Hi folks
currently building up my War of Spanish Succession and have tried out Maurice a few times - looks quite good. Any players on the South coast between Bournemouth to Portsmouth? I am also wondering what base widths are you using for this game?

Playing AWI, bases are 30mm x 30mm with 6 figures to a base, in Scotland unfortunately

Same really, 30x30, based in Suffolk.

Have you tried the Maurice Forum? Friendly bunch

Here...

http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Maurice

Greetings

25mm frontages - just need to paint a few more units for Seven Years War, Western Germany.  Located in the south (west Surrey) just not on the coast, though our daughter is at uni in Southampton which is only 45-50 minutes away from home.

Regards

Edward

Thanks for the tips folks.

I've gone with 20x20 for Maurice (FIW in 10mm, SYW in 2mm)

Once again tried to get pictures on here but it is so convoluted I can nevder remember from one session to the next how to do it and I can't be writing a thousand words!

I went with 1" as the notational base width (for measuring etc) - but actually used 20mm x 20mm or 40mm x 20mm bases for the figures (as I already had lots of 40x20 based figures)

Two 40x20 bases works pretty well - as the bases are a good size to stay in place on the table. I have made 20x20 based figures but these tend to end up in slightly ragged lines as the stands get bumped a little.



Here are some french infantry on 20x20 (or possibly 25x20) bases facing some british cavalry on 40x20 bases.


The early stages of a battle


Some French in columns - the only time 20x20 bases are better than 40x20

Um, do the rules not specify base sizes? And if not, does it matter?

I haven't looked at the rules in ages, but I think it says as long as the width is twice the depth it doesn't really matter...But I could be thinking of some other rules


Actually if you could ignore all that, I was thinking of M&R

The rules are written to use Base Widths (BW) to make them figure scale independent. The rules recommend "squareish" bases. 

We went with 1 BW = 1" as it made translation of the rules really simple. Even though we left bases at 20mm, as that is what we had. I don't think this small difference in bases size to the designated BW had any major impact on game play. But I wouldn't want to try with too much of a difference in base size and the BW used by the rules.

With the LoA figures I am tempted to do 40x40mm bases - but not sure that I will get that many figures painted.

I don't get this! I've just attempted to post ONE photo and it won"t let me because the file is too large, yet above is a post with THREE photos. What's going on? Incidentally my son insists I'm a gibbon when on a computer.

There are two ways of getting photos on to the forums.

The best, but a bit more effort, is to have the photo hosted somewhere already online (eg a photo hosting site like Picassa, Photobucket etc, or on a website or blog). Then you just right click the image and choose Copy URL. Switch back to the forum and click the insert photo link button, the 3rd one from the left on the middle row. This puts a pair of img tags in the posting box, then just paste the URL form the clipboard (the cursor is in the right place).

The second option is to attach a photo - which is what I think you have tried to do. This only allows fairly small files to be attached, and shows them as a thumbnail, until someone clicks on them to view them. To get the file to the right size you will need some image editing software, iPhoto is great on the Mac, not sure if Photo and Fax viewer in Windows can doing cropping and resizing.

30x20mm for my guys either as 2 bases of 8 foot, 4 cav or 1 gun or now my collections is growing can go with the four bases stated in rules.  NZ is where I live

Look at this years painting comp army, page 3 to have a look of what it was like then since doubled in size have some Prussians done and currently working on Marlburian French for a change (being thick I dunno how to paste the msg link here doh!)

Thanks Fred. I'll give the photobucket method a whirl.

My own preference for 10mm and Maurice is to use 25mm as the standard frontage. This means all measurements can be done in inches. I now (having tried other numbers) base infantry on 25mm x 25mm in two ranks each of four figures. I use the same bases for cavalry and light infantry with three cavalry and three randomly placed lights. Artillery have differing base depths owing to the size of model being used. To further spice things up I sometimes replace the fourth infantry base with one having two infantry figures in two ranks and a 3lb gun and two crew to give the impression of battalion guns. It counts the same as an infantry base.

As you can see Fred that didn't work because I can't work out how to paste the URL from the clipboard because I don't know what the clipboard is[img][img]http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/Themes/babylon/images/bbc/img.gif

My son found it!

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B****ocks! I'm a Neandertahl and deserve to become extinct!