[Deptheads] Non Con Related Question

[stevenong at comcast.net]

I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season. 


For those of you that don't know me, I'm a game manufacturer and have run the Strategicon Dealers Room in the past. 


If you have stopped by my booth you may have seen my wet/dry erase tiles for mostly fantasy RPG. 
Which is pretty much my gaming experience. 


Recently I have produced a custom version of my river set for a 40K store without the 1 inch grid that is normally part of the scene. 
I guess counting grid inches would be cheating in that game. 


Anyway I'm considering launching the non gridded series starting with my river set and currently working on a modern street set and Scifi Star Carrier Landing Bay. 
But I've run into a problem of deciding the scale for the streets. 
I've looked on line and brought prototypes to a 40k store and it looks like I can use about a 1 inch to 5 feet scale, my streets are working out to be about 3 inches wide (one way). 


I'm including small things like signal light, lamp post, bus stop benches, garbage cans, mail boxes, news paper dispensers, man hole covers, cross walk buttons, and other little things but what about big stuff like dumpsters, large boxes and crates? 
Also remember that you can use wet and dry erase markers so you can draw in your own dumpsters, blockades, blast craters and damaged vehicles.......... 


What about some of the other games like Flames of War, Star Wars, Shadow Run or any other mini's game I don't know about? 
Do they use grid lines? 


The Click games look like they use a 1.25 inch grid, is that true? 


Lastly I'm wondering if I should bother producing sets for mini's games. It seems that games like 40k and Flames of War require so much room that everyone just plays at the stores and therefore wouldn't buy terrain for themselves? Though the "Art of War? guys seem to always do pretty well with there terrain. 


I know that the mini's players love the 3D pieces and that's why I'm only considering Flat terrain like Rivers, Roads, Parking Lots, Landing Bays, maybe a playground or park that sort of thing. 


Cost wise I think my tiles are a bargain compared to the actual cast terrain. My river set is 5.5 feet long for $20 and no painting, I don't know how much that would cost in cast product. 


Any comments, thoughts, scale conversions, games I should research, and/or marketing ideas would be appreciated. 




Thanks for your help. 


Steve Ong 
Three Sages Games 











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