Old world base sizes

My apologies for this list, I had such a blast going through ancient blog posts to look for links, I couldn't stop myself from adding things.

* Let's not mention the unpainted stockpile :o.
 







Freddie on the right is modeling the latest in base adapters. He earned his name by surviving two consecutive round of Chameleon Skinks shooting him in the back. I will never remove the base commemorating the insane amount of lucky dice rolls needed to do that.




Most of my Greenskins are on round bases as I've been using the Age of Sigmar ruleset for the past years. I probably wouldn't own quite so many models without Age of Sigmar. The reception of that game inspired quite a number of people to ditch their entire collections by the (mover's) box for a pittance. I never realized how good I had it, buying up those boxes, until those times ended. 
With the release of Warhammer The Old World, I 3D-printed some round to square conversion bases to convert painted models to the new standard. They do the trick of turning 25mm rounds into the new 25mm square standard. On the downside, I still want to update the bases anyway. The convertors make the bases look unfinished. With t


How to select a base size



Imho it’s not even necessary to make such a nice gridded movement tray. Base sizes in WHFB (and I guess TOW) matter to calculate who can attack, template weapons and if a units fits somewhere. So if it comes to the worst, just put your regular 20mm models on their 20mm movement tray on a bigger movement tray. Boom, done.
Or do it all in your head. “My unit is seven models wide, that would be 17.5cm, that means six of your trolls can attack.” Something like that. Granted, that’s not the best solution, but it definitely is possible to play like this. Tbh we do this with skirmishers. They are on spaced movement trays, but we don’t reform them into a regular formation in close combat. If they are five models, they will be counted as 10cm wide, not the “actual” 5x20mm + 4x1/2” of the movement tray.
For templates it’s anyway good practice to print out formations with different bases sizes and do the measurements there, much more convenient than holding a template over a unit and trying to gauge it from there.

(Obviously only taking about casual gaming here…)


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Old World Development Diary – On Bases and the Barons of Bretonnia



The Old World team are back again this month with a treat for fans of the World-that-Was: a Bretonnian army painted in the heraldry of the Dukedom of Brionne. As if that wasn’t enough, we answer your questions on square bases and sizing.


Alongside many new kits (some of which we previewed last month), Warhammer: The Old World will herald the return of some much-missed ranges of Citadel miniatures. Amongst these will be the chivalrous armies of the Kingdom of Bretonnia, one of the most iconic armies of the Old World. 

To celebrate this glorious return, the Warhammer studio created an entirely new army to appear in photography. And so the talented members of the 'Eavy Metal and Army Painter teams set to work on the army of Duke Gastille, the Red Hand of Brionne.



Bretonnian armies look amazing – but painting every knight with a unique heraldry can be a daunting task. But in the era of the Old World that we’re looking at, it’s not uncommon for knights to be part of a regional army. An army’s general would be a Duke or a Baron, and the whole army’s heraldry will reflect their personal heraldry in some way


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Warhammer The Old World – Welcome to the new year!

On New Year's Eve Games Workshop released the definitive announcement of the
Warhammer - The Old World
Returning for Pre-Order on January 6th, with most likely delivery on January 20th (simultaneously to an event at Warhammer World).



The return of the Old World will be available in
English, German
and
French
.

We won't see a "regular" starter set with two armies, but core sets covering a ~1.250 points army of either Tomb Kings or Bretonnians, including the full-sized hardcover (!) rulebook, templates, dice etc. and between ~70 to ~90 miniatures per box. And a bit to my surprise quite the wave of models, ranging from the 90s to the very last years of Warhammer Fantasy Battles, during the End Times in 2015. Some items will be available exclusively through Games Workshop (the Forge World Resins, some made-to-order items and some of the gaming accessories), while the core items (core sets + books) will be available through the independent traders as well.





Within the army boxes actually only the characters are new models, in case of the Tomb Kings the skeleton warriors are from 1998 with an upgrade spru