'This War without an Enemy' - Progress report.

 With the newly printed C&C mat now winging it's way from Spain thanks to FedEx and due for delivery on Wednesday I think it's time now to get a couple of small forces together in readiness for a first run through. What you see below is where I am so far and as said previously I'm very pleased how these little bases have turned out as I was never confident that it could be done I have to admit. I'm making labels for the underside of each base with a unit name and starting strength in blocks, type of unit etc. I need to print a nice set of command cards this week and order some plastic sleeves for them from Amazon. 

Terrain - I took the decision some time ago that any terrain must be suitable for the 60mm frontage single bases, so hexes will be ordered from Warbases and I'll be making hills by my usual MDF/5mm Foamboard sandwich method. I'll be using magnetic printing paper to create any roads and rivers to lay directly on the printed mat. Buildings are always an issue with hex terrain, especially where smaller hex grids are in use so I decided to downscale any buildings to 6mm in order to be able to fit them a round the unit bases, well out of scale I know with my 13.5mm figures but with a small 5mm base added at least a height of about 35mm can be achieved with a small footprint that I hope won't look too bad. It's a board game after all and such compromises are not uncommon. Buildings are on order from Steve at Battlescale wonderful English rural range of half timbered buildings. 

So here are the two small armies so far ready to do battle as I continue to add more. Hit markers will be 10mm MDF circles painted green with a small number painted on in white as per my usual method and simply placed on the unit base as required.