Vinyl battle mats from Mike Schley!

[Snig]

Hey guys. I recently purchased the battle map pack for the starter set from the map artist Mike Schley. I plan on taking these to a local shop and have them printed to a 1"x 1" grid scale (About 30" x 20" roughly total).

However I found a challenge during a test run on one of the maps where 1 square = 10ft, so each square is roughly half the size and instead of one character fitting inside of a square, you can fit 4. However the squares are way to small to fit 4 1" mini's in so i'm looking for an alternative.

Does anyone have any good suggestions of what I could use for tiny tokens? I'm thinking perler beads might be about the right size? That way a character can take their bead and move across 3 squares with 30ft movement.

I hope i've explained it good enough. remember that 4 tokens need to fit inside one 10ft square. Each square when printed will be roughly 1/2".

Another option is to print it without grids and just use a ruler for measuring distance?

Suggestions?

[DivisibleByZero]

Suggestions?

My suggestion is to return the maps, save your money, and play theater of the mind.

[Tetrasodium]

chessx makes blank mats (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=chessx+mat).

I like theater of the mind for some stuff, other stuff needs more precision. Plus I can afford them now so a couple cases of minis makes the child inside me squeal in glee sometimes :D

[greenstone]

For that map only, use small gaming tokens instead of figures. Something like the pawns found in simple board games.
https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=gaming+pawns&num=20&newwindow=1&rlz=1C1CHZL_enNZ689NZ689&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_kOLa1OPaAhXIgrwKHXmjDNEQsAQISw&biw=1368&bih=782&dpr=2

[Kane0]

You could also grab a couple of these (http://www.aleatools.com/), they can stack so you can have as many as you need in a given space.

[Snig]

You could also grab a couple of these (http://www.aleatools.com/), they can stack so you can have as many as you need in a given space.

The problem with these is that they are all 1". They won't fit inside the smaller grid...... Great idea though.

[Grod_The_Giant]

Could you just blow them up to double size?

[Kane0]

Lego is also another option. Just don't drop any on the floor :smallamused:

[Tetrasodium]

Lego is also another option. Just don't drop any on the floor :smallamused:

You are worried about legos with d4's around? :P