Your editor proposes a radical new idea for seducing people into the gaming hobby.

I have previously noted that the core difference between miniatures and board wargames is the vertical relief of the unit counters. Miniatures having heights ranging from 6mm to several inches. The father of the hobby, H.G. Wells, envisioned the use of 54mm figures, the standard of his time. Other gamers of the period player with tin 'flats', miniature figures that had no lateral dimension, so the painting of a soldier or sailor was printed on one or both sides of a bent piece of metal. Wargame counters are simply the stands on which many miniature gamers plant their figures, the figure being replaced with symbolic notation. They are three-dimensional, the ink generating at least micron scale relief.

Recently, there has been some modest interest in 'German' games within the Hobby. 'German' games are games with at least some tactical depth but non-military aspects, e.g., Puerto Rico, which is based on economic development and growth. Puerto Rico is widely played on a coed basis.

My innocent proposal is a Puerto Rico game in which the unit counters are replaced with miniatures and dioramas. I allow those more knowledgeable of the topic to fill in details, but there might be room for a new style of miniatures game, in which warfare and conflict are not central. This might promote a wider audience for miniatures and other games.