Saturday, 30 November 2013

Gridded game with 40mm figures

This afternoon I ruled one side of my felt cloth into 3inch squares for gridded games. It will be used for a variety of periods, scales and rules. It can hold 1/72 scale tanks for example.I set up the first game with my 40mm Dark age figures-

A card river and linoleum road was added,along with hedges,trees and a bridge.
 Note berserkers in foreground. Three close order figures to a square,two figures for skirmishers and cavalry.
I hope to play the game tomorrow .I am pleased with the look of the set up and hope the game works out as well. Rules probably Gathering of Hosts maybe a Tony Bath adaption, we'll see.
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9 comments:

  1. Fitz-Badger30 November 2013 at 19:46

    That looks like a nice small game setup. Happy gaming!

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    1. tradgardmastare1 December 2013 at 08:30

      Thanks.Now to try and find some 40mm scale fantasy stuff...

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  2. AlFront30 November 2013 at 23:13

    Well done for getting such straight lines on a piece of felt!

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    1. tradgardmastare1 December 2013 at 08:32

      The advantages of having folk in the house who do crafty things and own long plastic fabric rulers/set squares which I can borrow...
      Selotaping it to the floor prior to ruling helped too.

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  3. Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.com1 December 2013 at 03:06

    Looks good. The 'clean' look seems to particularly match these figures, it all just seems to 'fit'.

    I find that a graphic "game" look seems to help a few figures, esp a few 40's, look believable as a small army rather than as a few individuals.

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  4. tradgardmastare1 December 2013 at 08:33

    I think so too re your first comment.
    Your "graphic game" comment I don't quite understand ( brain addled by sleep or lack of) could you elaborate?

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    1. Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.com3 December 2013 at 15:42

      I meant graphic as in clear, easy to understand, symbols that are meant to indicate more than their superficial appearance as opposed to a diorama where everything looks real but in a game setting is often misleading or confusing when it turns out that this or that piece of terrain or group of figures is not what they look like after all.

      I think that there should have been a comma after graphic. As an example of what I mean, a nice rugged, bottle brush style christmas tree (I'd be lost without them) on a square of a gridded board instantly says "a patch of woods". An accurate 1/56th scale model of a Norwegian Pine tree on a diorama like board says "a tree".

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  5. Robert (Bob) Cordery1 December 2013 at 20:37

    Tradgardmastare,

    I like the 'look' of your felt 'battlefield'. You have made an excellent job of making on the grid ... better than I did when I tried. I think that the 40mm-scale figures look great and are a good fit - in terms of figure scale compared to grid area - with the 3-inch squares.

    All the best,

    Bob

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  6. Prince Lupus3 December 2013 at 21:17

    Looks excellent. Time to paint up the Rohirrim I've had for ten years!!

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