Using larger bases with Bloody Big Battles!

Half-base 10mm lead 'singles' for BBB: more
problematical with WoFun standees.

I might have been a little hasty in dismissing the use of WoFun 10mm stands for Bloody Big Battles! My thinking was that as they're 40mm-wide I could use them as double bases, but I'd still need singles, and that presents some challenges.

I could commission WoFun to create half-width bases and fill them up with individual skirmish figures. Or I could go a step further and commission 50mm x 25mm and 25mm x 25mm bases made to exactly replicate BBB size recommendations. But cavalry might remain problematical.

Using larger bases has been discussed on the Groups.io BBB group, and this simply involves using strength counters. One could even use a single Volley & Bayonet style base but BBB author Chris Pringle suggested 2-base units as this allows you to physically represent the difference between Line and In Depth formations. The suggestion of 2-base units was a lightbulb moment that completely simplifies the organisation and collecting of armies, so this is what I'm planning to go with as and when WoFun produce their 10mm Franco-Prussians.

Rather than actually using 2-base units throughout, I'd probably maintain more granularity by using 1 large base for 2-base units, 2 large bases for 3-5 base units, and 3 large bases for 6-7 base units. Artillery units would use 1 large base. 2-base units can't use In Depth so only need one large base. Skirmishers wouldn't be represented, but I'd know from the combination of ID label and strength counter if they were originally present or had been lost. 

I prefer the 18mm WoFun figures, but 10mm, as ever, has more mass appeal, is arguably better for grand-tactical games, and is a closer match for the later 19thC 6mm buildings I've already accumulated.

All I need now is for WoFun to produce the standees.