I thought you, as a Texan, should say that "they get a big kick out me not having one of their prissy accents"

Everyone thinks they don't have an accent

Ottumwa, Iowa. Pre-hiatus we had between 8 and 12 weekly (Star Wars minis was beginning to take a few of our members at the end). With Hammer of Thor launch, players interested totalled... me.

I got my oldest boy into it and played a few demo games at the shop during Free Comic Book Day. My store owner allowed me to kinda informally control the free clix War Machine (my kid played FCBD Iron Man, FCBD War machine, and a Spider Man, I fielded a mish-mash of older marquee figures who are typically popular in books, Batman, Wolverine, Punisher, etc). We had a second map set up and ready to go for anyone who wanted to learn.

I was actually surprised at how many people were willing to try it out when they found out that I would give them the FCBD War Machine if they bought a single booster to round out the team (and we had old Icons boosters for $2.) Tons of people cobbled together a War Machine team and tried it out. Now we've got 6 (including me) that come weekly.

Still not great, but there is hope.

Where i live there are no stores holding tourneys, so we just hold our own games and slowly keep building our number of players- now 5 regulars and possible 2 more! We need an online clix version, like Magic the Gathering has!

Funny this should come up as we were just talking about this a few weeks ago.

Back in the day - We knew the key to a stores success was the centered around the person organizing the events. In some cases that was the Envoy, some cases the store owner, a player. Whoever the person was, the success of HeroClix at the store comes down to the person evangelizing the game. Sounds like the store doesn't have that anymore.

The question is: Are you willing to be that person? We can help. In fact, we plan on helping in a more organized way but we are still blue-printing the program. Until then, let me know if you are going to be "the guy". I can certainly share "best practices" we've seen. In fact, I can possibly even release some of the viral marketing material we putting together - It's nothing fancy - Calendar of events/demos, Looking for a game sheet with little tear offs on the bottom, Rulebooks, etc. On top of all of that, you have Facebook, the store has Facebook, direct email.

You can call the old HC crew and show them the newer product, send them the PDF of the new rulebook, PAC card, some of the holiday print-n-play items, etc

In short, what I am saying we'll try to help you become the store evangelist. The funny, anecdote here is while HC was "on break" - the whole YWCSHC in some small way got people to take control of HC in their stores. To this day I hear about stores running bigger events "while we were out of business" than we "WK" scheduled events. That's crazy but it shows what a energized player community can do. It sounds like you may be at the point were you need to take control of your HC destiny. We'll help, ask your store to help and let's see what we can do.

Let me know if we can do anything in the short run.

I'm afraid you will have to move. There is no other solution. I was stuck in a town for a year that had no real gaming community. Soon as I could I picked up and moved out. This may be your only choice, your only salvation, you must find a town with a clixing community and move to it

When my buddy I used to play with moved away, I took to playing online games of Heroclix. There's a very good piece of free software for it (see my sig), and with a voice chat program at the same time it's practically the same, but without the sculpts. You can play with people you know, total strangers, whatever. It's in real-time and both eyes are on the same board (unlike the slower play-by-post stuff).

here in park city, utah, my work prevents me from attending any tourneys, and i'm willing to bet the people here couldn't pick out batman in a line up.

i moved away from my core friends and clixers to find a good job. now i can afford all the clix i want, but have no one. good trade.

The little group I play with is slowly dwindling too. 16+ people a few years back, now we're down to a steady 6. And it probably won't help that I'm the eldest and I'm leaving come fall!

'Clix died out where I lived about the time of Secret Invasion. I tried to build up interest among my friends and roommates, and began to have some small success. Until I killed it by fielding the sorts of super-competitive teams that I used to back when we had a strong, and cutthroat tournament scene.

Now I'm running tournaments at our FLGS. Attendance varies from 4 to 10 depending on the week. But it's growing. And as the judge I've learned how to encourage more fun teams and newbie friendly tournaments (Modern Age is a big help, format-wise).

It might take you a while, but it's entirely possible to build up a player base from scratch. The best day to demo, fyi, seems to be Wednesday (when the new books come out) and Free Comic Book Day.

You're right everyone has an accent whether they think so or not. We Texans get teased all the time about the way we talk, but I'm proud to be a Texan!

I live in Montreal, Quebec. Here, there is little interess for the game. I play with a friend .... but every two weeks only. There is a store that try to organize tournaments..but I'm the only one there. So, I try, right now, to visit some gamer forum, here in MOntreal. Chat with some people, hoping that I could rebuild a king of Heroclix communitie, in Montreal. Next year, I will show my students how to play Heroclix. They play at D&D mini. So. I think they will love HC.

That's why I want a HC version on XBOX LIVE or on the PC. That way, we could play all the time.

lol no kiddn. im such a gamer that actually crossed my mind!

thanx ziran, ill get in touch with you.

Hey im in corpus, just moved here and have same issue.

dang, just a lil closer, im like 2hrs away

i live in Singapore and only me and my friend plays here. there aren't any game store around for us to play at. and getting heroclix is rather difficult. i am still waiting on my Blackest Night starter that i have ordered from the only store in this country that seems to carry heroclix. it's really sad here, as me and my friend enjoys this game a lot.