Slitherine

As requested - note I have played about 4 games of DBM about 3 years ago, so am not familiar with DBM much. My main game is WAB.

TBH very clear, concise and easy to follow.

All the principles behind the rules are easy to understand and it looks like the game should 'flow' quickly. A minor quibble is that some of the abbreviations are used before being defined. eg. CMT is used and I thought wtf!?

A quick glossary at the start would be useful. I know that there is a detailed one at the end, but a line that CMT = Complex Manouvere Test would hve been enough.

Vis-a-vis WAB ie. 28mm. There will be huge problems fitting 4 inf on a 60mm frontage, and the Cavalry, well even worse. As 28mm are easily recognisable, even with my old eyesight, maybe we could do with a less crowded basing stricture?

Can't wait to play my first game!

We want to minimise the need for anyone to rebase their figures. All ex-DBM 25/28mm players currently have their figures based on 60mm wide bases.

The question is whether it is better

a) To allow WAB players to use less figures than usual per base on the 60mm wide bases.

b) To add a 3rd basing convention for 30mm (or "large 28mm") figures of 80mm wide bases.

c) Force 25mm DBM players to rebase on 80mm wide basis.

a) Has the advantage of allowing ex-DBM and ex-WAB players to play each other without rebasing (if the WAB troops are placed on sabot bases).
b) Has the advantage of giving the right look for WAB based figures, but would prevent ex-WAB players from playing ex-DBM players.
c) Would be be very unpopular with ex-DBM players. It has a (disadvantageous) knock-on effect on deployment density on 6x4 tables and would probably render cavalry armies non-viable unless armies were smaller.

Thoughts please?

If it is a vote I would go for sticking with the 60mm base sizes but allowing heavy foot to be 3 or 4 to a base and mounted to be 2 to 4 to a base. I realise that this could be an issue for identification of mounted but it is IMO a far lesser evil than forcing a rebase for 25mm DBM players.

If we can get WAB players playing in the same comp as 25mm DBM players it would generate a whole new bunch of pairings which is a very good thing.

Hammy

I am guessing that the main reason for the convention of 4/3/2 models per base is to enable ease of identification?

I don't think that this is an issue at 28mm, so would agree with Hammy's aasesment.