A game of two halves: Medina de Rio Seco (1808)

[ChrisBBB]

This week's entertainment was a proper see-saw nail-biter game of two halves, quick and clean and a triumph of scenario design by Dr Mark Smith.
Full photo-AAR on the BBBBlog:
https://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-game-of-two-halves-medina-de-rio-seco.html

[Ray Rivers]

Nice AAR!

6 mil is a tad small for me, but the figures look quite nice.

They will really pop when the bases are completed.

[ChrisBBB]

Thanks, Ray, glad you enjoyed it!

You're not alone in finding 6mm a tad small - as players' eyes age, you still get the mass effect, but people start to have trouble telling units apart or seeing which way they're facing. Nowadays I think 10mm is a good compromise between mass effect and identifiability.

As for 'completing the bases', I've nudged Mark a couple of times to do it and even volunteered to flock them for him myself, but I think he likes them the way they are ...

[Ray Rivers]

Okay...

I did a 6mm ACW setup a long time ago. I painted the bases of the Yankees blue and the bases of the rebs grey. Mind, not the miniatures... only the base they were attached to.

So I basically made them look like counters and I found them much easier to figure what was going on on the battlefield even from afar.

[ChrisBBB]

Ha, clever idea.

We use my mate Crispin's ACW armies quite regularly. By chance rather than intention, he painted his Union troops' bases using a darker green than for his Confederates. He subsequently considered repainting one lot to make them the same, but rejected the idea because actually the difference in shade is helpful for telling them apart on the table, much like your approach.