Looking for basing guidelines for BKC. Does anyone know of any online? Specifically interested in SCW/AVBCW style formations.
- Neil.
I put my infantry on 50mm x 25mm bases, with Support units on 25mm x 25mm and artillery etc on 25mm x 50mm. Vehicles, tanks etc are not based by me. FAO's and Recce on 2p coins. Hope this helps?
Having moved to BKC from Warmaster I used the 40mm x 20mm bases I already had as far as possible plus 40mm square bases for command stands. Since then I've used some slightly bigger bases for the larger items like Panthers and Tigers.
I have 6 figures on an infantry base and a couple of heavy weapons and crews on support bases. Otherwise it's single vehicles and guns on a base and mini-dioramas for command stands.
50 x 25 for infantry and support weapons and also transports,armored cars and recce vehicles
40 x40 for AT and AA guns
50 X 50 for the CO
40 X 40 for HQ's
30 X 25 for tanks
That's what i use, and i think these were in the original bkc books
CO on roughly 40mm x 40mm.
HQs on 25mm x 25mm so that they can fit in trenches etc with the infantry.
Does basing matter in the 'Commander' series?
Should it be formalised?
Not really.
Probably not.
No, i just based them like that, because my gaming buddy used the basing from the original BKC.
Personally i would have made 25 x25 for the support weapons like mg's and mortars, easier to fit in scenery.
But at least everything is the same now.
Thanks all. I have some 25 x 50 and 25 x 25 bases, so I'm good to go.
One more question: is four infantry to a base to few? Want to give the impression of loose formations.
- Neil.
I base 3 or 4 10mm figures on a 30x30 base (all my BKC stuff is on a 30mm frontage). It depends on what they are, bog standard PBI are usually 3 figures.
I'll be using our esteemed host's range of SCW and AVBCW figures.
- Neil.
I used 6 figures because stands have 6 hits, nothing more scientific than that.
One of my regular opponents had a single figure on a 1" square base for infantry stands. It worked perfectly well even if it wasn't exactly aesthetically pleasing, being simply glued to the base and sprayed green!
I use 5 to a 50 x 25 base, and 3 for recce/irregular troops.
Doesn't matter, but 5 fills up the base quite nicely:
(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff441/petercooman123/DSC02576_zps60efc232.jpg) (http://s1236.photobucket.com/user/petercooman123/media/DSC02576_zps60efc232.jpg.html)
(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff441/petercooman123/DSC02577_zps34d173da.jpg) (http://s1236.photobucket.com/user/petercooman123/media/DSC02577_zps34d173da.jpg.html)
(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff441/petercooman123/DSC02614_zps39bc114c.jpg) (http://s1236.photobucket.com/user/petercooman123/media/DSC02614_zps39bc114c.jpg.html)
German infantry battalion of 3 rifle companies and a heavy weapons company - all on 40mm x 20mm:
(http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8613.0;attach=2776;image)
And transport for the rifle companies:
(http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8613.0;attach=2906;image)
Finally HQ stand on 40mm square base.
(http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=8613.0;attach=2986;image)
I went 50x30mm for both infantry and tanks
(http://www.kerynne.com/games/images/BritPara/Pltn%20OH.jpg)
(http://www.kerynne.com/games/images/BritArm/arm_side.jpg)
loads more here http://www.kerynne.com/games/BritishArmour.html