For most of my Imperial Assault figures, I just paint the bases black. It would feel weird for me to have a character standing on grass playing on a snow map or something.

But for legion, for whatever reason, I feel like I should do a scenic base on all my figures, but the question is what?

Just forrest? As I'm expecting that might be the most common? Or try and shoot for the most neutral base, like some kind of gray dirt?

I dunno. Do you have plans to do scenic bases?

I haven't decided yet, but I figured I would just because I've never painted bases before. Plus, your figures are probably going to look out of place on at least one type of terrain so why not? Plus, it lets me practice more things.

I was probably going to mix it up a bit too. A unit or two of t he desert troopers- Tatooine will probably be popular and Games Workhop has this paint on dirt tving that cracks as it dries that looks like fun. A unit or two for Endor- put down brown paint and some of that grass stuff, it looks like fun. Maybe a white one for hoth, or a blue one because I just like blue and will pretend it's troopers for a water planet or something.

Decide what table you want to make and base them to match it. That way they will look best on your own table.

Make whatever base you like the look of most. They will look odd on at least one type of table but they'll always look good together.

J--

I’ve had the same question rattling around my head. Basing is a huge part of war gaming; but what base looks at home on Tatooine, Hoth, and Endor? (I’m sure I’ll play on maps of each of those...)

Basing is one of the aspects of the miniature painting hobby that can have a real impact on your minis and force as a whole.

My advice would be to base them all the same, to match your own home board or gaming mat.

Personally, I’ll be using sand and pva on my bases, and then painting them an earth tone with drybrushed highlights. I’ll then add grass tufts.

This will work with most bases, but especially boards like Endor or Scarif.

Basing improves the look of your minis by so much you should definitly do it.

I would recommend uniform basing for all units to have more cohesion in your army and to differentiate it from that of other players. Pick your type of base by imagining where you want it to fight. I will base both armies with volcanic Sullust terrain because that's the 'story' I want behind them.

If you are worried about fitting into table terrain try to know what kind of table you will play on. Playing at home? If you don't already have a setup match it with your dream bases - I want to build a modular Sullust board to go with my armies. Playing at a store? Generic grasslands and sometimes cityscapes are the most common here, so pick a green- or gray-ish planet and be fine.

Don't worry too much about matching base and table, though, it really isn't as distracting as you might think to not have match.

The minis will spend the vast majority of their lives on your shelf, so base/paint them so they look good there. Also, if you're making your own table then coordinate with that.

I personally would base these miniatures, as already said they will look much better. About how the bases should look like, that's up to you match your/your gaming store table or match it to your story for your army or take something that looks good with your choosen colour scheme, there are many ways to go about this.

My first bases were "grassland" bases, sand + brown colours + some grass and here and there a bigger stone, and my only table is a kind of grassland table, but my dwarfs have bases that are all grey with rocks to simulate their mountain home, my Space Wolves have winter bases because their homeplanet is a ice/winter planet and my Vampire Counts have grey bases with snow because the heraldry colour is a light blue/tourquise with red and the bone colour is a greyish blue and the white of the snow looks good with it. And some of my minis have bases that simulate they are fighting in a city.

An interesting thing to know would be the size of these bases and howw easy one can remove the miniatures for thsoe that don't want to do basing themselves but want to buy some of the many bases out there.

Would the minis be no longer tournament legal if all bases were replaced with appropriately sized perspex disks?

I’ll base mine per Squad. (Mainly to tell them apart) My army will be all over the place. I’m going to have some in grasslands, city type, and desert. Like others have said they’ll spend 90% of their life on a shelf.

Sometimes I’ll paint the vehicles bases to match a certain squad or just make theirs a stand-alone piece.

As an army it looks weird but on display it looks neat.

Simple: Your figures will always match the table if you base them to look like your stuff--just make sure you get there first to set up the mat & terrain!

5 hours ago, ABXY said:

Would the minis be no longer tournament legal if all bases were replaced with appropriately sized perspex disks?

I don't know, if they are the exact same size it technically shouldn't matter, but as said I don't know and I don't care as I don't play tournaments and do basing myself.

Buy some extra bases and put magnets in them, as well as the minis feet. Now you can swap them to match the board. Make sure they are strong magnets so you don't rip the mini off when you go to move them.

I really think each squad should be different. Unless you paint the sides of each base it will be tough telling the difference between 3 groups of stormies with all the same base.

2 minutes ago, chriscook said:

I really think each squad should be different. Unless you paint the sides of each base it will be tough telling the difference between 3 groups of stormies with all the same base.

I'm planning on giving them different squad markings. Something like a distinct solid color on one kneecap or something similar.

1 hour ago, chriscook said:

I really think each squad should be different. Unless you paint the sides of each base it will be tough telling the difference between 3 groups of stormies with all the same base.

In most miniature wargames units have to stay a certain amount of inches away from each other unless they are entering close combat. So this wouldn't be a problem. And i have never heard anyone having such a problem, not even with orcs and I would say it looks bad if one unit has a Hoth base, the next a Endor and another one a Tatooine base. What one could do to differate the bases is have one theme but each squad has their own extra, a little bit of grass, some stones, dropped equipmemt and so one.

3 minutes ago, Iceeagle85 said:

In most miniature wargames units have to stay a certain amount of inches away from each other unless they are entering close combat. So this wouldn't be a problem. And i have never heard anyone having such a problem, not even with orcs and I would say it looks bad if one unit has a Hoth base, the next a Endor and another one a Tatooine base. What one could do to differate the bases is have one theme but each squad has their own extra, a little bit of grass, some stones, dropped equipmemt and so one.

Close combat in Legion is when the bases touch. It is not range dependent based off the demo videos.

I like greyish bases with yellowish/green grasses for that very reason. I use citadel astrogranite textured paint, wash it with nuln oil, and the drybrush it with longbeard grey. Then throw on some details (grass, skulls, broken bits, etc) and now it could be snow, concrete, a rocky outcrop in a plain or forest. Looks awesome on its own but neutral enough for most terrain.

Cut clear acrylic to use as bases, then, they work for every terrain!

Or possibly better yet, go down to your LGS on their war-gaming night and check out what solution people in your area have come up with for themselves.

It would be a useful trip to find out what kinds of terrain the shop has on hand, to speak to other gamers and gauge their interest in Legion, as well as speaking to the proprietor of the shop to find out what their plan is when Legion drops. Ask them what kind of interest/buzz there has been regarding Legion & if there be support from that end, assuming there are enough people who want to play it at their store, etc.

I am either doing an endor map or some other kind of forest map, so I will put green flock with rocks and grass tufts. I will mostly be playing on my board, so it will be the obvious choice. Try to do the board that you play on most often, and if you are super rich and have a lot of time for some reason, you could make different squads for different maps.

How about cutting the minis off of their bases, sticking wires into the feet, and creating various bases that can be swopped on and off?

2 hours ago, Lumberjack Nick said:

How about cutting the minis off of their bases, sticking wires into the feet, and creating various bases that can be swopped on and off?

You could do that, but you'd still have the issue of the figure itself not matching. Not a lot of people on hoth were wearing their Endor camo.

You're not going to be able to have it all match everytime, but that's ok.

On 11/4/2017 at 9:43 PM, RogueLieutenant said:

For most of my Imperial Assault figures, I just paint the bases black. It would feel weird for me to have a character standing on grass playing on a snow map or something.

But for legion, for whatever reason, I feel like I should do a scenic base on all my figures, but the question is what?

Just forrest? As I'm expecting that might be the most common? Or try and shoot for the most neutral base, like some kind of gray dirt?

I dunno. Do you have plans to do scenic bases?

Grayish rocks is a safe bet, but being as the bases are needed for the game you can't switch them out...maybe they will come out with bases to buy and you can paint them and switch them out as needed