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Yes, they are. Seems jump-infantry switches over to it

Very odd, that base swap. I'd be interested to see why it changed.

Gonna be a lot of people having to buy new bases...

Maybe it's a Death Company specific thing? The recent Crimson Slaughter (Chaos Space Marines) expansion for Dark Vengeance has the Raptor jump infantry on their normal bases, doesn't it?

Still annoying for already established BA players though.

That's probably part of the idea, LOL.

 Paradigm wrote:
Very odd, that base swap. I'd be interested to see why it changed.

Was there a rumoured new assault marine box coming out? In that case there could be new dynamic poses.

*counts mentally*

I have 70-ish Marines with Jump Packs. I'm not gonna be changing bases.

Those larger bases would be good for my always-falling-over Hormagaunts!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
*counts mentally*

I have 70-ish Marines with Jump Packs. I'm not gonna be changing bases.

I'm waiting for the first entrepreneur that makes a 7mm base addon that you just snapon to your 25mm bases. That'd be excellent.

It's base inflation. Remember back in the day Termies were on 25mm bases, many Monstrous creatures were on 40mm bases and there was no bigger than 60mm base. Nowadays, we have MC's on ever larger and larger bases, we had even Power armour character on 40mm base, I suspect eventually Termies will be on 60mm bases and so on...

I'll say this...slightly larger bases would be much better for my old all-metal assault marines, with metal jump packs. Tippy as hell. Not sure that I see the argument for plastic, though.

UltraPrime wrote:
Those larger bases would be good for my always-falling-over Hormagaunts!

I was just thinking that. Assault Marines don't need 'em. H-Gaunts do!!!

Id be mad if they did that to ALL jump marines.

I just finished magnatizing mine

That and i dont feel like spending more money on bases.

Also cant wait to see more old vs new base arguments

 pretre wrote:
Gonna be a lot of people having to buy new bases...

Or telling GW to stick it...

If they keep inflating base sizes one would hope they finally address the massive problems with blast weapons. The Templates are so ineffective already. I wish they just hit all models in coherency with the initial target or something (maybe x2 for larger blasts).

 Deadshot wrote:
So what are we actually looking at for each force? From what I've read its

BA TDA captain with TH and Stormbolter
5 Terminators
5 Death Company
1 Dreadnought
Vs
Broodlord
8 Genestealers
3 Warriors
1 Carnifex

40 GBP?

Does it sound like a good investment for a Vanilla Marine (Blood Ravens) and Nid Player? I don't need the Captain or Stealers so might sell them on but the others I can put to good use.

Jump packs for the DC or are they on foot?

 wuestenfux wrote:

 Deadshot wrote:
So what are we actually looking at for each force? From what I've read its

BA TDA captain with TH and Stormbolter
5 Terminators
5 Death Company
1 Dreadnought
Vs
Broodlord
8 Genestealers
3 Warriors
1 Carnifex

40 GBP?

Does it sound like a good investment for a Vanilla Marine (Blood Ravens) and Nid Player? I don't need the Captain or Stealers so might sell them on but the others I can put to good use.

Jump packs for the DC or are they on foot?

It is the standard Death Company box, so both.

What is the diameter of the smaller flying bases that Gargoyles, jetbikes, Tau drones, etc are on? Most of those models count as jump infantry and they are a bit larger than the 25mm round bases the rest are on.

I have so many Ork Stormboys that would need re-basing if this is the case....ugh (and will make it harder to deep-strike a large mob of them with Zagstruk.)

Well that's... underwhelming. Don't need any of that and the Captain is a blander version of his Space Hulk equivalent with a daft load out.

My wallet can come out from it's panic room now, it's perfectly safe.

 Fango wrote:
What is the diameter of the smaller flying bases that Gargoyles, jetbikes, Tau drones, etc are on? Most of those models count as jump infantry and they are a bit larger than the 25mm round bases the rest are on.

Good catch, they're indeed 32mm.

There won't be any requirement for re-basing, the rule has always been that the models are to be based on the bases which came with the models. Which sometimes leads to awkward situations as for example, Necron Monoliths have come both with and without bases...anyway, it's still legal to use old metal Terminators on 25mm bases, for example.

I just hope that one of the Captain's shoulder pads isn't attached.

Backfire wrote:
There won't be any requirement for re-basing

Till 8th edition

 Desubot wrote:

Backfire wrote:
There won't be any requirement for re-basing

Till 8th edition

And with how quick 7th came out, we better not see an 8th edition until at LEAST 2020...

I still haven't forked over the cash for 7th...already have two 6th ed Dark Vengeance boxes....will see if I can get the Shield of Baal box before it sells out...

 Fango wrote:
And with how quick 7th came out, we better not see an 8th edition until at LEAST 2020...

8th Ed: 16/8/16!

You heard it here first guys.

Disappointed in the captain. Broodlord looks huge. The rest is meh.

Is the broodlord base round or oval? I think it looks round but a lot of people keep claiming its on an oval base.

You'd think that the first company captain of the blood angels would have some pretty ornate armour, you know, considering what blood angel captains and the more resent special characters seem to have.

Bit more Asterion Moloc style would fit way more with the armour.

It's just a bit weird, one of the legendary origional legion chapters and their first company captain looks like that.... Quite basic. Could quite easily do a 90% copy of that model with kit bashing the deathwing command set and a little bit of green stuff.

 Fango wrote:
What is the diameter of the smaller flying bases that Gargoyles, jetbikes, Tau drones, etc are on? Most of those models count as jump infantry and they are a bit larger than the 25mm round bases the rest are on.

I have so many Ork Stormboys that would need re-basing if this is the case....ugh (and will make it harder to deep-strike a large mob of them with Zagstruk.)

Aren't you only required to have your models on the bases they came with? I didn't think there was a hard requirement to change your bases if GW changed things. For example, Tau Broadsides got a new model with a bigger base, but you can still run your old Broadsides using the smaller base, correct?

Is there even anything official on what base size you're suppose to use at all?

And how many different base sizes and types do we have in 40k now(excluding Forgeworld)? 7?

I was sure I read officially to use the bases that came with the model but I can't find that anywhere now.