Art De La Guerre

[KevinD]

The rules on p 70 say, “Fields, plantations and villages must be rectangular in shape. Other terrain elements are irregular in shape with rounded corners.”

Are rounded corners permitted for fields, plantations and villages? If so how much rounding is allowed until it’s no longer “rectangular”?

[madaxeman]

[Hazelbark]

As an umpire, I would say mildly rounded particularly if it was a high quality handmade or commercial design would be ok. A snipped piece of felt no. And yes that is snobbish.

If the "rounded" corner was of sufficient vacant space to create say 1/2 UD square of open space I would reject it as that likely starts to have consequences.

If I was a player and the other player objected to my lovely terrain piece with mildly rounded edges I would slide a piece of paper under it to conform technically.

So in general I would argue in favor or pretty terrain and good sportsmanship where possible..

[KevinD]

[Ramses II]

RAW the answer is “NO”. Fields, plantations and villages are rectangular and as such have sharp corners. 
I would go so far as to suggest that other terrain should not have “corners” as such, since a corner implies a sharp angle. 

Note, the term rectangle implies 90’ corners, which helps players to create terrain that will contain exact numbers of units - very useful in game terms. 

That said, as the others have suggested, common sense and a degree of flexibility can be applied here, it is a game after all . . .