Are we serious......?

[HPFlashman]

Its always sunny here, over the clouds. The air is a bit thin and chilly, though.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Ohhh, nice nostrils! 

[Hertsblue]

Some of the guys even play with 42mm, one figure per unit, as representational units now...

One visitor to our club some time ago expressed the opinion that bases were what actually defined units and that the figures were merely handles with which to move them about. Naturally, we burned him at the stake.... 

[nikharwood]

One visitor to our club some time ago expressed the opinion that bases were what actually defined units and that the figures were merely handles with which to move them about. Naturally, we burned him at the stake.... 

[Orcs]

Having twenty-five superbly painted toy soldiers is hardly a convincing or serious simulation of an army, is it?

No its not.  But not all of us play with 25 figure armies. See link below.

https://sites.google.com/site/tringwargames/batreps/fornost

[HPFlashman]

Ohhh, nice nostrils! 

Thanks, I find no need to let the nosehair do a passable imitation of hermit crabs...

[Hertsblue]

No its not.  But not all of us play with 25 figure armies. See link below.

https://sites.google.com/site/tringwargames/batreps/fornost

Yes, I remember well the days of hauling boxes of 25mm figures to club meetings for large-scale battles. It was the beginning of my back problems, I believe.   

[Malbork]

Yes, I remember well the days of hauling boxes of 25mm figures to club meetings for large-scale battles.

When we were at school my mate and I always wanted one of those metal tool boxes to put our figures in (army would be too grand a word for several hundred arbitrarily organised and painted Airfix Naps )

But we never got one

[Hertsblue]

I've still got one. It weighed more than the figures! 

[FierceKitty]

I remember the days when all we could get was an erratic supply of those dreadful Airfix figures, unable to hold paint and in innumerable silly poses. We played determinedly with Grant and Featherstone rules too.
I wonder whether standards have climbed more in rules or in figures?

[Malbork]

We used Featherstone's rules with all units being 20 figs, preferably of the same pose, preferably not too silly. This was a bit tricky given some of the French poses for their Waterloo infantry.

We thought we were the bees' knees when Paul bought a unit of metal Brunswickers from a 6th former in the school wargames scoiety. Very reluctant to take casualties, that unit, and spent most of its time looking on in disdain as its plastic relatives got stuck in. Very, very shiny uniforms I recall.

[FierceKitty]

Remember that chap in the ridiculous bent knees pose, looking as if a passing horse had kicked him between wind and wave?

[Malbork]

Yes; two of them in a box IIRC, so for us 9 boxes to make a unit of gonadally challenged line infantry. Elite or effete? 

My favourite was the guy at march attack with only one foot on the base.  Four in a pack so a Featherstone French unit was a little more economically viable for schoolkids, if you could find a shop that sold them of course.

[FierceKitty]

And the infuriating practice of wasting one of the small number of mounted on a figure waving a sabre from behind a fallen horse!

[FierceKitty]

No wonder I'm never tempted to revisit Napoleonics!

[Malbork]

It's only thanks to 10mm that I've decided to revisit the period in a pathetic attempt to recapture the fun of those Saturday afternoons before the wrestling started on ITV and all thoughts of freeing the Peninsula vanished from our heads.

[Hertsblue]

We used Featherstone's rules with all units being 20 figs, preferably of the same pose, preferably not too silly. This was a bit tricky given some of the French poses for their Waterloo infantry.

You must have been using the same rules as we were. I have a feeling they were the old London Wargames Section set, adapted by DF. Figures were always two to a 1" square base, but mounted diagonally to pad out the unit. When metal figures did appear they were mainly pirated Minifigs (You didn't hear that from me!).

[Malbork]

You might be right about the rules.  I think ours came from the DF book Wargames or The Wargame - the one with the three simple sets for ancients, H&M and modern plus the (for their time) sophisticated Lionel Tarr rules for the Eastern Front.

We had great fun, enjoyed the games and didn't give two hoots about whether this type of musket ball flew faster than that one or whether we should only have one battery per 9 regiments. All our 20 units were regiments, we'd never heard of battalions etc then 

[Last Hussar]

Remember that chap in the ridiculous bent knees pose, looking as if a passing horse had kicked him between wind and wave?

French bloke? I think he was supposed to be carrying a cannon ball.

[Hertsblue]

French bloke? I think he was supposed to be carrying a cannon ball.

Wasn't there a separate French artillery set? I think the one FK means had a musket across what sixties rugby commentators always referred to a the "lower abdomen". Definitely sculpted for ease of moulding.