So I need some Huns for the campaign I have in mind to run, and I do have quite a few Huns (albeit old figures, not nearly up to modern standards). In fact more Huns than I ever seemed to manage to get onto the table at once. Which made it an attractive idea to rebase some of them to fit in with the Mortem et Gloriam ruleset's concept of "flexible" formations.
i.e. the 3-to-a-bases ones have been rebased, the 2-to-a-base ones have not.
There is of course an obvious problem; I have changed my idea over the years of of what bases for Steppe inhabitants should look like, and I now feel some pressure to rebase the 2-to-a-base elements as well to be consistent. I will try to resist this urge!
It is also interesting what you discover when you look closely at these toys that have been with you a long time. The rear-most unit was originally on 25mm deep bases. When the WRG rules of the time changed to 30mm for cavalry, being more lazy back in those days I simply put the existing bases on top of new 30mm ones. I managed to camouflage the step discontinuity reasonably well so that I had forgotten about it.
This dates the painting of those figures back to sometime in the early '80s? I remember at the time being rather pleased with them as being an improvement on stuff I had painted previously. Looking at them now...lets' be polite about this... I can't honestly say I find the flat, dull style particularly appealing.
But this now reminds me that I will find the same thing if I look closely at some of my Roman cavalry too :(
I also have the question of what to do about the masses of Gothic infantry I will also need for the campaign. I'm not sure I can face rebasing all of them to represent "flexible" formations! But having started down this route, perhaps I need to see it through to its full conclusion?
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