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At my old flgs we used to joke that the old plastic whippy sticks were designed to disadvantage the player who didn't buy the premium 30$ Citadel tape measure.
Stg everything Britain seems to have done since the 1980s has been copy all of America's "burn the country to the fucking ground to create 100 billionaires" but doing it with all the inefficiency that is a side-product of EU style dem-soc so they get the society rendered unto ash but don't get the billionaires.
Is it a plastic type material tape measure like for tailors? Those often stretch very easily, I’d say comparing to a metal or wooden ruler/tape measure would be more reliable
I measured with a wooden ruler in mm and converted to inches and the measuring stick from my core rulebook is a lot closer to 6 inches than yours. The 2 inch one seems slightly too short though.
I also measured the sheets of two different starter boxes and they too seem fine. Only explanations I have is that all your rulers and tapes are wrong, or that the sheet has been changed at some point and you have an older version (this kind of change has tooling costs involved so it's not done without good reason), or that you live in a very dry climate and the sheet overall has shrunk compared to how it was manufactured. If you still have the sheet, maybe try measuring its outer dimensions and compare that to what other people have.
Their widgets for the 2024 tournament scene were wrong too. Don’t worry. They can’t convert centimeters to inches. I can’t either, but I’m not a multimillion dollar company selling things at above top dollar, cuz of my “quality”
Dick jokes aside, I've found that the plastic ones that come with the kit aren't that accurate either, the 6" nor the... other shaped one with 1, 2 & 3" on
ITS NORMAL SIZE AND FULLY FUNCTIONAL! That being said some tools don’t all quite match measurements, take another, 6inches if you will and compare side by side 😉
Gotta break out the Official Warhammer Cardboard Stretcher™ to make sure you get the full and proper length for your cardboard ruler. Only £50 at your local Warhammer store!
They have with Underworlds which is, ironically, probably their best-rated game outside of the community. I probably wouldn’t hate that style of board for Kill Team movement since we’re already using a board but I think you’d still have to measure range for weapons etc.
I mean I've seen hex based games where you don't have to measure. This would require an entire system change though where terrain is built to incorporate height-based on the hexes and whatnot so it would invalidate most of the previous pieces. I just think if this was something they did it would streamline the game in a way where instead of this feeling like a smaller and sometimes more complicated 40K proper, it's its own thing.
You don’t measure range in Underworlds either, but there’s no terrain to contend with; it’s an open map. I agree it would make the game faster not having to measure movement, could definitely make the game stand out more. If they do that and find a way to simplify cover/obscure rules then the game could see wider adoption as an alternate to bighammer.
For the record, I don’t think cover/obscure rules are that complicated but it seems to be the biggest pain point for newcomers to the game.
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u/swcnpoho May 23 '26
Looks perfectly average to me, maybe even a little too long