You may pre-order the Pedion "FOREST VALLEY" 4'x4' Battlefield Set.

Find more info on the project and the Reward at our Kickstarter page; Due to amount of pre-orders please estimate a 4-month delivery time.

You will get 16 Pedion tiles:

• 6 Plain Ground,
• 2 Broken Ground,
• 1 Forest + 7 magnetic trees (outline #1, see below)
• 5 Road (3 Straight, 2 Turns)
• 2(+1) Hill (Hill tiles #2 and #3, see below)

plus

• 1 free magnetic tree (Kickstarter goal), more if you add forest tiles as add-ons
• 1 free Stone Walls Set (Kickstarter goal), more if you add more tiles as add-ons

The Set is available in all unlocked Themes: Green Spring, Desert, Winter, Red Planet, Grey Wastes. In the desert theme the "forest" gets palm trees and can be upgraded to Oasis with small pond. Or the forest tile can be upgraded to Badlands with theme specific Rock formations.

A gaming board for most miniature wargames (eg Kings of War, Warhammer, Warhammer 40K). Less flats, more hills and a forest with trees for your battles than the CORE version.

Includes £5 towards shipping.

Plain tiles:

The so-called plain tile will be the most common type of them all, lacking any complex terrain features. Its purpose is to represent open ground, which usually imposes no penalties or modifiers to unit movement. It can also act as a base for any extra terrain pieces (like buildings) the players already have and want to include in their game. This Type will be covered in flocked Grass (temperate, Spring) and will be found in all Pedion Battlefield Sets. New designs were made available through Stretch Goals.

Broken ground Tiles

These Pedion tiles can be used in a variety of ways. You can use them just to provide aesthetic variation between plain tiles (to avoid the "golf course" effect). But they can offer much more: they can be declared as broken/difficult ground in the battlefield, imposing any special modifiers and penalties your game system associates with this type of ground. Players can decide to declare as difficult ground the whole of the 30x30cm (1'x1') tile, or just inside the parts painted with a more earthen appearance. With the exception of some low rock features, Broken Ground tiles are again mostly flat to allow unit movement and any additional terrain object placement. They will be flocked/painted to correspond and blend with the rest of the battlefield type. For instance, the prototype Broken terrain tiles are painted to combine with the Plain Grass tiles. Learn more on Broken Ground and Grass Tiles in the development blog article.

Hill Tiles

There are three (3) discreet Hill tile designs: A full tile hill with an extra level piece (#1), a 4/5 tile hill with an extra hill piece (#2), and a 3/4 tile hill without extra levels (#3).

1. The three main hills are designed so that they can be fitted side-by-side, creating longer hill pieces, or they can be placed alone in different places across the battlefield.
2. The hilltops include metal hardpoints. These can be used for the second-level pieces to snap onto, or for other magnetic terrain pieces from Pedion tiles, such as trees, walls etc.
3. The hills include both steep and gentle sides. Thus the players can declare sides which are unapproachable, pose a penalty to climb or have no effect on movement.

As with all other Pedion tiles, the hills are actually part of the tile, rising seamlessly from the surrounding ground. However, keeping up with my modularity requirements, the hills consist of two pieces: the main hill tile, where the first elevation level rises, and a second, smaller "hill", which represents a second elevation level, that can be placed over the first one. So the players can either place a 2-level hill or two 1-level hills on their battlefield. The second level snaps magnetically over the main hill, staying in place. Each hill elevation rise is about 3cm (1.18"). More details and photos of hills on their development blog page.

Road Tiles

1. There are four (4) basic Road tile designs: two kinds of Straight road, a 90 degree road turn and a "T" shaped intersection.
2. The Road width is approx. 7 cm on the tiles (that's about 2.75"). This size corresponds to realistic road sizes for the whole 15mm to 28mm scale range Pedion is intended for. Therefore, the road can correspond to a 4m (13') wide road in 28mm scale (1/56), up to a 7m 2-lane (23') in 15mm scale (1/100). For smaller scales there will be tiles with less wide roads.
3. The prototype tiles represented cobblestone covered road parts. Τhere will also be the option for dirt or asphalt roads. More "sci-fi" road styles will be available with stretch goals.

The Road tiles can be combined in an almost infinite number of ways over your gaming table. The final result is both practical and realistic, since the roads do not "protrude" from the surrounding surface, but look natural in the terrain. However, their modularity capabilities do not stop there; real roads have trees or other features on their sidelines, or are usually followed by lines of fences. So, the roadsides are magnetically enabled, in order for the players to place any magnet-based terrain feature they want next to them! Instead of predesignating walls, trees etc, you can place and remove features as you wish (or your gaming scenario dictates!). All the "dirt" area on the tiles is actually capable of holding terrain features. More info on Road tiles and a Video here.

Forest Tiles

The concept of "Forest" tiles is really simple: dedicate an area on a tile (covering most of its surface) as forest/difficult terrain. This area is not only painted differently but will also be magnetically enabled, to add trees and other forest features on top. The main characteristics of the Forest tiles are:

• The players may place the 2 outline kinds of Forest tiles anywhere in a Pedion battlefield, or adjacent to each other, creating a larger forest; the "forest" borders are drawn in such a way so as to connect on one side!
• The "forest"area on each tile is defined by color and textures, and can be declared by the players to act as Forest, Difficult Terrain, or Cover Terrain, depending on their wargaming rules.
• The "forest" area DOES NOT PROTRUDE from the neighboring terrain, but seems to be a complete part of it. Therefore, miniatures and Unit bases do not have to "climb" when entering the forest, as is the case with most forest pieces on the market.
• The defined area is also magnetically enabled, either by metal "hard-points" or painted with magnetic primer. Thus, the player can place on top any kind of terrain feature (such as trees, bushes, logs, rocks etc) using magnetic bases.
• The tiles are designed this way in order to allow for a) aesthetic placement, b) different sizes of trees in case of smaller scales, and mainly c) enable the players to remove only the trees that are in the way of their units movement or placement, without either ruining the whole forest nor trying to fit the miniatures in the spaces among the trees.
• The magnetic connections are strong enough to protect the trees from scattering when the tile is moved accidentally. The metal hard-points allow for declaring the Forest tiles as other kinds of terrain, depending on your rules. For instance, by placing rock formations or bushes with magnetic bases, you can declare the tile as Cover terrain.

The theme specific Trees available are: Regular for Green Spring, Snow-covered/bare for Winter, Palm trees for Desert. The theme specific Rock Formations available are: Mesas for Desert, Red Planet and Grey Wastes, Regular for Green Spring, Snow-covered for Winter.

The borders of the forested area on the tiles are not randomly drawn but are digitized from real forests' borders near rural areas, as shown on satellite images. More on Forest Tiles and some videos here.