<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "Must bases be flat to the table?"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/15.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Must bases be flat to the table? GUO / dread. I understand (Or don't perhaps...) wobbly model entails the model must be able to sit unassisted prior to just shouting wobbly model and thus allowing your models to sit pretty much anywhere they wouldn't normally fit. This is what prevents models from saying they stop on a 1cm wide wall (Any model would simply fall over instantly) to make a charge on a full floor when they can't legally fit. My question however is about a less extreme scenario where a larger based model could end it's movement angled across several levels of a hill or similar object. It all seems fine until more competitive players start rules confrontation.

The solid lines below depict a hillside and it's top. Imagine a solid line through the 4 dots and that's the larger models base. It's able to sit there unassisted but it's angled. (Ignore the '+' symbols, the site doesn't like whitespace).
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My scenario causes some headache as the top of the hill was 'full' of models and the larger model was able to make the charge as the base was within 1" of the unit on top BUT the knight clearly couldn't fit on that top 'level'. Of course, the hill wasn't ruled to have levels like a ruin but I hope you get the picture I'm painting. Sure it's a hill but you could be in the same scenario with a ruin as people put rocks and debris around the bottom so now you could technically make the same move to charge people on upper levels of ruins by stating you're not on the ruin and still being within 1" of the enemy unit.

Can a larger model land angled on terrain and get around a "can't charge me the floor's full" scenario?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/774118/10413786.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/774118/10413786.page GMT Must bases be flat to the table?
This is because GW don't have any technical writers on their staff and think it's acceptable for everything to be resolved by TMIR when their shoddy work causes issues like these.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/774118/10413789.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/774118/10413789.page GMT Must bases be flat to the table? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/774118/10413792.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/774118/10413792.page GMT Re:Must bases be flat to the table? WAAC players may argue it's legal to place models in rather awkward positions to make them get into spots their bases wouldn't normally allow them to get into the first place. This should be a non-issue but again, I ran into an awkward scenario with a competitive person and I couldn't argue either side of the story when I went to the rulebook for guidance.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/774118/10413796.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/774118/10413796.page GMT Must bases be flat to the table? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/774118/10413814.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/774118/10413814.page GMT Must bases be flat to the table?
 JohnnyHell wrote:
If someone needs a rule to say that ‘tanks drive on their tracks not their roofs’ then I don’t know what to say.


Some would say (or not know what to say, in this case) the same about needing a rule to say that a model can go up a hill.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/774118/10413823.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/774118/10413823.page GMT Must bases be flat to the table? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/774118/10413824.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/774118/10413824.page GMT Must bases be flat to the table?
 doctortom wrote:
 JohnnyHell wrote:
If someone needs a rule to say that ‘tanks drive on their tracks not their roofs’ then I don’t know what to say.


Some would say (or not know what to say, in this case) the same about needing a rule to say that a model can go up a hill.
And he who would say that, using BCB's famous comparison, would most definitely also argue that the rulebook does not specify that a dice needs be numbered 1 thru 6.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/774118/10413834.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/774118/10413834.page GMT