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Re: Minis in small spaces

Postby Maurice76 » March 1st, 2019, 7:30 am

phoenixcinder wrote:What did you mean when you said "The thickness of the clay walls is significant enough that you shouldn't disregard them for the overall look and feel when you've set up an entire quest on the board."?


Your clay walls are 8 mm thick. That means that they will have visual impact in how the board will feel when you've laid down an entire quest worth of rooms, with doors and walls. It may look good for a single room or part of a corridor, but when you build up an entire board with them, they might still be too dominant with respect to the room sizes, furniture and miniatures, based on the tile size you're going to use. Especially the hallways might be an issue. If you place your walls like shown in the picture above, each hallway tile will be reduced by 4 mm in its width, due the wall extending over it. For the single tile hallways, that's even an 8 mm reduction due to having a wall on both sides. With a 30 mm hallway tile, you're effectively down to 22 mm to place stuff, when you place those walls. That's barely enough (or actually, not enough) to place a miniature, or a tile like a blockade or pittrap or such. You're likely to be struggling for space in such tight areas - and if your walls aren't fixed to the board (with pinholes or something?), then you will inevitably end up with walls getting pushed out of position all the time, as people are trying to move their miniatures around. Using 35 mm as tile base would ease up on that part, but it's likely to still be a tight fit in some spots.


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Re: Minis in small spaces

Postby phoenixcinder » March 2nd, 2019, 4:51 am

Tried some firmer clay reduced the size to 6mm can feel a difference when placing stuff. Might try 5mm

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Re: Minis in small spaces

Postby Anderas » March 3rd, 2019, 12:37 pm

That Alchemist table, isn't it normally 2x3 in size?
What I want to say, did you not squeeze it in a too narrow space after all?


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Re: Minis in small spaces

Postby j_dean80 » March 3rd, 2019, 12:43 pm

Anderas wrote:That Alchemist table, isn't it normally 2x3 in size?
What I want to say, did you not squeeze it in a too narrow space after all?


That's a Sorcerer's Table; but yes, it, the Alchemist's Bench and the Tables are typically on 2x3 squares.
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Re: Minis in small spaces

Postby Sparkymark » March 3rd, 2019, 3:22 pm

My walls on my board are 12mm wide and 37mm tall (.5 inch x 1.5 inch) and squares are 25mm (1 inch).
I had to incorporate an extra square for the walls. This gives you 37mm on those tight central passages which is just enough to position minis.
The extra squares cause other issues as you say but i managed to sort of solve these. The coolnesss of walls i felt was a price worth paying.
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Re: Minis in small spaces

Postby Figomurphy » March 3rd, 2019, 5:10 pm

Worked for me.
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Re: Minis in small spaces

Postby Figomurphy » March 3rd, 2019, 5:15 pm

Here’s a more up to date photo. It only adds a few squares to the board but gives you plenty of room
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Re: Minis in small spaces

Postby phoenixcinder » March 4th, 2019, 7:04 pm

Figomurphy wrote:Here’s a more up to date photo. It only adds a few squares to the board but gives you plenty of room



How big are your walls ?
how big are your squares?
I am guessing your doors just slide atop of your walls?
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Re: Minis in small spaces

Postby DullandRusty » March 4th, 2019, 7:36 pm

Figomurphy wrote:Here’s a more up to date photo. It only adds a few squares to the board but gives you plenty of room


my kids have one of those rainbow tracks you have in the background. those things are awesome. its fun to just let the car go on the regular ground and watch it bouce off walls and keep going. between that and the awesome HQ board, your kids have hours of enjoyment ahead of them!
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Re: Minis in small spaces

Postby Jafazo » March 5th, 2019, 1:12 am

Figomurphy wrote:Worked for me.


It'd bug me way too much that the board didn't match square for square.
Nonetheless, it looks good.
Unless you specify your version I'm going by the US rules.
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