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sf/modern/post-apoc battlemats?

S'mon

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One big advantage of fantasy RPGs is the positive externality effect of it being the biggest genre. One of these effects is tons of great miniatures and scaled battlemats that can be used across games. I can use my wonderful Pathfinder flipmats for Dungeons & Dragons, my D&D minis for Pathfinder, and both for any other similar-genre fantasy RPG. To a lesser extent, many of the fantasy flipmats are useable for games set in the 19th century and earlier, eg Western games.

When it comes to sf/modern/post-apoc, not so great. I have some minis, but not the terrain to put them on. Sometimes the natural terrain flipmats may be useable, but I don't have a collection of 'built terrain' battlemaps I can use.

Is anyone aware of a good source of science fiction/future and modern/near-future/post-apocalypse battlemaps scaled to 25mm-30mm scale? Starports, lounges, offices, subway stations, starship deck plans, that sort of thing? I can use the blank Paizo flipmats ok, but they don't have the inspirational effect a fully detailed 1" starship deck plan would have.
 

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If you don't mind printing them, there's Fat Dragon's Capital City.

Heroclix is also a possibility. I'm not an expert on them, but I got a doublesided map with the starter set (bought for RPG purposes), I'm not sure where other maps come from. Also they use a 1.5 inch grid if that matters to you.
 


Maps of Mastery has some SF poster maps and tiles. They just finished a Kickstarter for the 4th poster and a set of alien ship tiles. www.mapsofmastery.com/

WotC had a Galaxy Tiles set (I think that was the title), a la their dungeon tiles, but for Star Wars. I have no idea how easy they are to find nowadays, though.

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It would need to be hardcopy, I only have a b&w A4 printer.

You could buy some of the Star Wars Minis Map Packs.

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/The-Clone-Wars-Miniatures-Supplies/dp/B002MY9UGM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332796769&sr=8-1]Amazon.com: The Clone Wars: The Crystal Caves of Ilum: A Star Wars Miniatures Map Pack (Misc. Supplies): Toys & Games[/ame]

Each of these comes with a double sided map in it.

I was looking at thee the other day. Not unreasonable even if you only use the map.
 


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