To begin with you have a base to put your terrain positions on -
Those red lines pointed to by the arrows are slits in the base. Every rectangle – terrain position – has these slits. Why?
Well if you take a look at the individual terrain positions that you'll use -
You'll see that they come with tabs – coloured red in the above illustration. On the left we have a regular terrain position – a woods. On the right we have a hill ready to be assembled.
You push the terrain position's tabs into the slots on the terrain map base, to get -
The terrain positions are then fixed to the base and won't move around. That hill also has 4 slots in its top so that you can put a standard terrain position onto the hill, like so -
So here we have a wooded hill.
And inserted into the slots, that hill is going nowhere!
And yes, with each hill having tabs on the bottom and slots on the top you can put a hill onto a hill to make a taller hill! That way you can create really large hills that cover the terrain map with fluctuating heights. We'll post an image of such a hill to our website soon.
So with all of this you can make your own terrain maps and play Battlefield Skirmish games on them.
But what about Battlefield Battle games?
Well, take a look at this -
Here we've sized up a terrain position so that it can easily hold a Unit made up of multiple rows of 3 figatures in each. Each figature represents a single Troop Card. So you've got your Units used in the Battlefield Battle game. If you look at the top left of this image you'll see one of the terrain positions that you can slot onto the terrain map base for the Battlefield Skirmish game. Here it has been slotted into the oversized terrain position. So you can reuse your small terrain positions in this manner. (Note - In the actual thing you'll slot this in the centre-left of the oversized terrain position, not the top left.)
The idea is that we'll provide the terrain map base and all the individual terrain positions and hills to slot into that base. We can also supply the oversized terrain positions for the Battlefield Battle game but these will be 'blank' terrain positions that you'll slot the small terrain positions onto to show the terrain type and for the stats. You'll obviously need a larger table but with enough oversized terrain positions you can play your Battlefield Battle using the same figatures, etc.
Oh yeah, we'll provide oversized hills terrain positions as well.
Then you'll get figature trees, figature marsh, figature ruins and so on to slot into your terrain maps that can be used in both the Battlefield Skirmish setup and Battlefield Battle setup. Coming soon . . .
Thoughts?
Questions?
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p.s. these prototypes were done on 80gsm paper to prove that if it worked with such flimsy material it'll only be 100 times better with card!
p.p.s There's a bit more background in this post on our forum.
