Does it matter to you that your infantry models face the right direction on the table?

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**-Guardsman-**

Bit of a light-hearted poll, but I've noticed that some players don't care at all what direction their infantry models are facing when they set them up. For my part, I wish I could be less of an obsessive perfectionist, but I just cannot stand models that face in a random direction. They should be looking the enemy in the eyes, dammit!

This is not a thread for judging people. I'm just curious.

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**Trickstick**

Of course, it just looks weird otherwise.

I would never touch an opponent's models though, that is not very nice.

**Excommunicatus**

It would irritate me no end if someone else lined them up just however, but I wouldn't grab anyone else's minis without explicit permission.

**dhallnet**

I wouldn't do it with a stranger but I turn my friends' models when they set them up in random directions.

**Thadin**

For infantry, I usually let them sit wherever I happen to put them. The only time I'll adjust my models is when I'm going in for a sick action shot on the table, and my friends/opponents will do the same.

**Sim-Life**

Yes. Tanks also.

**AnomanderRake**

It depends. If I'm using a five-model unit they're usually all facing the right direction, if I'm using a twenty-model unit they may not be.

**tneva82**

With vehicles encouraged to be in most unnatural poses by rules why bother with infantry either

**buddha**

Yes, if you are going to spend time building, painting, and playing with toys soldiers at least take the time to have some immersion in the battle.

**Gangland**

I voted nah though it depends on the unit. 30 model unit of cultists? Whatever. 10 man unit of terminators? Ok let's point them at what should die.

**vipoid**

I now have this strange urge to play a game where I line up every single one of my miniatures so that they have their backs to the enemy.

**Insectum7**

Generally yes, although sometimes things get bumped when I'm in a rush. Heavy Weapons though, absolutely!

**Aelyn**

Generally yes, I'll have my guys pointing the right way. The only exception is where there's a mechanical reason not to (e.g. fitting Hormagaunts in to combat)

**Overread**

Aelyn wrote:
Generally yes, I'll have my guys pointing the right way. The only exception is where there's a mechanical reason not to (e.g. fitting Hormagaunts in to combat)

Exactly - or when its practical. Typically for a big unit moving them all perfectly would be a pain so some facing a bit the wrong way is ok for the practical playing of the game.

Like other's said what's the point of building and painting the models if you then face them the wrong way around

**Grimtuff**

buddha wrote:
Yes, if you are going to spend time building, painting, and playing with toys soldiers at least take the time to have some immersion in the battle.

Yowie wowie! We're going there again. Can't wait for the "yOu CaN't TeLl Me HoW tO hObBy!" righteous indignations that will come along.

**Elbows**

Generally, yes, if I'm going to pick up a miniature and move it, I'll face it in the general direction it's going. I may adjust some facings a bit if I'm taking a picture mid-game. Does it bug me if they're not exact? No. It would be odd though to pick up a miniature and intentionally place it facing another direction...

I also play with painted miniatures so I'm not picking up a handful of grey plastic orks and shoveling them forward into a pile or something. I think we've all seen the "ork boyz in a ziplock bag" thing...so it depends on your play style.

**Big Mac**

I do it with my models, the dice god seems to think that’s a wise idea too! On the models turned away, maybe they’re checking their six for ambushes, or they wet their pants and about to run away..

**greatbigtree**

I usually start them out pointing in mostly the right direction... but I'm not concerned about it after the game starts. If I'm moving a blob of 20 or more Guardsmen at a time, I might care about the Heavy, Special, and Sergeant models but after that? Pfft.

If the game had a facing *mechanic* then I would care, of course, but it doesn't.

**vim_the_good**

Yes I do. There again I always play WYSIWYG and always have everything painted. I also place squads back in their foam trays in formation and turn the turrets on my tanks to point at what they are shooting at.

**An Actual Englishman**

Absolutely, nothing is more immersion breaking than a model facing the wrong way, IMO.

**MrMoustaffa**

I often just place them however when I'm moving, especially if I'm in a hurry, but I often notice myself fixing their facig whenever I'm sitting around waiting for the opponent to do something. I like to crack jokes like "dammit Bob, the bloodthirster is that way, no wonder you missed!"

Honestly it's just an aesthetic thing but it does make the table look better

**Trimarius**

I generally do, but hordes tend to get a bit off over time and fixing it isn't high on my priority list mid-game (and a couple of boyz facing the wrong direction seems fine, they may just be having a go at a neighbor). Normal sized units, tanks, characters, etc. get rotated to face the enemy as things go on, though.

Tyranids are another matter, as just getting their troops into a cohesive unit can be a challenge. Horms do a lot of butt-first charging and my genestealers inevitably end up in some sort of alternating formation just so they won't grab onto each other like a barrel of monkeys when I go to pick one up.

**Strg Alt**

-Guardsman- wrote:
Bit of a light-hearted poll, but I've noticed that some players don't care at all what direction their infantry models are facing when they set them up. For my part, I wish I could be less of an obsessive perfectionist, but I just cannot stand models that face in a random direction. They should be looking the enemy in the eyes, dammit!

This is not a thread for judging people. I'm just curious.

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Facing is important in 2nd which I tend to play.

**ccs**

Well, as a player of many other games & various editions where facing does matter, it's really just automatic after all these years.

**Gir Spirit Bane**

Yes it is important to me, but as my regular ork opponent doesn't bother using the quote "Doesn't matter, they shoot just as accurate looking backwards!"

**stroller**

We houseruled once - facing away rolls an automatic 1....

**rakkzul**

Grimtuff wrote:

Yowie wowie! We're going there again. Can't wait for the "yOu CaN't TeLl Me HoW tO hObBy!" righteous indignations that will come along.

You can't tell me how to hobby!

In a more serious note, I usually do, even if I'm playing orkz. They want to see their enemies. Sometimes their enemies are those pesky gretchins near them

**AngryAngel80**

No they need to look all around and be on guard for surprise attacks.

**Inquisitor Lord Katherine**

I set them up usually facing the right way, but then only continue to care about their facing if I could make/break LOS by rotating them.

Especially when the clock runs down, I'll start to move towards "move one model carefully, move the rest as a blob and stand them up around him", and there will be lots of people facing away from the enemy.

**beigeknight**

I'd try and face them towards the enemy, but it's not too far out there that soldiers would be facing all directions in a battlefield.