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I"m currently sitting on nearly 10000 points of 8th edition orcs and goblins (with models going back to 4th edition FB) and around 5000 8th points of out of print metal high elves. I'm finally over the grief of my favorite setting and game being destroyed and remade as WFB and want to start playing games in 2017. An issue I have, however, is--aside from a lack of a player base locally (it seems the AoS players in Chicagoland are in the suburbs and not in the city, where 9th Age is more common)--is whether I should transfer my models onto rounded bases before I paint them all up (in the case of the high elves). I am reluctant to utterly close off the option to play 8th or 8.5th edition with this army, but I fear that GW's current open base policy will only last one edition.

What do you guys think?

Should I just not sweat it, and stick with the square bases?

I genuinely don't think it matters. GW has historically been pretty loosey goosey with their skirmish game bases. 40k has assumed you're using the bases that come with the models for multiple additions but has working that boils down to "if you want to use something else, feel free, so long as you're not being a jerk". In other words, square 40mm bases for Fantasy Ogres are fine. So are round 40mm bases. Round 120mm bases probably would raise some questions as would square 20mm bases.

I think if they could, they would go entirely to round bases and then introduce (re-introduce?) the LotR-esque movement tray with round inserts for a more regimented AOS experience. As it stands, I don't think they will ever fully enforce bases. Maybe several years down the line.

Hi there, AoS will never "require" round bases to play - in that you could play the game with rounds bases, square bases, hexagonal bases or even triangular shaped bases. The game mechanics work with any base and that's both measuring model to model or base to base.

Saying that, the game works much better on rounds. Mainly the pile-in phase. I had a square base Warhammer army that I rebased and I love how my models glide around like butter now.

But if you wanna keep your options open you could keep them on squares.

The answer is we don't know what GW plans for Generals Handbook 2.0. As was mentioned already I think GW will go to round bases but use the rule "use the bases that came with originally" or "players consent".

For me, I would hate to rebase everything you had, and wouldn't bother. If at most if you had to, I would keep the square bases and just put on round bases underneath if need be if you ever play TFG who insists round bases are a must.

I've never encountered TFGs, to be honest, and if I do, they have no business playing me. I don't have time for them. Thanks for the replies. I think i'll take a wait and see approach and drill pins into the feet of my models lmao....or see what happens to the 9th Age and 8.5 edition communities.

Seeing as the Spire of Dawn set came with both squares and rounds, I would say the GW is more likely to maintain their current attitude toward bases. i.e. use whatever you want.

 EnTyme wrote:
Seeing as the Spire of Dawn set came with both squares and rounds, I would say the GW is more likely to maintain their current attitude toward bases. i.e. use whatever you want.

Yes, this. Which i would be very happy with even though i'm doing rebasing on the round bases myself

I would be surprised if GW back pedal and invalidate anyone's basing after letting people do as the please for an edition.

I play (and would recommend, but as you will) Warhammer as a casual game, so even if GW changed track my group would probably let it slide.
Part of the reason I keep my square bases if for the system I play more seriously (KoW).

Even in 40K, it states you can use whichever bases you like, so long as they're of an appropriate size for that model.

AoS will not have editions, or at least, conventional. They will just fix here and there, because there shouldn't be any redesing Battletomes in the future and the rules are based on the models, and they are also free.

CMLR wrote:
AoS will not have editions, or at least, conventional. They will just fix here and there, because there shouldn't be any redesing Battletomes in the future and the rules are based on the models, and they are also free.

I am sure we as a "community" will call them editions because anything prior to the "update" will be invalidated and be an "ask your opponent to use". So yes Age of Sigmar will have new editions because the community will call it that, but maybe not GW will.

What we can have is a yearly "living" rule book. I thought AoS would be a living rule book by being updating bi monthly or yearly or what ever, but seeing as it hasn't happened now for almost a year and a half, my guess it could be an every year update. Once the update has occurred it will be the community that calls it a new edition if GW doesn't.

I found that, with movement trays, round bases work just fine for "classic" 8th edition. Of course, the problem I am finding right now is how to AFFORD so many bases....

I still see games in my GW shop with people using square bases for their miniatures. It goes smoothly.

I myself use 40 mm square bases for my Stormcast Eternals for personal convenience.

Since you take measures from the miniature and not the base, it doesn't change that much. People still measuring from base could indeed find this problematic, but since they are using "house rules" on that matter...well, they have to deal with the problems they're causing themselves.

 Sarouan wrote:
I still see games in my GW shop with people using square bases for their miniatures. It goes smoothly.

I myself use 40 mm square bases for my Stormcast Eternals for personal convenience.

Since you take measures from the miniature and not the base, it doesn't change that much. People still measuring from base could indeed find this problematic, but since they are using "house rules" on that matter...well, they have to deal with the problems they're causing themselves.

Really even if you measure from the base it's not a big issue as long as you aren't silly and using 100mm bases for models that are typically 25mm or something like that. The difference between a 25mm round, 25mm square and 32mm round isn't really that huge.

 Sarouan wrote:
Since you take measures from the miniature and not the base, it doesn't change that much. People still measuring from base could indeed find this problematic, but since they are using "house rules" on that matter...well, they have to deal with the problems they're causing themselves.

This is not even an issue either. You can still measure from round base to square base. If worse comes to worse, divide the supposed round base by 1/2, then add that number and measure from the center. Problem solved. So bases don't matter at all.