"Terrain for Kings Mountain" Topic

Does anyone have any terrain ideas for the Battle of Kings Mountain? It's difficult to represent in 28 mm, because most of the fighting was uphill.
I guess you could build a huge mountain and start with that.

I'm hoping someone has a better idea.

The terrain for Kings Mountain may be difficult to recreate convincingly in 28mm. Richard Dreyfuss became a bit obsessive with his terrain project, but I think he brought it off convincingly.

Perhaps the "empty boxes and books beneath the ground cloth" technique might work best. Good luck with your project, and I hope we get to see photos of your game.

Since the battle was fought uphill you have to be able to do that. Maybe go old school and make a big hill that is composed of lots of layers of flat styrofoam painted green. Since it was heavily wooded and with lots of rocks, disguise the "stairstep" look with rocks and trees.

This comes to mind….Google Salute 2014 for more of it and I think it was at Crisis.

Don't exaggerate the steepness. The top of the feature is only about 800 feet above the piedmont. Remember that to recreate the battle in scale you would need a table about 60 x 80 feet. In model railroading (my other hobby) we call this "selective compression". At scale (I'm using 64:1) your feature would need to be 12.5 feet high. Using selective compression, you are reducing by a factor of about 10 (60 x 80 feet to I'd estimate 6 x 8 feet). So using the same ratio your feature should build up to 1.25 feet.