hey guys,
just wondering if you can help me with something, i need to come up with some ideas for my table that i am going to make.
if you got any ideas that you think will help me then can you tell me.

thanks
rollo

Well, what system do you want the table for? 40k, WHFB, FoW, WM, LotR...?

40k...

Okay... what armies do you play?

I like city tables, btu they get rather tedious to play on. I;m currently designing an ork city, a desert and i want to make a generic green board, green flowing fields are nice...ahhh, the serenity.

P.s. Is'nt your sig tootin' your own horn a bit? And 'daemon' is spelt wrong . Congratulations, by the way

[quote]And 'daemon' is spelt wrong[/quote]

And It's "Demon"

This reminds me of that part in the simpsons; "This verdict is written on a cocktail napkin... and it still says "guilty"! And "guilty" is spelt wrong!"

On topic:

I like 'battlefield' looking tables. Craters, broken concrete emplacements, partially caved in trenches etc. I'm working on a partly snowed over table in that theme atm.

[quote=Assaultguardsman]And It's "Demon"[/quote]

Depends on which year you actually entered

They've chopped and changed between Demon and Daemon a couple of times, you'll find the rules interspersed with both spellings

Terrain for 40K can come in many varied forms. Easiest stuff to start with is some jungles, craters & barrels.

Cheers,

GT

You can't really go wrong with a "generic" set of terrain - hills, forest bases, craters etc. It won't look out of place whatever armies are on the table, and you can easily add a couple of army-specific bits later on.

I made a table of terrain using the GW ruined buildings and jungle trees (the building corners are great, the trees are rubbish - a few years on, not a single stand of trees is intact). When it looked like ][con would have an all-slaanesh team playing, I added some Slaaneshi ruins and an altar. Much later on I added some Eldar pieces for games where I was using the Windhost.

The current "How to make wargames terrain" book by GW is quite good for basic ideas. If you want to make terrain for a specific army, let us know what you play

ideas

1. A space port with fenced perimeter and control towers, loading bays and storage rooms, trabnsit lounges etc.

2. A hi tech looking Industrial section of a city

3. The underground workings of a city. Pipes, accecss tunnels, sub way

4. The interior of a space ship all laid out on a games board. Great for boarding action. Take over the bridge, engineering and tactical before the ship self destructs.

5. Space station

6. Domed city, Weapon fire near the edge of the city or high explosive weapons any where in the city is highly inadvisable.

Have fun!

thanks for the ideas...

p.s i won the golden demon this year.

thanks
rollo

I think the most important thing is playability and variety. IMHO there is nothing worse than beautiful terrain that is almost impossible to play on. - Rubble and shrubs and things you can't balance a model on, or low/flat terrain that doesn't follow LOS/WYSIWYG and/or impractical. Having a few large pieces also means you will get bored with them quickly.

Try putting a single tree or two on something about beer coaster size, and then make a forest-like 'plate' flat thing you can put them on to represent area terrain, but also movable so you can place models inside.

For non-area terrain like buildings and things, either make it so the roof comes off, or make it infinite height blocking LOS (Like Ice cliffs/bluffs). Chuck in a few small bits you can move around (small bunkers, multi-part hedges) and you have a great terrain set.

You can easily make this themey - E.g. Thin black cardboard you can place down as roads, and wrecked vehicles/rubble on the beer coasters/CDs instead of trees. - A few building frames with empty areas inside and viola! You have a destroyed city terrain piece.

If you were after more general ideas for scenery - Tiberius has some good ideas there.

I've always wanted to do an underground cavern a rim of (and suitably painted) foam representing the walls of a lake of lava. - Get some red carboard you can lay on your normal table as the 'lava' and then make lots of 'islands' using other blocks of foam/stone. - Then connect all the islands (that have building ruins on them) with heaps of bridges. Basically this would form a large number of connecting islands with lots of fire-alleys and some restricted movement and things.

(Looks better in my head than it sounds written down)

Of course he's tooting his own horn he's like under 14 or something isnt he?

I've always liked the look of snow and water on tables. It's just always a nice break from the flat green wood we usually play on.

I'd suggest;

- Get a 6x4 board (or 2 3x4's, or 4 3x2's)
- Glue sand down onto it.
- Spray black
- Drybrush brown
- Drybrush lighter brown
- Get some snow effects, put that on in largish patches, but just enough to give the impression of a lot of snow.

Then make terrain on bits of board, and just place and play. This is no different to how Outpost does it, with the exception of the base board. Immovable terrain will get tired after a while, no matter how great it looks. The only exception is putting shallow puddles of water on the table; these won't disrupt the placement of terrain. It may end up looking a bit weird, if the terrain is placed halfway over snow/water, but whocares

Syn.

Oh, ideas for terrain are, as has been suggested:

- Trees on coaster sized bases
- Small buildings
- Larger buildings with removable tops and window slits
- Hills
- Emplacements (like in the Guard codex, GW made the templates available on the net, and they're pretty good to play with as well)
- Piles of rubble (piece of foam with sand and bits and pieces glued to it)

Go nuts.

And post pics when you're done.

And congrats

the army that i am doing now is black templars and yes i am 14

thanks
rollo

"How to Make Wargaming Terrain" book from GW should give you heaps of ideas & plenty of good information on building terrain. At least have a flip through it at your local store.

http://www.miniaturescenery.com/

These guys do really nice scenery at a good price. And they're even a WAU sponsor, so it's good to help them out.

Terrain sets that I want to make.

A set of Docks with a bunch of buildings designed to sit on a water edge bourd that could have large ships with open decks against them ready for loading.

An industrial terrain set including train tracks and a station as well as factories producing munitions etc.

Minning towns.

Something with lots of walkways and raised areas designed in a way that you would actually go up onto the second floor.

Try to think of the sorts of locations that you would fight over.

cheers,

Mark

What?! Deserts aren't worth fighting over..?

Maybe that's where I've been going wrong.