"Critique my terrain!" Topic

I'm always looking to improve my terrain, so I posted a bunch of pics of my latest setup. What do you like? Don't like? How can I improve?

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I like realistic, but the board has to stay playable for 15mm Napoleonics, so keep that in mind. All feedback appreciated.

I think your terrain looks great and seeing that baby dear is pretty neat as well!

The only way your terrain could look look better is if it was on my gaming table.

Seems to be a good balance between looks and playability.
My only thing is I don't like the hex tree bases.
I prefer my trees on more natural irregular bases

Looks great! I love the little garden and other plant bits near the village houses.

Suggestion: use some low turf or scatter material to break up the different fields. Something subtle to suggest field borders.

And yeah +1 on hexagonal tree bases: they break the illusion strongly compared to all the other elements.

I love your terrain. May I suggest that you try placing the hills under the mat. I sometimes use towels and rags to create an undulating effect. I would love to play a game on that table. Bravo!

hills under mat instead of over. hexed trees look unnatural.looks great!

Great looking terrain.
I disagree with Ben Lucy for the hills. Just because you can identify when a unit is actually on the hill if your rules allow for benefits for being on it, such as Shako 2.

It looks a tad crowded to me for a Napoleonic battlefield, unless you are doing a small battle or skirmish.

Good looking boards. You did a very nice job down-scaling the paper houses from Dave Graffam. I have some of the same ones but in 28mm size.

Jim

I don't think it looks crowded at all.
Not all the bits of hedge or foliage along field edges need to give a tactical advantage
Sometimes things can be on the tabletop just to look good

Plenty of texture – looks good.

Very nice.
You can break the outlines of the hexes by putting some bushes afterwards on the edges, tree trunks ( that is pieces of woods picked up during a healthy walk )
Bits of gardens, walls etc. Around the houses that can be part of the zone.

You have a near perfect balance. Any improvement you make in the area of "realism" will most likely be offset by interfering with play-ability. I would leave it as is. Don't be tempted by Icarus and fly too close to the sun.

Kevin

Very nice, a bit more terrain than I normally have for 18th and 19th century battles, but very nice.

I really liked your river and stream tutorials, perhaps I can find some time this holiday weekend.