WSS Game

[Shutuphippie]

Totally agree, FK.

That DOES look rather special ! 
I'm most impressed.....and not the tiniest bit jealous ! 

Cheers - Phil

Cheers Phil. We're quite chuffed as well as we only started building the armies about 18 months ago. We love big multi player games at our club and always have good fun which is the main reason afterall that we game


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[Shutuphippie]

You're right I forgot I also have my SYW/FIW stuff on 20mm squares so that they work with Maurice as well as BP and HoW

My Napoleonics are either (6mm) based for LFS or (10mm) for Lasalle

There's a strong Mustafa thread here - we should blame him, yeah it's Sam's fault we're not using big bases, that's right (err Grande Armee; Blucher? no that doesn't work - dammit!)

[I thought most people used two 60mm x 30mm bases for AoR units?]

We play lots of different games at our club using lots of different scales and basing methods. Each to there own is our view.

6mm napoleonic  volley and bayonet rules using 3" squares as per the rules

10mm WSS. Single base units representing linear warfare of the period

15mm Napoleonic using Shako rules. 3 bases per unit so we can deploy in line, column or square. Cavalry regiments in 4 bases for line or column

15mm FPW using a variant of Shako. 2 base units

28mm ACW. 4 figures per base and 5-7 bases per unit

28mm Ancients. We use Hail Caesar rules but impetus base sizes so we don't have to faff with individual figures etc


No matter which scale or rules er or period we make sure we have lots of units on the table and it looks impressive 😀

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[Shutuphippie]

such a display of color! well done

That is one of the reasons we love this period. Lots of colourful units and big flags 😀


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[Shutuphippie]

I'm not prepared to accept this until I hear corroborative evidence from PINKY

one can only hope he's not in a shallow grave / indiscriminate BBQ

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[Shutuphippie]

Great game - quite spectacular, in fact! 

My question is, if you only have one base per unit which is, say, in Line, how do you represent other formations? On the one hand, I suppose, you don't have to worry about formation changes(!) which, in one sense, may simplify the game but, on the other hand, this might be slightly restrictive regarding movement because you are always subject to what you can and can't do when in Line.  To represent different formations, it seems to me you will need specialist markers. In photos 16 and 20, presumably the black marker represents disorder? If your units consist of multiple bases, you won't need such a marker - you simply re-arrange the bases in a disordered manner.   I used to have 'battalion' bases for Maurice (2 per brigade) but after a few games using other rule sets I missed not having the flexibility to form my units in March Column so that they would fit and look better on a road. I also thought less bases would mean faster shifting of units on the table but actually I haven't noticed any difference since I changed to 4 bases per unit. 4 bases enables me to represent Line, Attack Column, Square, March Column, Skirmish Order and Disorder without markers. So, personally, I recommend you don't do big bases.

Black markers are disorders- well spotted


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[PERKY]

Ahhh Zippee !!!! Showing your age  . Alas Pinky showed no interest in war gaming and retired to a temple in deepest Tibet 

[paulr]

I guess it depends what level your game represents.

For me a base should represent the smallest unit that would manoeuvre independently in a battle of whatever size is being represented. So individual figures for skirmish but battalion or even brigade for large encounters.

If I'm a general I don't care what formation a unit is in (and the rules shouldn't either IMHO) that's what majors and colonels (and captains if things are going badly!) are for. So I don't feel the need to base things to represent that.

For me it's about focussing the player on the decisions made by commanders of the rank they are portraying.

It may or may not save much time during the game but my experience is that it saves a great deal in set up and tidy up.

Well said that man

[Glorfindel]

This is a seriously inspirational game.   Even close up, the figures
and terrain really are the business.   Well done.   And, there's so
much of it !

I have used single unit bases for 6mm Great Northern War games
using Black Powder before and it works fine.   Scaled up to 10mm,
the bases do look magnificent.   So much easier to maneouvre.

Right, off to have a look at some WSS figures !


Phil

[Shutuphippie]

This is a seriously inspirational game.   Even close up, the figures
and terrain really are the business.   Well done.   And, there's so
much of it !

I have used single unit bases for 6mm Great Northern War games
using Black Powder before and it works fine.   Scaled up to 10mm,
the bases do look magnificent.   So much easier to maneouvre.

Right, off to have a look at some WSS figures !


Phil

Thanks Phil. The WSS figures are very good from pendraken. We have mixed in some of the LOA ones as well as there is a bit more choice in the range especially the cavalry and the LOA French Dragoons are simply awesome

All the figures on the table were pendraken ones. The building were total battle miniatures purchases from pendraken.

Our Spanish player was on holiday on Wednesday as well so we were missing his 18 battalions of infantry plus Cav and guns etc! 😀

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[Last Hussar]

Is that considered unusual in this day and age?

Roughly a third of my current gaming companions/ opponents are female.

I know very few women gamers. There seems to be more in RPG, and more in LARP/reenactment.  One re-enactor I knew was musing about whether to do her dissertation on a link between maple autism and the male dominated wargaming (early 90s) with reference to the sort of obsessiveness wargamers have.  I'll happily get trashed by anyone, regardless of plumbing.

[FierceKitty]

Mine is very pleased with herself for taking Oda Nobunaga to the cleaners yesterday. Hmmph!

[Techno]

Ahhh Zippee !!!! Showing your age  . Alas Pinky showed no interest in war gaming and retired to a temple in deepest Tibet 

As we missed your first post earlier, Perky...
A very warm welcome to the forum. 

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Pinky & Perky were two puppet pigs back in the days of black & white TV, Hippie......Not that I remember them at all. 

Cheers - Phil

[Norm]

Pinky and perky ... Let's twist again!

You Tube link - https://youtu.be/Xsr_k1wKSWI

[Norm]

I am holding back on my decision to convert my three large test 80mm ACW bases back to join their 40mm brethren. I really like the look of the WSS game. I think I can get away with ACW on big singles, I am less sure about napoleonics.

[fsn]

What ho, Perky!




*suddenly feels guilty about bacon sarnie in other hand whilst typing*