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Something interesting I just noticed when doing some mathhammer. 

The new rules say the entire squad must be withing 9" of everyone else in the squad. If you have 10 models on 28.5mm bases, and line them up touching each other in a straight line, the furthest 2 models from each other will be 8.976376" apart, just a hairs breadth inside the acceptable threshold. 

Should be an easy way to place squads in a line if needed without fiddley measuring all the time. 

 Tawnis wrote:
Something interesting I just noticed when doing some mathhammer. 

The new rules say the entire squad must be withing 9" of everyone else in the squad. If you have 10 models on 28.5mm bases, and line them up touching each other in a straight line, the furthest 2 models from each other will be 8.976376" apart, just a hairs breadth inside the acceptable threshold. 

Should be an easy way to place squads in a line if needed without fiddley measuring all the time. 

Forgive me, but how?

10 x 28.5mm is 285mm, so, 28.5cm. 28.5cm is just over 11 inches?

 Sgt_Smudge wrote:

 Tawnis wrote:
Something interesting I just noticed when doing some mathhammer. 

The new rules say the entire squad must be withing 9" of everyone else in the squad. If you have 10 models on 28.5mm bases, and line them up touching each other in a straight line, the furthest 2 models from each other will be 8.976376" apart, just a hairs breadth inside the acceptable threshold. 

Should be an easy way to place squads in a line if needed without fiddley measuring all the time. 

Forgive me, but how?

10 x 28.5mm is 285mm, so, 28.5cm. 28.5cm is just over 11 inches?

Remember you measure between closest point. So you actually only have to fit 8 bases inside the 9" conga line, as 99.99% of the bases on the ends can 'overhang'.
Eight 28.5mm bases are 8.97637795 wide

Exactly, because it's within and not wholly within.

That's interesting and makes you wonder if GW actually did the math when they decided on the rule? You can have your unit of 10 Space Marines in a line, but your 20-model squad needs to create a second rank.

10 Space Marines couldn't fit in a line, it'd have to be a wiggly/staggered line at best.

Personally I very much doubt GW specifically lined up 10 28.5mm bases to determine the range.
If nothing else stringing a unit out in a base-base line just isn't much of a thing in 40k.
I think 9" is just the "about right" for the footprint of a unit. Plus it's a rounder number than 8" or 10".

I just wish it was 8" so the same stick could be used for Deep Strikes

 kirotheavenger wrote:
I think 9" is just the "about right" for the footprint of a unit. Plus it's a rounder number than 8" or 10".

I'm fairly sure 8 is could be argued to be rounder than 9, and 9 is definitely not rounder than the 0 in 10...

You can maybe make an argument for it being 3/4 of a foot, but it's still a weird number to pick - especially given the minimum board sizes are no longer in multiples of a foot.

 Dysartes wrote:

 kirotheavenger wrote:
I think 9" is just the "about right" for the footprint of a unit. Plus it's a rounder number than 8" or 10".

I'm fairly sure 8 is could be argued to be rounder than 9, and 9 is definitely not rounder than the 0 in 10...

You can maybe make an argument for it being 3/4 of a foot, but it's still a weird number to pick - especially given the minimum board sizes are no longer in multiples of a foot.

What hookie decimal system are you using son?
This is metric, we use base 12. 9" is three quarters of a foot - the King's own measurement!
Board sizes may not be multiples of a foot, but every other measurement in the game is, usually multiples of 6 inches