I'm in the process of planning a 15mm army based on Copplestone's barbarian models. I've always wanted to use the 15mm Copplestone miniatures for something worthwhile, and when one of my friends told me he had been talking with some of his regular opponents about creating historical 15mm armies for
KoW, I knew this was the opportunity I had been waiting for.
As far as I can tell, they've been planning to use 15mm miniatures, while all the distances in the game remains the same. This prescribes that the units adhere to the conventional table of unit base sizes, such as troop unit being 100x40mm big, although the number of actual 15mm miniatures used would be 12-16, and mounted on one large or several smaller bases. I originally considered using 50x40mm sized bases, each with 7 miniatures on average, because I felt it would make my units more flexible, and allow me to combine them to create regiment and horde sized units. At this point, I tried to find examples of other 15mm
KoW-armies, but a quick web search only revealed one such project:
http://ittybittysoldiers.blogspot.no/2016/06/15mm-kow-tons-of-starks-and-baratheons.html , - the other people who play
KoW using 15mm miniatures, appear to either use armies they already own, which were collected originally for a different system and are therefore based differently, or they invent their own system of measurement, or both.
That's when I decided to try out bases which are size 50x20mm. Each base has 4 miniatures, which means a troop unit will consist of 16 miniatures, a regiment 32 miniatures, and so on. I already own a handful of the Copplestone 15mm miniatures from an earlier project, and I've experimented with them, gluing them to cardboard bases.
My idea is to base the miniatures in such a way that the army is also suitable for other game systems which utilizes 10-15mm miniatures, such as Warmaster, Hail Caesar and Hordes of the Things. At the same time, I would like the army to adhere to conventional
KoW rules. However 40mm is really the standard width used by other 10-15mm game systems, such as Warmaster and HotT, and I'm now considering switching to 40mm bases. In which case, my troops would only be 80mm wide and not 100mm.
I suppose I could use five 40x20mm bases to create a troop, with the fifth base placed sideways either in the middle or at one of the sides of the unit (with the miniatures facing in the appropriate direction, this base would not be used if I was playing by other rule sets).
I would really appreciate any input and/or advice. I would include photos of my mock-ups, but I prefer taking photos of miniatures in daylight, and it will have to wait.