Peninsular war british basing

[DecemDave]

I agree. Sadly at 1:10 I would need to paint and base about 5,000 figures and move somewhere I could fit a 12ft table!   Although that would help the social distancing!

[monkeynut]

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[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Hi DEcemDave - warning - ignore FSN and be rude to Techno ! 

[howayman]

The old W.R.G rules took that into account in their basing.
A line was a single row of figures.

[Dragoon]

The Mark Bevis who wrote the book on painting ancient armies?

I've been playing Age of Eagles for a while, in 18mm AB figures. The bases being 20mm wide X 25mm deep. What base size are you usino

However I've going to play solo War of Austrian Succession / Seve Years War.
WRG book quotes 21" per file shoulder to shoulder. For 15mm. 12mm. or 9mm. figures the recommended base size is for figures in close order. 4 figures on a 30mm X 10mm base or 7.5mm. per figure frontage.

Dave Browns General d'Armee' uses different scales. 20 : 1 for a division size game or 40 : 1 for corps or army level.

I'm tempted to play imagination a la Charles Grant and Peter Young and for that I favour Peter Young's Charge! Rules.
Very difficult with 10mm figures
If I use 20mm x 25mm depth the extr depth could be used  for sergeants, lieutenants for each company in the end I'm going to have to use thin card to see what will fit and what it will look like.
Then I could end up with custom made bases.
If I do go for imaginations then another option is " Maurice " rules from Sam Mustafa which play well an the cards will add to a campaign.

[sultanbev]

"The Mark Bevis who wrote the book on painting ancient armies?"

Not me, I did the book on Napoleonic Arabs called Tangier to Tehran, still available to purchase.
If I wrote a book on painting ancients it would be one side of A4, on account of in my experience of painting ancients for customers, most of it is made up, we've little idea what colour clothing most soldiers and conscripted civilians wore 2000 years ago. Even less troop types were uniformed, so each figure should probably be a different colour.

For 15mm Napoleonics I used the 4 figures on a 30mm frontage, 1/2" deep bases, in a single row. Which ties in with the rules ground scale we use. The reason I'm selling up 15mm and going to 10mm is that the newer 18mm figures don't match my existing 15mm, and donton't fit very well on the same bases. That was 1:20 ratio (eg a 500 man battalion was 24 figures). With 10mm I can use twice as many figures on the same frontages, looks kinda awesome, with the added bonus I do not need to alter the rules in any way. We could actually commit heresy and fight my 10mms against colleagues' 15mm 

Mark

[Last Hussar]

Use 10mm terrain, and say he can't use cover because his men are too big to hide.