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by Prince Henry » Wed Jan 01, 2014 3:48 am
Ray,
Sounds about right - I am 50 now and my eyes took a steep dive about 2 years ago - thank goodness for jeweler's goggles! I had been using Foundry, but have increasingly gone to Front Rank - for all of the reasons you state. I have not settled on a set of rules (have used Koenig Krieg (there is an old WSS mod for 1st edition, Age of Reason, looked at Maurice, Ga Pa and several others)- waiting for my copy of BLB2 to arrive - I hope that it will fit the bill.
I have been mounting my figures on 2x2 inch bases - very close to your 50mm x 50mm - but only 4 figures to a base, 16 figs to a reg't. (in large part for reasons of economy). I have just decided to mount the French on 2x3 bases - 6 figs to a base, 3 deep - 18 figs to a reg't (just to fill the bases) - thus the French will be 3 bases wide vs 4 bases wide for the Allies (except for Austrians and other old-fashioned types). I think this will look great and reflect the difference in frontage between the armies well...
Doug
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt