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Re: What do you think of Miniature Games?
« Reply #15 on: December 29, 2017, 09:42:57 AM »
Those are some excellent prepainted minis. Far better than I was expecting having read your post via email with images. I guess the biggest issue might be that the majority of hobbyists would rather be able to customise their own models, rather than take whay comes in the box; as a result it's better to not spent the money on getting quality, reliable painters.

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Re: What do you think of Miniature Games?
« Reply #16 on: December 29, 2017, 03:28:18 PM »
Snakes and Ladders [...] with a selection of miniatures?
Prime example for this would be Monopoly Gamer. It was in the "hotness" for weeks at BGG, and is at 6.6 imho still quite overrated for what a piece of crap it actually is. It seems there are mainly two reasons, why people rate it so high. First, because it (normally) plays quicker then regular Monopoly, and second because the "cool prepainted minis". I agree, they look very nice, but based on one abandoned game I had, it was really boring, and potentially can drag for ever. And the minis did nothing for me to make it more fun. If you can normally play it in 45 minutes, the game will still suck in my opinion. So why playing it in the first? This is no redeeming factor in my opinion, to play a bad game, just because it is short(er) and has some miniatures.

I don't mind miniatures in general, though I agree, that detailed standies might look better then gray minis. And I would never paint them. Not quite true, I did paint them in case of War of the Ring, but just monochrome in the colours of the different people, which was still a hell of a work for me, but necessarily, because otherwise the game would have been simply unplayable. It is still very fiddly, and one of the main reasons is, that there are to many minis and to small spaces on the board for them. Game would be much easier to play with less figurines, and some stackable discs. But even though they went the extra mile and made figurines for all army pieces, it is totally beyond my reasoning, why they didn't make them in the appropriate colours out of the box.
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Re: What do you think of Miniature Games?
« Reply #17 on: December 30, 2017, 09:11:35 AM »
Chooselife, do you have any examples of the standees you life from games?

Can anyone think of games that have standees & miniatures - if so which do you use?


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