Bolt Action Japanese 1000pts army

I don’t like having prone models in squads of men with lots of standing men without explanation or reason.

I turned to the Bolt Action Facebook page for their advice on how they use their prone models.

They agreed that there is an aesthetics issue with mixed squads and some solutions were offered.

Use them just for set tasks. Sniper. Forward Observers. Spotters. LMG teams.

Or just use them for set tasks followed by any remainder in the box used in just one infantry squad. If it only comprises of crouched guys and prone guy it gives a pleasing aesthetic in play, because you have one unit of almost all standing minis charging the enemy as the other unit is crouched and prone set to give covering fire.

Another alternative was to use the prone men as pin markers instead of the first pin marker? Less tokens is important to the emersion sometimes, but this option does deplete my box of 30 minis to 25 quite quickly.

I have made a sniper and spotter already and know that i have 3 light mortars to make so this should give me full use of the prone models from the initial box. I tried to use the mortar arm with a prone model and the arm was too straight to pose him lying down. I fashioned a defensive area of some kind and a crater to get the arm to make sense with the prone body… It was then that i realised how blind i had been. I removed the mortar round hand from a sprue and selected a right arm to sever the hand from to glue it to and realised… Why didn’t i find an alternative left arm to improve the way the mortar was being held in relation to the prone body? Not my smartest moment after several minutes of messing with Greenstuff and awkward assembly. ?