Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

So I've got over 10k of blood angels, and as we know, all the new releases come with 32mm bases.....so I've started the arduous task of rebasing all my marines (God I love ebay and laser cut MDF bases!)

what are you guys doing with yours? keeping the 28mm bases and not bohtering with 32mm?
only using 32mm bases on new purchses that come with them?
or are you rebasing your whole army too?

I'm sure as hell not rebasing my Necrons.

Disagree with the move in general, honestly, because it devalues the already kinda weak in this edition small blast template further.

Old ones were 25mm, just to be nitpicky

yeah my bad, scale is 28mm, base 25mm....

It's not 25mm though. Actually measure the bottom of the base. :p

I have re-based almost all of my marines.
It is not that difficult, neither extremely time-consuming.

i would not have bothered gamewise, but marines on the new bases look aawesome.
Who would guess 7 mm would make such a difference??

There was an army at Warhammer Fest that had a mixture, within the squads, of 32 and 25mm bases. I pointed this out to someone and it sparked a strong debate about the merits of both! One of them said out that it leads to a disadvantage in close combat to have a bigger base. Not sure about that. I have to admit, though, that seeing the same minis side by side on 25 and 32 bases really shows the different. The bigger bases do make space marines look a bit more heroic. It is like when everyone switched their terminators to 40mm bases.

I haven't even considered rebasing. I quite like the smaller bases, and it's easier to get 3rd party scenic bases in 25mm than 32mm. I'm more interested in taller and more ornate bases than I am in increasing the diameter of them.

Just a heads up in case anyone wasn't aware: you can get some bits that convert a 25mm round to a 32. It's a lot quicker and easier than fully re-basing stuff.

Re-based all my original necrons, but that's because they fit alot better on 32mm.

Also, Tyranid hormagaunts can stand up without tipping!

I'm keeping my old armies on 25mm and only rebase the ICs as I did some of them on 40mm already so the others can go on 32mm to make it easier to identify them. But I'm building new squads of stock infantry on 25mm as mixed bases would look stupid.

For the Sons of Horus I'm building out of BaC, I'm using 32mm as it's also a budget question for me and I need to make the best out of the things I get and there is no doubt Marines on 32mm look great.

The 32mm is SOO much better on jumpy guys. Especially for Blood Angels with lots of jumpy dudes... mine were always falling over, until I rebased.

Rebasing as I see fit to do so. Honestly, it's a good opportunity/excuse in some cases to make an old model look much better.

IF I decide to rebase anything I will just be gluing the old model and base on a new base for the tiered effect and using a rock finish on edges so hat it is like they are standing on a small rise or something... seems like the easiest way to deal with it. I already glue pennies to the bottoms so that they do not call over. on new models though I have been using the 32mm that come with them obviously, but this does somewhat look odd on some units like my stealth suits for example that 6 are the old and 6 the new so when mixing it looks... odd

 Nazrak wrote:
Just a heads up in case anyone wasn't aware: you can get some bits that convert a 25mm round to a 32. It's a lot quicker and easier than fully re-basing stuff.

Any links?

 corpuschain wrote:

 Nazrak wrote:
Just a heads up in case anyone wasn't aware: you can get some bits that convert a 25mm round to a 32. It's a lot quicker and easier than fully re-basing stuff.

Any links?

I got mine from here: http://www.bitzbox.co.uk/product_info.php/tabletop-adapters-25mm-to-32mm-adapter-p-6052 but they're currently showing as out of stock. A quick google of "tabletop adapters" yielded this: http://ttadapters.com I haven't investigated further yet but they look to be the same things I picked up from bitzbox. Pretty nifty, particularly for metal figures on slotta bases.

While it's tedious, I really does make the marines look more 'to scale' when compared to eldar, tau, and IG, simply because they take up more board space.

Thanks Nazrak.

I actually rebased my stealth suits but as I only have 3 of them it was not a big deal but my crisis are staying on 40mm as paying 12€ for new ones instead of using 3 bases for the new suits I had still lying around...

Going forward I'll use the new sizes but I'm not changing anything already done

32 for me all the way.

Marines just look way better on them.

25 for regular human and tau sized things.

-Puts marines on 32mm bases.
-Proceeds to die repeatedly to Small Blasts.

I just leave the marines on the bases they came with. I don't have the time or the motivation to rebase 50+ Tactical Marines.

Personally, I like the 32mm bases for Marines; they look less like they're about to fall off the sides. I also use them for my nobz (they work wonders stopping the older metal guys tipping over forwards), lootas (standard bases look too small) and Flash Gitz (standard bases look too big). Regular boyz stay on 25s. On a side note though, I'm not so keen on how they seem to have become the default for AoS, but the way the scale of purportedly human-sized guys seems to be creeping up in the fantasy range is a whole other can of worms.

I hated the idea when it first came about. Now that I have a bunch of guys based on them (Blood Angels successors/ Raven Guard counts-as) I like the look a lot more. Still not going to bother with the 200 or more older models I already have done. Most of them aren't even based, but prying the 25mm off isn't always as easy as it should be and the cost is prohibitive.

 Tactical_Spam wrote:
-Puts marines on 32mm bases.
-Proceeds to die repeatedly to Small Blasts.

I just leave the marines on the bases they came with. I don't have the time or the motivation to rebase 50+ Tactical Marines.

Surely less die to small blasts as they're more spaced out?

Well, I'm doing no rebasing but I take the larger bases for my newer models, like Blood Warriors, BA Tacticals, Blood Letters.

32mm is far better for the jump infrianty.

They don,t fall over.

I stick with whichever came with the box. Anyway my primary army now is chaos so why bother with rhyme or reason?

I do think marines look and fit better on the larger bases.

I’m not rebasing my whole army.

I am building my BaC stuff on the new bases.

Considering how seldom I've been playing 40K, the idea of re-basing 180 (est.) marine models just does not appeal. Plus the cost associated with buying all the new bases, the materials to texture them and so on. Add into the mix the waste of sculpted 25mm bases.... yea, not going to happen.

This is excluding all my other forces of course. If they all go to 32mm, I'd end up needing to re-base about 390 models.