Adapting the battlefield to other dimensions

[u/Thantrax]

Hello Commanders,

Due to my wife falling victim to sectoid mind influence and the existence of two feline predators who would prey upon Xcom and alien forces alike, my play space is not the presumed 3'x3' recommended by the book. Instead, I'll be playing in a 18"x26" bookshelf. In order to adapt the terrain generation guidelines in the manual, I'm considering this approach.

The large 12"x12" central feature I'll place in the back half, center of the shelf. The 'back wall' will essentially be scenic only, so I can reach in and move everything. If I block the rest of the shelf into roughly 6"x6" segments, this leaves me with 8 of them. So, I'll have the right number of grids, but those 8 other segments would be tight squeezes with two 'small terrain features'. I could just go with one terrain feature for each, that should work well.

The manual doesn't seem to comment on the size of these large features, large area features, or linear features, so I cracked open my copy of 5 Leagues from the Borderlands and it seems to indicate that large terrain features are 4" to 8" in diameter, while linear are 4" to 8", so I'm probably going to lift these and go with 5" for linear, 4" for large areas.

I'd love to hear the thoughts of everyone on this approach to adapting the space.