Comments on: The Madness Unleashed II

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:30:25 +0000

Heh I know what you mean about storage. I currently have 4 large boxes of hexes taking up far too much of the house.

By: DarkWingDuck

DarkWingDuck — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:46:15 +0000

I made a bunch of these awhile back (I can cover a 4′x6′ area to a 2″ depth). I used extruded styrene (aka blue board) instead of wood.

The gaps between hexes on my were a little too large, but it looks like you’ve got that problem mostly solved.

I took some pictures of a game I ran with them awhile back, I’ve managed to lose the originals, but you can still see some of them in the “scenario” write up.

http://home.comcast.net/~chroniclesfromthepit/showdown_scenario.pdf

One thing to keep in mind, storage is “difficult” with these things. You may want to be on the lookout for suitable boxes.

By: Stu

Stu — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:35:55 +0000

Heh, one of their reference sites is a New Zealand company too! Definitely one to add to the list for when those Lotto winnings come rolling in.

By: Stu

Stu — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:34:09 +0000

Heh I see Google has started throwing up adds for CNC mills because of your post.

$6000us was the price for one from CNCMasters.com which seems pretty cheap to me! Now if I can just convince my wife we can spare $10,000nz…

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 04:08:05 +0000

Hmmm now there’s a thought.

I think I’ll go and see what is out there though the map I have sketched out has roads, hills and rivers complete with one bridge and one ford. I figure it should be interesting enough for both FoW and GW games though the roads will be FoW scale (I figure they can be dirt tracks in GW scale).

I need to sneak a stone henge in there too somewhere :-D

By: Stu

Stu — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 01:33:27 +0000

That hex table is already looking interesting. I see you’ve got roads down and have started planning hills. One thought: have you actually searched for any historical relief maps of WWII battlefields? They might provide some interesting inspiration.

Those hexes fit together a lot better than my hacked up MDF squares too…