Help Understanding Basing
Hello Napoleonic peoples!
Myself and a friend are painting and building our first battalion of 28mm Napoleonic models. I wanted to base the miniatures in a way that will allow us to play black powder in the future but we mainly just enjoy building an army. I did the research and I think I figured it out, but was looking for some validation from the experts. I'll write my plans below, I'd be very grateful if anyone could either confirm I'm doing it right, or tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Battalions need to be 240mm in width when in line formation so I'm aiming for that. We are doing a French army so want aesthetically to have lots of bodies, so we both want to do a 36 man battalion. Our first battalion will be french guard, and will have 4 companies of 60mm X 40mm bases, with 9 miniatures to a base.
After this we want to do a line company and do 6 companies of 40mm X 40mm with 6 miniatures to a base.
Have I understood the basing concepts correctly? And is there anything we are doing wrong with this plan?