Marching into Midgard

        If you are one of the hardy souls that has been following my blog for any length of time you are aware of one of my biggest anathemas; rebasing. Taking figures off of bases just to attach them to new bases is, to me, a criminal waste of time. Fortunately my gaming group's new favoritestest (yes, that is a newly coined word, and I hold copyright) new rules is Midgard. This set thoughtfully allows the use of minis based for any system and only requires consistency in the basing method. It was a significant factor in the adoption of the rules as almost all of our miniatures were based in compliance with the venerable WRG 6th Edition rules. All we did was group together four bases (arranged two by two) and declare it a Midgard unit. Measuring sticks were then made to correspond with the frontage of the formation and we were off to the races. 

       There remained but one issue, I had hundreds of figures that were individually based for various skirmish games. Playing with these was problematic because they didn't keep a consistent frontage and were constantly getting knocked down. I had to confess to myself that it had probably been most if a decade since I played skirmish games and was unlikely to return to that any time soon. That moment of reflection out of the way I began cutting bases to glue the minis into proper formations.

 

first up was a group of Victrix Greeks that I had painted for some long-forgotten rules

 and which hadn't seen service since they were painted back in 2020 

 

 

next up were my Mounted Sergeants from Wargames Atlantic,

 I had to trim away the bases to get them to rank-up on the Midgard bases 

 

next up was the foot soldiers that I had just finished, they got the treatment because I have several hundred individually based Medieval from my castle siege game already