Pedion Terrain: Create your own Battlefield! A fully modular, lightweight Terrain system with realistic prepainted features for 15-28mm Wargames & Roleplaying Games.
Can you imagine a terrain system which could allow you recreate almost any kind of battlefield on your home’s tabletop? Not printed, but realistic, beautiful looking battlefields that could be mistaken for dioramas? That you could interchange features to suit any battle scenario? But when you are done, you could easily fit them into a cupboard locker? Or you could easily transfer it to your gaming club for the pleasure of your mates, since your 4’x4’ table would weight only 7 pounds and fit into a 1’x1’x1.5’ box? Because all these and more, you can do with Pedion.
Pedion is a Terrain System; a way for wargamers, role-players, even hobbyists to create every time any battlefield* they wish to play on, without sacrificing aesthetics or requiring much room for storage. The principle of Pedion is that the board will consist of a number of terrain “tiles”, that is, square pieces each depicting specific terrain features: open plains, roads, rivers, forests, hills, corps etc. The tiles are 30x30cm and only 1cm thick (1’x1’x0.4”) and they connect to each other without any restriction. They are pre-painted with realistic features while still practical for miniature movement and combat. By combining the tiles, the players can form multiple layouts, covering most table sizes, or even expanding them a bit, as the tiles can overhang from the table edges. The tiles are very lightweight, durable and take minimal space – making storing and transferring them extremely easy.
Pedion started as a homemade project, but I believe it has the potential to reach gamers worldwide – and that’s what the Kickstarter is for. This campaign is for mass producing and making Pedion Battlefield Sets commercially available. The modular system has already undergone extensive design and prototyping. However, the tiles are still mostly handmade, although much of the development process is standardized and the bases are machine-cut. By this Kickstarter campaign, I aim to: a) determine if there is actually a "market" for pre-painted modular, expandable terrain, and b) -main reason- acquire an initial sum in order to invest into mass-production solutions, namely molds and matrices.
There are six (6) base Reward Sets, each consist of a predetermined collection of Tiles. These sets may be expanded and upgraded through Add-ons and/or Stretch Goals. Keep in mind that the tiles in the photographs are handmade prototypes and the final products may vary slightly. These Rewards will be available at -25% of the future retail price, some even more if you are fast enough!
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