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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: Norm on December 11, 2018, 03:47:07 PM

Title: 12mm ACW action on a pinboard
Post by: Norm on December 11, 2018, 03:47:07 PM

Putting 12mm figures onto a pinboard for a divisional engagement between Confederate and Union troops (ACW).

A blog post that shows the new pinboard painted up and giving a short AAR to highlight the sort of game that can fit into such a space.

LINK
http://battlefieldswarriors.blogspot.com/2018/12/pinboard-battles-project.html

Title: Re: 12mm ACW action on a pinboard
Post by: abu iskander on December 11, 2018, 04:18:55 PM

That's quite an elegant little table you've made there. Well done, sir.

Title: Re: 12mm ACW action on a pinboard
Post by: Dan55 on December 12, 2018, 04:59:17 PM

I love how this looks, very compact and contained.

Title: Re: 12mm ACW action on a pinboard
Post by: von Lucky on December 12, 2018, 10:53:32 PM

Well done - looks easily playable.

Title: Re: 12mm ACW action on a pinboard
Post by: Oldgamer on December 13, 2018, 10:38:21 AM

That looks really good, do you stick with the 18 figure Firepower regiments?

Title: Re: 12mm ACW action on a pinboard
Post by: Norm on December 13, 2018, 02:24:19 PM

Thanks all. My 28's are based on 50mm bases with two ranks of three. Three such bases give me the 18 figure regiment. (I use 50mm bases in preference to the 45mm bases supplied by Perry).

For my 12mm, which I bought to use with hexes, I use the Kallistra system of 8 figures per bases in two ranks on 40mm frontages . Two of these bases side-by-side give me my regiment (i.e. 80mm frontage).

If I do something biggere such as Black Powder, I use 3 bases to give a frontage of 120mm.

In practical terms my 16 figure 12mm units and 18 figure 28mm units have no impact in game effect. Halving the unit frontage from 150mm to 80mm does help with the game conversion of inches to centimetres.