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I wonder if they're doing a specialist game or if they hope to incorporate FW's flier rules into 40k somehow.

Once the hex bases have been out a while then GW declares them an integral factor in their IP and send a C&D to bellus corvi.....

Regardless, I refuse to re-base my armies.

I see them trying to patent the Kirby base, it looks like Kirby in profile (insert picture of a buttocks here) so therefore no other company could make a similar base.

Well, if true and 9th ed fantasy rumours are true and it becomes a sorta skirmish type game, Hex bases are nice for establishing B2B contact/connection for scrums whilst letting you have more than 4 sides that square bases have..! >_>

 monkeytroll wrote:
Once the hex bases have been out a while then GW declares them an integral factor in their IP and send a C&D to bellus corvi.....

GW used to do hex bases waaaaay back in the day oddly enough, I'm not sure what for though.

Don't shout me down for suggesting this, but imo this thread should be deleted or edited as GW could quite easily track who the person the OP is referring to.

Just sayin'

Haha, I think that's a bit unlikely!

One thing is for sure, whatever it is.. it will be the lowest quality of goods possible, at the highest cost possible, and be produced for the least amount of money possible!

Hexagonal bases ? Eww. No.

Whole bunch of nonsense here. If they're going to switch bases, it'll be a move to something they already do like round ones, instead of an unprecedented shape.

Did the small oval the new Broodlord was on ever appear for anything else?

 Tokhuah wrote:
Another good reason why people should leave 40Kids for Warhammer.

And I fixed THAT for YOU.

I always have question marks next to 'rumour' posts that originate out of America. Not sure why someone in a country other than the place the game is developed and manufactured out of would be in the know when it comes to anything of real material effect to the GW hobby-verse.

I'm surprised they don't move to a K shaped based to glorified King Kirby's legacy.

I find it really hard to believe they'd completely alter the basing style for either of their core games. They're to ingrained in the games to arbitrarily change it. Thinking it might be for a new game, assuming there's any truth to these rumors at all.

 Howard A Treesong wrote:

 monkeytroll wrote:
Once the hex bases have been out a while then GW declares them an integral factor in their IP and send a C&D to bellus corvi.....

GW used to do hex bases waaaaay back in the day oddly enough, I'm not sure what for though.

Many of the early original 40K metal figs came on hex bases.

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Jigsaw puzzle bases! Your model may only be placed directly adjacent to the model in which the jigsaw piece fits. If at any time, you break the puzzle chain, the unit is immediately removed from the game.d

 FrothingMuppet wrote:
I always have question marks next to 'rumour' posts that originate out of America. Not sure why someone in a country other than the place the game is developed and manufactured out of would be in the know when it comes to anything of real material effect to the GW hobby-verse.

I feel the same. It's too difficult to maintain contact with old friends in other countries for non-British rumor-mongers to have any credence whatsoever.

 Pacific wrote:
Haha, I think that's a bit unlikely!

One thing is for sure, whatever it is.. it will be the lowest quality of goods possible, at the highest cost possible, and be produced for the least amount of money possible!

Two out of three of those are Mantic's modus operandi.

Strictly from a modeling perspective, I wonder if hex bases might make it easier or harder to rank up infantry. I'd like to think it would be easier because by offsetting each rank you don't have hordes of similarly posed guys getting in each other's way. But the more I think about it, the more I think that the likely scenario (especially if they're regular hexagons) is that a unit equipped with a weapon and shield would routinely end up with the weapon and/or shield bashed into the head/back/butt of whoever is ranked in the offset row in front of them.

Of course this is an entirely academic comment for me because the uniqueness or lack thereof of GW base designs has never been a factor in my choice to abandon the company. They could make the bases the shape of tesseracts that merely looking upon them transforms me into an enlightened entity of pure energy and love whose consciousness transcends the fetters of space, material, and time itself, and I'd still never buy them if the minis mounted on them were ridiculous-looking and over-priced.

 monders wrote:

 Pacific wrote:
Haha, I think that's a bit unlikely!

One thing is for sure, whatever it is.. it will be the lowest quality of goods possible, at the highest cost possible, and be produced for the least amount of money possible!

Two out of three of those are Mantic's modus operandi.

To be fair, that's largely Mantic's deal: selling cheap miniatures that undercut the competition on price. There's a place for it in the market, obviously, and Mantic is at least fairly straightforward about it. "building big armies" is the company slogan, not, "the best miniatures in the world." Mantic is focused on quantity over quality.

weeble1000 wrote:
To be fair, that's largely Mantic's deal: selling cheap miniatures that undercut the competition on price. There's a place for it in the market, obviously, and Mantic is at least fairly straightforward about it. "building big armies" is the company slogan, not, "the best miniatures in the world." Mantic is focused on quantity over quality.

I hear what you say, but I don't think that entirely excuses human minis with proportions that make you puke with lovecraftian horror, elves that must have limbs like chopsticks once they take their armour and padding off, melty goblins, and these. I don't think it would be an unreasonable expense, mostly just eyes and half a sense of aesthetics.

Does not one person find it odd that this "friend" said files for their new molds came in? GW produces most all of their sprues in house with their own facility (except for some large terrain which they sent out to China). So unless they dropped millions of dollars of equipment in Lenton, I have a very hard time believing any of this...

 JHall wrote:
Does not one person find it odd that this "friend" said files for their new molds came in? GW produces most all of their sprues in house with their own facility (except for some large terrain which they sent out to China). So unless they dropped millions of dollars of equipment in Lenton, I have a very hard time believing any of this...

Quite Sir.

On the other hand I have an email from a lawyer in Nigeria who apparently wants to send me $3,000,000.

Not sure which rumour has more credibility...

 Howard A Treesong wrote:

 monkeytroll wrote:
Once the hex bases have been out a while then GW declares them an integral factor in their IP and send a C&D to bellus corvi.....

GW used to do hex bases waaaaay back in the day oddly enough, I'm not sure what for though.

Early 40k (I was around when it came out ) Marines were mainly hex slotta based as were the Judge Dredd range.

 Kosake wrote:
Oh man, right now it's a hornets' nest in the rumor's section. Post-Apocalypse WHFB after the End-Times, Hexagonal bases, the usual "what units are next in line" speculations...

Makes me wonder whether GW deliberately tells different stories to different people to see where the leaks come from.

It's a good strategy - Tyrion used it to suss out the old Maester as Cersei's spy in Song of Ice and Fire. Lawyers sometimes advise commercial clients to do this sort of thing when they are concerned that the clients' confidential info is being stolen by insiders (such as setting up "dummy" email accounts on customer lists, so that if the email address starts getting email they know their list is compromised). So, no reason it couldn't work for GW.

A hex base would be great for something like a spaceship combat game...

 Cryptek of Awesome wrote:
I'm saving my salt to season the inevitable "New GW bases colors rumor" thread.

Does this mean we can have Flank Charges, Rear Charges, Flank Rear charges, and Flank Flank Rear charges?

Great, now we really CAN flunk flank....

Just throwing this in here for the rumors.

 Vermis wrote:

weeble1000 wrote:
To be fair, that's largely Mantic's deal: selling cheap miniatures that undercut the competition on price. There's a place for it in the market, obviously, and Mantic is at least fairly straightforward about it. "building big armies" is the company slogan, not, "the best miniatures in the world." Mantic is focused on quantity over quality.

I hear what you say, but I don't think that entirely excuses human minis with proportions that make you puke with lovecraftian horror, elves that must have limbs like chopsticks once they take their armour and padding off, melty goblins, and these. I don't think it would be an unreasonable expense, mostly just eyes and half a sense of aesthetics.

To be fair, most of these things are subjective. I think Mantic's orcs and undead range are excellent, and the fact that they are so much cheaper means that you would need to be moneybags to go for the GW versions of the latter in particular. Which is why, at least from my experience, it's rare to see WFB Undead armies these days that don't have Mantic skellies in there bulking up the big units.

Every company (well, most) has it's share of stinkers for sculpts, I don't want to start ruining anyone's morning by starting to post pics of them on here!