RE: [Epic] terrain questions (geo hex?)

From: Steve Wik <bosco_at_...>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 17:32:33 -0700

Ooh! Good thought! I couldn't tell what you could make from the crude
sketches they provide of the starter kit contents, and the example
photos they show of real terrains made with their stuff don't specify
what was required to build them and I didn't think about the slopes...
Any suggestions on other sources?

Steve (the other)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Maynard-Maloney [SMTP:dormammu_at_...]
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 1998 4:45 PM
> To: space-marine_at_...
> Subject: Re: [Epic] terrain questions (geo hex?)
>
> > Since I'm too lazy to build anymore scenery (I made 10 or 15 forest
> > strips= a strip of balsa 1 1/2 inch wide and various lengths,
> flocked
> > with dense clusters of lichen- a crater-handcrafted in pottery clay,
> and
> > two plaster rock/small hills) and now I'm thinking about
> commercially
> > available stuff to finish off my terrain needs. I've seen ads from
> some
> > people who hand-craft custom terrain, but it's way too expensive. I
> was
> > checking out Geo-hex, and they're stuff seemed pretty cool, I'm
> > wondering if anyone out there has used it, and how well it works for
> > Epic (since it seems to have been designed for WH40K scale).
> >
> Geo-Hex is great with one proviso: it is damned expensive. You will
> have a difficult time building much of anything with a $100+ starter
> set.
> The problem is that nothing is stand alone. You need 3-6 pieces to
> make a
> single hill. I live in Portland (the home of Geo-Hex) and a local
> gaming
> club frequented by the owner of Geo-Hex has shelves full of his
> terrain.
> Even there, I find myself needing more of a certain piece to build the
> terrain I want. Also, the hills look much more realistic than the
> usual
> gaming hills (slopes like stair steps), but have you ever tried to
> stand a
> titan on a 35 degree incline?
>
> Max
>
> "Run, humans! Run for your sweaty lives! Run till you hearts burst
> and
> your lungs collapse! You cannot run away from ME! Everything that
> is,
> IS MINE!" --the dread Dormammu, Doctor Strange #9
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