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Green and pleasant: a review of Tablescapes Rolling Fields tiles

The Rolling Fields set of tiles from Tablscapes provides for a traditional wargames table. The terrain is relatively even and good for moving models around on, especially individual models grouped into units or regiments. There is within this a fair amount of variation with the tiles.

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A few tiles feature a dry river or steam bed. With patience and water effects you would make this a flowing body of water.

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The tiles still manage to keep a level of detail that allows you to paint in some variety should you wish to.

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The Rolling Fields are probably the most versatile of the Tablescapes sets. With the right paint job these can represent verdant fields, a dried and cracked desert, an ash waste, a radioactive hell-hole, or anything else that comes to mind.

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Here, some enemies face off across a stream.

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Or perhaps there is a common foe to battle instead?

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Another test of importance for me is how well Rolling Fields tiles go with Forgotten City tiles. Quite well, as it turns out.

The miniatures above are: Rohan warriors from Games Workshop; some classic metal miniatures from Games Workshop; Celtic warriors from Warlord Games, and a fire elemental from Bones.

Rolling Fields are available now from Secret Weapon as a set of 24 tiles. This review looked at the 16-tile set which was part of the Kickstarter.

4 comments on “Green and pleasant: a review of Tablescapes Rolling Fields tiles

  1. Ruins of Arotha
    January 25, 2015

    Very nice, kinda wish I’d have found that before I ordered from Hotz Mats :/ Have you seen anything from Deep Cut Studios??

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    • davekay
      January 25, 2015

      I hadn’t heard of deep cut until you linked to them! For miniatures, I like my terrain to be three-dimensional, but I see those mats as a good base for terrain like streetscapes or the Terraclips range.

      I love the space mats for Star Wars X-Wing and view a 3×3 mat as a must for that game.

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  3. Michael
    April 20, 2015

    While the tiles themselves are very nice, I am very disappointed in the fact they have no storage/transport boxes. I have spent alot of time painting mine and find that during transport they inevitably suffer damage. Personally I would recommend Games Workshop’s simply because they come with a bag.

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