Part 2.
The Baccus English Civil War Army Pack arrived yesterday.
It includes:
1 x Polemos ECW Ruleset (Not to be used initially on this
project).
1 x Essex's Army Starter Pack. (Comprising: 8 regiments of
foot made up of 36 figures each, 12 units of horse made up of 9 figures each,
two cannon and 4 crew each, and 4 commander strips).
1 x Oxford’s Army Starter Pack. (Comprising: 8 regiments of
foot made up of 36 figures each, 12 units of horse made up of 9 figures each,
two cannon and 4 crew each, and 4 commander strips).
2 Sets of pre-cut bases (Forty 60x30 infantry/cavalry bases
and fourteen 30x30 artillery/command bases).
2 x flag sheets.
Painting guides for ECW armies.
(Army pack pic)
And, a church!
(Church pic)
I next considered the basing sstem.
As mentioned above, the figures came with Baccus 60x30
bases.
I had some 80x40 bases left over from another project, so
considered using those, which allows for about 5mm extra clear ground around
each regiment. Although that would have looked okay, I didn’t have enough, so
may have to invest in more.
Here are the comparisons.
(60x30 base and 80x40 base)
Either could be used as ‘sabot’ bases for figures based in
other ways.
I think the 80x40 looks better, with the usual 3-3-3
musket-pike-musket strips and a flag-bearer strip to the front, proudly flying
their colours in the face of the enemy (rather than having the flag dude actin
as the front rank of the central pike section as on the 60x30 base).
However, that will require me to purchase more 80x40 and 40x40 bases and a couple of packs of pikemen to make up the numbers. But I have enough to be going on with for now.
Next post; Painting the Infantry.
2 comments:
Good to see, you do know Ive still got all of your 6mm ECW you gave to me a long while a go? I use Libar:Militum Tercios rules (They have them at North Star) with Kingdom is Ours ECw supplement. Its grand scale so I have battalia based on 12cms by 6cms and cavalry on 8cms by 4cms. Ill take a photo and send it to you (One day :-)) Glad to see all is well and that, like me, you rebuying figures you gave away/sold a long time ago :-) I think Ive bought, then sold, then replaced my 28mm ECW about 5 times now! Rupe
Hi Rupe. Nice to hear from you. The buy-sell-rebuy process keeps the figure manufacturers like yourself going strong (hopefully). Yes, I recall you had the old 6mm ECW figs. Good to hear they're getting some action. Some pics would be nice. Cheers, Ian.
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