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Here's something that's specifically and clearly stated in the rulebook as being legal. But people would still have a problem with someone doing it. They wouldn't get mad at the people that wrote the admittedly defective rules in the first place.

You seem to be assuming that it's a 'one or the other' situation. Can't people be mad at you AND at GW?

The rule on base sizes is there to allow people to make their character models a little more flashy. Yes, it's badly written, and allows a certain amount of abuse through creative modeling, as do quite a few other rules in the game.

Taking a rule that is intended as a modeling choice to give your models a perceived advantage is never going to win you friends.

But I still don't think this will give you the advantage that you think it will. Seriously, cut out a stack of 60mm circles, bung them on your grots, and actually try it.

lol eat my heavy bolters they dont care what base size your on

Oh, they'll care. You think it's all fun and games now, but you've just opened the door to madness my friend...Madness! Imagine this:

Your heavy bolter gunner has been training for weeks on the range honing his skills with his weapon. He is excited to learn that his unit is about to be deployed to the front to push back the Orks. The attack will happen tomorrow. He travels from the briefing room to the barracks and readies himself for the combat to follow the next day checking his weapon one last time. The next day he is startled awake and rolls out of his rack onto the floor to find that he is involved in CC with a grot who is actually 50 miles away. Since the grot is modelled on a 100 mile diameter base and he is touching that base he understands that rules are rules and he must fight the close combat. All he can do is look at his heavy bolter and sigh, knowing he cannot use it for at least another turn.

The big base thing is a disadvantage. Just have grots on the normal bases at 2 inches apart to maintain coherency, apparently you have never seen the area they cover. Making swarm bases can make sense, multiple models on a single base, but I think tactically is a disadvantage and you also lose the unit coherency rules.