10mm basing?

Started by NeilCFord, 14 October 2015, 12:24:48 PM

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NeilCFord

14 October 2015, 12:24:48 PM
Looking for basing guidelines for BKC. Does anyone know of any online? Specifically interested in SCW/AVBCW style formations.

- Neil.

Steve J

14 October 2015, 01:32:10 PM #1
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?

Ithoriel

14 October 2015, 01:52:46 PM #2
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.
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petercooman

14 October 2015, 02:22:33 PM #3
 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

Steve J

14 October 2015, 02:26:19 PM #4
CO on roughly 40mm x 40mm.

HQs on 25mm x 25mm so that they can fit in trenches etc with the infantry.

Luddite

14 October 2015, 03:26:41 PM #5
Does basing matter in the 'Commander' series?

Should it be formalised?
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Ithoriel

14 October 2015, 03:29:58 PM #6
Not really.

Probably not.
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petercooman

14 October 2015, 03:45:06 PM #7
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.

NeilCFord

14 October 2015, 03:55:00 PM #8
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.

sunjester

14 October 2015, 04:00:01 PM #9
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.

NeilCFord

14 October 2015, 04:10:55 PM #10
I'll be using our esteemed host's range of SCW and AVBCW figures.

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Ithoriel

14 October 2015, 04:59:18 PM #11
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!
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petercooman

14 October 2015, 06:16:20 PM #12
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:





Ithoriel

14 October 2015, 07:37:23 PM #13 Last Edit: 14 October 2015, 07:39:06 PM by Ithoriel
German infantry battalion of 3 rifle companies and a heavy weapons company - all on 40mm x 20mm:



And transport for the rifle companies:



Finally HQ stand on 40mm square base.

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fred.

14 October 2015, 07:56:25 PM #14
I went 50x30mm for both infantry and tanks





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