Rebasing: I hates it with a passion I does

Spent most of the evening organising my 1812 Russians and French Napoleonics so I can start rebasing for use with the Age of Eagles rules the club napoleonics project will be using – they’re pretty fast play, a few factors to count but nothing that doesn’t become second nature (most of the mods are situational rather than discrete).

We’re using a bespoke basing system as it’s a club project and none of us can see any need to be compatible with any other armies outside our own. My armies are currently based for the old WRG 1685-1845 rules with individual figure casualties which makes them awfully fiddly. Moving from Battalions to Brigades as manoeuvre elements is interesting but based on the game last Thursday I can live with moving up to that level. I’m probably going to end up with about 6-8 figures per base for infantry and 2-3 fgs for cav.

We’re also using double sized elements to really speed things up in terms of physical movement and this helps with the arty which will have two gun models and 8 crew per base making them rather nice to look at. The Russians have 22 battalions of foot, 8 cavalry regiments (80 cavalry, 296 infantry and 12 guns), while the French have 16 Battalions of Infantry and 9 Units of Cavalry (90 cavalry, 306 infantry, 6 generals and 12 guns. The artillery is too scary to contemplate just now as there are so many guns and I have full limbers still waiting to be based and painted plus a selection of supply wagons I should get around to constructing.

The only good thing about all this is that finally I’ll be rid of the evil that is single figure basing, moving to 8 and 12 figure elements and no more casualty removal except by element.

P-J