India: Portuguese Expeditions

[Donkeymilkman]

Watched this a week or two ago, your post reminded me of it. Don't know if it is much help for you but it may give a flavour of what is possible in that part of the world.

[PBR Streetgang]

Irregular Wars is written around bases of smaller scale figures, rather than individual 28mm figures. Bases tend to be 30mm or 40mm squares, with 4-10 15mm or 10mm figures on them, the actual number of figures per base isn’t important within the rules, but I like the density to look right for the type of unit. All the distances in the rules are based on Base Widths - so there is no reason you couldn’t use bigger bases with 28mm figures on, say 50mm squares with 3 figures.

Armies tend to be around 15 to 20 bases

To piggyback on Fred's very quality response, alot of the army lists have a variable number of bases for different troop types (e.g. D4 crossbowmen, D6 native warriors, etc) in addition to the core troop types for the army list.