Hey Murray! Get away from there!
"Are you sure you want to go with this new basing style? Are you sure?"
Yes, I'm sure. Now get off the table!
Sorry. Damn cat is always nay-saying.
Here are a few more pics, just as a victory lap of sorts...
Did units ever actually take this formation? I feel like I saw it somewhere once years ago and I've always taken shots with this generic mixed order formation. It occurred to me the other day that this formation probably never stood still, but, if used, probably was moving the entire time. Anyways, I think that the minimalist basing has worked pretty well for both the skirmishers and the arty, which were the units I was most worried about. I know it takes some getting used to but I think it actually works much better than traditional basing. This means, of course, that I must now rebase my Austrian figures in the same manner. And there's probably between 3k and 4k of them. It will absolutely be worth it though. The flat background makes picking out uniform details a lot easier from a distance, so it'll reward more careful painting.
Here is an Austrian cav brigade standing in for some hussars or, more likely, some chasers a cheval (which I need to order from Pico, actually…). These guys were the topic of an earlier post where they were all on brigade bases. I rebased them today and unfortunately their flags didn't quite make it. I'm so adept at printing, painting and gluing 3mm flags now that I'm not bothered by it. Son las cosas de la vida, as they say. I was worried about how cav would look based like this, but they actually came out really well. My concern is not necessarily how they look as individual models, or even bases, but rather how they look in the big picture, and I think in that regard this basing works very well. It's also a lot easier and cheaper than other basing styles I've done.
A few things on cavalry in general. One cool thing about 3mm is that you can have cavalry that takes up a correct unit foot print. Almost all scales have cavalry being much too deep, which totally skews the way its used and deployed. I'm excited to see how this might change things. Also, because O8 cavalry is, relatively speaking, cheap, I'll easily be able to field an entire corps of cavalry in my games. That may actually be my next big project- I have a ton of cavalry figs just sitting around unpainted, and that'll give me the impetus to get working on them. Finally, the ground scale I'm using works out very conveniently so that each base of cavalry is exactly equal to one squadron of cavalry. This means, if I were to go for super-granularity in a game, I could show individual squadrons peeling off to, say, attack an infantry square one at a time over the course of several turns.
And the whole thing from the opposite angle of the first shot to round out this post…
As a final selling point on the scale, I just did some math and realized that all the figures in the picture above cost about $100, +/-. I actually got these in exchange for some painting work, but if they'd been purchased this is about what you'd be looking at. Really, you can't beat that with a stick.
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