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Basing Bikes / Cavalry, How?
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PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2003 2:16 am 
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Hi!

I use SM2 recommendations for basing. I dont like the epic40k base for bikes for the simple reason that basing 2 per stand gives me more models than 3 per base and ultimately more detachments.

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PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2003 4:50 am 
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Gandalf,

Did you get my e-mail in response to your Chaos question?

As far as IG bikes, we figured SM & Eldar were just tougher than the IG, and the IG were trained differently. We did upgrade the bolter to a grade 2 and upped the CAF ... + they could dismount, so it worked out for us. :)

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Hey Legion, no I didn't.  My mailbox in the forum was full so It may have rejected it.  I cleared it out now but if you just want to reply here thats cool.  thanks!

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PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2003 7:51 am 
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My GW is tiny, but also super busy. I have never seen any warmaster bases in there, so i went for the cavelry option. They look ok, because I base my dreads, attack biks and land speeders an round 40k bases. They all fit in.

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Welcome to the forums, Bob! Hope you enjoy them.... :D

-Gandalf, sure most card is pretty useless, but thick, dense picture-framing card is good... I use it for my scenery bases too....

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Well, being a scabby, skanky guy, I put two cav/bikes on a 40mmx20mm base.

No seriously, I like the varied styles you can get by basing them like that, although I use putty to fill in the holes first ;).

Or I invert them... but that isn't an idea solution for me.

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Gandalf, in SM1 - Chaos SMs = 4 stands and one stand is a command stand with a Champion. ?So 4 total. That's right out of the rules and that's the way we have been doing it. ?Let me know if you need anything else. We can do it here on line, then everybody can see it and be informed. :D ?These young guys think SM1 is stone age and played with sticks and stones, while wearing fur loin cloths ... :laugh:

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LOL! My Dad used to tell me he played Army Men with clothes pins as a kid, and I am starting to appreciate what he meant, haha.

Okay, here's another question.  War Hordes are made up of Battle and Cult Warbands, and a Battle one must have at least 4 detachments.  I know Chaos Marines can be led by a Champion/Commander for 20 points, or a Champions stand for 120 points (which I like).  Chaos marine detachments aren't independent, so I know someone has to lead it, so if the counter includes 4 Chaos Marine Stands with a commander, how would you add a Champion to it? Would it take up one of the detachment requirements?  I can already have a Champion lead the whole Battle warband, so would that mean I would have several running around? I have most of the rules, but are missing the counters and their descriptions, so I can't figure it all out. Also, I know Orks in a Warband have to remain within 30cm of a Warboss to receive orders, but the rules for Chaos doesn't mention anything about the Warband staying within a cetain distance of the Champion/Daemon. Boy, it's hard to digest Andy's rules sometimes. . . I am guessing the individual detachments fight independently so long as they have a Champion nearby. . . How much did the Chaos Marine Detachment cost? I have realized that you just can't add up their BRs as Andy seemed to give a discount for choosing pre-set detachments.

Back in the day, we just made up our own detachments as we found Andy's rules a little hard to follow.  Just so I have something to work on at work, do you remember how these detachments came:

Land Raiders (I am assuming in twos)
Slaanesh/Khorne riders.  (I know they can be Warband leaders as well, but can they fight in detachments as well? I know they are expensive)
Trolls/Minotaurs

Thanks again Legion, I don't expect my White Dwarfs to get here for a few more weeks, so this helps.  I'll have more questions about the IG next... hehe...

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I base 2 on a 20x20, cuz all my old stuff is that way.  I have some others that I bought second hand on 20x40 bases, but I think I'm going to cut them off and start over.

I have started putting bike/cav commanders 3 on a 20x40, though.  I like the ability to add a bit of variety to the commanders.


As far as basing materials, craft sticks (i.e. popsicle sticks) work great and they are super cheap.  I bought a bag of them that are 3/4 inch wide (look like tongue depressors), which is almost perfect (~19mm).  You can measure the length you want and cut them with snips for nice thin, sturdy wooden bases.  With a sealer coat of primer, superglue sticks just fine.

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I guess basing two you get more from on sprue. Sound idea, but I think basing three come from the bigger 40k background, Codex Space Marnes and the likes...

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I personally mount the whole detachment on one base. I use evergreen modeling co's styrene to make my bases. I cut them in different configs.

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Gandalf,

4 or more dets. = a "Battle", each "Battle" is lead by a separate champion stand or Deamon Prince as the overall Battle Commander. Think of a Battle (we changed the name to Chaos Legion - it was less confusing), like an Ork Warband.

So, each SM det. has a command stand and there is one overall command stand for that Battle.

CSM - 350, ?
Land Raiders - 2 for 350. ?

For Riders, all 3 types, I mentioned above how we based them, and we put them in dets. of 5 stands each. Andy's rules left something to be desired. So we took some ideas from SM2, because of that.

We based Minotaurs 5 per Cavalry base and Trolls individually, but 5 per base would work too. ?

Back to leaders, a "Battle" is lead by a Champ. stand or D/Prince, a Horde is commanded by a D/Prince or Greater Deamon. ?

We look at those like SM Battalion Cdrs and Regt. Cdrs, and played the rules to ?reflect that. ?

We added Primarchs to the command structure based on SM2. ?

The SM1 Chaos rules needed a lot of fine-tuning ... as you are seeing ... :)




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LOL! My Dad used to tell me he played Army Men with clothes pins as a kid, and I am starting to appreciate what he meant, haha.

When I was small my father helped me take a batch of the old style (one solid piece) clothes pins and cut a small part off the base to make then flat so they would stand up. We then took some paint and made two different "squads" based on Red and Blue. I played with those quite a bit.

How simple it was back then...

Oh well, back to the here and now :-)

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Quote (dafrca @ 20 2003 May,20:58)
Quote (Gandalf the Grey @ 19 2003 May,09:28)
LOL! My Dad used to tell me he played Army Men with clothes pins as a kid, and I am starting to appreciate what he meant, haha.

When I was small my father helped me take a batch of the old style (one solid piece) clothes pins and cut a small part off the base to make then flat so they would stand up. We then took some paint and made two different "squads" based on Red and Blue. I played with those quite a bit.

How simple it was back then...

Oh well, back to the here and now :-)

dafrca

What do you mean back then. Check out the figures on my web page. these are made from matchhsticks and hair curlers...heheheh

http://www.angelfire.com/games4/bobsgam ... urlers.htm

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Bob,

That's simply amazing!! ?

Welcome aboard!!! ?

As I said, from looking at your DS/GZG site, you truly are an experienced modeler and gamer. Oh yes, I almost forgot, on Flintstone Gaming Night, we wear loin cloths made of fur, put sticks in our hair and carry stones. On Jetson Night we wrap ourselves in tin foil and put large fish bowls on our heads!

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