ochoin wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 5:31 am
Essentially perfect.
OK, the cognoscenti want to know:
what's the wooden arrow for?
the game cloth? Commercial or have you created it/
buildings? I recognise some resin ones & I think there's some laser-cut ones but some are scratch-built?
donald
Thanks Donald.
The wooden arrows are mentioned in the article; they indicate when a unit is in column. I gave up on small troop-bases years ago and instead base each battalion in line on a single base. It makes manoeuvring (and packing up) FAR quicker and they spend 99% of their time in line, so I see little point in faffing about with small bases for the rare occasion they might form column. It also makes it far, far easier to identify one battalion from the next, when they're all lined up without intervals.
For cavalry regiments, I found that single bases are a bit too big and heavy and the end figures tend to get damaged, so for the most part I use 6 or 8-figure ('half-regiment') regiment bases and they can therefore form column. For the British, Hanoverians, Hessians, etc, 6 figures is actually a whole regiment and for the French, 4 figures is typical.
The game cloth is a commercially-bought one. The pattern is sold by quite a few companies, but that one came from Tiny Terrain.
The buildings are a mix of Total Battle Miniatures (TBM), The Drum and ancient scratch-built ones. The fortress is the old Ian Weekley model now produced by TSS.