Solving the age-old paradox of wargaming hills

Minor thought: The realism of the snow would benefit from thinking about how and where snow accumulates and lingers in real life, in cracks and shadows, more than just in random splodges.

drumlin bit was amazing

I had no interest in wargaming hills UNTIL i found this video, now theyre becoming my faveourite topic

Magnets.

Just found this video and i don't know anything about wargaming, but, couldn't you make a board where you can pin your minis? Like you would do with a thumb tack, so you could make bigger hills and at least the smaller minis could be placed on them and not fall.

Fantastic vid. You continue to do great service to the community.

I like this guy, but I’m not entirely sure he understands the definition of a paradox 😂

Sweet, I have all this stuff. lol

Just a thought velvro grass. ?

Some guys called Val and Rob sent me. Great hills

if "war gaming" was more about war gaming, there would be no debate you'd just abstract elevation, with like pencil and paper, and not physically represent it lol

I would like to receive the measurements

Nice mounds, great work.👍

Knowing this problem personally I instantly laughed out loud at the title. Good vid - normal people don't know our struggles!

Drumlin Base ❤

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use 2D terrain

“Hills are generally found in hilly areas…”
Fucking brilliant mate

What’s up with the prefab phalanx 12-pack? Lol

I think you're just about there. The only thing I would do differently is use 3mm MDF. Allow it to extend about 10mm to 15mm past the hill. Angle the edge of the MDF to about 15 to 30 degrees to blend in to the tabletop.

I mean, I would argue that these are so small they aren't even drumlins, they're just lumps and outcroppings.
More seriously, the issue really comes from the scale of most miniature wargames, when you're considering a lot of 4x6ft battlefields are actually only one or two football fields in size (depending on exact scale of the standard game). It's only when you're dealing with 10mm or 6mm scale that "hills" become a practical feature that make a serious difference to tactics and make any physical sense on a tabletop.

Thing is, in a tabletop miniatures game the need to sacrifice realism for playability is already there. Terraces are fine.

Nice, but you ignored one major playability consideration: Hills should also block LOS, at least for an infantry model. Otherwise why even have them there?

I like baron of dive they have nice sets for Song of Fire and Ice. I was hoping for a coupon code :))

Your best video yet. I hate oldschool "hills" because of what you mention. 10/10

Another brilliant video. Thank you, sir.

You could add small bumps that work like shelfs to stop slipping at higher steepness

Iuno, just because the terrain exists shouldn't automatically mean it should be traversable.

Hear me out.

Magnets.

I am extremely disappointed that there was no trigonometry in this video.

What about using magnets?

The pollution factory:

I base all of my minis on washers or appropriately sized steel plates with 600 grit sand paper under it. Nice, heavy as heck and doesn't slip ever. Might slip on vertical surface.

For basing or creating terrain I use vinyl flooring stuff. That interlocking wood imitation plastic goodness is heavy, it often comes with non-slip acoustic material on base and boy is it great for roads, rivers, craters and basing hills. Getting a carton of the good stuff can be pricy so ask around for scraps from people renovating or ask fordamaged/leftover stuff at hardware store. One package can cover like 2m^2/20 square feet so there's that.

When you want to soften, shape or do things like that to XPS, use a heat gun. Last summer I countoured a prokhorovka map on 4" XPS in 30 minutes or so. Very fast but it does smell carsinogenic and does have a danger of setting the stuff on fire if the operator is a bit of a goof.

That flock job and colour selections were damn top notch. Now I need to make some hills too. I'm inspired!

I don’t do any wargaming so idk if this would work. But why not give them squishy bottoms or moldable clay bottoms or something. That way they can stand on hill that also
Look good

no....

Square based sent me here! Very informative video though!!

Why on earth haavent those drumlin clips been used in a d&b tune already, they fit SO well!

Man, I wish baron of dice had a Europe supplier for better shipping, those dice do look beautiful

So, we're not going to address the Bergschrund in the room then?

Brickworks!

“Behind me is a drumline”
“You mean drumlin?”
DANCE BREAK

i wonder how it work on the warhamer plastick kit hill

Another type of hill that rises above a flat plain is a tell- which it technically a rubble pile of a sacked and abandoned city that has been leveled for a new city to be built on top of it.

I love that this went from wargaming scenery to terrace farms and geology

Hi, i would like to know the Caulking Mixture measurments.

I struggle with a propper mixture, maybe because the caulking you use is different to the stuff we have in Germany.

I use ordinary Acrylic Caulking, but it always seems to crumble after drying.
I had my best results with dried fine coffee ground.

Thanks a lot for your videos and your work.

I teach geology and I'm going to use that drumlin clip in class. 10/10

Good job! Good video =) And a good example of why "True Los" is a bad thing