Peninsula War Terrain Boards are Finished; or Are They?

 

Vineyards for my 40mm Peninsula War terrain

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I have been very busy making terrain boards for my 40mm Richard Sharpe games at this year's Fall In Convention in Lancaster, Pennsylvania  Fall In link November 7th through 9th. I will be running three Napoleonic Peninsula War skirmish games featuring Richard Sharpe and his Chosen Men. My games will be on Friday morning, Friday evening and Saturday morning of the convention.

I finished construction of two vineyards the other day, using the "how to do it" instructions from Pat Smith's "Setting the Scene" books. Pat's instructions are easy to follow and even easier to build and I highly recommend the book.

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Another view of the vineyards, now populated with some 40mm Sash and Saber Spanish Guerillas.

The deep gorge of the Coa River in Spain

40mm French fusiliers passing under a mountainous bridge

View of the entire 15 by 6 feet of tabletop space

The village of Santiago, where all of the action takes place.
Battle Honours 40mm 3D printed buildings.

The hidden valley road that skirts the Coa River Bridge.
Beware, here be guerillas.

View of the table from the town of Mondega. Santiago is off in the middle distance
on the high ground.

The light company of the South Essex regiment (Perry Miniatures 40mm figures),
supported by a company of the 95th Rifles, approach the Coa River Bridge.

Why Have Just One Table When You Could Have Two?

The plan was always to have two parallel 15ft by 6ft tables for the game. I was only going to make terrain boards for the main table and use a Cigar Box Battle Mat system for the second table. But now that I have seen how the terrain boards look, I decided to take the plunge and build a smaller number of boards for the second table. Fitting all of this in a rental SUV to transport everything to Lancaster will likely place a constraint on how much terrain I can take to the convention. I have a reservation for a large SUV already, but I might have to switch to a rental cargo van, which has much more cargo capacity than the SUV. We shall see.

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