would it be possible to get a specific-ish recommended terrain layout for an initial run at the holosim? Sort of a terrain equivalent to the intro crews?
Yeah, I think that's something that I could put some planning into. I'll probably want to collab with my editor on getting an actual clean graphic for the book, but here's a photo of my own board that I've been using for demos of the Holosim at game stores and conventions. It doesn't have to be exact, and I may switch things around, but I put the multilevel tower in the center so that the monstrosity may prowl around it, and put some heightened terrain around the extremities of a 2 x 2 board. The markers are normally where I put the tokens.