Terrain Creations
from Agents of Gaming
For years, miniatures fans have enjoyed the beautiful three-dimensional battleground terrain that can be created with Geo-Hex and its imitators. Expensive, yes, but beautiful. The trouble is . . . it's fragile. The foam is bulky, and it breaks and bends so easily that thin edges and precise corners get damaged, not just in play, but even in storage . . . let alone shipment.
We've all spent years deploring this . . . and nobody has done anything about it.
Until now.
Agents of Gaming has come up with one of those ideas that make you smack yourself on the forehead and say "Why didn't I think of that?" Their new Terrain Creations line is a set of hills made from vacuum-formed polyethylene or some similar plastic . . . tough but flexible, and no doubt cheap to produce in quantity. But it's coated with the same sort of green flock that makes Geo-Hex look so good. Perhaps best of all, because the hills are hollow, they nest, so they take up much less space in storage or shipment.
Now - so far, at least - the Terrain Creations line doesn't have anything to compare with the interlocking shapes that make Geo-Hex so flexible, nor is there any real variety of shapes . . . no cliffs, no convex edges, no road cuts. The slopes are really steeper than I like; I think the Geo-Hex looks more realistic, at least in the 1/300 scale I like to play in. And, like its competition, this new line is pricey, at $2.50 and up per plastic . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: September 18, 1998
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