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Does any one have this set? i was wanting to know the size of the fields? is it worth buying for 22$?

Personally get some dark brown door matt, it's just as good, cheaper and more of it

I'm with Reaver83. You can buy carpet tiles with a very similar appearance for a pittance. I just bought a few and cut them to the appropriate shapes.

Tanks,I was thinking of doing that.The other i thought of was foamboard and dry wall putty but it is usually brittle and flaky.The other thing was warpage on the base board.

I bought a 9x12 piece of brown felt, and a package of 1/8"x12" dowels at the craft store.

Cut the felt in half, and use the dowels to build a fence around the fields.




Left over dowels can be used to build fortifications and gunpits

Well took your advice and found a door mat. Here is how i made it and a few finished piks with my Bocage that i have been making. soplease chek it out and tell me what you think of it. http://colkrazykennyswargamingblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/homemade-fieldsfor-flames-of-war.html if you wantthe tutorial.The wood planks are for a road experiment.

I have two sets of them. I've been gaming a long time and have made a lot of my own terrain and the BF fields are better than anything homemade I've seen anyone make.

I got both my sets for about %25 off BF's MSRP. Remember the fields also include fences too. The fields are made of a thick rubber like material that is extremely durable.

By the time you add up all the materials you'd be using to make home made fields, the cost will likely surprise you. Since I am going to be gaming for a long time, I felt it was worth investing a little bit more money to get something that was of higher quality than what I can make and also will last for probably a lifetime of gaming. I always found it odd how people will pay so much money for models and become total skin-flints when it comes to terrain.

I also use the fields as a large plowed garden type area for 25mm scale games like Warmachine.

Tooth picks are cheaper than Dowel rod and work perfectly at this scale, just an option for dirt cheap gunpits/entrenchments/dug in markers.

Not sure how to describe it exactly, but some cardboard is sort of corrugated, paint it brown, it looks like a plowed field.

Altough I will be the first to admit my houses need a lot of work, I think I created enough terrain to fill my table for the cost of a few entrenchments from BF.

It is well worth making your own stuff.

I spent <$4 on my fields and fences.

$1.29 for the felt, and $2.19 for the dowel rods.

Here is a better pik.