Dust, heat, and sparse scrub. The FeltPro™ Contested Sands mat puts you in the sun-baked theatres where some of history's most decisive battles were fought.

Sandy tan earth broken by patches of dry scrub vegetation and darker soil shadow — Contested Sands captures the look of the North African desert, the Mediterranean littoral, the Middle Eastern campaign theatre, and the ancient battlegrounds of Greece, Persia, and Rome with equal conviction. It's the universal arid battlefield mat, and it works across four thousand years of warfare without looking out of place for a second.

Now Give It a Third Dimension

Slide foam, books, or a magazine under this mat and you've got real hills — slopes your minis actually stand on. That's the FeltPro™ trick no rubber mat can pull off.

Cut & Play terrain is what makes the ground worth fighting over. Dirt roads, cobblestone, crop fields, garden beds — modular felt pieces you cut out once and arrange however the scenario demands. Lay them flat, run them up and over your hills, rearrange them next game. They drape, they hold, they don't slide.

Flat ground pretending to be a hill is over.

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Ideal for: Bolt Action North Africa, Chain of Command Western Desert, SAGA Age of Crusades, ancient Greek, Persian, Roman, and Carthaginian games, Arab-Israeli conflicts, moderns, and any fantasy or sci-fi setting built on arid or desert terrain.

The system in the field:

• Rolls up tight — no boards, no rigid tiles, no bulk
• Lightweight enough to carry to the club in a bag
• Sets up and packs down in under two minutes
• Drapes over sculpted terrain to create wadis, ridges, and dunes
• Cut & Play Roads and Rivers blend seamlessly into the base mat

Available in sizes:

• 50"×60" — standard 4×4 table coverage
• 60"×80" — full 6×4 tournament table

FeltPro™ Cut & Play terrain pieces sold separately.

Care instructions
- Machine wash separately: cold (max 30C or 90F), gentle cycle
- Do not bleach
- Tumble dry: low heat
- Do not iron
- Do not dryclean