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I bought mine here:

http://www.em4miniatures.com/acatalog/MINIAATURES_BASES.html

very cheap and of good quality.
em4miiatures also offers a few mechs for a very low price, so checking them out is a good idea.

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LuigiX wrote:Does anyone know a good source for cheap plastic hex bases in the same scale as Battletech? Iron Wind sells metal bases(!) at $6 for four (!!!).

DP9 (I'm their web guy...) has 1" bases at 25 slotted for $13. Not the best price, but a lot better than the IWM metal ones...

(Plus, hey, if you want to give our mecha game a try I'd appreciate it. We're not evil, no matter what you've heard. Just Canadian owned. There's a Two Player Starter Kit that just got released to give people a taste of the game...)

Balance wrote:(Plus, hey, if you want to give our mecha game a try I'd appreciate it. We're not evil, no matter what you've heard. Just Canadian owned. There's a Two Player Starter Kit that just got released to give people a taste of the game...)

not just regular ol' canadian but FRENCH canadian!

as a side note, what's the difference between that set and the interpolar war box?

warboss wrote:not just regular ol' canadian but FRENCH canadian!

But you can't even tell. I promise!

Balance wrote:

LuigiX wrote:Does anyone know a good source for cheap plastic hex bases in the same scale as Battletech? Iron Wind sells metal bases(!) at $6 for four (!!!).

DP9 (I'm their web guy...) has 1" bases at 25 slotted for $13. Not the best price, but a lot better than the IWM metal ones...

One problem with that...Battletech hex bases are 1.25" (31mm) across the flats. 1" bases could be a problem since some of the battletech minis barely fit on the base official base.

Also, the Battletech bases have a sunken to to accommodate the bit of metal most IWM mechs have under their feet.

If someone made an exact copy of the Battletech bases in plastic or resin Id love to try them.

For those looking at IWM mechs & such...you can get them from ebay, thewarstore.com, and frpgames.com for a good bit less than IWMs website, which advertises at full retail.

Sorry... Been a long time since I saw a BT mini.

Balance wrote:Sorry... Been a long time since I saw a BT mini.

No prob, and those bases would work for some of the BT/IWM line, but not all. As long as someone didnt mind having a mix of hex sizes they would be fine. Conveniently there are no rules for actual hex base size (that Im aware of), as long as it fits within the hex on the map sheet.


EDIT:...if you did come out with a line of 1.25/30mm plastic hexes they would probably sell quite well to the BT folks

warboss wrote:as a side note, what's the difference between that set and the interpolar war box?

Near as I can tell, the new set adds the new rule book companion, but only includes half a dozen miniatures (three Hunters and three Jagers, including command variants of each) instead of the ten in the Inter-Polar set. And it only costs about 2/3 of what the Inter-Polar set does.

Hey though, 50 bucks for basically an entire game is pretty darn good. That's an entire game, models, two rulebooks, nice 'tables' and artwork all included, for the price of an unassembled, unpainted Battlewagon. That's a real nice deal.

Mad4Minis wrote:

Balance wrote:

LuigiX wrote:Does anyone know a good source for cheap plastic hex bases in the same scale as Battletech? Iron Wind sells metal bases(!) at $6 for four (!!!).

DP9 (I'm their web guy...) has 1" bases at 25 slotted for $13. Not the best price, but a lot better than the IWM metal ones...

One problem with that...Battletech hex bases are 1.25" (31mm) across the flats. 1" bases could be a problem since some of the battletech minis barely fit on the base official base.

Also, the Battletech bases have a sunken to to accommodate the bit of metal most IWM mechs have under their feet.

If someone made an exact copy of the Battletech bases in plastic or resin Id love to try them.

For those looking at IWM mechs & such...you can get them from ebay, thewarstore.com, and frpgames.com for a good bit less than IWMs website, which advertises at full retail.

Chessex makes plastic hex bases scaled perfectly for Battletech. But they aren't on the website, you have to call them. The more you order, the cheaper they are. Normally, it is 100 bases for $20, or it was the last time I ordered from them. I got 500 for just slightly over $100 shipped, but since I live in Indiana (where Chessex is) I had to pay tax on them as well.

Eumerin wrote:

warboss wrote:as a side note, what's the difference between that set and the interpolar war box?

Near as I can tell, the new set adds the new rule book companion, but only includes half a dozen miniatures (three Hunters and three Jagers, including command variants of each) instead of the ten in the Inter-Polar set. And it only costs about 2/3 of what the Inter-Polar set does.

ahh, didn't catch the second rulebook there and that does make the difference since it effectively upgrades the game to blitz 2.5 after reading about it.

Anvildude wrote:Hey though, 50 bucks for basically an entire game is pretty darn good. That's an entire game, models, two rulebooks, nice 'tables' and artwork all included, for the price of an unassembled, unpainted Battlewagon. That's a real nice deal.

$50 is a great price point for a starter set and i'm glad that battletech and heavy gear decided to go with it. once you get too much above that (i'd say $60 is my cutoff), people start having second thoughts about spending the money on a new item that they haven't tried. While i still think the 40k AOBR starter set is a good value for the amount of minis you get, it's priced to high now for alot of people to just buy it without too much second guessing. tabletop games have been competing for hobby and game time and money with videogames since the 70's; minis companies IMO need to price their intros to compete with the average price of a new video game if they want to lure people off the fence. i'm glad that at least some of them realize that.