Post by dpd on Jul 20, 2023 20:52:09 GMT
From Steve Balagan's website:
balagan.info/using-big-bases-for-dba
He has combined DBA with Phil Sabin's "Lost Battles" and created a reworking of the DBA basing concept.
Big Base DBA (also known as Big Base De Bellis Antiquitatis or BBDBA) allows fast games with a small number of playing pieces and lots of figures. Big Base DBA requires few modifications from the standard DBA rules.
Inspired by Philip Sabin’s Analysis of Ancient Warfare in Lost Battles I’ve drifted further away from normal DBA than you need to, but I’ll explain why as I go along. Mostly it affects basing.
Basing for Big Base DBA
The big change is, not surprisingly, the bases. Big Bases.
Roughly speaking my Big Bases are the same size as an Impetus base. This makes them four times the area of a normal DBx or Field of Glory base.
The number of figures is up to you but I have followed Impetus and used a lower density of figures than DBx and Field of Glory use. There are four reasons for this:
economy – 25% to 50% less figures per base means cheaper or, because I have the figures and I’m just rebasing, it means I get more bases for my money.
aesthetics – impetus players, for example, try to make each base a mini diorama. I’m not so flash but try.
Figure insurance – the more space around the figures, the less they get handled/bashed, the longer they last.
I just followed what the Impetus players do – the lower density looks normal to them.
I, like Philip Sabin, follow ancient authors who only divide infantry into heavy and light. Similarly cavalry is divided into heavy and light. I have adopted a basing style that reflects that simple division. Elephants and Chariots are different.
That means I only have two base sizes. Foot are on 80mm wide and 40mm deep bases. Mounted on 80mm wide and 60mm deep.
balagan.info/using-big-bases-for-dba
He has combined DBA with Phil Sabin's "Lost Battles" and created a reworking of the DBA basing concept.
Big Base DBA (also known as Big Base De Bellis Antiquitatis or BBDBA) allows fast games with a small number of playing pieces and lots of figures. Big Base DBA requires few modifications from the standard DBA rules.
Inspired by Philip Sabin’s Analysis of Ancient Warfare in Lost Battles I’ve drifted further away from normal DBA than you need to, but I’ll explain why as I go along. Mostly it affects basing.
Basing for Big Base DBA
The big change is, not surprisingly, the bases. Big Bases.
Roughly speaking my Big Bases are the same size as an Impetus base. This makes them four times the area of a normal DBx or Field of Glory base.
The number of figures is up to you but I have followed Impetus and used a lower density of figures than DBx and Field of Glory use. There are four reasons for this:
economy – 25% to 50% less figures per base means cheaper or, because I have the figures and I’m just rebasing, it means I get more bases for my money.
aesthetics – impetus players, for example, try to make each base a mini diorama. I’m not so flash but try.
Figure insurance – the more space around the figures, the less they get handled/bashed, the longer they last.
I just followed what the Impetus players do – the lower density looks normal to them.
I, like Philip Sabin, follow ancient authors who only divide infantry into heavy and light. Similarly cavalry is divided into heavy and light. I have adopted a basing style that reflects that simple division. Elephants and Chariots are different.
That means I only have two base sizes. Foot are on 80mm wide and 40mm deep bases. Mounted on 80mm wide and 60mm deep.
8 cm BW.
