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Miniatures Adventure => Age of Myths, Gods and Empires => Topic started by: SJWi on August 29, 2024, 12:38:05 PM
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Can anyone tell me (a) what is the width of the figure bases and (b) are the bases the same width irrespective of figure type?
Thanks.
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All of the cavalry and infantry are on the standard epic battles bases so far matching the ACW originals, 60 x 20 mm, but the elephants are on their own base. I do not have those dimensions yet, but I am hoping that my elephants are delivered on Saturday.
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There is a generic base sprue that comes will all Epic releases to date. This has 3 sizes of base. 60mm x 20mm for all infantry and cavalry, giving a linear look. 30mm wide for artillery. 20x20 for commanders.
Those base sizes are used throughout, so a 60mm base holds a strip of 10 figures, the same base can take 5 cavalry and the same base can take 4 - 6 individual skirmisher figures, so an Epic army will see 60mm bases throughout, whether you have a lancer, cuirassier, light cavalry, line infantry or skirmishers etc.
The Hail Caesar uses this generic base and also introduces a new base size, 50x50 and this is on the elephant sprue, so is specific to them.
Prior to hail Caesar, the infantry strips were 55mm wide, so fitting them to a 60mm base results in a small gap between figure blocks, which to my eye, disrupts the the look of a line when 2 or more bases are lined up.
My solution is to mount onto 55mm MDF bases instead.
However, I note that in Hail caesar, the lines of infantry have shields that extend slightly beyond that 55mm strip and so especially the round shields, reduces the impact of a 55mm strip on a 60mm base.
I am just setting my stuff up, but I have been really taken by the basing system that a YouTuber is doing, in which he has moved to 90mm basing. Here is a link, just to open this conversation to the possibilities that exist beyond the ‘official basing’
Link
https://youtu.be/JTA9yWCD5R0?si=LB2T8RaLVvAvCfeG
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Is that Scotty from on here?
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Chaps, many thanks for the replies. As well as "Hail Caesar" we are thinking of using the figures for a "travel" version of Simon Miller's TTS, so the 60 x 20mm bases will fit perfectly into 10cm grids. This also means we can play much bigger battles on a single 6 x 4' table as that means an 18 x 12 grid rather than the "normal" 12 x 8 we use for our 28mm figures.
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James, I don’t think so.