--- In Te_Wapen@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Ashton" <tonsha@...> wrote:
>
> Wow - I've just uploaded about thirty photos. I took more... but I
> think thirty tells the story well enough! (Phew!).
>
> I'll do a full battle report tomorrow. Just quickly - The gaming board
> was my regular green cloth. I'm getting a new one, so I decided the
> 'hexify' the old one (This is why I haven't played Te Wapen for two
> years). I made a card template then spent two hours marking the hexes
> on the cloth - the morning of the game! (From 6am until 8am - am I mad
> or what?). I'll try to upload the template to the files section at
> some point, so people can make their own boards if they want to. The
> Kallistra terrain is lovely, but at 40 quid a box is well out of my
> price range (I play with paper figures for goodness sake!)

Dave,

I like your setup. The 2D paper figures look really nice. One of my
plans to set up a game with old-style flat German tinfigures at some
point ;-)

Yeah, the Kallistra terrain is expensive. An alternative might be:
http://www.hotzmats.com/
They sell felt mats with superimposed hexgrids. Green, fields, desert,
... I also discovered this only about a week ago.

I'll answer your rules questions later. I'll just say that indeed some
things are not streamlined very well at this point. I also keep
tinkering with the system every time I play a game, but that's the fun
of home-written rules :-)

Phil