Built Up Areas
50m x 50m cardboard(~1mm?) with simple foam blocks
Farmsteads
This shows a Rifle platoon w/att Pzrshrk in the upper farm and an AT section in lower farm.
Village / Town
This shows (from left to right) a Company HQ in farm on edge of BUA holding an MG platoon (w/HQ ‘order’) and Rifle platoon.
This shows a 50x50m BUA base overlaid on a scale period recon photo of the battlefield area.
Another example: Opening moves of a Tunisian battle with a town and a couple farms:
Figures
I’m a big fan of reducing the (play-distorting, -restricting, or -prohibiting) effect large stands have on gaming, and so chose to model squads with three figures on 10x15mm bases (~10 x 15m footprint at the game’s nominal 1:1000 ground scale). While a bit fiddly, they allow greater flexibility for players in the placement of their forces within the tabletop terrain where larger, more ‘normal-sized’ stands would not allow them to do what they’d like with their troops — many such examples can be seen/imagined in a study of the tabletops used where to-scale fields (or orchards) could not hold a platoon if the player wished to occupy it using, say, 25x32mm FoW bases for each squad. Using smaller stands/figures also helps reduce the ‘translation’ players must do (i.e.: What you see vs What it is) when viewing the tabletop battlefield to assess the situation.
When I run out of 6mm figs/bases I use 15mm figs (based on ~1cm rounds for CoC).
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