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Sunday, 10 October 2021

New maps ...

With the absence of wargaming conventions due to corona, it has been quite a while since I bought something. But this week a package arrived, with the Giant Book of Scifi Battle Mats.

It's quite a useful item, withclean-wipe sheets of various scifi ground plans. Ideal for fighting out small encounters in a roleplaying game (which might or might not be one of the games I'll start running in a few months).

You can read an extended description of the item (and seeing all the various floorplans included) on the link above, but here you can see a quick impression of the versatility of the maps.

My drawers of Scifi figures and scenery items for some quick photoshoots ...

A desert world ...

An ice world ...

A jungle world ...

Onboard a spaceship ...

Spacehulk-style corridors ...

Mecha combat in a cityscape ...

... and even spaceship combat.

4 comments:

  1. That looks really really useful. And well designed, with actual gaming in mind!

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    1. My thoughts exactly. Perhaps not for big battle games, but at least for fighting small encounters in an rpg or perhaps fights inside a building transferred from the main wargaming table.

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  2. Very clever project, and the hexed space map is a great addition. Should be a very useful addition to your table!

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  3. Thanks for posting about this - I just added it to my holiday wish list. I have a small (no pun intended) 15mm sci-fi collection for skirmishing with maybe 5 or 10 figures per side. It rarely gets an outing. This book would definitely change that.

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