The Joy of Hex ?

The last couple of years has seen the development of remote gaming for many of us. I don’t think it will ever replace face to face but it doesn’t feel like a short term blip, it has opened the opportunity for a wider circle of gaming in a wide range of genres. Regular followers will have followed our AWI campaigns and others. One of the challenges of remote gaming is the approach to measuring and gauging distances etc. One of the answers of course is to consider hex based games. Having played a couple with Jonathan over in the states and enjoyed them immensely, I thought I would develop a hex based terrain system. This will allow similar remote games in the dungeon across a wide range.

After a LOT of pondering I am finally in a position to give it a run out this weekend.

I had an used base cloth, see below, so the plan was to build terrain up on hexes here are a few of the Hills to show the basic process.

A view of the terrain I have so far set up, as you can see I can varry the size of the table from the size of a C&C board up to 6x4 foot table and I can use the black edging to delineate the edge of the battlefield as required.

A closer view of the hills, as needed I can build more terrain, but I have enough to get me started.

A couple of shots with figures, I plan to use the set up at a range of different scales above multi based 28mm late Romans 

My SYW collection, flexibility as always is the aim so I can use much of the same terrain as in normal battles

Here is our first battle set up the Battle of Bairen, El Cid taking on the Almoravids, thinking ahead I think almost all of my collections could be adapted to play on this style of terrain, I quite like the idea of some WW2 at some stage as 15mm would quite effective on a ‘grand’ scale ?

I know this won’t be to everybody’s liking but don’t worry hexes won’t take over the dungeon just yet 😀