How Small can Warband be??

Started by Lord Greywolf, 17 April 2015, 09:26:08 AM

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Orcs

Welcome Lord Greywolf.

Like Ithoriel I play Warmaster ancients and have yet to take the plunge. But I must agree with him that smaller bases are the way to go.

Start with 50mm x 25mm with a quarter of the figures .  Once your son is hooked and finances allow you can add more bases.  if you wish you could then put 4 of your smaller bases together on thin card to make "normal" warband base.




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Welcome from a fellow Kiwi

If you do go down the smaller bases less figures route and speak politely to the nice Mr Leon I'm pretty sure they will do part packs for the add ons  ;)

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Another economising thought, if you need to buy paint for this project look at the Vallejo paints, here http://www.pendraken.co.uk/Vallejo-Paints-c27/

They are significantly cheaper than you can get them in store in NZ, even allowing for postage
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GrumpyOldMan

Hello LGW

On a further, further economising note, you could use the pdf version of the rules and the paper soldiers from Junior General (may the Dark Lord forgive me) until the readies are available for real armies. This way you can add in another father/son craft activity,  settle on which armies you prefer and may even work out custom army lists:-

http://www.juniorgeneral.org/load.php?Period=11





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It looks like a subbuteo dragon
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Hi Again

As a tip for small fingers and cutting out paper soldiers, print them out on inkjet Overhead transparencies (you don't have to cut them out then) and make sure any glue only goes under printed areas  :) - and round off the corners. In some cases you'll have to work on the graphic to get the figures head to head instead of toe to toe for folding purposes.

The dragon is already set up for folding and the transparency cuts it down from a 30 min job to 5 min.

Also be aware that anything needing to be in white won't be printed  :).

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Lord Greywolf

thx for the responses guys really appreciate the help..

I really like the idea of smaller bases it would be a good start.

considering I have played DBA and DBA WWII [used pendraken WWII minis for that] but had to sell all of them when i shifted and had no gaming community to play with.

but now the kids are getting older its time to dive back in.

We play Star Trek Attack wing, Deadzone, Hordes, and Pulp-City Supremes. So we need some kind of small scale fantasy game and warmaster isn't cheap to buy into . i know i have looked into it. [Note: I played Warmaster back in the day i have a rather large Dwarf, Goblin and High elves armies]

This is a chance for me to play "Large" scale battles but in a small scale environment.

as for crafting together that's what Terrain is for we will be making 10mm scale hills, rivers, and forests.

now where would i got 50mmx25mm bases?

Cheers
LGW


Luddite

If you're going for smaller bases, maybe 40x20mm would be better?  You can then start small and upgrade to larger sabot 'movement tray' bases as you expand?

http://www.pendraken.co.uk/Warband-Fantasy-NEW-c36/Bases-Movement-Trays-sc321/
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Quote from: Luddite on 18 April 2015, 10:25:44 AM
If you're going for smaller bases, maybe 40x20mm would be better?  You can then start small and upgrade to larger sabot 'movement tray' bases as you expand?

http://www.pendraken.co.uk/Warband-Fantasy-NEW-c36/Bases-Movement-Trays-sc321/

who sells 40mmx20mm bases I like the idea of using the movement trays... this might work for me ...

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Pendraken of course.   :)

Have a look on the Pendraken index on left hand side of site and click 'MDF Bases'.   ;)

Fenton

I just bought some of the Pendraken 40x20 bases...There lovely  :D
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fred.

While small bases are good for minimising the number of figures involved. Beware that as Warband uses base widths as its means of measurement, that you might end up with a very fiddly game if you go with 4x2cm bases, where the exact positioning of stands starts to matter much more than it should.

If you go with 50x25mm then you can just put 4 together to get a 10x5 equilivant.

For all sizes of bases Pendaken can help you. I have no idea if there are any more local suppliers as shipping bits of MDF around the world sounds an expensive method!
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 Of course  If I had known about Warband coming out when I ordered I might have ordered 100x50 bases instead
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toxicpixie

Did I gather you've still got the Warmaster armies you mentioned above?

You could go for just using those, either one base = one Warband unit, or two wide (on a piece of card for sabot!) = one unit...

Then get proper sabots or more lead as needed when you're happy it works :)
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