My pile grew today. I’m almost out of room on my shelves, in the ikea book storage area, out of space period. I need to stop buying and get painting, and then I’ll need foam storage … it never ever ends …

yep … there was a rationale. At least I think so 😉

I’ve got two weeks of holiday starting on saturday, so in theory I should get a lot done if I mimimize distractions and simply get going on day one.

And as you said. Even if I can get a basic stacking done then I will have achieved some measure of order in the chaos.
I’m probaby trying to get…[Read more]

@limburger I’m presuming there was some rationale when you bought everything.  Or was it all squirrel chasing then too 😀  If you have armies or games that you were buying for then that could provide your structure.  Even if you just divided stuff into a couple of basic categories, say board games and miniatures games then you’ve got started an…[Read more]

there’s no reason for anything to be on a grid pattern as far as terrain is concerned IMHO.
It’s not Halo / Deadzone …

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I think the real issue is that the various combinations of these range tools create some hard to replicate/visualise distances.

As much as I hate to use inches at least that it is something I can measure reliably.

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I think the idea is to make the cards as basic and graphic as possible, to make it easy to see which objectives are active. It can make setup a pain though, I definitely understand the problem you’re trying to solve. I feel bad for all the battlemat makers who tried to put out mats with the objective positions printed on them, only to have AMG…[Read more]

The maps are distorted ? WTF
Time to get out the actual measuring sticks. I was *this* close to thinking I had it fixed.
Back to the drawing board it is I guess.

Maybe a 1″ square reference grid isn’t such a bad idea.
Still need to find a way to integrate the range tool distances into this thing.

I was hoping to have a simple basic grid that I…[Read more]

@zoidpinhead if I do that I get distracted about 5 minutes into that …

Heck, if I hadn’t simply shoved everything into boxes without thinking I would still be packing stuff in order to move to my new house.

As such I really need some kind of fool proof plan that has zero opportunity for me to question the categories I put things into or else…[Read more]

Here’s the First Contact layout overlaid on your grid. It looks like you would just need to add a few more guidelines to accommodate it.

It’s range 3 plus range 2 from the top. It’s important to note that range 3 plus range 2 does not equal range 5.

Weird, I know, but that’s proprietary measuring tools for you…

It’s also worth noting that the diagrams on the cards are often distorted a bit, so for example even though it looks like the top left objective is the same distance…[Read more]

My goal is to find a way that is faster than the range tools, but maybe that’s because I haven’t quite got the hang of reading the layouts yet.

The ‘first contact’ layout is one that I don’t quite understand.

I thought the maps were supposed to be square, but either the measurements are off or the distances are indeed identical.

upper left…[Read more]