Thanks for all the advice, guys.

I recently aquired a copy of DBMM (and by recently, I mean this morning) and it shows base scaling as being the same for 20-30mm figures. There are three different base scales: 20-30mm, 6-15mm, and 2mm. I know I'm talking about a competing product here... but is this fairly standard way of thinking ...

When you are measuring a figure for its exact height, are you measuring from base to eyes, base to top of head, or base to top of weapon (or whatever else may be raised)?

Not really. Most of my friends are Warhammer and Warhammer 40k players... which are all the standard 28mm. Me turning to historical gaming was going rogue as far as they are concerned. I do lean toward 15mm bases... just because then my figures will be 20% taller than my opponent. That could win me ...

I'm making the switch from Warhammer 40k due to my fanatical interest in history and my fanatical interest in not going broke. I've found that a whole bunch of vendors sell very detailed and historically accurate 20mm (1/72) scale wargaming miniatures very inexpensively. However, 20mm is not a stand...

There are people who use 10mm figures on 15mm bases in 15mm competitions. Some of the 10mm armies look a lot better than most if not all the 15mm ones. I'm really interested in using 20mm figures. (For purposes of cost to historical accuracy ratio - that and I just bought an entire Flavian period R...