I cannot remember if it was Bob Cordery or Chris Kemp who recently alerted me via their blog to the board game Santorini. Anyway, I ordered a copy forthwith.
Forget the game. In the box there are component to make buildings:
- 22 ground floor/level 1 square pieces;
- 18 first floor/level 2 square pieces, which can also be stacked together to make higher structures or sit on the ground as houses in their own right;
- 14 second floor/level 3 octagonal colonnades with a square base;
- 18 hemispherical cupolas.
That’s enough for a decent sized town, and for less than 25 quid!
All the sections are hollow and the first two will take a 2cm x 2cm base of 6mm figures inside or on the roof.
In the photo’ below are the four components and one full building. A 6mm Irregular Miniatures unpainted insurgent is added for scale. Incidentally, each face of the first two levels is different, to add some variety to the street.
A lick of paint and these will do nicely, thank you.
General Whiskers' semi-historical wanderings 
I’m glad that you found my suggestion useful. I hope to use my SANTORINI buildings in the near future.
All the best,
Bob
Another useful thing arrived yesterday Bob. My copy of Hexblitz. When I opened it, it looked very familiar, so I put it on the shelf next to the copy I forgot that I bought last year!
Thought I could donate the soare copy to the Combat Stress auction at the Donald Featherstone tribute weekend. Sorting out the box of donations damn me if I fidn’t find a third copy!
I have a mental block about this book…
My dear General,
It was Bob, but the buildings look as if they will be useful for 15mm as well. Thanks for the heads-up.
Regards, Chris
I foresee that if they keep getting orders from “the older gentleman” for a kids’ game, they will cotton on and the price will be adjusted accordingly…