasure a collection gives to a fellow-wargamer.

Compliments of the season, young Donald.

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Sat Dec 24, 2022 1:16 pm I'm afraid that, for me, they will always be "bloke with a spear" and "bloke with a spear, on a horse". Lovely collection, though, and I am always glad to see the pleasure a collection gives to a fellow-wargamer.

Compliments of the season, young Donald.

Who's young Donald?

I like the idea of individually based figures and I've experimented quite a bit with sabots but, the toys nearly always end up based in multiples. In the olden days, units would have multiples of three or four figures with a few bases of ones and twos for casualty removal. Even that looks messy to me now, and I much prefer units to look like units until they get removed completely...........i.e. casualty markers for casualties.

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Essex Boy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 24, 2022 2:03 pm
Who's young Donald?

You be the judge:

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Sat Dec 24, 2022 1:16 pm I'm afraid that, for me, they will always be "bloke with a spear" and "bloke with a spear, on a horse".

After 5 games, our slightly dumbed down version of 'War & Conquest' looks like being my favourite rule set.

On a complexity level, it's maybe 2 out of 5. The challenge comes with tactics - particularly managing the various troop types. How does a Roman commander manage those masses of barbarian horse archers? Should he use legionary vexillations with 50 % archers or just go with all heavy infantry? And the Strategic Intervention Points - when to use this finite resource?

And we haven't even moved into interesting scenario play yet.


donald

Who is young Donald?
Obviously the cameraman.