Seven Years War - Cavalry Basing/Spacing

[fantasticlegions]

I'm embarking on a grand Seven Years War collection (aka, a descent into madness).  Thoughts on whether three cavalrymen to a base gives the right impression of density?  I would love to have four on a base, but cannot fit four on a 1.5 inch square base and do not want to increase the base size lest units start to become too large for the tabletop.  These are not quite stirrup to stirrup, which would be ideal.  Thoughts??




You can also read about it and see infantry basing comparisons on my blog: https://www.fantasticlegions.com/post/basing-conundrums

[jambo1]

Basing looks fine to me, I think the three men work well enough, four might look a bit too "busy" or unweildly. Nicely painted, look forward to seeing more.

[JohnFoA]

Honestly I think the bases 'look' close order enough.  If you're concentrating on base size as a guide to the regiment frontage then making it look right is your choice and to some extent the number of models is irrelevant.

How many bases to regiment are you going with - does each represent a Sqdn for example?

And, yes, they look very nice.

John

[fantasticlegions]

How many bases to regiment are you going with - does each represent a Sqdn for example?

Each unit will consist of three 1.5 inch square bases, representing either an infantry battalion of half a regiment of Austrian or Prussian cavalry or full French cavalry regiment (2-2.5 squadrons).

[1ngram]

Figure basing depends on what the people you are going to play with already have their figures based on.  If you turn up to play them and your base/unit sizes are radically different then you (and they) will have problems.  Our group plays 28mm 18thC with 200mm frontage units composed usually of four 50mm squares.  On these we have 2 cavalry or 6 infantry, the latter in two ranks. This gives us an 8 figure cavalry unit and a 24 figure infantry unit both on the same frontage and depth. Having us all rthe same saves a lot of argy-bargy.

[fantasticlegions]

Figure basing depends on what the people you are going to play with already have their figures based on...

I wish I were so lucky.  Out here in the States, if you want to play Seven Years War, you better buy and paint all the armies yourself.

[FierceKitty]

I wish I were so lucky.  Out here in the States, if you want to play Seven Years War, you better buy and paint all the armies yourself.

Curious. The SYW probably did more to determine what America was going to be than any other confict in history.

[FierceKitty]

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