Warrior bases

[beastoftanagra]

I have had mixed feedback trying to resolve this:

All the Warriors I built before came with and were mounted on 40mm bases. The latest batch I purchased come with 50mm bases.

Some people have told me that I have to remount all my existing Warriors onto 50mm bases or else I’ll be unable to play in big organized tournaments. Other people have told me that I can leave the old ones on the 40mm bases and be fine.

Who’s right? Do I need to re-base my existing Warriors?

Thanks for the help.

[DukeMantis]

My understanding is you can use whatever came in the box

Personally im using 50s just because i like them

[gigasnail]

You don't have to rebate anything. There is no official base size. They come with 40 or 50mm bases even now.

[hivefleetkerrigan]

GW has stated that whatever bases the models came with is correct, no rebasing necessary. In 99% of games minor base size differences will not matter. The only situation I can think of where certain base sizes are required is major tournament like the Las Vegas Open.

As a note: GW is inconsistent with bases sizes. Warriors either come with 50s or 40s seemingly randomly. Venomthropes/zoanthropes used to be 40mm but a friend's just came with 50s. I've also gotten at least 4 different sets of GSC neophytes and each set came with different base sizes.

[beastoftanagra]

May 2, 2022 1:56:18 GMT hivefleetkerrigan said:

GW has stated that whatever bases the models came with is correct, no rebasing necessary. In 99% of games minor base size differences will not matter. The only situation I can think of where certain base sizes are required is major tournament like the Las Vegas Open.

As a note: GW is inconsistent with bases sizes. Warriors either come with 50s or 40s seemingly randomly. Venomthropes/zoanthropes used to be 40mm but a friend's just came with 50s. I've also gotten at least 4 different sets of GSC neophytes and each set came with different base sizes.

Good to know.

If I wanted to compete in the LVO (which is my goal) how would I know which bases to use?

I appreciate the help.

[niiai]

I bought some warriors in desember. 40 mm. I bought some after the codex was leaked 50 mm.

Now I was very happy with how my old warriors looked. "I was not going to rebase them. " How ever after playing VS my opponent I noticed he could not actually get into base to base contact with them. After pondering it over I bought new bases. I will be putting them on 50 mm. I already have my genestealers on 32 mm bases instead of 25, and it looks so much better. Although I do believe this is the wrong offisial sieze.

Others points :

GW has pictures of warriors on both 50 mm and 40 mm.

Some big tournament recently required that you used the latest bases although it is a bit ambiguous here.

[hivefleetkerrigan]

May 2, 2022 2:34:33 GMT beastoftanagra said:

May 2, 2022 1:56:18 GMT hivefleetkerrigan said:

GW has stated that whatever bases the models came with is correct, no rebasing necessary. In 99% of games minor base size differences will not matter. The only situation I can think of where certain base sizes are required is major tournament like the Las Vegas Open.

As a note: GW is inconsistent with bases sizes. Warriors either come with 50s or 40s seemingly randomly. Venomthropes/zoanthropes used to be 40mm but a friend's just came with 50s. I've also gotten at least 4 different sets of GSC neophytes and each set came with different base sizes.

Good to know.

If I wanted to compete in the LVO (which is my goal) how would I know which bases to use?

I appreciate the help.

I did some googling. The best I can find is pre covid. I'm not sure if it's official or not. I would recommend looking into base extenders if you're looking to move from 40mm to 50mm

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A31mVI4s1cSlXNQuxmZXQZt4dkxPIcVe/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=109629373188502847314&rtpof=true&sd=true

[PumpkinHead]

ITC provides a guideline on base sizes. So if you plan on going to LVO, check out their website.

www.frontlinegaming.org/2019/12/22/lvo-2020-40k-championships-update-and-guidelines/

The base size link is under the header basing requirements, less that a quarter of the way down.