Representing flying on the battle mat?

[Nyarlathotep]

I picked up a couple of the combat tiers awhile back and used them in my last AoW campaign session. Overall my impression is.... meh.

They are great for static fights where there is little motion. I ran into problems when things started moving around. It's difficult to move them around other characters on the battlemap. Overall I wouldn't buy them again. All that said, I do have to say they seem to be really well made and balance pretty well.

I'd look at some of the Dr. Wizard elevation things. I want to buy some for my group, but they've been the butt of many jokes just based on the pretencious name and I'm not sure I can handle the mocking from my players

YMMV

 

[rgard]

Thanks - also found a place I could order those clear styrene boxes that are 1x1x3 at 40 cents a pop. I can order 50 of them for $20, then glue a few together to represent 30 or 45 feet off the ground.

I'd like to pick up some of those. Is it an on line source?

Thanks,
Rich

 

[sjmiller]

I'd look at some of the Dr. Wizard elevation things. I want to buy some for my group, but they've been the butt of many jokes just based on the pretencious name and I'm not sure I can handle the mocking from my players

The funny thing is, they are actually patented. The name idea was taken from those old patent medicine shows. We just tend to call them Elevation Indicators.

 

[NewJeffCT]

I'd like to pick up some of those. Is it an on line source?

Thanks,
Rich

This is the site I saw on a google search on "clear styrene boxes" Thanks to D'Karr for giving me the search info.

Clear Styrene Plastic Cubes

They have 1x1x3 in cartons of 50 - or $20 per box.

They also have bigger sizes (like (2 1/8 x 2 1/8 x 4.1/16) or (4x4x4)) for your bigger monsters. The bigger boxes are a bit more: the 2 1/8 x 2 1/18 carton has 50 in the carton, but the cost is 71 cents per box, or $35.50.

But, I figure you could put 4 of the 1x1x3 together for size Large, but it would be unwieldy to do it for size Huge, as you would need 16 to do 4x4.

 

[Nebulous]

I have several different pieces of foam of varying heights. I use those to represent characters flying at different heights.

Hmm. i have a bunch of packing foam pieces i kept around because i thought i could use them for something. Never could figure out quite what though...

 

[C_M2008]

The flying bases(clear cyclinders) from mageknight 2.0 work great. I just put a die underneath to indicate the # of squares up.

 

[beldar1215]

We use the stackable magnets from Alea Tools. They use to have a problem with pushing away from each other, but this has been fixed. I used the Dark Blue for flying. One for every 10 feet off the ground.

Alea Tools - Home of Stackable Magnetic Markers

Beldar

 

[smug]

We use a healthy supply of Combat Tiers. They're the best.

Here's a set up from one of my games recently.

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-DM Jeff

They are awesome. I love mine.

 

[underthumb]

Litko Aerosystems has a neat solution.

You would need to purchase it along with tops to hold the minis.

 

[amysrevenge]

One thing I end up doing quite frequently is drawing side views of combats (to show PCs down pits, or enemies on the roof, or whatever). Gives you a good idea of lines of sight and the like. Works OK for fliers as well.