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<blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 8377517" data-attributes="member: 13703"><p>I got by for years with a couple of Paizo flip mats. Lightweight, portable and cheap. If I needed an easy to transport battlemat, that would be my first choice.</p><p></p><p>When playing at home I now prefer tiled or jigsaw battle mats for my games. They’re bulkier than the flip mats and more expensive, but you don’t have any issues with the map not sitting flat or running off the map edge like you do with flip mats. You can just lay down another time.</p><p></p><p>In the tiled battlemat space, I used Tact-Tiles for several years, before replacing them with a similar product by Role 4 Initiative that had the added advantage of both large and small tiles. I also tried out the Gaming Paper tiles for a bit. They are a cheap option, but made of a pressed cardboard that I found started to delaminate with repeated use.</p><p></p><p>A couple of months ago I received my Kickstarter of Mimic’s Grid tiles from Cursed Crypt. They are everything I could want in a battlemat tile and more. The tiles are made out of a laminated metal with a soft neoprene base. </p><p></p><p>All the tiles are square and join by magnets, so are quick and easy to place on the table. Where they stand out from other tiled battlemats is that they’re magnetic and you can get both printed magnetic background sheets in themes (i.e. deep sea, grassland, lava) or of specific sites (i.e. a gladiator arena or an inn) as well as magnetic sheets of individual map elements (i.e. trees, wagons, treasure, crates, rocks, etc.) that are stackable. So you can have an inn with 3 floors and stack the floors on top of each other, or have the various levels of a ship stacked on top of each other.</p><p></p><p>The major downside of these tiles are their cost, but I feel like they’re worth it if you’re like me and have searched for years for the perfect mapping solution.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Olaf the Stout, post: 8377517, member: 13703"] I got by for years with a couple of Paizo flip mats. Lightweight, portable and cheap. If I needed an easy to transport battlemat, that would be my first choice. When playing at home I now prefer tiled or jigsaw battle mats for my games. They’re bulkier than the flip mats and more expensive, but you don’t have any issues with the map not sitting flat or running off the map edge like you do with flip mats. You can just lay down another time. In the tiled battlemat space, I used Tact-Tiles for several years, before replacing them with a similar product by Role 4 Initiative that had the added advantage of both large and small tiles. I also tried out the Gaming Paper tiles for a bit. They are a cheap option, but made of a pressed cardboard that I found started to delaminate with repeated use. A couple of months ago I received my Kickstarter of Mimic’s Grid tiles from Cursed Crypt. They are everything I could want in a battlemat tile and more. The tiles are made out of a laminated metal with a soft neoprene base. All the tiles are square and join by magnets, so are quick and easy to place on the table. Where they stand out from other tiled battlemats is that they’re magnetic and you can get both printed magnetic background sheets in themes (i.e. deep sea, grassland, lava) or of specific sites (i.e. a gladiator arena or an inn) as well as magnetic sheets of individual map elements (i.e. trees, wagons, treasure, crates, rocks, etc.) that are stackable. So you can have an inn with 3 floors and stack the floors on top of each other, or have the various levels of a ship stacked on top of each other. The major downside of these tiles are their cost, but I feel like they’re worth it if you’re like me and have searched for years for the perfect mapping solution. [/QUOTE]
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