I'm just blu-tacking together some bits and pieces and their designated bases are a bit too small for my liking; now, in 40k, I'd always just stick something on a bigger base, but am I right in thinking that base sizes are a vital component of miniatures in Fantasy and that up-sizing is a no-no?
Can I get away with increasing from a 40mm base to a 50mm base, or do those 10mm make all the difference?
I think for tournament and stuff it would be a no-no
But for friendly games I dont see it as a problem. I would guess it actually works against you games wise as you get less/opponent gets more models in combat.
40mm is it a monster or what?
Yeah, in WFB base sizes are fixed. They have a direct impact on several in-games rules so changing base sizes is a bit of a no-no. In friendly games people might not mind, but you'll still have to spend a lot of time working out how it should be played if you were on the right base size.
Annoying sometimes for modelling purposes, but really you should stick with the base size they come on.
(26-06-2010 02:14 PM)Chris Wrote: [ -> ]40mm is it a monster or what?
Oh yus
(26-06-2010 02:17 PM)Diabolist Plod Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah, in WFB base sizes are fixed. They have a direct impact on several in-games rules so changing base sizes is a bit of a no-no. In friendly games people might not mind, but you'll still have to spend a lot of time working out how it should be played if you were on the right base size.
Annoying sometimes for modelling purposes, but really you should stick with the base size they come on.
Ok, thanks guys. I'll stick him/it on his original base.
You could try multi-basing. Check out this month's White Dwarf for the showcase Vampire Counts army, they've used multi-basing to great effect there. Wish I'd known about it before I assembled my unit of skeletons!
I dont have this months WD. Could you explain what multi-basing is ?
I think it's putting blocks of infantry on one big base (Like 3x men on a cav base, or 4x on a ogre base etc) and only having a few loose.
They do it a lot in ancients and other historical games. I don't like it personally, but hey.