New Member from Chippenham, Wiltshire!

[T13A]

Hi

From FSN:

I did set up a 1:1 battallion for my British infantry, just to see how it looks, you understand.  600 figures, 2 deep gives a 3m (10') frontage. Had to go diagonally across my 8' x 4' table. The two flags looks awfully insignificant, and it's a long way from the first grenadier to the last light bob.

And can you just immagine how difficult it would be to march them across any terrain (other than Horseguards) and keeping them in any reasonable order.   

Cheers Paul

[fsn]

Exactly and precisely so!

I did try to mimic line to column and line to square, and it's a bit of of a faff to be honest. 

[Keraunos]

Welcome.  Good to see a wargamer in Chippenham.   I am, temporarily, just down the road from you near Corsham.
I certainly think 10mm is the direction to go in for large battles.  Have had great fun making up 30 years war armies with them.
On Napoleonics, allow some flexibility in brigade sizes if you want to represent the differences in organization between the armies of different nations.  I have brigades between 24 and 48 strong for infantry, 12 to 18 for cavalry.  When you are doing large battles I don't think you need to worry about trying to achieve accurate battalion square formations - unless you have time and table space for the figures and the fiddling around needed to deploy out of line or column into squares and back again.