2mm 1809 French Battalion - 600+ figures

[Forwardmarchstudio]

I'm painting up a few exemplar 2mm units to show off what can be done in the scale. In this picture you can see a 2mm Napoleonic battalion with every single soldier, NCO, officer, skirmisher, sapper, and drummer present (in the back with the colonel). The only real mistake is that the light company should be at half strength, since exactly 48 men of its number are out skirmishing. It should also be advanced to support the skirmish line. But that's a task for tomorrow.

[fred]

Very cool

I always like to see these representations of what a full size unit would look like.

Are the distances between the skirmish, main line and colonel each representative of how they would typically deploy? Because while the troops themselves are a wide thin line, the overall foot print of the unit is much closer to the typical rectangle seen on a wargames table.

[vtsaogames]

This gave me the notion of doing a battalion in 6mm (Baccus) or 10mm (Pendraken). A little math said that the figures in both scales lined up shoulder to shoulder take up twice the frontage of actual troops, more like 5 feet per file instead of 2.5 feet. I did do a 10mm 4 gun Confederate artillery battery deployed with limbers once. Not the prettiest thing I ever did but showed the approximate footprint of a real unit.

[robh]

This gave me the notion of doing a battalion in 6mm (Baccus).......

Yeah, Baccus figures are neat wargame models but are all hideously bloated and malformed human beings.
You can just about get away with it with Heroics figures, I think it worked out at 10 figures per 12 man frontage when I saw it done on the old H&R display stand (or could have been 20 out of 22...certainly 2 missing but I can recall from what  )
Most surprising thing to the gamers eye was how "un-column" like the regimental attack column was.