New Heroscape Room (beware...picture heavy)

[SpiderCoach]

I finally convinced the wife to let me build a gaming room in the basement. We played in there last night for the first time. I still need to add a fridge and a couple other amenities, but overall I'm very happy with it. I thought I'd share.....

This first picture is of the guy who helped me build the room and my boys. They're playing in our first battle in the new room. There are two gaming tables in the room--this being the larger of the two. Behind them would be the southeast corner of the room.



Here's the northeast corner. The cabinets were hijacked from my wife's scrapbook room. Don't feel too sorry for her; she got new storage for her new scrapbook room upstairs. We keep a lot of our boardgames, snacks, cups, etc here. You can also catch a glimpse of the small playing table in the bottom of the picture.



Here are the units' storage bins, mounted on the west wall.



Here's a view from the doorway looking in at the south wall.



This is the southwest corner where most of the Heroscape accessories are kept. The CD cases hold the army cards (color coded by general); the magazine rack has all of our player manuals, FAQ printouts, etc. The tops of the terrain storage units can be seen under the shelving units. That's our Horrorclix collection mounted on the west wall.



Here's a close-up of those same terrain storage units on the south wall.



I put a set of shelves behind the door in the northwest corner for our Star Wars minis and Haloclix tackle boxes.



Another view of the southwest corner.

[Nooblar]

Wow, awesome digs! I know you posted it just to make us jealous...so mission accomplished Have fun 'Scaping in the new game headquarters!

[roostertail9000]

Nice! I wish I had a place to scape like that.

[Mossman]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

[SlikkRikk]

Congrats! It's gorgeous and exactly the way I'd do it too.

Question -- any concerns with building a room in the basement? I know nothing of basements currently (I live in CA) but I heard that it's difficult to deal with some elements in that scenario.

[CheddarLimbo]

Whoa! Very impressive!

Just one question...you've got a drawer labeled "Flying Tubes". What the heck is that?

[SpiderCoach]

Originally Posted by CheddarLimbo

Whoa! Very impressive!

Just one question...you've got a drawer labeled "Flying Tubes". What the heck is that?

Back in the HQ days someone came up with the idea of putting fliers up on top of cylindrical tubes to demonstrate that they're up in the air. I bought a set, and they're stored in that bin. I'll take a picture of one and add it here in a few minutes.

Here it is......

[hextr1p]

Very cool set up, and ridiculously well organized, which only makes your game room that much better!

Originally Posted by CheddarLimbo

Just one question...you've got a drawer labeled "Flying Tubes". What the heck is that?

Yeah, I believe the house rule variant was called, "True Flying" or "True Flight." Pretty cool concept to bring air combat to the game and better illustrate a flying dynamic without going too far outside the official rules.

[Nooblar]

Originally Posted by hextr1p

Yeah, I believe the house rule variant was called, "True Flying"

Wasn't it mentioned in an early issue of the Codex?

[SpiderCoach]

Originally Posted by Nooblar

Wasn't it mentioned in an early issue of the Codex?

Something to that effect. I started another thread on the flying tubes in particular. Anerrios's original rule set (in codex #2, I believe) is linked in that thread now if anyone's interested.

[Rocktroll]

That room looks awesome, even more that your kids play with you.

Would love to see more pictures ( for some reason doesnt let me open them up to get a bigger view)

[skyknight]

Lord, I have not seen those fly tubes forever...those were great back in the day. Almost makes me want to post a thread about the greatest inventions of yore...we had some great stuff back then.