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[Leon]

Use some of the sabot bases

On that subject, LLeon, are you going to produce Warmaster cavalry sabots?

Were those not 40x30's?

As I said earlier those triangular sabot bases look great

Any chance of a photo Leon?

Of them in use, or just the lasered product?  The bare wood doesn't look much different to the graphic on the website to be honest!

[getagrip]

Were those not 40x30's?

No, 40x20's but in the other direction to infantry.

[Luddite]

Yeah, some Warmaster units have wierd '20x40' basing don't they?  (20mm wide, 40mm deep).

That always annoyed me.  Not as much as the DBx basing debacle but still.  I was a GW store manager when Warmaster first hit the shelves* and the 'behind the scenes' view was basically it was a sop to the bigger figures like chariots and monsters.  They wouldn't fit on a 40x20 base. so 20x40 it was.

* remember despairing at a new staff member who i'd instructed to pain the store's High Elf army 'in standard colours', only to see him roll up two days before release with an army painted red and gold.  Waaagghhh!!!  Two nights of frantic painting ensued.  The bases were still wet when the store opened.

[Fenton]

You need 60x40 hole or just three 40x20 longways if my maths is right. The same for artillery I think

[Fenton]

There was an errata in Warmaster ancients for using your pike and heavy cavalry units the normal way

[getagrip]

You need 60x40 hole or just three 40x20 longways if my maths is right. The same for artillery I think

Yes for cavalry, no for artillery.

Cannons etc are based in pairs 40x20 longways; don't really know what you'd do about that.  Suppose you'd need a unit and a half and use a cavalry sabot

[Fenton]

Couldn't you just use a 60x40 hole with  blank 40x20 base

[Leon]

It's not too hard to cut them as a custom job and then we can add them to the website if a lot of people are after them.  You could also:

- Pop them in this one, with blank bases filling the excess gap:


- Or this one for the artillery, with a 20x20mm base in each bottom corner.  You could put your hit markers on the 20x20mm base as well...

[getagrip]

It's not too hard to cut them as a custom job and then we can add them to the website if a lot of people are after them.  You could also:

- Pop them in this one, with blank bases filling the excess gap:


- Or this one for the artillery, with a 20x20mm base in each bottom corner.  You could put your hit markers on the 20x20mm base as well...

For my money, neither of those would work.  The cavalry would have a huge gap either in the middle or to the side of the unit.

Personally, for cavalry and artillery a 40x60 slot would accommodate a whole cavalry unit or 1.5 artillery units.

As you say though, remains to be seen how many Warmaster players are tempted 

[Steeleye]

Sorry about the late reply.

Goblin archers...great! Wonderful so nice to see them armed with something more than short, bent sticks! And it gives my proposed Goblin Army some more options HURRAH!

Can you can I'm pleased?

I intend to use the proposed Goblin army as a general 'bad guy' force for my semi-historical/fantasy setting, a sort of Late Medieval/Elizabethan/Stewart period world.

Fun! Fun! Fun!

I'm having a good morning so far, it won't last, I wrote a good chapter of my latest fic (based on the myths and legends of Robin Hood) and even managed to get a 'Weetabix' reference into it!

Now there's a thought...what about a set for Robin Hood and his Merry Men? They'd all fit in a twenty-five figure pack.

[andys]

...and interestingly, a 25 figure Warband pack is 37p cheaper than the normal fantasy range price AND is pretty much the right number for a Warmaster unit. Add in the sabot base and 3 40x20 bases - sorted for either rule set  

I wonder if there could be a generic sabot base. Supplied in two parts, the lower part being solid. The upper part perforated on, say, a 5 or 10mm grid, similar to postage stamps, such that the user could remove whatever shape was needed to suit the original basing? Punch/cut out the required hole/holes in the perforated bit and stick the 2 halves together. Any remaining perforations then filled as part of painting/flocking the sabot. You only need to stock one size of sabot, the user doing the required customisation. I'll take 10% of any savings you make, OK  

[Leon]

...and interestingly, a 25 figure Warband pack is 37p cheaper than the normal fantasy range price AND is pretty much the right number for a Warmaster unit. Add in the sabot base and 3 40x20 bases - sorted for either rule set  

Yep, and that was a deliberate decision, we wanted to make the new range better in every way possible, so quality, variety and price.

I wonder if there could be a generic sabot base. Supplied in two parts, the lower part being solid. The upper part perforated on, say, a 5 or 10mm grid, similar to postage stamps, such that the user could remove whatever shape was needed to suit the original basing? Punch/cut out the required hole/holes in the perforated bit and stick the 2 halves together. Any remaining perforations then filled as part of painting/flocking the sabot. You only need to stock one size of sabot, the user doing the required customisation. I'll take 10% of any savings you make, OK 

That's not a bad idea, we might have a look at that.  As long as the perforations were strong enough to keep the remaining base in place and still easy enough to clip apart for customising the base.  Hmmm... 

[getagrip]

Don't know if it's possible but Andys' idea is a belter 

[fred.]

Don't forget with sabot bases you need a good 2mm extra clearance on the top part at least to make sure the bases fit in.

I've recently made a bunch of movement trays / sabot bases - and had to redo the first ones as the original bases would't fit in, either due to slight differences in size, or due to bits of extra basing material slightly over the edges.

[Leon]

Don't forget with sabot bases you need a good 2mm extra clearance on the top part at least to make sure the bases fit in.

I've recently made a bunch of movement trays / sabot bases - and had to redo the first ones as the original bases would't fit in, either due to slight differences in size, or due to bits of extra basing material slightly over the edges.

I'll double check them before we send any out.  We usually find that the width of the laser beam provides enough gap for the bases to fit in and out smoothly, but you never know whether other companies bases will fit as easily.