"Pocket" travel HQ, and a use for it: Fog of war
Posted: March 20th, 2021, 10:15 am
Anyone remember those "Pocket" travel magnetic games from the days before handheld video games and smartphone zombies? I dunno if I ever saw one of those games with dice (because it kinda defeats the purpose to have dice that could be dropped/lost/annoy anyone else in the car/plane), and even at its smallest I think HQ would have to be at least a little larger than any of those.
Still, if some way to make essentially a magnetic travel HQ, with 10mm squares or something, that could be concealed behind Morcar's screen and provide the true location of everything. Players, though, would only know where monsters were when one is within view or near enough to be heard. Morcar would still move any monster that has been revealed, but if the heroes run from the Witch Lord, say, once the players get more than one turn away from him, they have no idea where he is!
You could play it that he also has no idea where the players are, but … I dunno, if there's a few secret doors, or more than one way to get somewhere, maybe he might use those doors (without opening/revealing them) to come up in front of our heroes while minions harry them from behind?
I think mini-meeples are 12mm. That'd make for a 312mm wide board, 336mm for a 28x22, which makes it just a little too large for hiding behind the screen I think. Meeples though have something flat to put a sticker onto and could be found in the classic HQ mini unpainted colors (and some others actually, making for quick ID of minis on a tiny board.
Hrmm…
Still, if some way to make essentially a magnetic travel HQ, with 10mm squares or something, that could be concealed behind Morcar's screen and provide the true location of everything. Players, though, would only know where monsters were when one is within view or near enough to be heard. Morcar would still move any monster that has been revealed, but if the heroes run from the Witch Lord, say, once the players get more than one turn away from him, they have no idea where he is!
You could play it that he also has no idea where the players are, but … I dunno, if there's a few secret doors, or more than one way to get somewhere, maybe he might use those doors (without opening/revealing them) to come up in front of our heroes while minions harry them from behind?
I think mini-meeples are 12mm. That'd make for a 312mm wide board, 336mm for a 28x22, which makes it just a little too large for hiding behind the screen I think. Meeples though have something flat to put a sticker onto and could be found in the classic HQ mini unpainted colors (and some others actually, making for quick ID of minis on a tiny board.
Hrmm…