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One day I am going to treat myself and buy an actual gaming mat. I have only been saying this for 10 years
You and me both, Shaun! 😀
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I am not a fan of the visual aspect of hexes myself,
This however has lots of scenery so that for me hides the hexyness, which I do like.
Though I suspect a green bit of cloth will be closer to the cheap bit of the brief?A green cloth would certainly be cheaper and quicker to get started, but there is joy to be had in making hexes! 🙂
I have just discovered this website. He has a Youtube channel with some videos. Have you ever heard of this system? Have you tried it? What do you think? https://www.hexterraintoolkit.com/
That is the system I used to make the desert hexes in my picture. It works well. I use XPS (not EPS as I wrote before) sheets from Panelsystems in Sheffield. This is the blue foam that many people use, although the Panelsystems people sell it in grey now. I don’t think the colour matters at all. I’m not sure who in France would sell it, but building supplies and insulation companies might have it. My hot wire cutter is from Woodland Scenics, because it was easy to get hold of at a local hobby shop.
In terms of getting started, I think that a simple green cloth, as Mike suggests, would be a good start. That will let you get playing immediately, which I find important for keeping going with projects. You can then start building the really good terrain and start using that when it is ready. The hexes I made myself took quite a while to do, so being able to play keeps my enthusiasm up while I am working on them.
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I really like hexes for the flexibility they offer at some cost in set-up time. This is a WW2 Western Desert game I played recently. The hexes got a bit knocked about because I did not have my usual frame to hold them and they are on a slightly uneven surface, but you can still see the effect. I cut all these hexes myself using a hot wire cutter and EPS.
There are more pics on my blog.
I also have a European terrain set using the GHQ Terrainmaker hexes. I have a love/hate relationship with those because they are not uniform and that leads to gaps where there should be no gaps.
Again, there are more pics on the blog. A lot of these hexes still need fettling and tarting up to bring them up to the standard I finally decided on, but I do like the overall effect, and find that the gaps tend to disappear visually when you are focused on playing.
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That is a long and honourable tradition of that sort of thing, stretching back at least to the Shadizar Herald in Tony Bath’s Hyborian campaign
Yes. A grand thing too was the Shadizar Herald. Of course, that kind of thing requires players willing to create the content. I’ve noticed that they can be in short supply and that only one or two players will contribute regularly.
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Featherstone ‘War Games Campaigns’ – in the days everybody smoked – I spent weeks scrounging matchboxes off people – don’t think we ever actually used the resulting infernal machine but it kept us busy scrounging and gluing the thing together. I think the modern version looks as if it might work more smoothly than the Swan Vesta version.<noscript>
</noscript>Thanks, Guy. I knew it was one of that mob but could not remember where I had seen it. Maybe try it with Cook’s Matches instead of Swan Vesta? The boxes are bigger and less fiddly! 🙂
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I like those solo rules, Jim. I look forward to trying them out. I reckon they would be useful for more than just Hellfire, so that is a bonus.
I’m pondering some hippo mounted cavalry for one of my SF forces
Have you read American Hippo by Sarah Gailey? It has a very interesting premise based on a historical plan to introduce hippos into the Mississippi to deal with weed infestation while simultaneously supplying meat which was increasingly scarce at that point (https://www.wired.com/2013/12/hippopotamus-ranching/). Anyway, it has hippo-riding cowpokes, and I am all for that, so I love your idea of hippo cavalry for your SF forces.
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That sort of level, a company at 1:1 isn’t really where Hellfire was at. But stopping to think about it, you’d just move the ‘unit’ down a level, so that the unit was now the ‘squad’ and the individual man/ figure was the base. But the firing system etc might not be individual enough for you as it would be squads firing at squads, not men at men. I’d be tempted to do a simple firing system, roll one dice per figure with pluses and minuses that are easy to remember. Because you could have 200 figures on the table and don’t want to get bogged down. cannot help you with the cat I’m afraid, I looked on the Irregular site but he doesn’t do one
I’m not fussed about individual firing. It’s more about maximising the number of toys on the table so I can use my full armoured infantry company. As you suggest, making each squad a group and each figure the base would work very well.
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