From 2mm to 28mm, Malplaquet to Spion Kop, FB to YouTube!

[Chris Pringle]

A flurry of diverse game reports set me to musing on the range of different tools and techniques we gamers use to reach essentially common goals. A brief essay here with some links to the nice reports that prompted it.

[Konstantinos Travlos]

Good show Chris!

[McKinstry]

I enjoyed the links to the various games and I was particularly taken with the use of 2mm terrain with 6mm troops. This is certainly a visual hobby and those games truly are enhanced by great terrain.

The tree of Life is self pruning.

[Chris Pringle]

Cheers, chaps. Yes, there are some very talented people out there creating beautiful games.

For myself, I could happily play games with the most basic of cardboard cut-outs, so long as the rules and scenario are good. That said, I have certainly come to appreciate the importance of the aesthetic and made sustained efforts to improve my own set-up. E.g., for a few years I had a rule of always buying some nice ready-to-use terrain items whenever I went to a show. Most recently I invested in a load of handmade rivers and streams to replace my ancient felt ones. Roads are next …

[Thaddeus Blanchette]

I have wanted to buy BBB forever, but it’s not offered in digital form. Is there any chance that will change?

We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

[Chris Pringle]

Hi Thaddeus, glad you’re interested and sorry you’re going to have to be frustrated a little longer. I know that Scott at SkirmishCampaigns has a long-term plan to make BBB and the rest of the SkirmishCampaigns available as pdf. However, I think this is still a couple of years away yet.

Chris

[Andrew Beasley]

Good mix of games – the foam used for the hills looked interesting and I liked the idea of painters tape for the river.

Obviously the human hive mind at work if everyone is posting at once 🙂

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