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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 5298050" data-attributes="member: 221">FranktheDM already mentioned this, but I thought I would elaborate. The prevalence of square bases has more to do with wargames where you want to be able to easily put large numbers of miniatures into an organized unit that is easily moved as a whole. Irregular bases make it hard to arrange your mini's in formation. Square bases make it easy as all you have to do is line up the squares and your miniatures are suddenly in a formation. There is a secondary benefit to square bases, as opposed to irregular bases, in some games and that is they allow you to more easily determine when one character is actually within reach of another. If the bases touch they are, if they don't they are not (assuming a 5 foot reach). The square bases have an additional use in some wargames. The angled corners allow one to easily determine line of sight within an arc of vision. In Warhammer for instance, the front of a mini's square is considered their arc of vision (the angles of the square providing a perfect 90 degree cone for vision) and they cannot see anything on the other three sides.</blockquote>