Confused by terrain sizes?

The DBA rules about terrain sizes are a little convoluted, so I thought a diagram might be useful. It is a plot of feature width (in base widths) against feature length (also in base widths).

All dimensions are in base widths (BW) unless stated otherwise.

The coloured regions

The key coloured regions are:

• Red: all but one (at most) terrain features must be in this region.
• Orange: only one feature can be in this region
• Yellow: this regions shows the permissible sizes of gullies.

The lines

The lines represent the limits, based on the conditions in the rules:

• L + W = 9: each must fit in a rectangle of which the length plus the width is less than or equal to 9 BW.
• L = 3: only one feature can have a length less than 3 BW.
• L = 1, W = 1: every feature must have both length and width of at leas t 1 BW.
• L = 3 W: a gully's length must be at least three times its width.
• L = 2 W: the length of non-gullies must not exceed twice their width
• L = W: length is greater than or equal to width

The dots

These represent the integer valued solutions. So, for example, a typical terrain feature (non-gully) will be in the red region. The red dots indicate the possible sizes that are integral numbers of BW wide and long. In this case, these are: 6 x 3, 5 x 4, 5 x 3, 4 x 4, 4 x 3, 4 x 2, 3 x 3, and 3 x 2.

Some extreme values

• Gullies
• Longest you can have is 8 x 1.
• Widest is 6.75 x 2.25 (it is also the largest area gully).
• Smallest is 3 x 1.
• Non-gullies
• The longest is 6 x 3.
• The shortest is 1 x 1.
• The largest area is 4.5 x 4.5.
• The smallest area is 1 x 1 (for one piece of terrain only) and 3 x 1.5 (for the other pieces).