The Battle for Station Ridge

[DFlynSqrl]

Great stuff Plynkes.  It's always fun to read one of your AARs.

[Helen]

Thanks Dylan for an excellent gaming report.

Helen

[Hammers]

Splendid, splendid!

Dylan, you may have answered this before but the chain link fence, is that car repair mesh?

[d phipps]

Really well done! I love all the fun little details!   

[answer_is_42]

Not heard of Pogoland? That is a sad indication of declining standards in the Somerset education system. At least it had better be.

Too true! We are but simple country folk.
I'll just go and check the Atlas...

[Driscoles]

I always love reading your game reports Plynkes.
Your writing style is very entertaining - there is always a story and the best of your reports is the humor.
Thank you
Björn

[valleyboy]

Really enjoyable thank you

just shows that you shouldn't trifle with boys from the valleys

VB

[Plynkes]

From the Valleys? Hardly. How insulting. They're worse than the bloody English down there. These brave boyos come from the uplands of Sir Faesyfed and Brycheiniog.


Hammers, I'm not sure about that. Could be. I didn't make the fence, but picked it up cheap at a show many years ago. No idea who the manufacturer was, just a bloke selling his stuff on a table.

[Hammers]

By the way, those pylons are dead tidy. They really *make* that table.

[gamer Mac]

Lovely game and lovely figures
Looks like fun.
Is that a green blanket you use to cover the table or is it something special. It appears to have a brown tinge to it?

[Plynkes]

It's a Mat-o-War gaming mat bought from Antenociti's...

http://www.barrule.com/workshop/gaming%20mats/gaming%20mats%20for%20wargamers.html

You are right, it is made up of several colours of grass (if you look at it closely it appears to be made of a static grass-like material, compressed into a slightly rubbery mat), and is a little more pleasing to the eye than my older plain green felt ones.

Supposedly, if you brush it with a wire brush you can make it even more "grassy" as the grass will stand up a little. Haven't tried that yet - a little nervous of ruining it. The thing is the same on both sides, though, so if I make a mess of one side I can still use the other.

[postal]

awsome stuff

[Hammers]

It's a Mat-o-War gaming mat bought from Antenociti's...

Reading the linky page they really sell it as if was next great thing since pre-sliced bread. Is it? My static-grass-on olive felt is quite good mix of colours but is running a bit scrofulous from wear, especially along the fold lines. As I understand it you get no fold lines with the Mat-O-War.

[Plynkes]

I like it, but I don't think it is as amazing as they make it out to be. Actually when it first arrived I was rather underwhelmed by it, and said so on TMP (in a thread where someone was asking for opinions on them). The Mat-o-War chap was not very happy, and got a little defensive about it. The ones in their pictures look much more "grassy" (as if you had a whole table covered with static grass) than the thing I received, which didn't seem all that different to an ordinary felt mat, apart from the nice mix of colours. It is also not long enough yet too wide for our table, so there is lots of wasted area. But that isn't their fault, I should have checked the dimensions better.

There are fold lines. Whoever said there aren't is fibbing. In conclusion, I think a lot of the talk about the things is pure propaganda, they over-sell it. It is a nice gaming mat, but that is all it is.


I must say though that I have revised the initial response that I had when opening the package for the first time. I've grown to rather like it and cannot say I'm disappointed with it any more. It is certainly much nicer than my older plain one-colour felt tablecloths.

[gamer Mac]

Thanks Useful information