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Personal logo Flashman14 Supporting Member of TMP25 Mar 2015 5:43 a.m. PST

All roads should be exactly 4000 meters in length, no more, no less – otherwise you embrace anachronisms and rewrite history to suit your blinkered biases.

But seriously, I do like a longer road strip because the join lines are so unsightly. Those <1 foot ones are useful but I'd like to have one that can run the length of the table and a couple that can traverse the width without a seam to be seen. Storage is the issue of course. Hang them up maybe?

Pictors Studio25 Mar 2015 5:48 a.m. PST

Woohoo! I got all the right answers this time!

rhacelt25 Mar 2015 5:52 a.m. PST

How about all of the above?

Who asked this joker25 Mar 2015 6:37 a.m. PST

I'll rain on your parade now Pictor. It was easy to pick out all of the basic ACW terrain features. *Carefully conceals the fact that I didn't get them all* wink

Xintao25 Mar 2015 8:33 a.m. PST

4 out of 5. One thing that gaming ACW taught us more than any other period. You can't have enough terrain. It just seemed to us, the ACW battlefield was a blackhole of terrain. You can't put enough down.

Weasel25 Mar 2015 10:27 a.m. PST

A hill right?

THe earth isn't flat and they break up lines of sight quite nicely.

Personal logo Doctor X Supporting Member of TMP25 Mar 2015 10:37 a.m. PST

I would think a hill or some kind of change in elevation would be the first thing you'd add for almost any historical period on land.

Mithmee25 Mar 2015 12:32 p.m. PST

Five choices really you need nearly of of the things listed.

Personal logo DWilliams Supporting Member of TMP25 Mar 2015 4:06 p.m. PST

I'm assuming "decidous trees" was supposed to be "deciduous" trees? Otherwise, I would not have voted for them.

nazrat26 Mar 2015 8:24 a.m. PST

There should have been several more choices-- fences, more fences, and even MORE fences. 8)=

TunnelRat26 Mar 2015 9:49 a.m. PST

Brick Fence??? Shouldn't that be Brick Wall.

Pedant? Me? Never!

Personal logo Condor Supporting Member of TMP27 Mar 2015 11:35 a.m. PST

Five choices really you need nearly of of the things listed.

I totally agree.

Except for the peach orchard you will find everything else at the Battle of Gettysburg.

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