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PM Glenn Pearce
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6X6 or 6x3 ?
Glenn Pearce
12th Mar 2019 11:50:10

Hello dourpuritan!

Thanks for that. It's also nice to see that Chris is still looking at ways to improve his rules.

A couple of Polemos players have done something similar for their battalion games. They have added two 30x30 bases to a 60x30 battalion for a 120mm frontage. One 30x30 is used as skirmishers/lights and the other as Grenadiers and the 60x30 represents the line companies. For nations that don't generally break out companies they just represent more line companies. It also allows them to show changes of formations. They normally only use the extra bases for small games/battles that only have a couple dozen battalions.

Best regards,

Glenn


PM ChrisBBB
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6X6 or 6x3 ?
ChrisBBB
13th Mar 2019 11:12:24

A small correction, Glenn, if I may. The advice about double basing is not a post-publication attempt to improve BBB, it is on page 2 of the rulebook: "For convenience of movement, base some figures on double or even triple bases, or create movement trays to accommodate multiple bases for units of various sizes."

Regards,

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!

https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/info

http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/


PM Glenn Pearce
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6X6 or 6x3 ?
Glenn Pearce
13th Mar 2019 01:25:53

Hello Chris!

So I was actually right, just my timing was slighly off! Thanks for clarifing that. Thats valuable information for BBB players.

Best regards,

Glenn


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