Nah too much cheese hunting going on here 😛 Making a base which can extend too much? Thats just desperate…

Fair enough if you have a massive FW flier on the massive base stand, or even if you have your speeder/jetbike on a really tall stand but its permanently fixed to it: I think you’d be hindering yourself because speeders rarely have good armour.

It’s an interesting question. As a long time player of races that had a lot of skimmers I was happy to play either way, depending on my opponent’s preferences. In Epic: Armageddon you have rules where you can pop up for skimmers. Generally speaking if my opponent insisted on a pop up ability and was obstinant I usually worked it like this, bear in mind this is a house rule: A unit with the skimming ability can pop up in the movement phase in order to gain line of sight. However, it must remain popped up after the shooting phase… Read more »

I can see where hes coming from with this question, considering the fluff of the skimmer. The Grav plates allow it to rise high into the sky, but are not as maneuverable as a dedicated fighter or bomber and cannot match their speed. But, personally, I think hes hunting for something that Isn’t there, and wouldn’t allow this to happen in any game I played.

yeah, it even says that you have to okay scenic bases with your opponent.

Closest thing to this is a ‘pop up attack’ which basically was something that skimmers could do in 2nd Ed. 40K. The skimmer could float up, pop a shot off and then drop back down behind cover.

One would assume that if something is flying up to shoot from an elevated position, without the benefit of some sort of special rule that let’s them go back into cover, that on the opponent’s next shooting phase he gets to shoot the hovering model as though it were still exposed in mid air, because it would have had to stay there long enough to acquire a target and shoot, thus leaving it vulnerable. I guess in that sort of agreement if both players wanted to allow it it would be okay as a table rule. But hell, I play… Read more »

I think it would make perfect sense since Deathcopters are counting skimmers and our modern Helicopters do pop up behind woods all the time.
So it would be fine with me as long as you dont want to Fire a Heavy cannon, i’d say that Flying higher would use up more energy and the recoil of a cannon would just be to much(or something like that)