Quick Tau question

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**Ascalam**

Which would explain why your base doesn't snap off

10 seperate mispacks over a decade seems a bit against the odds though.

**insaniak**

It's not a mispack. GW have just changed their minds several times over the years as to whether or not the Monolith should have a flight base.

**Happyjew**

purpleboxbluebox wrote:
insaniak wrote:
purpleboxbluebox wrote:However the only type of vehicle with a clear base is a skimmer.

What does that have to do with it?

The type of base has no bearing on whether or not you're allowed to remove it. The rules only give us one situation in which the skimmer's base can be removed, and that's when the skiimmer is damaged.

It's far more practical to leave the base on than to remove it... and real-world logic quite regularly takes a back seat to abstract rules mechanics.

It has plenty to do with it. If you did not ignore my previous post, it would be clear to you. For terms of practicality and logic in friendly games, logic would dictate this:
if a is a skimmer then b has a clear plastic base. If b does not have a plastic base then a is not a skimmer. So how do we make it not a skimmer? By removing the plastic base. In terms of practicality, we are talking about applications of Tau landing gear. Practicality would deem it should be removed, as is the equipment would be useless without such removal. I am afraid you considered practicality a matter of expenditure of energy. Ho Hum. Now following my previous post for competitive play RAW must be considered. This time you are right. There is no rule for the removal of the plastic base, so by RAW the landing gear does nothing, but we all knew that.

Logic should never take a back set in anything. How else do we knew how to apply abstract rules mechanics?

I would like to point out that the Valkyrie does NOT have a "clear plastic base" it has a big BLACK oval base. Therefore the "if it's a skimmer it has a clear plastic base" is not entirely true.
Just saying, don't be hating.

**xlEternitylx**

This is the exact same arguement as laying models down to represent them going to ground, isn't it?????

That said, it has been established that changing their physical appearance is against the rules, as it greatly changes LOS. Why not apply that same logic here? Just because the Skimmer "Counts As" a non-skimmer does not mean you can modify the model to represent it; problem solved.

+1 insaniak