Basing Aztec Novices

rossco · Post by **rossco** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 4:12 am

Hi folks.

I am currently painting a 28mm Aztec army and I would appreciate some good advice on basing the figures.

I have a variety of novice troops armed with obsidian-studded clubs, spears and atl-atls. Do I mix them together on the same base, or are the spearmen, hand weapons, and atl-atl figures supposed to be on separate bases each themed to a single weapon type?

Regards,
Rossco.

grahambriggs · Post by **grahambriggs** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:23 am

The only real information we have is that there was a missile (atlatl) barrage from distance and then they charge for hand to hand combat. There is some evidence, a bit sketchy, that the spearmen would operate inbetween the guys with obsidian broadswords. Mix poses look best on the stands.

So when I based mine up I combined the atlatl guys with the less active combat poses and put spearmen in between the active swordsmen.

rossco · Post by **rossco** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:21 am

Thank you!

I'm using mostly Eureka Miniatures and they should fit four to a base if I echelon them. As these bases will be used in two ranks, I will try action poses for the front bases and more relaxed poses plus atl-atl figures for the second rank of bases.

Regards,
Rossco.

grahambriggs · Post by **grahambriggs** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 11:02 am

Good plan Rossco. I did mine 3 to a base as the rules allow. That gave a feel of sufficiant flexibility that they could fight in rough ground.