Tuesday, 2 September 2025

Three or four figures on infantry bases? Asked by Simon Dennan, 31 August 2025

A uneducated question. Are people still squeezing 4 inf figs on bases or is 3 permissible? 

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James Hook
I have only started DBMM recently and nearly all the figures I have sourced are plastic. No way I can fit 4 to a base. Often it is a struggle to fit 3.
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Ben Vartok
The rules say 3 - 4 so your choice. My Foundry Vikings are 3 to a base while the Aventine Spearmen are 4 to a base. If they are spear/pike in a standing pose then 4 looks great. Armies get finished earlier with 3 to a base.....🤨
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Alastair Donald
It depends. For 28mm infantry I try 4 to a base for regulars, 3 to a base for irregulars when the army I have has both troop types. My 28mm Foundry Spartan Hoplites fit 4 to a base. My 28mm Perry plastic War of the Roses blade fit 4 to a base. We have managed to fit 3 heavy 28mm mounted knights to a base, but you’d struggle to fit 4 28mm cataphracts to a base. I’ve seen old 1980’s 25mm cataphracts fit 4 to a base though. So - it depends…
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John Way
28mm, esp the more exuberant poses of say Warlord, nicely fill the base with three. Their Macedonian pike will fit 4 but only just. I go with three.
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Julian Hannam
John Way I guess that is the best way to think of it - filling the base. I know that there is talk the new victrix Knights have no chance of fitting 3 on a base - but no one is ever going to look at two of them on a bad e and say they must be LH…I hope. It was a huge struggle getting 3 Persian cav on a base, even then had to make the bases 60x50mm
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Potbelly Miniatures
I try to conform, but sometimes the figures just won't allow it. The main thing is to declare what everything is before you start the game, for absolute avoidance of doubt...
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Simon Dennan
I’m thinking Sub-Roman. So maybe 4 per base for Legion types and 3 for pedyts? Seems to follow the rules guidelines and Al’s regular irregular demarcation.
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John Way
Whatever works for you dude. As long as there is no liklihood of confusion, 'sallgood


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