Not that I am worried at all about anyone stealing (actually I prefer to say 'borrowing') my ideas...Hell I encourage it...I like sharing. I mean, I borrow plenty from others. Afterall if Picasso said "good artists copy, great artists steal," then surely theft is the highest form of flattery!!!
There are three reasons I decided not to make trenches. First, since my tiles can only accommodate a below surface depth of 20mm, a proper 28mm trench system would require some sort of construction above the tile surface and that creates all kinds of storage problems. Second, with tiles that at 300mm (12 inches) square I couldn't find a way to make a trench system that could accomodate my existing figure stands that would actually look like a trench system. Third, even though I have armies for periods that made extensive use of trenches (Crimean War, ACW, Great Paraguayan War, Russo-Japanese War and WWI), how many times would I really use them? Plus I already have a trench system that I made way back in February 2013 (link) - maybe I'll just tidy these up.
Instead I have made some rather boring plain tiles, because you can never have too many plain tiles, right? Four represent dips in the ground as I made last time, but unlike the others sets that are square to the tile edges, these run more or less diagonally. Four are just plain tiles.
Only one tile is a mildly interesting, a river section that widens to almost double my standard river size. It's not that I really needed any more river sections - I have sixteen of them already...enough to run my table length more than one and a half times - but this piece is made specifically to accomodate the recently presented Renedra pontoon bridge - you can see below:
This takes the total number of terrain tiles to 111, allowing me to cover table almost twice and more than enough for my needs.
