Blank Figure Bases - Kickstarter?

Chris Rice · 06-20-2018, 06:31 AM

Introduced a new player to Melee last night. They're not really a game player and their initial thoughts were that it was too complicated. However, once we started, they got right into things and narrowly survived my wicked 3-room Dungeon.

We played with D&D minis on Heroscape hex-tiles and the newbie mentioned something that had never occurred to me. "It's hard for me to tell which way my mini is facing with these circular bases."

I'm so used to this that I never notice, I just go with where the head is facing, but I did see their point. Obviously, with the square counters to come in the KS, this won't be a problem. But for us miniature gamers it could be.

Now, I'm not interested in re-basing all of my minis, but here's a thought; what if the KS could offer blank plastic bases in various sizes, 1 hex, 2 hex, 3 hex etc. I could then just blu-tac my figures on the appropriate base when playing Melee and easily remove them afterwards.

Would anyone one else be interested in this?

06-20-2018, 06:31 AM	#1
Chris Rice Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: London Uk, but originally from Scotland	Blank Figure Bases - Kickstarter? Introduced a new player to Melee last night. They're not really a game player and their initial thoughts were that it was too complicated. However, once we started, they got right into things and narrowly survived my wicked 3-room Dungeon. We played with D&D minis on Heroscape hex-tiles and the newbie mentioned something that had never occurred to me. "It's hard for me to tell which way my mini is facing with these circular bases." I'm so used to this that I never notice, I just go with where the head is facing, but I did see their point. Obviously, with the square counters to come in the KS, this won't be a problem. But for us miniature gamers it could be. Now, I'm not interested in re-basing all of my minis, but here's a thought; what if the KS could offer blank plastic bases in various sizes, 1 hex, 2 hex, 3 hex etc. I could then just blu-tac my figures on the appropriate base when playing Melee and easily remove them afterwards. Would anyone one else be interested in this?