@wolfie65 that’s all pure speculation, most of it uninformed.  We already know the miniatures won’t be bigger because they are re-releasing the old Warhammer Fantasy Battle sets alongside a few new models for each faction which we already know are to scale with the existing models because we have seen previews.  So highly unlikely to be any major scale creep.  The larger base sizes are for practical purposes only – it gives units standard sized footprints and also makes ranking up miniatures slightly easier.  That’s all, nothing more sinister going on there.  I probably won’t rebase mine either, if I choose to play I will buy some movement trays that do the job of converting those 20mm to 25mm squares for me.  Again, not a big deal.  GW have made a design decision, they have been on record about the reasons for it and those reasons are highly plausible.

Given that we have seen lots of previews of Bretonians and Tomb Kings and new models for both, I would say wave 1 will include the Bretonnian and Tomb Kings armies as a minimum.  So it won’t just be a rule book and a few army books – new models ARE on the way.  I would even venture that there will be a launch box with Bretonnian and Tomb Kings armies.

We also don’t, at this point, know what a typical game size is in terms of points nor do we know how much things will cost in terms of points.  This is pure conjecture.  And even if you did need 100 miniatures, from a Bretonnian perspective, that’s what, 4-5 units of infantry?  That’s hardly prohibitive.  If you swap some of those out for cavalry, that 100 figure count also starts to drop considerably as you typically get far less cavalry for the same points as a block of infantry.  So I would say wait and see before complaining about the number of miniatures required vs cost.  We have no information about either.