WTNW 28mm basing

[infelix]

So I picked up the PDF for WTNW last week and the rules seems good. I'm planing to play it in 28mm and am wondering what basing you suggest for it?

[watchtower78]

Thank you for picking up the book and supporting the game!
The key with When the Navy Walked is not so much that you have to adhere to a specific base size as the game was specifically written to avoid this. The key is that units on all sides of the game are based the same. As measurements are from base to base this ensures fair play. Also you will want to double your ranges and movement distances for this scale.

We use the base scales for Warrior for our 28mm WTNW games. If you are familiar with Ancients you might be familiar with a game put out by Osprey called Field of Glory or another one by a different company called Warrior. Either way both of these games provide close order and loose order bases that I feel fit perfectly for the scale of the game for 28mm figures. This chap http://philbancients.blogspot.com/2010/02/field-of-glory-training-manual-basing.html does a fine job of explaining those basing standards.


You may want to check out my blog http://armchairgeneral1.blogspot.com/ where I give some pointers on playing the game as well as give the rules for using cards for orders. If you have not already picked up the errata I highly suggest that as well as there were a few tweaks made to the rules to allow for tournament play.

If you have any questions feel free to email me directly at thearmchairgeneral@whenthenavywalked.com

Rob

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[infelix]

Thank you for the help and the link, it's been quite helpful. I think that I've settled for using 60mm frontage so there's a bit more room on the bases but I'll check with my potential opponents if they have any objections first

I have to say that I really like the rules this far, you've done a damn good job with them and I'm going to pick up the expansions shortly as well.

[watchtower78]

That basing size should work with no problems! Thank you very much. That means a lot. I just hope people have fun with them.