Well almost.......still trying to throw off the last of this virus.
Monday 30th November - DBM - Samurai v Sung Chinese - a hard battle where my leftmost command managed to hold on (with the general resembling Houdini) whilst Chris broke two enemy (Samurai) commands.
I learnt that although Bw(X) may look tough they can soon go down to determined opposition. This situation left me with only one small command intact. An amazing number of sixes being thrown by myself and Al to little result.
On the other tables:
'Square Bashing' Austro-Hungarians v Russians
100 Years War fight using Osprey rules
Star Wars dogfight
HotT practice game
Incidentally I gave up trying to read 'Field of Glory' Renaissance - too prescriptive and unwieldy for my liking.
Wednesday 2nd December - in between catching up on all my Folk Dance duties I took another look at the basing options in 'Victorian Steel'. p4 - "So long as the frontages for all......are the same any size can be incorporated. For anyone starting from scratch we use 3" square bases.....with the depth reduced or increased as necessary for skirmishers, cavalry and equipment."
A sample of the photos shows the following:
p4 Colonial African Askari 6 figs square
p5 Boxers ('mobs') 4 figs 2:3 ratio
(front to depth)
p6 Egyptian brigade (foot) 6 figs square
p6 " " (horse) 3 figs square
p6 " " (artillery) 4 figs + 1 gun square
p7 Bengal light horse 3 figs square
p7 Bengal horse artillery 6h, limber + gun long (approx 2:5 ratio)
Looks to me like any 'regular' troops, horse and unlimbered guns get square bases but irregular 'mobs' have greater depth. As my Zulus are on (largely) unpainted cardboard bases altering them to 3" x 4.5" shouldn't be too difficult. Not so for the imperials as they have 60 mm frontages. Obviously a need for some sabot bases - more work!
Did I really offer to put on a game this month????
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