"Layout Plans" Topic
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nevinsrip | 28 Mar 2014 4:24 p.m. PST |
Anyone have a set of plans for a F&I War or AWI type layout? I've got 26 2x2 foot squares built that have 2 inch insulation foam inside them. I'm looking for a diagram showing rivers, roads, woods and such. I recall seeing a few sets on the old Touching History page. Anyone else? |
epturner | 28 Mar 2014 5:37 p.m. PST |
Bill; You should ask Bill Moreno (aka: ACWbill) who makes the most amazing terrain with insulation boards. He's got stuff which is just freakin' amazing. Eric |
MajorB | 29 Mar 2014 5:05 a.m. PST |
Anyone have a set of plans for a F&I War or AWI type layout? I've got 26 2x2 foot squares built that have 2 inch insulation foam inside them. I'm looking for a diagram showing rivers, roads, woods and such. It'd be just like any other wargame terrain except with a lot more woods than usual. |
nevinsrip | 29 Mar 2014 11:30 a.m. PST |
It'd be just like any other wargame terrain except with a lot more woods than usual. Not really. Good roads were few and far between and most people travelled by foot along paths or trails. Fords were important due to a lack of bridges. The American frontier was unlike any other terrain. |
MajorB | 29 Mar 2014 11:38 a.m. PST |
Good roads were few and far between and most people travelled by foot along paths or trails. Fords were important due to a lack of bridges. Good roads weren't that common in 18th century Europe either, but hey ho. OK, so replace the roads with foot paths and the bridges with fords. What's the problem? |
Supercilius Maximus | 30 Mar 2014 11:26 p.m. PST |
Most of the AWI was fought in areas that had been settled and cultivated for anything up to 100 years. Dense woods, though not unknown, would have been less common than copses and orchards on the majority of battlefields. Roads would also have been better in the eastern half of most colonies except New Hampshire and Georgia; typically, a major road would have been 100 feet wide with undergrowth and trees cut back to at least that width, and a central path wide enough for two wagons to pass. In virgin woodland (forest actually means managed land – you can technically have a forest with no trees), there would be no undergrowth and the floor would be several millennia's worth of mulch/compost. To counter this, well-used paths would often be covered by logs laid at right angles to the direction of travel; these were known as corduroy roads. Bridges, especially in rural areas, would often be built next to a ford, the former being for pedestrian traffic and ridden horses, with vehicles required to use the latter; this made it cheaper and easier to build the bridge and maintain it as it obviously needed to be less robust. (Oh, and no covered bridges – still about 50 years off.) |
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