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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: sean_68333 on October 07, 2014, 03:07:02 PM
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I ran a game of BattleTech: Alpha Strike at the Recruits Convention in Lee's Summit, MO a few weeks ago. As I was preparing for the game, I realized I was missing a necessary staple in my terrain collection; hills. I normally play at my local game store (Gauntlet Games in Lincoln, NE) and use their awesome supply of terrain for my games. However, since I was going to be running the game at a convention, I needed to take everything I needed with me and I had no hills. (I actually have some hills, but they don't look great and I this was a good excuse to improve my collection.)
So I set out to put together a good supply of hills. I used pink foam and caulk as the core of all the hills. After adding some paint and flock, the hills turned out pretty nicely.
I wrote up a tutorial and posted it on my blog. http://gamingandshooting.blogspot.com/2014/10/hills-for-battlefield.html (http://gamingandshooting.blogspot.com/2014/10/hills-for-battlefield.html)
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These were made specifically for BattleTech: Alpha Strike, but will easily work for many other games.
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Oldskool, well done and efficient, although I'd hazard a guess they'd look a spot nicer on a green basecloth rather than the ochre one. Also, really nice to see hexless Battletech - we had a blast with a campaign back in '05-'06, much faster and tenser than the original.
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...although I'd hazard a guess they'd look a spot nicer on a green basecloth rather than the ochre one.
My green mat didn't get into my bag so I had to make due at the con with a borrowed mat. I think the Alpha Strike rules are a great addition to the BT universe. They allow you to actually play games with many models per side in a reasonable amount of time.
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They look good; very effective.
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I like the completely vertical cliff faces. I find there's far less of a temptation for people to try to toe the edge and have their models slide or fall off.
They look great all over the table as well.
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Simple and effective. Not a giant fan of the felt rivers/lakes, but what can you do? Looks simple and much easier to determine line of sight. Well done.