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I am finally assembling my skull pass gobbos, and I decided to mount them on regimental bases rather then on indiviual bases.  A few hours of clipping and trimming tabs later, I realized that you can fit five of these goblins on a single regimental base.  It looks quit good, masking the limited poses by angling bodies, and all in all creating a more huddled together look.

Here's the question: Since I want the unit to rank up five wide, but I've put five models on a four wide base, what should I put on the five base?  Part of me wants to put a bonus goblin, really creating a horde look.  The other part wants to just leave an empty base in the fiftth file.  Obviously base it, and maybe put some form of decoration on there (the little objectives from the box set, among others.)  The idea is that the 5 files have clumped together on one side of the unit.  In game play it would work fine, I'm just curious how it's going to look.  Any opinions?

Both ideas have merit, but adding the 5th gobbo might make things confused for people who look at your reigment and see more models than are "really" there   If you play with strangers, you may want to have only an empty base.  If you play with freinds, who are used to your regiments, then go with 5.

Use the mushrooms, or the squashed goblin, or one of the little skull or moon objective markers.  A couple of empty bases with the same ground effects will round the unit out nicely.

I have three bases of mushrooms that I use to fill in my ranks when I want to use a particularly big unit.

Since you will have a hard time removing fewer than 5 gobbos at a time, invest in some casualty markers- maybe curtain rings to drop over the spear points.

If you keep the back rank on individual bases, you can fill in for odd numbers of casualties.

thanks for the input. I'll keep the rear rank on individual bases, and simply make change when I take casualties.

Here's another question: I glued the entire command onto the first rank. Would anyone have a problem with keeping the champion on the front rank, and simply remembering if he was killed in a challenge?

Likewise, would anybody mind if I don't buy a champion, even if one is modeled on the front rank? I'm pretty new to WFB, so I'm not sure how had core the modelers are.