Reply To: Tabletop for people with visual impairment

[zoidpinhead 12492xp 1]

Grid and Hex systems both sound good – Strengthy and Honour is grid based and the tiny scale allows for whole battles all in one go, arranging the units differently on each different type of base would allow someone to feel the different units without having to ask.

An alternative would be to go the opposite way and go for big minis using a skirmish rule set.  Western gunfights are relatively easy with 54mm or larger minis fairly easy to source.  For 40K context specifically why not try to reverse the Inq28 idea.  They took the 28mm minis from 40K and Necromunda and played Inquisitor with them.  You could try the opposite and invent Necro54, use the Inquisitor or other 54mm+ minis and play Necromunda.  If that is a bit too hard to manage then Blackstone Fortress uses very few minis so could convert to 54 or 75mm and the game pieces could be scaled up very easily with a scanner and printer to enlarge the tiles proportionally.