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(serious novice alert)

I want to make thin hexagonal pieces of the exact same shape for the purposes of making a custom-made board game (Catan).

I figured the easiest possible way to do this would be to get a 4x4 piece of lumber (or whatever), angle the blade on a table saw, and cut the correct angles lengthwise until I get a long hexagonal piece of wood that resembles a table leg. Then I would just "slice" this long piece into many pieces at whatever thickness I wanted. Is that the easiest possible way to do this? I'll end up using multiple types of woods for different colored hexagons, if that makes a difference.

(Also, the colors I'm trying to get out of the wood varieties are green (light and dark), yellow, gray, brown and red - any idea what woods would contrast these colors the best?)

Hexagons

Could someone please explain to me how to solve for the surface area and volume of those two geometric polyhedrawhatevers up there? Also, I need help figuring out the area of a hexagon. I was finding the perimeter, and multiplying that by the apothem, but one of my friends said that he just found the radius and did...something?

The other day I watched the latest TableTop and they were playing a game where you had to place tiles and join lines up. It reminded me of a game I Stumbled Upon a while ago.

You had to place tiles (I think they were hexagonal) to fill up a grid (I think the grid formed a big hexagon) and the lines had to join up.

I've spent the last hour trying various terms on Google but with no luck. I don't suppose anyone out there knows what I'm trying to find?