Previously, we introduced the cards in board game accessories. Now, let’s talk about a major feature of board games: tabletop games component game board.
When I first got into the game, I amazed by the exquisite games component game board. Because the layout of board games is usually 40% or 40% off. After opening, it is very large and can occupy the entire table. It can be said to be very spectacular. And there are numerous drawings and elements on the map. Both functionality and aesthetics are strong. It carries a lot of content for a board game. Below, we will explore these accessories and the board games behind them through different board game layouts.
A Board Game Based on a World Map
There are quite a few board games with world maps as their maps. There are many realistic world map maps for comparing military chess. Here we have to introduce the board game “Cold War Hot Fight”, which has been dominating the BGG charts for a long time. It has deeply penetrated people’s hearts. The board game ‘Cold War Battle’ is a map set against the backdrop of a world map. The background of the story is also the struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States for world hegemony. It can be said that the strategy is full of immersion. As for the layout, it is a straight male aesthetic, very “military chess”, relatively simple and realistic.
Tabletop Games Component Game Board in Plague Crisis: Legacy
Another board game based on a world map is the famous’ Plague Crisis: Legacy ‘. As a board game that pushed ‘Cold War Battle’ out of the pedestal. The classic of ‘Plague Crisis: Inheritance’ is beyond doubt. The entire map covers various continents and also indicates many cities. Compared to the straight male graphic designer of the board game ‘Cold War Hot Fight’. The graphic design of ‘Plague Crisis: Inheritance’ is quite eye-catching. Colorful but not flashy, with a sense of coldness. Perhaps due to the disaster background, it can be said that the entire series of ‘Plague Crisis’ follows this tone.
Later, the game launched derivative works such as Plague Crisis: The Cthulhu Dynasty, Plague Crisis: Rome, and Plague Crisis: The Surge of Waves. The layout is still similar. Just more in line with the background of the new version – the same wine, drunk different people.
Game Board in Mythical Stories
In board games, there are also many layouts adapted from mythological stories. In Norse mythology, with the end of creation, the World Tree divides the entire world into three layers and nine parts. The upper level consists of Asgard inhabited by the Asa gods, Warnheim inhabited by the Warner gods, and Alfheim inhabited by the elves. Surrounded by a green field, on the other side of a river that never freezes. There are towering and majestic castles everywhere in the Kingdom of the Gods, and Odin’s “Gladsheim” is located here. Its hall is the famous Yingling Hall. In the map of ‘Bloody Fury’, the Hall of Spirits is an additional small map. Sacrificial units will go there, and in Norse mythology, sacrifice is an honor. The middle level is dominated by the Midgard courtyard surrounded by the sea, but the giant race of the enemies of the gods also lives on this level. At the bottom is a world full of death. The bottom layer is the “Land of the Dead” or “Land of Mist” – Niflheim (Nibelungen). This is a cold and foggy place, a place of eternal night. Only the deceased can arrive.
3D Tabletop Games Component Game Board
3D game board are not common in board games. Due to high production costs, some are bulky and difficult to carry. But there really is a three-dimensional map in front of you. You will still be really fragrant – because it’s just beautiful, it’s eye-catching! For example, the recently localized “Fireball Island” and the previously popular “Santorini”. The author was attracted to the art and graphics of the board game ‘Santorini’. At that time, the KS version was also hyped up to sky high prices. The expansion pack ‘Golden Fleece’ will also come with an ocean floor. In the board game ‘Santorini’, the seabed corresponds to the Aegean Sea. The bottom panel is painted very well, with waves coming one after another. The mountains on the sea correspond to the island of Santorini, and the blue roofed white houses are the epitome of Santorini. You may not be familiar with the name Santorini, but it appears in tourist photos or promotional photos. I must have seen these small houses with blue roofs and white walls. In board games, this house is also three-dimensional. In other words, in Santorini, except for the cards that are not three-dimensional, everything else is three-dimensional.
Puzzle Game Board
In fact, there are many patterns in the layout of board games, and the spliced layout has multiple hexagons. For example, “The Magic Knight” and “The Lord of the Rings: Middle earth”; There are also irregularities. ‘Mad King’s Castle’; There are also stickers that need to added to the map. For example, ‘Lost City in Yougang’.
The realistic layout style has well demonstrated in both “Colonizing Mars” and “Space Fortress: Karadega”. Simulated the drawings of the Martian surface and the spaceship in the drama.
Tabletop game board in colonizing Mars
Summary
The size of various layouts in board games varies, and usually by looking at the board game box, you can tell how big a table needs to be prepared. Many board games do not have maps. But there are board games with maps. What people usually see at a glance is the desktop games component game board.
