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See, stuff just looks better on round bases, and more spread out!

Seriously, though, round bases and 40-60 model a side 'full' games would have me diving back into Fantasy like a diving thing with an extra special reason to be diving!

Square bases, unit blocks and armies as big as they are now? Pass.

But I thought Lizards weren't even going to be part of 9th edition?

 Da Boss wrote:
But I thought Lizards weren't even going to be part of 9th edition?

Because one or two random rumours said so?

Wonderwolf wrote:

 Da Boss wrote:
But I thought Lizards weren't even going to be part of 9th edition?

Because one or two random rumours said so?

Because SPPAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCEEEEE!!!!!!!!

...that aside, I'm not even sure what to make of those lizards being both round AND square bases. I'm sure we'll find out in a month or so.

 kodos wrote:
But if this is for display only, why are the Skinks on square bases?

Probably because the Skinks fit pretty well on their bases?

The Saurus are all mounted on the new 32mm round bases, the Bastiladon seems to be on the same base as the Onager Dunecrawler(which is a new base size itself), and the Saurus on Cold Ones seem to be on an entirely new base itself.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 kodos wrote:
The Saurus on Cold Ones seem to be on an entirely new base itself.

And even if everything else can be explained away, that pretty much confirms we'll be seeing round bases of some sort come summer.

 Bolognesus wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
The Saurus on Cold Ones seem to be on an entirely new base itself.

And even if everything else can be explained away, that pretty much confirms we'll be seeing round bases of some sort come summer.

Whether or not they will be for Fantasy though remains to be seen.

Fair enough. There obviously will be some system using them though.

Aren't the Sarus riders on the oval bases that the Skitarii sniper rifle uses?

 Kanluwen wrote:


The Saurus are all mounted on the new 32mm round bases, the Bastiladon seems to be on the same base as the Onager Dunecrawler(which is a new base size itself), and the Saurus on Cold Ones seem to be on an entirely new base itself.

It's probably the Skitarii Ranger Sniper-base, no?

I think you're right Paradigm, but I don't have any of the Saurus Cold Ones to try it out.

...Ah. That scuttles that thought, then.

 Da Boss wrote:
But I thought Lizards weren't even going to be part of 9th edition?

Lizards in their current form likely won't be part of 9th edition. We will likely see them re-imagined in a form that will make them more unique and thus defensible as an IP in court.

I agree with those that have said the models look better on the round bases.

A mix of round, oval and square bases looks like a bloody mess.

 NAVARRO wrote:
A mix of round, oval and square bases looks like a bloody mess.

Yet it still looks pretty on display.

If they do make a move to round bases, is it possible that -both- round and square would be acceptable for casual play, and GW will just start selling all their models with round bases from that point on?

I mean, would a company like GW really expect people to completely rebase hundreds of figures to make the switch to round?

Oh, wait...

Well whenever they've been asked what the new 32mm round bases were for they just said they were because they looked cool

so I could totally see them having a mix of round and square bases in spite of the fact that it will make the rules awkward (and officially saying use what you want, 'discuss' any issues over this with your opponent and dice off if you disagree)

 Kanluwen wrote:

 NAVARRO wrote:
A mix of round, oval and square bases looks like a bloody mess.

Yet it still looks pretty on display.

Not from were Im looking. Im a bit OCD with bases. But hey more power to who is not picky with those things I guess.

You hear that? That's the sound of being right.

Perhaps they're being converted over to round bases over time and rather than just take hundreds of models out of display in the meanwhile, they're mixing bases to keep cabinets full of painted models...

If you had close combat rules that didn't demand base to base contact, merely close proximity, then base shape doesn't really matter beyond aesthetics.

We were having this conversation in my local GW recently. If everything was going to round bases, would cavalry be on bike bases or 40mm.

Cavalry on the oval bases looks sooooooooooooooo good! I can't wait!

Round and oval bases is going to make movement trays either really tricky, really ugly, or a major source of revenue for GW.

Laser cut mdf to the rescue

Maybe War Of The Ring style movement trays (inserts) or maybe we won't need movement trays at all? :-)

Maybe we won't need models at all. 9th edition will involve both players turning up, showing each other their models, engaging in a psychic war to determine the victor, then the players go home.

Mort wrote:
If they do make a move to round bases, is it possible that -both- round and square would be acceptable for casual play, and GW will just start selling all their models with round bases from that point on?

I mean, would a company like GW really expect people to completely rebase hundreds of figures to make the switch to round?

Oh, wait...

Why rebase when you can buy new ones?

I'd just like to point out that it's tough to determine if models are in corner-to-corner contact when the corners are missing.

 Paradigm wrote:
See, stuff just looks better on round bases, and more spread out!

I agree on the more spread out part, not on the "better" part. I think they looked much better ranked up on square bases.

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:
I'd just like to point out that it's tough to determine if models are in corner-to-corner contact when the corners are missing.

I'm expecting a similar combat system to 40K i.e. Anything within 2" of engaged models is part of the combat. It would arguably be more realistic than the current system. No battle is fought between two regiments of warriors standing politely in a queue waiting their turn to hit something.