Number of troops per stand

Hello guys,
I have heard that some player are using another basis for their stands than the 1 to 1 as shown in the FoW publications (and I saw one british army on the FlamesOfWar site with three figs per rifle teams) .
That is that three figs are used for each rifle team, one fig for the leader stand, two figs for the MG/SW stands instead of the old bunch...
This would help save loads of figs to create bigger armies AND help speeding up the painting process.

So, simple question: what do you do? Reduced numbers or 1-1?

Pedro

I wouldn't do it. I have TOO much fun painting the little beggars and I like a lot of figurines in my armies. So no. 1-1 for me.

I’m with sauron on this one. 1 trooper on a big base just looks silly to me. Granted, I’m more of a painter than a gamer, but I think your army has to look cool on a battlefield.

Ok, it’s cheaper and faster, but if you want cheap and fast, why play miniature games? There’s plenty of fast and cheap board games with a WWII theme.

menace wrote:

Ok, it’s cheaper and faster, but if you want cheap and fast, why play miniature games? There’s plenty of fast and cheap board games with a WWII theme.

I keep an eye on adaptability with other games - current trade is more like 3 troops on a stand - and the leader is on the small stand.
Agree with your view but advocate for the devil sometimes: like, froml picures I have, two soldiers (one gunner and one ammo carrier) would be enough to man a solothurn antitank rifle...
Pedro

Well, I also use the amount as in the books... mailny because, as in any other game, players are familiar with several concepts. Actually, I don't remember where, but I saw an option of using 1 more fig to mark an "overstrength" team. This -1/+1 could be confusing.

But Pedro would certainly like to build an army with a company ! No objections sir, just add a drm to all your fires and checks

Well Pedro, I see you're still an ASL fan (1 guy for a leader, 3 guys for a squad, etc)

I also use the same amount of troops per basis.

Now having rules, of overstrengh teams could also be nice.

I use the amount as in the books but you have to paint them before putting on basis
on counterpart i agree to play with proxis for tanks and vehicules (stug g in place of stug f8 for ex.)

sorry for my bad english

I User 4 troopers in stead of 5. It doesn't make a lot of difference on the table but it speeds things up just enough when painting.

The command teams are based with 3 a piece.

I use 4 troops for "infatry" and 3 for command... command would be better 2 due the size of the base...but the fun is in making different poses for different groups...
An assult platoon could use "assault pose" officers, a gun platoon an officer kneeling or looking at maps...some convertions could do the trick...

But then it's an hobby don't you think?