• You can always make your own too. I took a yard of green felt, traced hexes on it w/ a pen, and made felt-covered cardboard hexes with all the terrain types painted on them(minus swamps…I hate swamps) so that I get a different map each time I play. I made hills out of felt-covered foam. It’s MUCH better than playing on the supplied maps which have difficulty staying flat and like to shift, even w/ plexi over the top. My map took a week of evenings.
    I like the idea of bunkers, BTW. Been toying around w/ simple house rules for them but so far have not proceeded w/ them. Should be similar to a fighting platform tho.

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  • Thanks for the link to the downloadable terrain.  The game system I was referring to is Memoir 44 by Days of Wonder.  The basic game has a double sided hex board.  One side is a beach landing and the other side is grass, it also has some bunker pieces along with barbed wire, hedgehog, and sandbag pieces.  I bought the extra game board which has snowy terrain on one side and desert terrain on the other, and I also purchased the Eastern Front terrain pack for the snow covered terrain hexes.  They have a terrain pack for north Africa which I’ll probably get soon.  Like I said before, I would love it if they included terrain pieces in booster packs.

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    Yeah, terrian in the boosters would be cool but I bet they’ll save that gimmick for later.

    Don’t want to let all of the tricks out of the bag at once, otherwise people really might start to loose interest.

    Make up some house rules for using the Memior 44 terrian tiles for A&A Minis and post them here on the boards.


  • As far as game tiles go, I saw someone post about using “Lost Battalion Terrain Tiles” for A&A Mini’s.  The tiles look pretty nice.  Although after seeing how Lotus did his tiles I think I might try to do that myself!  Nice work Lotus!

    http://store.yahoo.com/lostbattalion/lobateti.html


  • That lost battalion game says it uses 3" hexes, but I guess it can’t hurt having larger hexes.  Battlecry is a civil war boardgame that utilizes the 2" hex board and terrain hexes, but the Memoir 44 system seems to be the best buy when you consider how much you get for the price.  It also includes hedgerow terrain pieces that I’m not sure how to incorporate into the game yet, other than treat them as wooded hexes.


  • @DFlynSqrl:

    Nice work Lotus!

    http://store.yahoo.com/lostbattalion/lobateti.html

    Thanks DFlynSqrl!  :-D


  • Do the Lost Battalion tiles only come in roads, clear, rivers and gullies? Or does it also have forests and towns too? I was looking at the Memior box last night at my FLGS (For you not Knights of the Dinner Table readers, Friendly Local Gaming Store). I would have grabbed it if I wasn’t buying three more boosters for the game. But I wasn’t too upset: I finally got Stuarts (two!), enough Japanese to play them alone, a Flamingo, and a Renault, so yea… I was happy enough to let the Memior '44 box go. I think. It’s hard to tell with this level of addiction. Heheh.

    -=Grim=-


  • i palyed a few games on the plastic maps and got tired of it, i wanted a 3d game board i took a 3x6 piece of plywood cut it in half and covered it with dark green felt, i decided on 4" hexagons, i cut out a 3 hex pattern out of cardstock, used a black sharpie, and traced the hex onto the felt, i even put a small dot in the center for LOS, i then painted roads, streams and ponds on the boards. i downloaded paper buildings and went to staples and had them colored copied on to cardstock. i then got some spackling compound, and cut out, sinlge hexs, double and triple hexs and put the spackling on the hexs creating small rock hills, and some small green hills, just high enoug to block LOS but still able to cross, the bigger hills are painted to look like rock formation, not crossable, i made tank busters out of firer place match sticks, painted them black and glued them in triangle shape.
    the roads and streams are permanent, but the building, hills and rock formations are movable so that every game is different, and each side take turns placing them


  • @Malachite:

    That lost battalion game says it uses 3" hexes, but I guess it can’t hurt having larger hexes.  Battlecry is a civil war boardgame that utilizes the 2" hex board and terrain hexes, but the Memoir 44 system seems to be the best buy when you consider how much you get for the price.  It also includes hedgerow terrain pieces that I’m not sure how to incorporate into the game yet, other than treat them as wooded hexes.Â

    I have the game but im thinking that the map would be to small as i had to buy another stater set to get myself another set of maps so that i could play bigger armies. Have you tried it yourself are just proposing to use the same idea for aa mini’S?


  • @surfdog:

    i palyed a few games on the plastic maps and got tired of it, i wanted a 3d game board i took a 3x6 piece of plywood cut it in half and covered it with dark green felt, i decided on 4" hexagons,

    Word, that’s the route I’m going on. I hope to have a hexed battleboard ASAP, and there’s a TON of 15mm WWII terrain out there on the net. I’ll just nab some of that. The mats the game comes with are OK to learn on, but to perpetually game on these drab, flat maps that have roads mostly going on one direction… blegh.

    -=Grim=-

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