The more I've been thinking about it, the more elegant it seems to base my figures on 60x40mm MDF and plasticard rectangles. This is basically a larger version of using 20x20 and 20x40mm single bases, so six infantry in two ranks, three cavalry or one gun per base.
Yes, I know, I had a stick up my butt with 40x40mm, but I know the visual look of a classic pike&shotte unit, one base of pike and two of shot, spread over a 120mm frontage - it just looks odd and compressed. Once you double the size, you've got a 24-figure unit, but also double the frontage, which, in most cases, is unwieldy with table sizes generally used for 1/72.
So 60mm bases are visually more appealing. There is also more cumulative space to make really nice bases with various flocking and pebbles and such. But there is some usefulness as well: a three-base unit thus can make it in Pike&Shotte and Baroque, a two-base unit in Pikeman's Lament etc.
There are two problems, however: for skirmish games, these units are too large. I can use single-base figures for these, and also for sieges (there is an illustration in the Pike&Shotte rulebook of a multi-figure base manning a wall, and it's no less ridiculously distorted than those medieval manuscript images where castle defenders are taller than the city itself). And my Ottomans are based differently, however, I can simply use five-or four-base (160 or 200mm broad) units without much fuss.
So I'll try my rebasing with 60x40mm, and see what I can achieve. First I need to organize my figures, remove them from their current bases, touch up their paintjobs etc., so see you soon with more progress reports.
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