Luckily I did have some of my glass chits around and a vinyl battle mat. The mat reminded me that the best part of solo gaming is imagination and indulging our creativity, at least for me at the moment. So I went ahead and created a frontier settlement in which the natives are a little upset about the interlopers setting up shop on their traditional hunting grounds.
The settlers (blue chits) are suffering from a case of "divine mandate" and launched an assault into the goblins (green chits) mountainous homeland.
As you can see, the goblins have wisely set up shop in an elevated and defendable position. (what you can't see is that their is a fort marked underneath one of them, strengthening the position further). The human settlers are attempting a pincer movement, hoping to come together for some sweet flanking action.
I don't know if humans can pull it off due to to the fact that the upper grouping's troops have some poor quality ratings and no Leader to help them out since he's heading south with the other group. But I do know that the goblins won't just sit their on the hilltop while the humans run around their mountain. Hmm... Maybe the humans could draw then out if they set fire to one of the goblin homesteads..be right back, I need to look up the rules for burning buildings.
Is that one of the chessex mats? I've been looking for something similar
ReplyDeleteIt is. I love it, but it does hold ink if you don't wipe it at the end of a play session. I've found that you can get rid of ink left for extended periods of time by vigorously scrubbing with Clorox wipes.
ReplyDeleteI use it when I want to play a scenario for which I don't own a map or want to set up actual terrain and miniatures for. The other side is a square grid which I also use regularly for the group games I GM for. All told it was a great purchase. I'm considering picking up one of the bigger mondo mats (the next size up from mine, and the biggest they make) and putting under plexi to leave set up on the new table.