One of the aims this year was to play a three dimensional game of Battlesuit from Steve Jackson Games (part of the Ogre line). Now being a sad sort of gamer, I know there are two versions – the boxed copy and the magazine version with the original boxed copy having larger counters than the magazine and with a few extras (e.g. drones as shown to the left) but basically the same rules.
Now the other advantage of the magazine copy is that the map is smaller (and no I am not going to put all the dots on) and therefore simpler to photocopy and cut apart for templates for the hills and tree / bush areas.
So off I went into the dark reaches of the cupboard top – moving boxes and bit to find my issue of the January 1983 Space Gamer (number 59 at only $3.00). I must admit I hoard but did not think it was that old or should that be me being that old?
Anyway, in the centre of the magazine where all the counters and the map sp a quick copy and a pair of scissors I was left with a series of rough templates for the hills.
This is where life gets very strange for converting board games to figures. The vertical scale is totally different to the horizontal, 37.5m to 1/2inch (so building are only 1cm in size and counters sit on the shape) but hills are to be 2m apart! In the end I decided that I did not care and would just represent the map as is using 6mm thick polystyrol via eBay and Terrascenic and make the base from cork tiles cut to the magazine page size.
If you have never used polystyrol a couple of hints:
- Make sure you have a sharp knife.
- Get used to it pulling – it seams to have lumps of thicker material in it that is the same colour!
- It stinks when using a hot wire – do it outside and hold your breath under a mask
So after an hour or so I ended up with a series of cut templates and a pile of rough cut levels ready to be smoothed and shaped:
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