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And for the benefit of those too young or recent to remember, here's an image from the 3rd edition Chaos Space Marine codex:


It's been 20 some years and four (or five, depending on how you count) editions, and GW has yet to specify in the 40K rulebook that the bases should be round.



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Necroshea wrote:[
Going back to what I said, using outdated bases on your own time is one thing, pulling something like that at a tournament is another. If I saw someone doing that at a tournament, I would notify the TO about it. I keep my bases updated, as do many other people. If you want to bring older models to that game that's fine (I do it when I can), but at least have the courtesy to base them correctly. If you just outright refuse to do that, then slightly glue your small base on a large base, and everyone's happy.

You're making the assumption that the bases currently shipping with the models are the "correct" bases, when the rules specify to use the bases supplied with the model.

I'll just point to the Beast of Nurgle model that is depicted in the codex and shipped in the spearhead box on one base, and packaged (the last I checked) in the blister packs on a completely different one.