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Post by para on Mar 13, 2021 21:28:54 GMT
Hello! I've searched the section for any info on the matter but I've found none. It is a bit of a silly question but I just wanted to be sure about the Size and Type of the Doom Diver base. Not the bases for the Warmachine itself, but the base of the Flying Doom Diver, the plastic one with a hole up his a**. I have two metal old slings and one metal old Doom Diver with the infantry 20x20mm base but I noticed looking at box images that the plastic one has a transparent plastic round base. So I need to know how big is that base, the diameter/lenght of the staff that goes in the goblin's a** and also if then the "template" (I know it's not considered such but his template gives which and how many models get hit, right?) of the Doom Diver in 8th Ed. is that round one or the 20x20mm infantry one. Thanks in advance for any who will answer.
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Post by Horace on Mar 13, 2021 22:30:33 GMT
It is a flying base which should be used, however there is some debate about which because it has been supplied with both at various times
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Post by FvonSigmaringen on Mar 14, 2021 21:17:19 GMT
What Horace says. It seems that most were supplied with a small flying base, but others with a large base.
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Post by para on Mar 14, 2021 21:30:08 GMT
Thank you for your answers.
So you are telling me that Doom Divers came with: -Square 20x20mm Infantry Base -Small Flying Round Base -Large Flying Round Base
So which base is to be used will have to be decided before the game then, I guess.
Since I have not the flying bases, would you be so kind to tell me height and size of those bases so that I could buy those somewhere?
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Post by Horace on Mar 14, 2021 21:36:57 GMT
I think it's really between 32mm or 60mm round flying bases. Think mine are on 32s maybe I should rebase 😆
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Post by FvonSigmaringen on Mar 14, 2021 21:45:35 GMT
Well, BRB p. 80 also specifies: "A model should always be mounted on the base it is supplied with." So, in principle, you would not need to change it. Although bases sizes from differing editions can distort the result, in this case the difference would seem to be limited, but, admittedly, not in your favour. As far as I am aware, the small flying base is 1 inch (=2,54mm).
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Post by FvonSigmaringen on Mar 15, 2021 9:50:50 GMT
Horace is correct, as the small flying base is apparently 1,25 inch, or (almost) 32mm.
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Post by para on Mar 15, 2021 13:23:23 GMT
Thank you so much.
I'll get a flying base of that size for the baseless flying doom diver I got.
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Post by KevinC on Mar 15, 2021 17:04:13 GMT
Horace is correct, as the small flying base is apparently 1,25 inch, or (almost) 32mm. --------We'll I've cheated myself for decades then, because I always played it as 1"
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Post by anechrome on Mar 16, 2021 17:28:48 GMT
I have 2 NIB doomdivers (not the slingshot oldhammer style) and they both have only the small flying base in the box if that helps. I've never seen one mounted on a big base either, but if possible that would be slightly OP since the doomdiver has the potential to hit more than one unit if I remeber correctly.
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Post by DiscoQing on Mar 23, 2021 8:08:34 GMT
Interesting - at the tournaments I went to for 6 years, there was no "template" used. Instead it was just a "dot", a bit like a cannonball template is just a line.
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