Review of Cardboard Heroes Bases

SJG's excellent Cardboard Heroes line of illustrated paper miniatures have only one flaw: the cutout lines in the paper tend to fray with time, and the minis tend to flop. The Carboard Heroes Bases is intended to deal with this, and make the mini's more useful and attractive as well. At this, they succeed admirably.

The bases are 18 mm squares, with a slot to fit the mini into on top, come in seven different colors to aid recognition, and are (unlike the old version which required a knife to cut individual bases) come neatly stamped individually. Ten bases come in each package. Little or no flash/wastage was seen on the set that I purchased, and the minis fit well into the slots. They worked well with the GURPS Traveller deck plans that I've been using in my campaigns.

This product has only one flaw: the bases are thirty cents each.

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It's literally easier and cheaper to glue the minis to coins. Using quarters (which are 24 mm across, and fit on 1" hexes), you can save a nickel each. Using nickels (21 mm), you can save a quarter each, and see the hex lines to boot...

This would bring the price of a set of ten down to $0.50, probably an unsalable level for SJG, but you get the point. The bases are grossly overpriced.

Summary: wonderful idea, well executed, but probably worth about $1.00-$1.50, not $3.00.

Dave.