Unfortunately that leads to rivers entering and exiting boards in completely straight line, or making a hard 90 degree turn to exit one of the other board edges. Because terrain boards are usually designed to be reconfigured into different arrangements, features that cross from one board to another (such as roads and rivers) need to enter and exit each board at the same place so they can be swapped out interchangeably. I wanted to include some sort of water feature but I wanted to avoid the other telltale sign of wargame terrain, the river grid.
One of the advantages of terrain boards over terrain cloths is the ability to created sunken features like streams and rivers. Storage will be a bit trickier, but I think the reduction in total seams will be worth it. To reduce the total number of seams on the table I'm opting for large 2' x 4' terrain boards. Many terrain boards are built on 1' x 1' or 2' x 2' squares. Instead I'm opting for a simpler solution. I toyed with the idea of creating terrain boards with curving, scalloped edges that would fit together a bit like the interlocking halves of a yin-yang symbol but decided the trouble wasn't worth it. The seams between terrain boards jump out as unnatural, not only because they create a visual distinction between two otherwise unbroken area of ground, but because seams are so straight. There are very few straight edges or 90 degree corners in nature. I love the roads on these boards, but it's a shame there are so many seams Despite their skill at replicating the natural world with bits of foam and paint, there are a few artifacts that always creep in that spoil the illusion for me: seams and corners.
I looked at tons of terrain boards and tutorials built by masters of the hobby. I learned a ton these folks and highly recommend checking out their sites and videos: I've never built a terrain board, so I searched for examples and tutorials by those who have more experience creating wargame terrain. Terrain Boards Part 6: Grass and Vegetation.Terrain Boards Part 3: Cutting the River.
#How to make wargames terrain river full
Here's a full list of my terrain board posts. Update: I've made a lot of progress since this first post. I've begun working on some terrain boards as the basis for skirmishes set in northern Europe (Saga, Lion Rampant, WWII ETO, fantasy battles, etc.) Constructing that large wargame table is at least a year in the future, but I couldn't stand my plain green terrain mat anymore. I have plans to create a large 9 x 5 foot grassy terrain cloth, similar to my desert wasteland cloth, but that requires a 9 x 5 foot table which I don't have. The fields, walls, buildings and trees that cover our wargame tables have such a great impact on the look of the game, they may actually be more vital to creating the overall look of a wargame rather than the figures themselves. I've always loved the diorama aspect of wargames, but my focus always tends to drift towards painting up figures rather than making terrain.
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