Thursday, November 26, 2015

House Renovations, Sort of

After following some dark paths in my search for  rules to handle multiple units per grid square I decided that I was focussing on the wrong end of the stick. After yet more poking in dark recesses of my mind I remembered that, despite my leaning towards even divisions of a foot, I have twice decided that 9 cm squares are the optimum practical compromise. They will hold one 60mm base, a little loosely but with room for a fence, stonewall or a narrow solid house besides or room for a square hollow house that will hold a 60mm stand.

 So, I removed about a 1/2"slice from the long walls of my favorite homemade stone house so it would fit. Needs to be glued back together and the paint touched up but it works for a town house.
Testing the proposal on my old 9cm grid cloth. Multiple smaller houses will probably look better but its good to have options.

Before I go farther I have decided to replay the last scenario on the same 8x9 grid but using 1 stand units on 9cm squares instead of 2 stand units on 5" squares. Assuming it works as anticipated, the plan will be a grid of 12x15 9cm squares instead of 9x12 5" ones. In other words it will effectively make my table bigger. As a bonus the rules will remain easy to play off grid.

5 comments:

  1. I think you are on to something with the house idea.
    BTW I am swithering about basing my 40mm chaps on multiple bases- what do you think?
    Perhaps I could give it a go with blue tack and see what I think...

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    1. Given my on again, off again basing tendancies, I'm probably not a good person to ask. When using a grid its more about convenience when setting up and putting away than anything else.

      Blutac sounds like a good idea for a test.

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  2. Ross Mac,

    I think that you are on to something here. By making the grid square large enough to take a unit stand and some terrain feature, it is possible to set up terrain that you don't have to constantly fiddle with when fighting reaches BUAs. Also the 9cm square with a 6cm base seems like a good ratio.

    If I applied the 3:2 ratio to my based-up 15mm-scale colonial figures (which are on 4cm bases), my squared grid would be made up of 6cm squares ... which is approximately 5 squares to a foot or a grid of 10 x 15 if I use my usual 60cm x 90cm tabletop.

    Something for me to think about, especially as I plan my forthcoming Morschauser-inspired wargame.

    All the best,

    Bob

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    1. Having a slightly larger grid vs unit footprint ratio dies maje things easier. Visually, the gap between units is too large for formed units but then a handful of figures will never look like several hundred anyway so I have finally gotten over it. As you will see in the next post I have had to reset the table again since my intention was to use the same number of stands and same table size.

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    2. Having a slightly larger grid vs unit footprint ratio dies maje things easier. Visually, the gap between units is too large for formed units but then a handful of figures will never look like several hundred anyway so I have finally gotten over it. As you will see in the next post I have had to reset the table again since my intention was to use the same number of stands and same table size.

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