That’s a really good idea! :Evil:

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I have to say, that would make me scared.

The thing is, I don’t see a benefit too you that doesn’t apply to your opponent as well. Taller Longfangs would be seen from everywhere, shorter guys wouldn’t be able to see much, bigger bases would allow templates easier and increase frontage in combat… I don’t see it happening, and I certainly don’t see it as advantageous.

Its for coolness though, and coolness beats rules.

I like Darrell’s Idea for his long fangs :P, I wonder if you could get an opponent to agree to letting you use it lol

Ok, if the purpose for the one large base is to use it as a movement tray for the 30 ripper swarms bases. Then I sat go for it. It’s a great idea.

But if the purpose was to create 1 massive ripper swarm, I would have to say no.
This would create a swarm with 90 wounds. And any temple hits would only cause 1 wound, there’s only one base being hit.

The down side is that one wound by a strength 6 weapon will kill the entire swarm, do to the instant death rule.

surely if there’s only one base, it only counts as 1 base of rippers, not 3, not 30, regardless of how many of the things you put on there. You buy them per base, so they have to be modelled as such, with the ability to remove a base when it is destroyed.

I wouldn’t allow it in my game, not because its not cool, but because it brings up rules questions. Namely, swarms being vulnerable to templates. This would be hard to work out because with standard bases you can spread them out so templates only hit one or two bases, placing them all on one base will only cause arguments. As an objective marker fine, or if you work out some rulings before hand that we can both agree on fine, but not if you just randomly showed up and wanted to play.

Can I target the trees with missile launchers? “If the bough breaks the Long fangs will fall.” Instant death.

Carnifex brood on one base? I think so! Oh wait they doubled in points, nah…

What if you had to procksy a model, like thunder-wolf cavalry & the like?
How can you fine out what is the right base for that kind of model?

Darrell, any chance I could persuade you to show some video love to Flames of War? If you felt especially generous, I’m building an Irish Guard Tank co any with Joe Vandeleur and I’d love your input on his special rules and how to build a force so as to maximize them.

I should have mentioned: Irish Guards can be found in the Hell’s Highway briefing (codex).

I had a similar idea to this a while back with my nid army.. What I decided to do in the end, that sadly I never got round to doing, was make a big scenic base with ripper swarms on it, but have holes cut out and spaced evenly apart for the normal ripper swarm bases to go into. That way, you don’t affect the rules because each swarm is still on its own base (and you won’t get your ass whipped by template weapons), the swarm looks generally bigger (because you put a lot more rippers on in general… Read more »