Re: Infantry mounting in 6mm

Oh, an excellent idea.	I think I could (for my own figures) probably
extend beyond those to all the possible different organizational types
(inf = inf - whether leg, para, airmobile, mech or armored... but there
are some interesting possibilities here.)

Gracias, Glenn/Triphibious (American Mongrel)
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On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:56:18 -0400 "Robert W. Hofrichter"
<RobHofrich@peoplepc.com> writes:
>I use 3/4 " by 3/4 ".	And yes, I put my infantry into different 
>formations
>(that way I can tell the difference between rifle, assault, and combat
>engineers).  I only mount four per for regular stand and two per for 
>weapon
>teams, but that's just my "tightwad" factor making another appearance. 
> And
>yes, I use H&R WW2 figs too.
>
>Rob
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Glenn M Wilson" <triphibious@juno.com>
>To: <Stargrunt-Fullthrust@yahoogroups.com>; <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
>Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 6:46 PM
>Subject: Infantry mounting in 6mm
>
>
>> --------- Begin forwarded message ----------
>> From: dwarf_warrior@juno.com
>> To: 6mm-Miniatures@yahoogroups.com
>> Cc: ruthann_vanvranken@hp.com, Warbeads@juno.com, 
>Triphibious@juno.com
>> Subject: Infantry mounting in 6mm
>> Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 18:24:43 EDT
>> Message-ID: <20010403.153425.9495.0.dwarf_warrior@juno.com>
>>
>> Okay, 6mm fans, a question.	Now this is specifically relating to
>> Dirtside 2 but it applies in theory to any era where you get away 
>from
>> line, column, square tactics.
>>
>> I am mounting all my vehicles one to a stand with my larger/largest 
>yet
>> vehicles (Eureka's new Grav Tank) on a 2" x 1 1/2" rectangle, the 
>large
>> ones (Modern M1 by GHQ) and medium (various modern GHQ and 
>modern/WW2
>> Scotia) vehicles on 1 1/2" x 1" with the small and smaller (name
>> forgotten - Scotia's modern French 90mm armed wheeled vehicles) on 
>1" x
>> 3/4" stand.
>>
>> Now, I have a bunch of H&R WW2 French and GHQ WW2 Brits plus some 
>Future
>> Wars and Dirtside 6mm Infantry on order plus some Battle tech 
>infantry
>> stuff (as large 'Mecha' style vehicles) to mount.  I am debating 
>about
>> the infantry mountings.
>>
>> The FW stuff comes 40 in a bag, IIRC, and the DSM stuff comes 24 
>(and the
>> H&R and GHQ stuff I have in the basement and am too lazy to run down 
>from
>> upstairs to find out the exact numbers (48?? and 72??)) but the 
>question
>> I have has to do with 'how' you mount them.
>>
>> I am thinking of using 3/4" x 3/4" stands with 4-5 figures per stand 
>for
>> fire teams (half squads.)  Now since this is representational 
>mounting I
>> was thinking a variety of formations might be aesthetically 
>pleasing.
>>
>> Here's what i had sketched out:
>>
>> 5 per:
>>
>> 2-1-2 as on the five side of a die
>>
>> 'arrow head" - an inverted "V"
>>
>> "V"
>>
>> Skirmish line ( 0 0 0 0 0 )
>>
>> 2 up and three back	:	0      0
>>					     0	    0	   0
>>
>> 3 up and two back (reverse of above)
>>
>> Lazy "N" :		 0		    0
>>					0
>>			   0		      0
>>
>> and double column:	    0
>>					0	    0
>>
>>					0	    0
>>
>> The four man Fire Teams would be :
>>
>> Box:     0	    0
>>		0	0
>>
>> Diamond:	    0
>>			  0	 0
>>			       0
>> Line:   0 0 0 0
>>
>> Column:   0
>>		      0
>>		      0
>>		      0
>>
>> But will there be enough room on a 3/4" x 3/4' square or should I
>> increase the size of the base?  Or should it be rectangular?
>>
>> I am looking to achieve a reasonable looking set of stands.	I 
>realize
>> that you can't really reflect real tactical formations because the 
>future
>> will (even more then today) require distance between troops to avoid
>> getting multiple figures in the same 'beaten zone'  but this is a 
>game
>> and mounting 6mm figures individually is a bit extreme, IMO.
>>
>> Besides the DS2 rules call for fire teams to act as a unit (and on a
>> stand that means IMO.)  What size stand does the membership of this 
>list
>> use for infantry in post-1938 games?  How many figures do you put on 
>a
>> stand?  What is too many/too few on too large/too small a base in 
>your
>> experience?
>>
>> Yes, this is a bit over kill but I don't want to have to remount 
>them
>> (even if they are 6mm) 6 months down the line because I failed to 
>consult
>> more experienced players and more experienced 6mm players in 
>particular.
>> <grin>  Give me your words of wisdom...
>>
>> Gracias, Dwarf Warrior.
>> This address is where I do my fantasy and most of
>> my 10/6 mm miniatures game activities.
>> Alternate: Triphibious@ juno.com (Science Fiction)
>> and warbeads@juno.com (Historicals.)  Axes Advance!
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