Well the actual game board is going to be grass lands- it is hex based the terrain tiles range in size from a full "flower of Hexes" to a single hex sized piece I'll post some of the test pieces here that I did several years ago.

What I need to find out is how to make the terrain from scratch.

here are some samples

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