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Another new kickstarter for the new year. Looks like it's mostly fantasy/historical based at the moment, but they've mentioned plans for Sci-fi designs as well. Visually, it kind of reminds me of the old battlemasters terrain cloth.

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From the creators of War of Kings comes BattleHex, a hexagon-based, modular terrain system that is ready right out of the box to turn your whole table into an elegant battlefield worthy of your miniatures no matter what game you play on it. It is beautiful, versatile, easy to set up, and easy to take down. Just one box adds great artistic effects to a whole table making it extremely practical. There’s nothing to assemble, paint, or flock, and the terrain itself doesn’t get in the way of your miniatures during the game. In short, BattleHex is fantastic terrain without the hassle!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1376478938/battlehex-a-modular-hexagon-terrain-system/description

Although I appreciate the idea and their effort, that gets a "meh". I was hoping for something like the old foam hex stuff you used to see in the past. This is basically a tabletop mat as far as I can tell, so you are paying for a new table and messing around with hexes basically to be able to move your stream around your table set up. The pictures make it look pretty good though. I kind of like the card trees though.

This one now says it's the subject of an IP dispute....

"The GameMap: A Terrain System is the subject of an intellectual property dispute and is currently unavailable.
This project’s funding and the countdown to its deadline have been stopped. If the project becomes available again, the countdown will continue and the deadline will extend past the original deadline for as much time as the project was unavailable."

WholeHazelNuts wrote:
This one now says it's the subject of an IP dispute....

Interesting... Although there are some similarities to other systems out there, not quite sure how it would be considered an IP dispute. That would be like saying someone couldn't make playmats or boards because they were too similar to another persons. I would definitely be interested to hearing what that is about and what happens with it.

It is back up again now although with a new name - "The GameMap: A Terrain System". So looks like someone objected to BattleHex and a google search does show another company using that name for a similar product back in 2001.

Update from the guys:

Hi everyone! I'm sure many of you are wondering about the intellectual property dispute that temporarily closed down the campaign page for a few hours last night and this morning, and so we wanted to fill you in on what happened.
After launching the campaign, we were approached by another company who asserted that they had trademark rights to the battle hex name. Since we had little invested in the name, we let them know that we would rebrand after the campaign. However, due to an unfortunate miscommunication, a dispute notice was filled with Kickstarter. We’re not sure what Kickstarter's protocol is for validating the claim, but they suspended our campaign until the issue was resolved, and fortunately it came to a speedy resolution. Kickstarter just made the campaign page public again. Thank you to them!
So, in the meantime, we have tried our best to purge the name from the campaign, because the name is not what this campaign is about. We want to create an awesome terrain system for you guys to play on. On short notice, we supplanted the offending name with "The GameMap" as a quick fix. There is not much to do at this point other than roll with the punches and have fun with it. It was an extremely unfortunate situation, and we bear the other company no ill will. We'd like to reach out to all of our backers to help us come up with a new name, and maybe we can polish the page up a bit. Currently our favorite is TERRAForm Tabletop Terrain System. What do you think?
Now more then ever, we are hyped up to make this campaign a smashing success. This was a small setback, but we are committed to working hard for you guys. Supporting us with your pledge is a huge deal, and we are more appreciative than you could know. Now, we would like to ask you to rally around us and think of one other person that might be interested in this campaign; please share it with them now. Your voice can help make "GameMap" a better terrain system!
Very sincerely, Heath & Seth Robinson

This looks perfect for a personal game project I've been working on - and just the right timing too!

EDIT: Nvm, misread something. Hoping this gets fully funded.