I was just wondering what the basing convention is for those doing Prussians. I am thinking of doing my battalions at either 32 or 40. Personally, I like to retain the company as the unit for each base -- this goes back to the early 70s playing a 1:20 set of rules entitled Column, Line, and Square -- although in some cases it used a base to represent a half company (e.g., French were on bases of six except for the grenadier and voltigeur companies which were two bases of three). Since switching to RtE I have also added some split bases to accommodate skirmishers. So, for my British I have based a 30 figure unit on eight bases of three and two companies as individual figures (the light and one center company) to deploy as skirmishers.
I have looked at the gallery (obviously at Ligny) and it looks as if four figure bases seem common. Would it be odd for an eight figure base instead to keep the company intact? Although I could easily do two bases per company. What about a ten figure base for a 40 figure battalion? I know it is a large base, but I do not think it would look too odd to me since in the CLS rules this was the size of Austrian companies... so yes 60 figure battalions!).
I look forward to hearing from the Prussian veterans on the forum.
Cheers,
Mike