EC,
My query was aimed at establishing whether anyone has attempted to standardise space for capacity - ie a 40 fig village to always be a specific surface area.
I have been doing much the same as you and DCR (except that I try and avoid gluing the buildings to the bases if possible so as to allow me to use buildings in different configurations for different scenarios). I was wondering whether there was a more scientific method aimed at minimising ground scale distortions - particularly as the number of figures that one can cram into a BUA depends on the model buildings etc that are used to constitute the BUA.
One of the ideas that I am toying with is, with the exception of individual chateaus, farm compexes and the like, make all BUA have a fixed troop capacity (perhaps 40 figures) and have all larger BUAs constituted by sections of these smaller BUAs on the basis that it is inherently unlikley that all parts of a BUA that has space for 1,600 fighting men to change hands at once. The question for me, therefore, is whether each 40 man section needs to be of identical surface area and, if so, what that surface area should be.
O