Today we have something that’s about as plain and unglamourous as can be in terms of terrain – some “tiles” to designate rough terrain in battletech Alpha strike from Tinnut – available as freebies on both MyMiniFactory and Cults3D. So I certainly can’t complain as they’re completely fit for purpose! These did sit for months until I used the Season of Scenery as motivation to get them painted and done.

While they’re unglamorous for sure, wargamers do know and understand that this sort of marker is still very useful in a lot of scenarios, across a lot of games. These shapes, especially once given some texture paste and drybrushing (in this case, performed in large part by Marouda under my direction and following my example) are a lot more aesthetically pleasing than bits of felt, so with access to Flippy the 3D printer, I thought “why not?” This light box photo shows the actual colours better than the desert table shot.

Because “Battletech”, I didn’t think to take some shots of these with 28mm figures, but here are some Mechs and some Afrika Korps WWII tanks demonstrating their use in a couple of different scales, with the BIAB rocks acting as background. On reflection, these would work in a huge number of games and genres and scales. These nine extremely simple bits of terrain count as nine more pieces towards Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery ’25 – Extended Edition.