Take It to the Streets With FLG Mats: City 1 Tabletop Gaming Mat

Having recently reviewed Atomic Mass Games’ excellent Marvel: Crisis Protocol game, I was looking for a neoprene playmat to enhance my gaming experience. Even though preorders for official game mats have appeared online, Atomic Mass Games has yet to formally announce a release date for those mats. Being the impatient sort that I am, I decided to see if I could find a good substitute to tide me over.

Enter FLG Mats

Frontline Gaming is a San Diego-based gaming store that also manufactures high-quality gaming mats in multiple designs and sizes, ranging from a 24″x14″ mat for $15 all the way up to a massive 8’x4′ mat that will set you back $95. A 3’x3′ mat, which is the recommended size for Crisis Protocol, is $45. I was already familiar with the company from some of my wargamer friends, so I thought I’d see if they had any designs that worked well for Marvel: Crisis Protocol. Browsing their website, I liked the look of the City 1 mat and decided to take advantage of their Black Friday sale to order one. About two weeks later, my gaming mat arrived in a cardboard box. Loosely folded inside was my mat, sealed in plastic: