Horse and musket infantry in six ranks?

[Hwiccee]

mmcv: The 1:1 infantry are on a 18cm frontage per battalion. The cavalry are on a 9cm frontage per squadrons. At the moment I have files for infantry units of 400, 500 or 600 men and in 3 or 4 ranks. The cavalry also have variants -100, 125 or 150 man squadrons with 3 or 4 troops.

This means you can squeeze 10 battalions on the table & supporting cavalry/artillery on a 6 by 4 table - assuming they are in 2 lines and packed in. Realistically probably less than this.

For user friendly units one of the attractions for me was it was portable. The rules are for large battles which help but I have enough figures to do any ECW/TYW battle in a standard office box file. I have printed mats for 'terrain' that fold up small. So the whole set up is extremely portable.

Good luck on your project.

[mmcv]

Thanks Hwiccee!

[Leman]

Looks great Leman. The 2mm scenics are quite tempting given you can represent entire towns quite easily.

Having played at the three scales which is your favourite for the FPW?

I'm also looking at Austro Prussian and Crimea as options too. Have ordered BBB and BBEB so will see if any other scenarios tickle me from them as well.

I really don't have a favourite scale. I find the bigger battles in the likes of BBB work best with 6mm, but some have very complex scenic requirements and these are best represented in 2mm/3mm scale. !0mm is great for battalion level games like FoB2 and From Shako to Coalscuttle.

I am going to be doing the !866 war in 2mm simply for convenience. Although not technically accurate my Austrian infantry will be in white to easily differentiate them from the Prussians. I have already done BBB Langensalza in this scale. It was popular down the club and has been played three times.

[mmcv]

Yeah my scenery/terrain collection is essentially nil at present. This isn't a big deal with ancients where wide open plains were common battle grounds but for later conflicts they're obviously much more important. 2mm seems like it would be easy to put these scenic elements together compared to making scenery even for 10mm. I'll get there one day with 10mm, will need plenty of hedges for my ECW stuff of course, but want a smallish, cheap project I can get on the table quickly for later this year as that pesky real life business is pretty busy at the moment and will be for a while to come!

[Leman]

Very small scale scenery has the same problem as figures, i.e. inconsistency in scale. Irregular's original 2mm buildings are very small indeed, but the later IK range are slightly bigger, and fit well with Brigade Models small scale scenery. There is more consistency in 3mm between Peter Pig, Paper Terrain and TBM.