Re: GEOHEX Terrain

I only use GeoHex for terrain features.  My table is flocked and the
same 
color as GeoHex.  I also use a little tape (masking/packing) on the back

side to keep features together.

Michael Brown
mwsaber6@msn.com

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From: "Tom B" <kaladorn@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 12:36 AM
To: <gzg@firedrake.org>
Subject: Re: GEOHEX Terrain

> Nice job, J.L.
>
> I did find the 'island in the moat' pieces a bit hilarious.... clearly
> landscaped rather than natural terrain.... :0)
>
> Is it a camera/lighting trick or is the green of your hexes a bit
> different than your grassmat's green? It looks a bit more 'billiard
> table green' than 'grass green' to me.
>
> I think one of the reasons Geohex bevelled the edges a second time,
> other than any roughness from the cuts, is that very thin protrusions
> in foam will not handle transport well (damage easily). A small bevel
> can make the piece slightly more damage resistant.
>
> I have so much geohex (about 100 pcs) and never take it out because my
> table lacks edges and it has shown itself prone to 'galoot player
> damage'.
>
> Nowadays, I've become a fan of 'terrain pieces' - hills, etc. made out
> of styrene but deployed to the table as a single piece. No fiddly
> assembly, no corner locks, no player-bumps-hill followed by a fiddly
> realignment, etc. Part of this is I never had a table edge that was
> raised nor enough of the edge pieces to finish hexes into table-edges.
>
> I do like square terrain boards as a base for a game. A single 1x1 or
> 2x2 terrain board can be quite useful without being too fiddly to
> layout and keep squared up. But I like the 2" thick variety and made
> from either the blue or pink foam instead of the white stuff. It's
> more expensive but it is tougher in use.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their
> family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
> -- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)Solitudinem fecerunt, pacem appelunt
> -- Publius Cornelius Tacitus (from the book Agricola, attributed to a
> speech from Calgacus)
>
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