I agree, with the caveat that the color codes used in most (all?) clix do greatly expand the possibilities. I think the whole clix game model is aimed at people who fit in the space between checkers and RPGs - people for whom one 30-page rulebook is no problem, but twelve 300-page books plus a college-ruled notebook for each mini is a bit much. I fall into this category mainly because the only people I can get to play a game around here are people who want to pick up a game pretty quickly (Munchkin and Space Station Zemo [ http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/42938 ... le-version ] have been my most frequent hits, but Mechclix gets some attention too).
*edit* Plus, having click bases gave me the chance to cut off some crap IndustrialMechs and use their dials (with a little Fireworks magic) to cleanly stat my homebuilt dropship's turrets. I know, you can do that more easily with stat sheets, but I like the fiddly bits
