"Whats your preferred Game Mat to play on" Topic

Exactly what the title asks, when i ask the game mat you prefer to play on i mean who produces it, and perhaps why its your preferred.

Geohex because I have piles of tiles.

Same as the good Doctor

I love my Hexon terrain, but failing that, my trusty green cloth.

My terrain mat is a bed sheet marked at intervals to match Hexon 2 terrain. While we do have enough hex to cover the entire board we play at the club so it would be too much shifting and take too long to set up. Just putting on the hills is easy enough. My one regrett is I can't buy a sheet that is a better colour match and I cannot mix colours to match. The mat is plain all other features are laid on topm. i.s platic for water features, card sprayed road colour, Angel Hair for the base of forests etc.

Carpet tiles…………

I have a mottled brown cloth for dessert terain and a GW grass battlemat. Mostly terrain goes on top of these but sometimes I put hills under the cloths.

40year old indoor/outdoor carpeting.

I have:

- Hexon terrain
- an old green cloth for taking to the club
- a 12 x 6 baize cloth that as been sprayed for games at home with hills under it
- 2 x Monday Knight Productions Martian mats for Martian Empires games
- 2 x Mat O'War Desert mats for North West Frontier, etc
- 2 5' x 2' MDF boards for city games

They all serve a purpose and all provide good playing surfaces

Mike

Along with my Hexon and green cloth (my very first gaming cloth, still going strong after 40+ years), I also have:

1. various crumpled blue cloths for naval games
2. a large plain brown cloth (for desert, WW1 and particularly muddy WW2 games)
3. a grubby white cloth (winter)
4. a brown cloth gridded into 3"/6"/12" squares for use with various gridded games
5. several boxes of 40cm green carpet tiles gridded into 66mm/132mm squares for use with other gridded games

Mat O War.

Lasted seven years so far and still looks the same as it did when new…

Hexon terrain (Kallistra)

Either my green carpet tiles or the village mat I had produced by a banner company last year. For space gaming had some images printed as banners by vistaprint.

Also, I've got a couple of Hotz Mars Red mats.

Generally just some dark green fabric from the fabric store. For many years my brother and I just used a piece of plywood painted green. It did the job.

I envy you UK guys and your Hexon terrain.

I have two Zuzzy molded silicone game mats, and they are *really* nice. I have a cracked-asphalt-with-cobbles-showing-through mat for WW2 and modern games, and one of their forest mats painted up to look like desert. Both are very resilient and look fantastic. The only downside to Zuzzy mats is that they take a looooong time to produce and ship.

I also have two Zuzzy mats and love them, but I have noticed that in the winter, when my basement gets extremely dry, the paint will flake off in places. D'OH!

A good sturdy light grayish-green twill cloth that fits my table nicely. I also have a sheet of camouflage twill -- I usually use the reverse side, where the colors are muted somewhat. For Russian/Ukrainian steppes, I have a large piece of "golden tan" carpeting.

My Terrain Guy mats….and I want more.

Love my Cigar Box Battles mats.

I'm with raylev3 – Terrain Guy mats, and I want more (please)!

I use white fleece for winter terrain though.

I play on a sheet of plywood painted green on one side and the other side natural for desert or western games.

Cheapo cotton sheets from WalMart (available in quite an array of colors), sprayed with diluted craft paint for mottling, laid over terrain forms (foam, usually), with specific details (roads, rivers, etc.) put on in chalk pastels (which wash out when no longer needed).

Doug

1. canvas painting drop cloth died green now my loaner

2. Basic green felt I got at a con and dont remeber the vendor

I would suggest Mat-O-War Wargaming Mat

Take care

Andy

Two 6 X 12 Terrain Guy mats. One for summer (green flocked with his usual highlights) and one winter (with beach sand as part of the process to give that sparkle of snow). And like the other gentlemen who have mentioned Terrain Guy, oh how I wish he was still in business!

I use the Games workshop green mat for quick games. Marvellous quality.

martin

TERRAIN GUY!!!

HEAR OUR PLEA!!!

Geo hex on a cloth of the right colour. Green for the most part, blue if there is a river or coastline involved. There may be better systems available now but i just have SO much geo hex that im not switching.

79thPA,
I gather from Paul that a lot of sales of Hexon II are to the US so it should be possible to get it in the states. It costs much as a new army but its worth more! To cut costs/bulk just use it for the hills. Its best if fully coveres the board but the cost and bulk is much higher.

We use the 2 high hill sides for modern and WWII at 1/144 and its perfect. )ne and two contour complex hills much like the real world.

Would be nice to see a heavy duty mottled green cloth produced

Cigar Box winter mat. I have cloth from Joanne Fabrics for my desert & green battlefields. Foam 1" thick floor tiles get cut up & placed underneath for elevation. Wish I learned this method decades ago.

Carpet.

For 6 x 12 foot table I use indoor outdoor carpet. I also have interlocking floor mats with terrain features carved in.

Big DITTO for return of Terrain Guy, or somebody buy his process and produce mats. Besides the good quality, I liked them because he sold 2 foot by 2 foot mats for DBA. Cigar Box makes nice mats, but not standard size DBA. Mat o War looks like it might be good, but where to by green ones. None at Hobby Den that I can find.

I recently found some very nice carpeting from Menards at 50 cents a square foot, but you must by 6 feet wide. Golf course green, but with a patch of various browns and green spray paint it looks good. A very soft, flat material.
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A piece of plain gray-green cloth I bought some years back. But I also have a piece of camouflage cloth and a piece of yellow-brown carpeting (for Russian steppes).

I use an 8x12 paint drop cloth spray painted with different shades of green and brown. I use pastels and chalk for roads and to designate depressions. Contoured high density styrofoam painted to match for the hills. It works for any scale or table arrangement. Easy to lay down and pick up.

The drop cloth is thicker than than sheets so lays better.

Wolfhag

we have just taken possetion of some specially commissioned Hexon II flat hex. Its great as it lets you set out a better hex pattern than my cloth, looks superb and takes up very little space being only thin plastic material. However although thin it does not warp.