Warlord Epic Hail Caesar Base Sizes

[SJWi]

Can anyone tell me (a) what is the width of the figure bases and (b) are the bases the same width irrespective of figure type?

 Thanks.

[Kelly_]

All of the cavalry and infantry are on the standard epic battles bases so far matching the ACW originals, 60 x 20 mm, but the elephants are on their own base.  I do not have those dimensions yet, but I am hoping that my elephants are delivered on Saturday.

[Norm]

There is a generic base sprue that comes will all Epic releases to date. This has 3 sizes of base. 60mm x 20mm for all infantry and cavalry, giving a linear look. 30mm wide for artillery. 20x20 for commanders.

Those base sizes are used throughout, so a 60mm base holds a strip of 10 figures, the same base can take 5 cavalry and the same base can take 4 - 6 individual skirmisher figures, so an Epic army will see 60mm bases throughout, whether you have a lancer, cuirassier, light cavalry, line infantry or skirmishers etc.

The Hail Caesar uses this generic base and also introduces a new base size, 50x50 and this is on the elephant sprue, so is specific to them.

Prior to hail Caesar, the infantry strips were 55mm wide, so fitting them to a 60mm base results in a small gap between figure blocks, which to my eye, disrupts the the look of a line when 2 or more bases are lined up.

My solution is to mount onto 55mm MDF bases instead.

However, I note that in Hail caesar, the lines of infantry have shields that extend slightly beyond that 55mm strip and so especially the round shields, reduces the impact of a 55mm strip on a 60mm base.

I am just setting my stuff up, but I have been really taken by the basing system that a YouTuber is doing, in which he has moved to 90mm basing. Here is a link, just to open this conversation to the possibilities that exist beyond the ‘official basing’

Link

https://youtu.be/JTA9yWCD5R0?si=LB2T8RaLVvAvCfeG
 

[vodkafan]

Is that Scotty from on here?

[SJWi]

Chaps, many thanks for the replies. As well as "Hail Caesar" we are thinking of using the figures for a "travel" version of Simon Miller's TTS, so the 60 x 20mm bases will fit perfectly into 10cm grids.  This also means we can play much bigger battles on a single 6 x 4' table as that means an 18 x 12 grid rather than the "normal" 12 x 8 we use for our 28mm figures.

[Norm]

James, I don’t think so.