This link P&S in 10mm will take you to the beginnings and end of the process, in fact it took a while to work out how to layout a combine unit, especially as we wanted to avoid sub units that some players allowed to wander off and which also would have to be removed if the main unit was broken.
So we toyed with this idea, a nice big Large unit on a 150mm x 50mm base the Shotte taking up 25mm on each side and Pike 100m in the centre.
It was then pointed out by the in house expert that there would be:
* Two NCO's and an Officer at the rear to encourage them forwards or stop a rout.
* Additional drummers at each corner of the Pike to 'echo' the Commander's drummer's message.
* Also there'd be a flag for every Company in the Pike Block, so four flags, at front for parade and the rear for battle.
So I mocked it up again, this time with painted models.
Some of you might note the men are mounted on thin strips of plastic card, I did this to allow me to move them about without chipping them. I also worked out that if added the basing material and flocked each strip it would make life easier when basing up later.
However it seemed to large and unwieldy to move about on the table and yes I know they were, but this is a game. so we reduced the width of the Pike increasing it's depth to 5 men. Which meant we could base them on a 100mm x 60mm base.
Initially like this 6 x 5 pike.
However it looked too crushed so we lost a rank of Pike and we ended up with this leaving a space between the rows of Shotte.
As Pendraken has no NCO's I shortened the pike squashed the tip and add a little plastic card I now had my Sergeants
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If you are interested in doing a similar base here are the measurements.
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