It's the time of year when Lidl have their Artificial Grass Mat Wargames Mat in stock again. These are great value, £7.99 for a 1m x 2m fine textured playing surface. I picked up an extra one to which I'm going to add some roads.
The original mat has appeared in several of my games reports.
Lidl do have some really weird stuff. This was just next to the grass mats. I can't say that I've ever really had a problem with Pine Martens nibbling our electrical cables here in rural Norfolk...
The offspring ordered me to pull together another robots versus dinosaurs game, and this time it had to involve my 3D printed scenery as well.
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| Robots ready for action. |
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| Standing by to move out. |
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| Small "jungle" between the robot base and town. |
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| The town is well populated. |
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| Hungry and aggressive dinosaurs. |
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| The full battlefield - approximately 6' x 3' |
The dinosaurs started at one end of the table. Close by was a walled settlement populated by lots of pawns. In the middle of the table came a small band of jungle, and the other end had the robot base, surrounded by rocky outcrops.
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| Dinosaurs move to the attack. |
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| Pterosaurs swoop down! |
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| Larger dinosaurs break down the walls. |
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| Robots move to the rescue. |
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| Raaaaargh! |
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| Rooooaaaarrrrrr! |
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| Snaaaarrrrrlllll! |
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| Pterosaur gobbles a victim. |
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| A lone robot guards the flank. |
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| Long range fire kills two dinosaurs. |
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| Dinosaurs sweep round the flank. |
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| Dinosaurs pour into the compound. |
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| Robot conga line. |
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| Robots advancing down the board. |
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| Space Marines coming to help. |
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| Townspeople stand terrified! |
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| Spinosaurus looking for food... |
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| Pawns are falling thick & fast. |
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| Small dinosaurs gang up on some pawns. |
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| Dinosaurs attack the first robot to arrive! |
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| Gunfire wounds a Tyrannosaurus. |
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| A small dinosaur falls to autocannon fire. |
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| Some of the pawns are rescued by robots. |
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| Pterosaurs and small dinosaurs damage a robot. |
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| One robot has fallen! Another is badly damaged. |
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| Dinosaurs stream through the ruined settlement. |
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| Main body of robots prepares to engage. |
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| Although heavily damaged, robot shoots down two Pterosaurs. |
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| One of the Tyrannosaurs succumbs to its wounds. |
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| Small dinosaurs fall to the robots. Explosive cylinders dumped nearby. |
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| Robot firing line is established. |
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| Robot flank is failing... |
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| Big dinosaurs bring down another robot. |
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| Spinosaurus damages another robot. |
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| Small dinosaurs overcome another robot. |
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| Robots detonate the explosive cylinders. Kaboom! |
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| Dinosaurs stream through the gap in the robots 'flank. |
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| Large dinosaurs tear into the robots rear. |
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| Small dinosaurs stream past the burning robots. |
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| Another pawn in danger! |
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| More explosive cylinders needed! |
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| Robots and dinosaurs fight it out. |
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| Reinforcements approach, carrying explosives. |
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| Tyrannosaurus badly hurt but robot suffering serious damage too. |
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| Spinosaurus intercepts the reinforcements. |
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| Small dinosaurs have broken through the robot flank. |
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| Small dinosaurs heading for the robots' base. |
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| Robots try to disengage, but it's difficult... |
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| More small dinosaurs flood through the breach in the line. |
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| Pterosaurs reach the industrial platform. |
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| Robot prepares to defend the entrance. |
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| Pawns in the base - will they be safe? |
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| Pterosaurs swoop in and devour a couple of pawns. |
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| Small dinosaurs continue to harass the robots. |
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| Robot just manages to fend off the big dinosaurs. |
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| A tide of dinosaurs about to crash over the robot defenders. |
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| Dinosaurs smash through, breaching the defences. |
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| Robot wreckage chokes the entrance. |
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| Defending robot is almost destroyed. |
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| Boooooom! Explosives detonated, wiping out many small dinosaurs. |
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| Endgame. Last stand for the robots. |
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| An eerie silence falls over the town. |
