Representation of Republican Roman Commanders

Maerk · Post by **Maerk** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:43 pm

How do you out there represent your commanding elements?

I am still in the process of enlarging my DBA republican romans (15mm) to a reasonable FoG army size and I plan to use single mounted personalities on 40x30mm bases as commanders. Feudal Castings has a nice package with Scipio, Varro and Fabius available (see: http://quickreactionforce.co.uk/catalog ... cts_id/150)

This way the roman commanders look good and you can tell them easily from roman cavalry elements. What do you think?

kustenjaeger · Post by **kustenjaeger** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:47 pm

Greetings

Seems entirely reasonable to me. One of my thoughts was to have a mounted commander with a foot officer or standard on the same base to identify the CinC and have the other commanders as single figures.

Regards

Edward

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:48 pm

If you are basing specifically for FoG I would use a 40 by 40 base and have a general and one or two foot figures or messenger types to accompany them.

Some people are using different combinations to represent different types of general so a TC is one mounted figure and one on foot, an FC is two and one and an IC is two and two.

Maerk · Post by **Maerk** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:53 am

hammy wrote:If you are basing specifically for FoG I would use a 40 by 40 base ...

Ok for me.

hammy wrote:Some people are using different combinations to represent different types of general so a TC is one mounted figure and one on foot, an FC is two and one and an IC is two and two.

Hmmm -
so I would need a set of 3 IC plus 3 FC plus 3 TC commander elements to cover all possible army designs ... plus some kind of a marker to distinguish the CinC from the other two commanders
OR
2 IC plus 2 FC plus 2 IC plus 1 IC CinC plus 1 FC CinC plus 1 TC CinC element.

Anyway, building nine commander elements to choose a maximum of three is a bit too much for me.
Is this the way YOU would do it? Any suggestions?

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:23 pm

I'm just doing commander bases and using them as whatever type of commander I've got in the army. I'm doing the bases differently (i.e. differnt figures, flags, etc. on each base) so I can, if needed, identify different grades of commander but I'm not using any system - no need IMO.

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:31 pm

Rather than three IC, three FC and three TC bases just make four or five commander bases with variations in the number of figures.

Realistically you will probably have a maximum of three generals of the same type and if you do they will probably all be TCs

I would go for three bases with a couple of figures, one with three and possibly one with four. Then the Four can either be the IC and CinC or an FC and CinC while the other bases can be whatever you need them to be. If you use IC,FC,TC,TC or FC,FC,TC,TC then with five commander bases you could sort both these options easily as well as FC,TC,TC,TC

Maerk · Post by **Maerk** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:36 pm

I see -

making three to five clearly distinguishable commander bases should do the job.

Thanks a lot, I think I'll do it this way.

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:08 pm

hammy wrote:
Realistically you will probably have a maximum of three generals of the same type

I've seen a lot of armies with 4 TCs recently ...

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:36 pm

nikgaukroger wrote:
hammy wrote:
Realistically you will probably have a maximum of three generals of the same type

I've seen a lot of armies with 4 TCs recently ...

True but one will still be the CinC

madaxeman · Post by **madaxeman** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:29 pm

Doing 8 generals for each army is a bit OTT !! I agree with Nik, as long as they are all identifiably different, and one looks like the CinC it doesn't really matter how they are represented - and IMO having just one or 2 figures on a 40x40 is a bit weedy and a missed opportunity to make some sort of really cool mini-diorama anyway.

I'm doing a few more of the 28mm CinC + a few 15mm figures bases too

Long live packed Generals bases!!!

Agesilaus · Post by **Agesilaus** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:00 am

Not having received my rules yet (damn you Amazon!!) I just wanted to clarify - is 40 x 40mm the "standard" FOG Commander base size?

ars_belli · Post by **ars_belli** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:48 pm

For 15mm command bases, the designated frontage is 40mm, with a depth of "up to 40mm."

Cheers,
Scott

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:04 pm

madaxeman wrote:Doing 8 generals for each army is a bit OTT !! I agree with Nik, as long as they are all identifiably different, and one looks like the CinC it doesn't really matter how they are represented - and IMO having just one or 2 figures on a 40x40 is a bit weedy and a missed opportunity to make some sort of really cool mini-diorama anyway.

I'm doing a few more of the 28mm CinC + a few 15mm figures bases too

Long live packed Generals bases!!!

Tim, do you know of a company that does 28mm historical personalities?

csaguisag · Post by **csaguisag** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:57 am

carlos wrote:Tim, do you know of a company that does 28mm historical personalities?

I found some from Xyston at Brookhurst Hobbies:

http://www.brookhursthobbies.com/xyston.htm

Scroll down a bit and you'll find them.

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:21 am

Those are really good, thanks

will05 · Post by **will05** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:09 am

For the command bases I just make them as I want them and remember what sought they are. I can always check with my opponent what his are so no real problems there.