Sep 5, 2014

Organic gaming board


I usually use a bike to go to the nearest Tesco for food. It's a 5-10 minute ride. Where I park the bike before a large apartment building, the lawn looks like this. Pretty unkempt, but interesting because of the underlying hex grid. The vegetation actually fills up the little hexes to their borders and thus it would be a great gaming board to play battles on. 


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    1. A lorry to carry all my figures to the destination!

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  2. With a maximum of three figures per side you can have an exciting and quick solo up close and personal in your face fight. And everything should fit into a pocket or small bag.

    Plus, you might even draw some curious spectators over to your organic battle mat, where you can demonstrate your ability to wargame almost anywhere. Have fun, but watch out for snails.

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    1. Something like... giant fighting robots?

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    2. Sure, in small scale. You are master of using paper and cardboard for scenery. So maybe you could make a couple of flats depicting a portion of a city street, and then let the battle begin. You can do it.

      By-the-way: after a couple of quick peeks at the hexes, I finally got what it is...chicken wire!

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    3. I don't think it is. The hexes have depth and are made from plastic. It's some sort of gardening installation.
      I was thinking about using real water this way as well. Even if I won't take out my toys to play there, I could make my own.

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  3. That would make a great gaming surface. Wonder what the neighbours would think? :-)

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    1. If there are any gamers: "I should have thought about it earlier".

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  4. I thought we were looking at hexagonal paving stones - remarkably small ones. But the chicken wire notion also occurred to me. Maybe with chicken wire you could lay out a battlefield on your own lawn!

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    1. I think the lawn was simply not kept in a good condition and the rain and winds eroded it to the level of the underlying plastic mat, and then the vegetation grew in the hexes.

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  5. Ooo. Another idea. Take several photos as you have done here. but vertically downward - or at least as vertical as you can without including your feet or the step-ladder you're standing on. Then scan them and merge them onto your machine to create a base map.

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  6. very imaginative, i saw this kind of hexagonal plastic net many times, but i never thought about that!
    the idea of taking some photos and print them is very good!
    waiting to see what you'll do with your inspiration.
    bye

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