Ouais25 | 09 Nov 2019 12:11 p.m. PST |
Hello all, I would like to play miniatures wargame with my kids and my goal is to have nice armies on a nice tiled board. I'm going for 10mm armies. I would like the most good-looking board. And from my research, kallistra hexon tiles offer the best solution (good-looking, modular, easy to store, hills available). However, there are some drawbacks: - rivers and roads provided by them are ugly (they lay on above the board). The only workaround is to paint the roads directly on some tiles and for the river, reverse the tile upside-down to build a river within the tile. - tiles are too large for 10mm. For a standard hexon set, the size of the board is 9x12, which means that in 2 rounds, my cavalry would cross the board :/ If they were squares, I could probably draw 4 smaller squares within each tile. - price Next, in order to have a good-looking board, I would play without move bases. My idea is to move the miniatures 1 by 1 (I don't plan to have big armies, see it more like skirmish). And to make it efficient, my goal is to use magnets to stick the miniatures onto the board. But as the kallistra hexon tiles being made of plastic, I need an idea to have my miniatures sticking to them. Any idea? Aluminium sheets glued under the kallistra tiles and thin magnets under the miniatures? Ouais |
JimDuncanUK | 09 Nov 2019 12:29 p.m. PST |
Aluminium is non-magnetic. |
Desert Fox | 09 Nov 2019 12:37 p.m. PST |
To solve the dilemma of movement with large hexes I knew a gamer who marked the corners of another series of hexes inside each kalistra hex. So each kalistra hex had another 7 hexes inside it, each measuring approximately 30mm flat to flat. If you are moving individual figures this might be a way to go. He used blue scatter to create rivers and streams. |
JimDuncanUK | 09 Nov 2019 1:58 p.m. PST |
You could try Heroscape tiles, just over 40mm each. Plenty on eBay.
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Ouais25 | 10 Nov 2019 11:34 a.m. PST |
JimDuncanUK: true, replace "aluminium" sheet with whatever magnetic metallic sheet :) However, if it's too thick, then I might have an issue with rivers which would be reversed (downside on the table) :( I could eventually forbid any unit on the river hex, but for a crossing ford, it would be problematic :( |
Ouais25 | 10 Nov 2019 11:37 a.m. PST |
Desert Fox: When drawing hexes within a hex, it would be 1 hex and 6 half-hexes, wouldn't be? Do you happen to have pictures? For the rivers, like this: link |
Ouais25 | 10 Nov 2019 11:41 a.m. PST |
JimDuncanUK: I don't like the way those hexes look like :( But the system is great. The same system with nice flat tiles with flocking, tiles with slopes to make nice hills or rivers, and it would be perfect. |
Ouais25 | 13 Nov 2019 1:19 p.m. PST |
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Andy Skinner | 14 Nov 2019 7:40 a.m. PST |
I've done something similar to what Desert Fox said with Geo-Hex tiles. They are 12" hexes, still available from Geo-Hex on ebay. I made 4" hexes overlaid with dots. But these are foam, and probably wouldn't suit the original request. I'm just responding to a note along the way. :) andy |
Ouais25 | 15 Nov 2019 4:13 a.m. PST |
Thanks Andy, Just to be sure about the solution, we are talking about one 4" hex and six 4" half-hexes within a single 12" hex? Right? Any solution like kallistra with squares btw? |
Ouais25 | 16 Dec 2019 5:29 a.m. PST |
Up. Anyone using magnets to stick miniatures to boards? |
Marc at work | 17 Dec 2019 9:45 a.m. PST |
Why not get MDF hexes cut by one of the basing companies? Martin at Warbases will cut pretty much anything in MDF. Not sure how magnets will work through 2/3mm MDF though – magnetic attraction decreases inversely to the gap so you might struggle with that. |