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I would like to know if adding extra stuff to the base i.e. Rocks, Platforms, other various things to stand on, would cause any problems with gaming as far as line of sight issues. I have some pretty awesome ideas for making my mini's look super individual, but would him standing on an inch high rock make any difference? Or is there a standard of how high you measure the line of sight from?


Edited for title misspelling.

Yes, it can cause major arguments - LOS rules mean your miniature can shoot what it can see, and equally be shot at if it can be seen, so if it's an inch higher than normal then it will be seeing over cover and being seen a lot more than a standard height model. Overall, this tends to balance itself out, it's as much a disadvantage as advantage, but there will be individual situations where a 'tall' model will get a ridiculous advantage or disadvantage due to its height, and that's where the arguments will start. Not much of a problem in a casual game, but a potential biggy in a tourney.

Some players do some careful modelling to gat around this, e.g. if your model's 1 inch tall and is standing on a 1 inch high rock, then you can tell your opponents that for _all_ LOS purposes the model counts as being as tall as the rock.

But personally I don't think it's worth all the hassle - I do lots of conversions, and am carefull to keep all my models within a few mm of the standard height and width. I even do this for prone/kneeling models - put them on a higher base to bring them up to standard height.

I don't see why even for tourney games if you have a model that is much higher that it's not just counted as being that height. It's mainly going to be HQ units that this affects and surely that would represent that unit having a larger visual appearance on the battlefield? That is they are wearing the flashier armour, are actually taller than those around them, are doing things that bring them to the enemies' attention and so are at bigger risk of getting hit.

Using the rock as the height instead is one way of doing it but don't you run the risk of having the taller unit blocking los for units behind? ie, guy on rock who would otherwise be hidden behind a wall blocks los for guy behind him who would otherwise be visible.