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Showing disrupted.
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 11:07 pm
by Dyeeles
What mechanism do people use to show that their BG is disrupted or fragmented?
Do you use a marker or just turn a base around?
Interested to hear what people are doing.
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 11:21 pm
by Robert241167
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:48 am
by Dyeeles
Thanks, very usefull.
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:12 am
by HannibalBarca
I've always thought that the most aesthetic (although expensive!) way to do it, particularly for scales with a high figure-to-base ratio would be to make some extra bases for each troop type in the army. They'd be the same models, but with a few dead ones, disorganised battlelines, men running away and what have you. Then swap one of the unit bases for a scenic base to represent disrupted troops and two for fragmented.
Yes, you'd need lots of extra models (and lots of extra painting), but it'd just look so damn inspiring! And avoid the use of tokens which some are averse too.
When I'm feeling rich and bored I might give it a go.
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:48 am
by DaiSho
HannibalBarca wrote:I've always thought that the most aesthetic (although expensive!) way to do it, particularly for scales with a high figure-to-base ratio would be to make some extra bases for each troop type in the army. They'd be the same models, but with a few dead ones, disorganised battlelines, men running away and what have you. Then swap one of the unit bases for a scenic base to represent disrupted troops and two for fragmented.
Yes, you'd need lots of extra models (and lots of extra painting), but it'd just look so damn inspiring! And avoid the use of tokens which some are averse too.
When I'm feeling rich and bored I might give it a go.
Whilst I agree with you, and even considered doing something similar myself I have to say that I think you'd end up getting annoyed with swapping the figures over, back and forth back and forth.
I made up some tokens (hand painted and flocked etc) as markers for my units, and it's annoying enough using them.
One thing that I just thought of as typing this out though, is the use of battle flags.
You COULD drill out the hands of one of the figures in your 'command stand' element (I always like to have something like a command stand in a BG). As the BG goes from Steady to Disrupted to Fragmented you can replace the banner that he is holding. It WOULD of course be just as annoying as your idea of changing the entire base
Ian