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Jan 21 07 11:55 AM

Actually the basing for JRIII can be more complicated than Povsho says for regiments with "odd" numbers. So for a 360 man regiment the basing would be 12 figures on four stands of three (with a 20mm (ish) frontage for 15mm troops.

But a 420 man regiment would be based on two stands of three and two stands of four (the four man stand being about 25mm in 15mm). So regiments can (theoretically) vary from four figures (on stands about 10mm wide) upto the 26th NC at Gettysburg with 840 men or 24 figures. The Artillery regiments later in the war are usually split into battalions.

Artillery is based for one model equals one battery - a four gun battery having a 25mm frontage and a six gun battery having something a bit bigger (although I "cheat" and use 30x40mm stands for 4 guns and 40x40mm for 6 - those DBA bases are useful for somethings!).

I am interested to see the basing conventions as well but the idea of adding yet more 15mm ACW figures to rebuild my regiments to GatG specs would give my wife palpitations!