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Hojyn
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 1:34 pm 
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Hi guys,

I'm currently working on some Bio-Titans for my 'nid army, and my Dominatrix/Hydraphant will probably be too big to fit on a regular 60 mm Titan round base.

Wondering "by the way, what is the maximum size for a base in Epic", I picked up my EA rulebook and found this on page 10, paragraph 1.1.2 :

"A stand may be no more than 40mm and no less than 5mm across in any direction."

This is rather surprising, considering Titan bases have a diameter of 60 mm... Did I miss something? And would a, say, 80 mm round base considered be too big for Epic?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 2:24 pm 
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Titan is a War Engine, so base matters not.

All AV and WE distances are measured from the hull, not the base.

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:26 pm 
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Then, how do you manage to tell how many enemies are in CC? i mean, i thought that a titan had such a big base because to represent that it could crush a lot of people in close combat...

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:20 pm 
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I use the GW 60mm bases for my titans (The raised ones, not the flat ones),  both for detirmining base-to-base status and also because you can make mini-dioramas of crushed cityscapes beneath the titan's feet.

It's perfectly permissable to make your own size base for a larger titan, using 'found objects', or even several GW bases cut up and glued together.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:32 am 
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(Evil and Chaos @ Nov. 08 2006,13:20)
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I use the GW 60mm bases for my titans (The raised ones, not the flat ones), ?both for detirmining base-to-base status and also because you can make mini-dioramas of crushed cityscapes beneath the titan's feet.

Yes, I love to do that too.  :)

And it's true that it makes it easier to measure distances and determine how many enemies are in CC.

It's perfectly permissable to make your own size base for a larger titan, using 'found objects', or even several GW bases cut up and glued together.


Trouble is, I would need a 13 cm-wide circle for my Dominatrix... even larger than a CD!  :O  That's the kind of trouble you get into when you use a 40K Carnifex.  :D

But I think I've found a solution. I'll post pics as soon as I've finished it.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:26 am 
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My dominatrix/Hydraphant sits on a base roughly the size of an A5 piece of paper!

My Heirophants are on bases just under half that.

For the bases I used plasticard cut to size.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:48 am 
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(ragnarok @ Nov. 09 2006,09:26)
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My dominatrix/Hydraphant sits on a base roughly the size of an A5 piece of paper!

My Heirophants are on bases just under half that.

For the bases I used plasticard cut to size.

Yeah, I thought of using plasticard (heck, I even bought some), but I was put off by the size of the base : it would have been almost impossible to place the Titan in woods or ruins.
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ragnarok
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:25 pm 
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Mine use tyranid physics, so they can walk on the points of scything talons.

Beacuse it is such a small contact point I havn't bothered to glue them onto the plasticard, which helps when they enter terrain, I can take them off the base and hope I don't need to worry about who is in base contact.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:21 pm 
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Would it be possible to base each leg or even a pair of legs on seperate bases?  Something like a single regiment base on each side of the titan or a 25mm base under each leg?  

Then base contact could be determined by a staight edge placed between the 2 bases.  If your opponent is touching the straight edge, he's in base contact.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:34 pm 
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That'd be fine in my opinion.

My favourite method of basing Imperator Titans that I've seen involves something similar with two GW bases.

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