Just to be clear regarding above, I was already planning to write the script but the mention of manually placing hundreds of figures as the only workable solution seems avoidable and potentially harmful to hand joints. I'm not trying to oblige you into something you've not asked for. So in my head it would be a two stage process, a script to build a series of plane props in rows with a specified size and spacing where each vertex in a plane prop represents a figures location. The position of the plane props can then easily be moved and rotated as required. When ready a second script to duplicate the selected figure on the position of each vertex. Would something like this be of use to you, happy to consider another approach?