Movement Trays

 

Movement  trays have been around since..umm...guessing.. during the 1990s?  There a dozens of wargaming bloggers use movement trays. DeanM WAB Corner , Christopher Bunker Hill , Cyrus Bucellarii and Rob Hawkins hobby blog are all influential...well to me anyway :o)

Movement trays are a game-changer for large-scale wargaming, drastically cutting down the time spent pushing individual models and keeping your ranks crisp. They are especially useful for "horde" armies or "rank and flank" systems like Warhammer and maybe DBMM?

I use DBA-DBMM elements with my movement trays for Command Colors Ancients and Impetvs army units. Also I think, is one of the best ways to maximize your collection of miniatures without the nightmare of rebasing figures! :o) 

Movement trays for De Bellis Multitudinis (DBMM) are a practical way to manage large groups of elements, especially during the early stages of a battle when moving in coherent lines or columns is more PIP-efficient. The DBMM system is element-based, not figure-based, battle groups are always chaning frontages during games so it may be impossible to have and difficult swapping different frontages trays just to move your grouped elements. 

Impetvs 15mm frontages are 80mm one can use DBA/DBMM army elements to form up Impetvs battle groups depending on unit type i.e. Pikes I would use as a typical full strength Macedonian Pike block 2 by 4 (total 8 elements) 

The elements can be removed during Command colors ancients and Impetvs games as casualties.

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80mm x 30mm, 80mm x 40mm, 80mm x 45mm, 80mm x 60mm

Pikes 2 Ranks Museum Miniatures "Z"Sculpts

Pikes 3 Ranks

Pikes 4 Ranks

Republican Romans 2 ranks Old Glory Miniatures

Republican Romans 3 ranks

Skirmishers 2 Ranks Xyston Miniatures

Auxiliary Light Infantry 2 Ranks

Bowmen 2 Ranks Essex Miniatures Goths

Warband 2 Ranks

Warband 3 Ranks

Warband 4 Ranks

15mm Xyston Miniatures Successors Cavalry

I had so many Macedonian Prodromoi  (light Horse) Xyston packs (about 11 packs) So...I removed the swords to most of the sword armed figures and added lances/wire instead, and painted/mounted the figures as medium "Mercenary" Successor Cavalry which I needed... also painted 3 packs of Persian Xystophoroi and 2 packs of Paionian Light Cavalry.

1st Successor Cavalry ANC20080

2nd Successor Cavalry

non-conversion figures :o)

Persian Xystophoroi ANC20125

Paionian Light Cavalry ANC20079