Infantry mounting in 6mm

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From: dwarf_warrior@juno.com
To: 6mm-Miniatures@yahoogroups.com
Cc: ruthann_vanvranken@hp.com, Warbeads@juno.com, Triphibious@juno.com
Subject: Infantry mounting in 6mm
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 18:24:43 EDT
Message-ID: <20010403.153425.9495.0.dwarf_warrior@juno.com>

Okay, 6mm fans, a question. Now this is specifically relating to Dirtside 2
but it applies in theory to any era where you get away from line, column,
square tactics.

I am mounting all my vehicles one to a stand with my larger/largest yet
vehicles (Eureka's new Grav Tank) on a 2" x 1 1/2" rectangle, the large
ones (Modern M1 by GHQ) and medium (various modern GHQ and modern/WW2
Scotia) vehicles on 1 1/2" x 1" with the small and smaller (name
forgotten - Scotia's modern French 90mm armed wheeled vehicles) on 1" x
3/4" stand.

Now, I have a bunch of H&R WW2 French and GHQ WW2 Brits plus some Future Wars
and Dirtside 6mm Infantry on order plus some Battle tech infantry stuff (as
large 'Mecha' style vehicles) to mount. I am debating about the infantry
mountings.

The FW stuff comes 40 in a bag, IIRC, and the DSM stuff comes 24 (and the H&R
and GHQ stuff I have in the basement and am too lazy to run down from upstairs
to find out the exact numbers (48?? and 72??)) but the question I have has to
do with 'how' you mount them.

I am thinking of using 3/4" x 3/4" stands with 4-5 figures per stand for
fire teams (half squads.) Now since this is representational mounting I was
thinking a variety of formations might be aesthetically pleasing.

Here's what i had sketched out:

5 per:

2-1-2 as on the five side of a die

'arrow head" - an inverted "V"

"V"

Skirmish line ( 0 0 0 0 0)

2 up and three back: 0 0
                                          0      0      0

3 up and two back (reverse of above)

Lazy "N": 0 0
                                     0
                        0                  0

and double column: 0
                                     0           0

                                     0           0

The four man Fire Teams would be:

Box: 0 0
             0       0

Diamond: 0
                       0      0
                            0
Line: 0 0 0 0

Column:   0
                   0
                   0
                   0

But will there be enough room on a 3/4" x 3/4' square or should I
increase the size of the base? Or should it be rectangular?

I am looking to achieve a reasonable looking set of stands. I realize that you
can't really reflect real tactical formations because the future will (even
more then today) require distance between troops to avoid getting multiple
figures in the same 'beaten zone' but this is a game and mounting 6mm figures
individually is a bit extreme, IMO.

Besides the DS2 rules call for fire teams to act as a unit (and on a stand
that means IMO.) What size stand does the membership of this list
use for infantry in post-1938 games?  How many figures do you put on a
stand?  What is too many/too few on too large/too small a base in your
experience?

Yes, this is a bit over kill but I don't want to have to remount them (even if
they are 6mm) 6 months down the line because I failed to consult more
experienced players and more experienced 6mm players in particular. <grin>
Give me your words of wisdom...

Gracias, Dwarf Warrior. This address is where I do my fantasy and most of
my 10/6 mm miniatures game activities.

I use 3/4 " by 3/4 ".  And yes, I put my infantry into different
formations (that way I can tell the difference between rifle, assault, and
combat engineers). I only mount four per for regular stand and two per for
weapon teams, but that's just my "tightwad" factor making another appearance.
And yes, I use H&R WW2 figs too.

Rob
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Oh, an excellent idea. I think I could (for my own figures) probably extend
beyond those to all the possible different organizational types
(inf = inf - whether leg, para, airmobile, mech or armored... but there
are some interesting possibilities here.)

Gracias, Glenn/Triphibious (American Mongrel)
You don't have to be French to be a 'frog', or even human!
Nektons - Real Marines! (Die, Ralnai, Die!)
Starguard, Dirtside 2, Ratner's Space Marines, Stellar Conflicts
and Uprisings, and Full Thrust/2nd.  Resistance is everything!

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:56:18 -0400 "Robert W. Hofrichter"
> <RobHofrich@peoplepc.com> writes:

I mounted my infantry 3 on a penny in random patterns all facing 1 direction.
Why 3? 4 looked too crowded. I mount Power Armor 2 to a stand (or 1 for the
larger Scotia PA).

For vehicles, I did not bother to mount them. If I get around to "lifting"
the grav and/or GEV vehicles, I may do some mounting.

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> --- Glenn M Wilson <triphibious@juno.com> wrote:

> But will there be enough room on a 3/4" x 3/4'

Yeah, there should be. I've put all sorts of formations on that size stands.
Of course, I don't go more than 4 men per base. I've even done some
shoulder-to-shoulder stands of riot police.

> Besides the DS2 rules call for fire teams to act as

I generally use 4 for infantry, 3 for powered armor. Weapons teams get either
two per, or how ever many crewmen a mortar is supposed to have. I could see
between 3 and 5 men as a general rule.