Post by max on Dec 2, 2020 1:25:12 GMT
My foray into 2mm allows me a few "itching" projects I've had in the back of my head for a while. This thread will provide for a "journal" of my prep work with another thread later when I begin painting and building the armies.
One such idea is a grand strategic Napoleonic project. Granted I already do this project in 15mm but I thought playing a strategic boardgame and then moving the combat to a tabletop using a miniatures ruleset would work well. Thats what I intend for the 15mm project but a 2mm project would also be awesome - quick and cheap.
So to begin with I need to select the units to print out and get my printing in order or get it done professionally.
The rules I use for tabletop games is Empire V with a couple of home mods and feel this will give me the flavor I seek in the battles and so I will continue to work with it.
INFANTRY
Let's start with a French Infantry Battalion. On paper it was around 720 men with 6 companies of around 120 each. In the rules this works out to be 120mm long for the unit formed in line in 3 ranks and being made up of 6 x 20mm stands. I found a 3 rank infantry stand in the 2mm library of 20mm with and without flags which will work well for me.
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CAVALRY
A typical French Cavalry Regiment is made up of 4 squadrons of around 100-120 men and this time the basing is 4 stands of 25mm wide. The 2mm library has no units of 25mm width so I decided to use the 30mm but because I know a little TinkerCad I might try to reduce these to 25mm. Here is the printed Regiment of 30mm wide cav.
ARTILLERY
Artillery Batteries of that era were mostly 8 guns with the English using 6 and the Russians using 12. French foot artillery had 8 guns while French horse artillery had 6. In the Empire rules we account for this by using 40mm square bases with 2 gun models and 8 crew with the number of crew being the number of guns. In 2mm I found a 20mm 2 gun stand to use so in TinkerCad I increased the base size to 20mm square. 2 of these stands will make an 8 gun battery.
As you can see the print quality I am getting from my Ender 3 is really bad so I need sort print settings before moving much further.
One such idea is a grand strategic Napoleonic project. Granted I already do this project in 15mm but I thought playing a strategic boardgame and then moving the combat to a tabletop using a miniatures ruleset would work well. Thats what I intend for the 15mm project but a 2mm project would also be awesome - quick and cheap.
So to begin with I need to select the units to print out and get my printing in order or get it done professionally.
The rules I use for tabletop games is Empire V with a couple of home mods and feel this will give me the flavor I seek in the battles and so I will continue to work with it.
INFANTRY
Let's start with a French Infantry Battalion. On paper it was around 720 men with 6 companies of around 120 each. In the rules this works out to be 120mm long for the unit formed in line in 3 ranks and being made up of 6 x 20mm stands. I found a 3 rank infantry stand in the 2mm library of 20mm with and without flags which will work well for me.
CAVALRY
A typical French Cavalry Regiment is made up of 4 squadrons of around 100-120 men and this time the basing is 4 stands of 25mm wide. The 2mm library has no units of 25mm width so I decided to use the 30mm but because I know a little TinkerCad I might try to reduce these to 25mm. Here is the printed Regiment of 30mm wide cav.
ARTILLERY
Artillery Batteries of that era were mostly 8 guns with the English using 6 and the Russians using 12. French foot artillery had 8 guns while French horse artillery had 6. In the Empire rules we account for this by using 40mm square bases with 2 gun models and 8 crew with the number of crew being the number of guns. In 2mm I found a 20mm 2 gun stand to use so in TinkerCad I increased the base size to 20mm square. 2 of these stands will make an 8 gun battery.
As you can see the print quality I am getting from my Ender 3 is really bad so I need sort print settings before moving much further.
