Reply To: Too many games with miniatures in it?

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I guess it depends on the game – the 5 mini’s really add to the feel of Fury of Dracula, but other games like Waterdeep would just get too cluttered if all those little cubes were replaced by 28mm sculpts…. Then again, lots of people (me included) complain that watedeep just doesn’t feel very thematic, and maybe that’s because it’s hard to relate to a wooden painted cube?

For marketing reasons, so they can appeal to wargamers, lots of games use 28-32mm miniatures nowadays, when using smaller miniatures would make games easier to store and the board less cluttered when playing. Miniatures make it nicer to play a game sometimes, but often they are just way too big for the board they are being used on.

On the other hand, I bought a Kickstarter game second hand that used card standees, and it was totally unbalanced and unplayable. The rules were so bad I find it hard to believe it had even been play-tested. If it had at least some nice miniatures in it I could have painted them up and wouldn’t have totally wasted my money.