Building Cheapscape Part 1

Cheapscape is my Heroscape knockoff. Again, I am not going for originality. I want to build a fun, accessible and CHEAP game to enjoy with my friends and family. I found that Heroscape had a somewhat deep and but non-intimidating system that my friends could enjoy.

Step 1: Rules.

Simple, Hasbro has a PDF file online for Heroscape rules. Here they are if you want to get your own copy.

Step 2. Miniatures

Minis are crazy expensive! Not only that, but for most games you need to build and paint them. As much fun as that sounds, it is breaking my highet priority: BE CHEAP!

So originally I scoured through dollar stores and found some cool figures, army men, cowboys and indians. The few character I really liked (Batman, Superman, etc...) were $1 each. That isn't terrible but I knew I could find something cheaper.

Several google searches later and I hit the jack pot with the following search:

warcraft inspired miniatures

With the wild success of the World of Warcraft MMORPG, Blizzard (with the help of Upperdeck) decided to enter the tabletop gaming market with it's WoW Miniature skirmish game in 2008-ish. It had good balanced gameplay (from what I read), a universe and lore that millions of people were familiar with already and some really good mini's. No assembly required, already painted.

Then all of a sudden nobody cared. I don't know exactly what happened but they were in and out of the tabletop mini wargame business pretty quick.

2016 and I find this nifty site here! ccgcatle.com is selling these things dirt cheap!!!! I find his ebay store and order a box of 100 + miniatures for $29.99.
I receive a total of 161 minis. 52 different characters and the other 109 are duplicates.

                                                  It was Christmas!!

                                          Rodeo Bill vs Superman ($1)

A lot of progress has been made. I will be talking about my plans for battle grids and terrain in upcoming posts. God bless and have fun!