Where are these boards from?
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He is LFT's main graphic artist.
He made LFT's physical boards, the cartoons in their publications, etc.
Blaze
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Too much so. To the point of too busy for my eyes. Sometimes games with really impressive board artwork, are not ideal for gaming on. I like the Official boards for the utility of playing on them. I think it's the shadow art that messes with me. Shrug
Treadhead
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Completely agree.
I do not see these as an improvement. The shadows are jarring.
ASL board art are masterworks of graphical presentation of information, in my opinion.
I like those too and I think that the more grayish look of urban terrain make them feel "more urban" in fact. Yet, I have printed some of them after some image treatments. Nice, graphically, but with an annoying problem: LOS. He did not do it using the precise terrain limits and, when it comes to buildings, the may be really different in size to those in the original boards, which, unless you use the original ones to make LOS checks, which we tried to do, may mess with scenario balance, IMHO.
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For comparisons of official artwork to this mod:
Map Legend Comparison
I would have to say that I fall in the camp of the utility from MMP wins in form and function over realistic artwork, it could be I have almost 40 years of looking at the official boards and am biased.
Map Legend Comparison
I would have to say that I fall in the camp of the utility from MMP wins in form and function over realistic artwork, it could be I have almost 40 years of looking at the official boards and am biased.
asloser
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Hmm. Some of it looks cool, especially the DTO stuff, but I absolutely hate the use of shadows. That makes determining tight LOS situation uneccessarily difficult. Recentely played using the LFT Deluxe maps and altough the artist is different there is a shadowing effect with those boards which causes uneccessary confusion...
PresterJohn
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I agree. I had to look at those LFT boards for a while to work out what I was reacting to. It was the shadows, very pretty and distracting to my eye.
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I find that the shadows are pale enough not to interfere in my estimation of LOS or Bypass possibilities.
YMMV
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ibncalb
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I've played a lot on his LFT boards and his variant VASL boards. I've never had an issue.
In fact I find it hard to go back to the regular PTO boards after the LFT variants.
I really like his boards. The shadows don't bother me and notice that they are much darker in the picture below than in the actual printed board. Yet, the thing that really bothers me is that they actually change terrain features functionally. Usually, Batisse boards have smaller buildings and contracted woods limits, which will change LOS and VBM possibilities as you can see below. Also, I could catch some errors while tweaking those boards for print, like the inexistent hedge in V1-W2. Apart from that, I think they are very nice and a really impressive work, since he has more than 600 boards available (some are variants of a same board, in fact).
