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<blockquote data-quote="Heap Thaumaturgist" data-source="post: 304316" data-attributes="member: 4516">Well, I'm not a hobbyist.&nbsp; I sort of like Chainmail.&nbsp; My little brother has started playing recently.&nbsp; I haven't gotten a chance to play with him, yet, but I was reading the rules, and, in particular, the conversions from D&amp;D stat blocks into stripped-down Chainmail rules.It could be useful, to me, for running battle situations on a map ... streamlining the use of, say, 10 people to a side, and commands issued by PCs.&nbsp; Not that it will &quot;simulate&quot; but that with about 5 minutes of extra prep time before the game starts, you can &quot;plug&quot; chainmail into a D&amp;D game to streamline battles where tactics and troops are more important than tracking every last HP.But that's just the rules.&nbsp; The miniatures are meaningless to me.&nbsp; I would probably enjoy painting them, but not enough to make buying Mini games worth my time.Which is why, as I've said, WotC needs to ignore making a &quot;Miniatures Game&quot; and instead make a RULESET that can handle medium to large battles.&nbsp; If it is a ruleset that can play out like a minis game, great ... I'm going to play it using counters, instead.&nbsp;&nbsp; I just need to track placement.&nbsp; If I wanted to pay alot of money for minis to paint and play with, I'd play Warhammer.--HT</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Heap Thaumaturgist, post: 304316, member: 4516"] Well, I'm not a hobbyist. I sort of like Chainmail. My little brother has started playing recently. I haven't gotten a chance to play with him, yet, but I was reading the rules, and, in particular, the conversions from D&D stat blocks into stripped-down Chainmail rules. It could be useful, to me, for running battle situations on a map ... streamlining the use of, say, 10 people to a side, and commands issued by PCs. Not that it will "simulate" but that with about 5 minutes of extra prep time before the game starts, you can "plug" chainmail into a D&D game to streamline battles where tactics and troops are more important than tracking every last HP. But that's just the rules. The miniatures are meaningless to me. I would probably enjoy painting them, but not enough to make buying Mini games worth my time. Which is why, as I've said, WotC needs to ignore making a "Miniatures Game" and instead make a RULESET that can handle medium to large battles. If it is a ruleset that can play out like a minis game, great ... I'm going to play it using counters, instead. I just need to track placement. If I wanted to pay alot of money for minis to paint and play with, I'd play Warhammer. --HT [/QUOTE]

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