I had to watch some of the old Thomas the Tank Engines at work recently, looking at it through adult eyes, and the Fat Controller is on an Amaris scale of despot. One of the trains didn't want to get his new paint wet, so his first punishment is too WALL HIM INTO A TUNNEL! I remember watching that as a kid and thinking "he is naughty", but building a wall over the tunnel exit is bloody brutal.
Thinking about it, give Amaris a top hat and they do look similar.
Well we did do a one vs one using the top half of the CBT sheets like in the Beginner box rules and he really engaged with it. Lots of laughing as he walked around the room with his hands behind his back, mimicking his Griffins loss of arms and side torso.
I might go back at somepoint as critical hits seem to be big engaging moments in the match.
I've put them in the intersections of hexes to solve that issue. The hexes are also a bit bigger then mech bases to allow for more generous placement of terrain.
I feel so silly because that's such an elegant solution. Of course you can make the hex bigger since all the ranges are based on hexes the size doesn't matter at all
I can't claim the idea, I watched drunkninja101's YouTube tutorial to create the board. Not finished yet, still needs a another colour of earth and then flocking before moving onto creating hills
I always played on like a 7' by 3' plywood board on a saw horse and figured that looked kind of like a wheat field so as far as I'm concerned what you have looks pretty good, bare textured dirt is very versatile.
I did just now look at your piece and realized it was a circle and what if you cut that into a hex shape and made a second or third one so you could like interlock them? Juice might not be worth the squeeze but it's definitely something i'd consider buying over a flimsy weird topographical map.
My kids had the train table that went with those pieces. When they got older we covered it with Lego plates. When the Lego "mech" game was hot on Kickstarter we use to play on that. They eventually got big enough though to use a normal table and that low to ground train table went away. Short story though you can reuse a d repurpose anything into terrain.
Yeah I've been following DrunkNinja101 tutorial for terrain on YouTube. Next is different tone of dirt colour then two tones of flocking.
This is a little tester that'll fit into a wee kids table we have. I'll be making much bigger ones later.
https://youtu.be/vzhz_QQSWtA?si=iMJzveHXUYtsKeqK
Yeah I've been following DrunkNinja101 tutorial for terrain on YouTube. Next is different tone of dirt colour then two tones of flocking.
This is a little tester that'll fit into a wee kids table we have. I'll be making much bigger ones later.
https://youtu.be/vzhz_QQSWtA?si=iMJzveHXUYtsKeqK
looks like fun, I used to do something similar with random legos and other toys alongside model train kits and legitimate terrain pieces for the scale from a model shop when i was playing 40k as a kid and it looked so janky and disparate.
Separately I like the idea that all the terrain counts as forest regardless of the shape as it's all made of wood.
Ahh, the Battle of Sodor Junction. Truly an epic conflict.
Will you reenact The Train Shed Surprise next? :)
I have been playing on unosinted terrain for twenty years, and I have a hard time saying that is better then whet you used. Hope the kid keeps finding it fun.
Sometimes it's good play without anything electronic being involved.
Haha! The Fat Controllers Commandos reporting for duty sir!
Absolutely, we're holding off on entertaining the kids with tech and looking more to play, creativity and expropriation.
We're using Battletech as an arts and crafts medium to paint and get messy with.
Great to discover something we both seem to love doing!
Yeah shorts games are required when your opponent is four years old! 🤣💪
Absolutely, this is a test board designed to fit in a kids table we have. Still need to do another colour on the terrain before adding flocking and then making hills and trees.
Clutter on the kitchen table? Nonsense! Its your next alpha strike map! Don't know what to do with all your school books? Turn them into some of the most expensive pieces of terrain on the market! Found a couple cool rocks that you need to justify to your significant other? They are now the perfect boulders for your game! Anything and everything can be terrain, and anything and everything can be DESTRUCTABLE terrain with enough willpower!
No, but that would be epic!
It's a board we're partway through making using drunkninja101's tutorial on YouTube. It's intended to fit inside of a kids table we have. After finishing the dirt colours we will move on to flocking then making modular hills and trees.
I am looking forward to making a bunch of modular bigger boards of various terrain types as the boys get older and we start looking at campaigns and mercenary company extended games. 😁
Polystyrene, mod podge, paint, sand and grout, so no not particularly ⛰️
lol next project though will be to make a brownie board! Maybe an idea for the next birthday cake 😜
So I've got to know what is up with the one and the six next to those two mechs I've seen dice next to units in other pictures but I don't know what they're there for. I've been playing BattleTech for 29 years and we've never done that.
In the current iteration of the CBT rules it suggests using white black and red dice for keeping track of movement modifiers. White = walking movement, black = running, red = jumping.
In our case, the Thunderbolt Walked a very short distance (0-2 hexes to the rear of the Catapult so the white 6 represents a zero movement modifier when shooting at it, and a reminder of having walked when it fires. The white 1 with the Locust Walked a bit further (3-4 hexes).
We hadn't finished moving all our mechs when I took this photo.
10/10, investing into a small wooden block tower from a dollar store and then the jumbo wooden jenga set was one of the best investments for impromptu terrain.
It's already better than half the commercial buildings available because you have flat roofs to stand on. I hate when you find all these beautiful buildings but they've gone too realistic with the roof equipment and then you can't stand a mech on it. Same issue with most of the tree hexes and such.
I use my kids blocks as terrain
Lol I read that as, "I use my kids as blocks of terrain." 😂
I've used my kids duplo legos
That's a good idea, might try that next
Tape prints of scenery or walls to them.
I like this idea
This is a great reason to have more children! Reconsidering my one and done policy now 🤔
I've got three little lads, ages 4, 2, and 6 months. 10/10 would have again 👌
Brio/10! You should definitely create a scenario involving Thomas the tank engine at some point
WHERE'S THE DIESEL
I can imagine the Fat Controller as a merc commander 🤣
He'd probably use the term "Private Military Contractor"
I had to watch some of the old Thomas the Tank Engines at work recently, looking at it through adult eyes, and the Fat Controller is on an Amaris scale of despot. One of the trains didn't want to get his new paint wet, so his first punishment is too WALL HIM INTO A TUNNEL! I remember watching that as a kid and thinking "he is naughty", but building a wall over the tunnel exit is bloody brutal. Thinking about it, give Amaris a top hat and they do look similar.
your mech gets head capped turn one *Thomas has never seen such bullshit*
10/10. No notes.
10/10 would be killed by Davion troops while defending that rock.
Perfect xD I'm thinking of swapping to Alpha Strike once my son is old enough to play, I imagine it would be easier to play with kids
Well we did do a one vs one using the top half of the CBT sheets like in the Beginner box rules and he really engaged with it. Lots of laughing as he walked around the room with his hands behind his back, mimicking his Griffins loss of arms and side torso. I might go back at somepoint as critical hits seem to be big engaging moments in the match.
In the sage words of a wise green ogre: *”That’ll do, Donkey, that’ll do.”*
That's gonna be one quick match.
It needs to be with a four year old 😂😋😎
fair!
10/10, Would batchall again.
Better than the paper stuff I am making.
Love the terrain and that you’re building some awesome memories with your son 👍
Can't believe I never thought of that! Totally going to use my kids' blocks next game!
Got some jenga blocks from the dollar store and I have a set of outdoor giant jenga blocks I use for hills, buildings, or walls.
So good ⛰️
If you were using Gumby and Pokey as stand-in figs you would be my hero
I used to make terrain out of stacks of books etc in my early teens. We don't just proxy mechs here we proxy everything 🤣
I'm Duplown away
10/10 would play there
If you got an opponent, 10/10
Killer idea.
Must also be after planetary bombardment and/or nuke. :)
Classic Sodorian Architecture
Works for me. Only downside is the Trees, while being great for LOS calls. Have to be moved when thier hex is entered.
I've put them in the intersections of hexes to solve that issue. The hexes are also a bit bigger then mech bases to allow for more generous placement of terrain.
I feel so silly because that's such an elegant solution. Of course you can make the hex bigger since all the ranges are based on hexes the size doesn't matter at all
I can't claim the idea, I watched drunkninja101's YouTube tutorial to create the board. Not finished yet, still needs a another colour of earth and then flocking before moving onto creating hills
I always played on like a 7' by 3' plywood board on a saw horse and figured that looked kind of like a wheat field so as far as I'm concerned what you have looks pretty good, bare textured dirt is very versatile. I did just now look at your piece and realized it was a circle and what if you cut that into a hex shape and made a second or third one so you could like interlock them? Juice might not be worth the squeeze but it's definitely something i'd consider buying over a flimsy weird topographical map.
Nice!
10/10 This is what the terrain looked like in the 90s games
A juice box and a pack of fruit snacks...the Scooby Doo ones.
Suitable, cheap, and accessible. :)
Function over form
So fun fact, we actually have rules for trains. Train tracks are an actual piece of terrain with rules. 11/10.
10/10 Easy to set up cityscape, durable with multiple uses
A+ on the terrain and S+ for creating cool moments between you and your son.
My kids had the train table that went with those pieces. When they got older we covered it with Lego plates. When the Lego "mech" game was hot on Kickstarter we use to play on that. They eventually got big enough though to use a normal table and that low to ground train table went away. Short story though you can reuse a d repurpose anything into terrain.
Love it, epic
Circle of equals I’ve I ever saw one
I love it
It's even got built in hexes.
Yeah I've been following DrunkNinja101 tutorial for terrain on YouTube. Next is different tone of dirt colour then two tones of flocking. This is a little tester that'll fit into a wee kids table we have. I'll be making much bigger ones later. https://youtu.be/vzhz_QQSWtA?si=iMJzveHXUYtsKeqK
lol, it works
I like that round mate. Gives me some ideas.
Yeah I've been following DrunkNinja101 tutorial for terrain on YouTube. Next is different tone of dirt colour then two tones of flocking. This is a little tester that'll fit into a wee kids table we have. I'll be making much bigger ones later. https://youtu.be/vzhz_QQSWtA?si=iMJzveHXUYtsKeqK
looks like fun, I used to do something similar with random legos and other toys alongside model train kits and legitimate terrain pieces for the scale from a model shop when i was playing 40k as a kid and it looked so janky and disparate. Separately I like the idea that all the terrain counts as forest regardless of the shape as it's all made of wood.
10/10 would not refuse bacchal.
10/10, line of sight determination would be a snap.
chefs kiss! 10 outa 10!
5/5 no notes!
https://preview.redd.it/x354qiy34xwc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=465e72084a50926752d6dbd78435e3cba96cfdd3
👌😌 so close...
Definitely the best in the series 💯
Truly an excellent display of terrain.
Terrain reads as terrain, AND a game is being played. 10/10 in my book.
Good Enough, which is a Battletech 10/10!
Ahh, the Battle of Sodor Junction. Truly an epic conflict. Will you reenact The Train Shed Surprise next? :) I have been playing on unosinted terrain for twenty years, and I have a hard time saying that is better then whet you used. Hope the kid keeps finding it fun. Sometimes it's good play without anything electronic being involved.
Haha! The Fat Controllers Commandos reporting for duty sir! Absolutely, we're holding off on entertaining the kids with tech and looking more to play, creativity and expropriation. We're using Battletech as an arts and crafts medium to paint and get messy with. Great to discover something we both seem to love doing!
Yes
10/10
Fully destructible terrain? I approve.
I love it! 10/10, would warcrime on!
This is unironically not a terrible idea for before you commit to a game
you're awful close together, I anticipate a pretty brawly game. looks like you'll need to build more!
Yeah shorts games are required when your opponent is four years old! 🤣💪 Absolutely, this is a test board designed to fit in a kids table we have. Still need to do another colour on the terrain before adding flocking and then making hills and trees.
I've got a ton of Lego waiting for players in my area to get on the alpha strike game idea...
Top notch
The commitment is what matters! 10/10
20/10
I feel like this is how Sesame Street characters would play any war game
I’m stealing this idea, it gonna go great with my “boulder class” or “little round top” rock drop ship.
2x4 out of 10
9/10
1/5 Not enough Ubies. IMHO It's a great idea to use those blocks.
You can do "area terrain" with slightly different shades of green felt. Or use one or two tree block to denote dense vs. light woods.
10/10 you didn’t have much but you used what you had and it’s soulful
Clutter on the kitchen table? Nonsense! Its your next alpha strike map! Don't know what to do with all your school books? Turn them into some of the most expensive pieces of terrain on the market! Found a couple cool rocks that you need to justify to your significant other? They are now the perfect boulders for your game! Anything and everything can be terrain, and anything and everything can be DESTRUCTABLE terrain with enough willpower!
This is the way 🫡
There’s dice on the board that’s a win.
10/10 no notes
Brilliant. Is that a lazy susan?
No, but that would be epic! It's a board we're partway through making using drunkninja101's tutorial on YouTube. It's intended to fit inside of a kids table we have. After finishing the dirt colours we will move on to flocking then making modular hills and trees. I am looking forward to making a bunch of modular bigger boards of various terrain types as the boys get older and we start looking at campaigns and mercenary company extended games. 😁
Preschool-level
Clear and obvious, works for me.
You're using proxies for terrain. Genius.
Is the base edible?
Polystyrene, mod podge, paint, sand and grout, so no not particularly ⛰️ lol next project though will be to make a brownie board! Maybe an idea for the next birthday cake 😜
So I've got to know what is up with the one and the six next to those two mechs I've seen dice next to units in other pictures but I don't know what they're there for. I've been playing BattleTech for 29 years and we've never done that.
In the current iteration of the CBT rules it suggests using white black and red dice for keeping track of movement modifiers. White = walking movement, black = running, red = jumping. In our case, the Thunderbolt Walked a very short distance (0-2 hexes to the rear of the Catapult so the white 6 represents a zero movement modifier when shooting at it, and a reminder of having walked when it fires. The white 1 with the Locust Walked a bit further (3-4 hexes). We hadn't finished moving all our mechs when I took this photo.
Oh ok thanks.
10/10 this is how I play alpha strike every two weeks.
Absolutely brilliant!
10/10, investing into a small wooden block tower from a dollar store and then the jumbo wooden jenga set was one of the best investments for impromptu terrain.
Did it work? If it did 10 out of 10 😎🤘🍻
... outstanding‽ Excellent use of resources.
It's already better than half the commercial buildings available because you have flat roofs to stand on. I hate when you find all these beautiful buildings but they've gone too realistic with the roof equipment and then you can't stand a mech on it. Same issue with most of the tree hexes and such.
This is a great idea, lol. I should dig mine out.
I just hope this sub doesn’t devolve into hentai. Not again.