Monday, 24 August 2020

Quick quiz question

I was cutting out bases from card yesterday-
Which rules base figures on a base like this ? Answer tomorrow if no one gets it.

8 comments:

  1. I remember Terry Wise’s Napoleonic rules had artillery bases like that, but I don’t think that’s it somehow.

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  2. I thought Artillery bases too, but they don't look big enough. Intriguing.

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  3. Could be artillery bases or more obscure didn't WRG do a platoon scale set of rules for 1920 - 1960 that used these to base figures individually ?.

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  4. Either Artillery bases (Barry Edwards' Nap rules uses those bases as well), or individual bases to make "bends" in the line. I saw a photograph in a magazine once in which someone had mounted individual figures on triangular bases so he could have "bends" and follow defensive works more closely.

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  5. Very very very tiny Artillery bases - these look too small for the 70s 80s Artillery bases that My Peter Laing ECW Artillery were based on. https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/03/192-hexes-of-joy-affronted-by-re-basing-and-ground-scales/

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  6. I had to look this non triangle base shape up - I think it is a quadrilateral irregular polygon (?) according to https://www.skillsyouneed.com/num/polygons.html
    Maths over! Now I just lie down in a darkened room ...

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  7. It's WW2 and quite an old set of rules - WRG perhaps.

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