Originally Posted by
Grenadier
Do they really matter that much?
I ask because I have custom built chapter master on a bike. Made it with extended forks. And I put it on the large circular heavy weapons teams base for the Imperial Guard. It looked a lot better that way.
From my point of view the only thing bad about using this base instead of the bike base is that it can be tricky in tight areas.
In fact, I consider it liability. Assault is all about base to base contact. And the larger size means my enemy can get much more in contact on my guy.
A friend of mine who is a bit of rule's lawyer quibbled over the size of this base being used even though it would give him an advantage in hand to hand by getting more models in on this guy.