28mm Reg Ax(O): three or four to a base? Asked by Phil Gates, 24 March 2023

I'm about to start basing some Greek auxilia, Reg Ax(O).

Question - three figures or four figures to a base, what do people prefer? 

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• Dirk Heinsius

  I do all auxilia as 3 per base. Regulars will all have some defining uniform, i.e. shield pattern or tunic colour. Irregulars will be completely random

  

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  Vincent Cholewa

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  I based my 25/28mm hoplites three to a base.

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• Andrew Bennetts

  I'm a bit old school and prefer Reg Ax 4 to a base but it really depends on the size and pose of the figures - for large, action poses 4 to a base is not always practical.

  

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    Vincent Cholewa

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    Andrew Bennetts that's what I found with my hoplites. With the figures being way over-sized to be called 25mm, the big shileds made it impossible to fit four to a base without some very odd positioning.

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  Ben Vartok

  Three....I like the way they look on the larger base. And as people above have pointed out action poses tend to predominate for Ax so four is a bit crowded. Even for close order foot I sometimes go with three is active poses.

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• W.J. Watts

  Irregulars 3 per base, regulars 4 per base. Easy to differentiate, it's how I've done my greeks & woemans.

  

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• Andreas Johansson

  I’ve mostly stuck to 4 for Reg Ax and 3 for Irr.

  Only exception is some Reg AxS that are dismounted Cv where I wanted to keep the same number of figures on the base in either form.

  

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• John van den Hoeven

  What's regular auxilia,I only know irregular