Slitherine

I have a lot of wheatfield terrain pieces that I've used in other mini games. I've looked at the FOG terrain section, don't recall any terrain piece described as wheatfield; 'open field' and 'enclosed field' yes, but wheatfield no. Still, I'd hate to see this terrain sit around unused.

How would you treat wheatfields in FOG? As Brush? Or Plantations maybe? Most wargames treat wheatfields as obscuring vision*, but not being much hindrance to movement. I'd like to know what other folks do, and if I could use these in tournaments.



* when in season.

You could use them for brush or for open fields IMO.

I can't think of many ancient era battles that were fought through long crops though.

hammy wrote:You could use them for brush or for open fields IMO.

I can't think of many ancient era battles that were fought through long crops though.

Mostly because the ancients generally did their campaigning after the harvest season?

An long crops fought over become not so long crops pretty quickly!!

Open Fields is the right use of the models in the game I would say

Si

I'm with Si on this - open fields is their best option.

mdoolitt wrote:I have a lot of wheatfield terrain pieces that I've used in other mini games. I've looked at the FOG terrain section, don't recall any terrain piece described as wheatfield; 'open field' and 'enclosed field' yes, but wheatfield no. Still, I'd hate to see this terrain sit around unused.

How would you treat wheatfields in FOG? As Brush? Or Plantations maybe? Most wargames treat wheatfields as obscuring vision*, but not being much hindrance to movement. I'd like to know what other folks do, and if I could use these in tournaments.



* when in season.

I'm guessing you're American? Most traditional European and Middle East crops are considerably "shorter" than American wheat.