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Heya.

So I just started playing Demons of Chaos in 40k as i bought a finished army from a friend.
Since then I have added a few more units myself and I also wanted a mob of Fleshhounds.

I encountered 2 problems tho. I think the Fleshhound models are ugly and they are failcast. I decided to pick up a box of Warhounds of Chaos as i like them quite alot (and they are plastic... and MUCH cheaper).
Problem i have is i don't know what bases they are supposed to be on. On GW's online shop it says the Fleshhounds are supplied with square cavalry bases (so no 40k bases). I took a look in the rulebook but only thing i could find was a picture of a Chymera (wth is that?) at the Beast entry and it seems to be planted on a 40mm base (if I don't get the scale horribly wrong). Both Beasts of Nurgle and Fiends of Slaanesh are planted on 40mm bases as well. Can't really think of any other beasts from a 6E codex (Space Wolves seems to have doggies on 40mm bases as well but they have cavalry on 60mm bases so...).

So... is there any chance that the info on GW's site is wrong and Fleshhounds are packaged with some sort of 40k base as well? If so, which one? If not should I just plant mine on 40mm bases?
They would look best on normal 25mm bases but we usually try to be as accurate as possible with bases so want to get it right (specially for our small informal tournament). I will probably pin them on the bases anyway so i can use them in WFB as well.

I did a search but only thing i could find about it was from 2010 so not sure if its applicable. The answers in that thread were not definitive either. If its already been asked, sry.

if they come with horse bases (rectangles) then they should be on those. Which is what you'll get with the warhounds too

Things like Seekers come with rectangle cavalry bases as well as the rounded biker bases.

Niether the Fleshhounds nor Warhounds are supplied with biker bases, but I'd imagine they'd be an acceptable substitute.

By strict raw, your looking at using those rectangular bases. As far as HIWPI i have yet to find someone that has an issue with them on 40mm rounds.

Jeffrachov wrote:
... Fleshhounds are supplied with square cavalry bases (so no 40k bases).

Square cavalry bases are 40K bases. It's only fairly recently that they started putting models on the newer pill-shaped cavalry bases.

pyre wrote:
By strict raw, your looking at using those rectangular bases.

We're talking about using proxies (War Hounds as Fleshhounds). So we're already outside of strict RaW.

 grendel083 wrote:

pyre wrote:
By strict raw, your looking at using those rectangular bases.

We're talking about using proxies (War Hounds as Fleshhounds). So we're already outside of strict RaW.

Not that far. If you're using proxies, they should be a similar size and mounted on the correct base. Otherwise they're not a suitable proxy.

 grendel083 wrote:

pyre wrote:
By strict raw, your looking at using those rectangular bases.

We're talking about using proxies (War Hounds as Fleshhounds). So we're already outside of strict RaW.

Very true but it seems like Fleshhounds are supplied with rectangle cavalry bases as well. I've yet to find any evidence that they are supplied with any other type of base (and grendel083 said here that they dont).

Anyways, interesting argument that the bases actually are 40k bases (and one that i had not thought about). I think I will put them on biker bases as that seems to be the closest thing and still keep the overall feel of the army. 40mm bases seemed to large for them.

One other interesting thing to note is that Karanak (the Fleshhound special character) is pictured on a 40mm base in the Codex (and is the only Fleshhound in an actual picture).

Cheers all.

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As far as I know you can't use the rectangular bases (as 40K is a skirmish system) though I doubt as anyone would complain.

I would go with 40mm round bases. That's what dark elder kymearae are on.

Silverglade wrote:
As far as I know you can't use the rectangular bases (as 40K is a skirmish system) though I doubt as anyone would complain.

I would go with 40mm round bases. That's what dark elder kymearae are on.

The rule for 40k is that models should use the base they come with

All daemons come with square bases, so can use them in 40k

Silverglade wrote:
As far as I know you can't use the rectangular bases (as 40K is a skirmish system) ...

How does being a 'skirmish system' invalidate rectangular bases?

The rule is simply that models should use the base with which they are supplied. And as I already pointed out earlier in the thread, it's only comparatively recently that 40K started swapping out the old rectangular cavalry bases for the rounded pill bases found in the newer boxes. Normal Daemons have for some years now come with both round and square, although for at least a decade before that they only came with squares. Dreadnoughts, Mounstrous Creatures, and Ogryns have all in the past come with square bases.

The 40K rules don't care a jot what shape the base is. Just that it's the base that was supplied for the model.