BKC 6mm basing

[getagrip]

What's the ground scale in BKC and what is the typical frontage of the unit the base represents?

Or you could use 32x32mm so they are also based for Spearhead  (125 yards, typical platoon frontage)

I don't have the first clue 

[Ithoriel]

BKC, like all of the Warmaster series, tends to be top down rather than bottom up - so no fixed ground scale/ time scale/ figure scale.

I play one infantry stand = 1 platoon.

Lets face it a WW2 platoon covered a frontage exactly equal to the ground it was told to hold .... OR I WILL KNOW THE REASON WHY, SERGEANT!!

[getagrip]

BKC, like all of the Warmaster series, tends to be top down rather than bottom up - so no fixed ground scale/ time scale/ figure scale.

I play one infantry stand = 1 platoon.

Lets face it a WW2 platoon covered a frontage exactly equal to the ground it was told to hold .... OR I WILL KNOW THE REASON WHY, SERGEANT!!

Sir yes sir! 

[fred.]

I have another webpage I put together a few years ago about this http://www.kerynne.com/games/BaseArea.html

I note that ground scale is 1cm = 20m. So a 5cm base has a frontage of 100m. This seems a fairly compact but reasonable frontage for a platoon.

[getagrip]

I have another webpage I put together a few years ago about this http://www.kerynne.com/games/BaseArea.html

I note that ground scale is 1cm = 20m. So a 5cm base has a frontage of 100m. This seems a fairly compact but reasonable frontage for a platoon.

Cheers Fred, that's really useful.  20x40mm might be a goer 

[toxicpixie]

Oddly enough out 30mm square was for Spearhead! Close enough

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Could be why my stuff is 30x30, and the BMP/BTR bases look like they have a rash - where I pulled off the riflemen.

IanS

[toxicpixie]

Yeah, that'd do it - 30mm square is the default for most people I think, and Spearhead uses Combat Teams for IFV mounted foot where they operate together on a base...

[getagrip]

Wouldn't infantry look a bit lost on 30x30?

How many troops would you put on there?

[toxicpixie]

Usually I put three for rifles, four for SMGs and five for engineers so I can tell them apart

And on with lots of nice scenery these days so they look nice. I did used to be very simple - three riflemen and flock. They really do look lost then!

[getagrip]

Usually I put three for rifles, four for SMGs and five for engineers so I can tell them apart

And on with lots of nice scenery these days so they look nice. I did used to be very simple - three riflemen and flock. They really do look lost then!

That makes sense; like the idea of varying numbers by type

At 30x30 though, I think might double your numbers 

[toxicpixie]

I'm a cheapskate

Actually, the last 6mm I did was some Vichy French that ricardophillipo now owns - he can probably give you a nice description of them if he see's this

There's some terrible pictures on my painting Faceache page -


https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

No 4 or 5 figures is enough...though these days I use 30x20 for my infanrty, mainly because I have battalions of those for use with 1-1 rules.

IanS

[getagrip]

I'm a cheapskate

Actually, the last 6mm I did was some Vichy French that ricardophillipo now owns - he can probably give you a nice description of them if he see's this

There's some terrible pictures on my painting Faceache page -


https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting

Cheers Pixie.  So they are 6mm minis on 30x30mm bases?  Doesn't look as sparse as I thought

The painting's good too

[getagrip]

No 4 or 5 figures is enough...though these days I use 30x20 for my infanrty, mainly because I have battalions of those for use with 1-1 rules.

IanS

What do you put vehicles on Ian?