Cityscape Terrain Thread

Let's have a thread for city terrain. Mordheim, Frostgrave, Necromunda, any other city wargames.

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this is a WIP of one of the dropzone commander guys terrain

Keep it simple.
You hve to fookin store it and for such skrimish its fuckhugelot of terrain pieces.

Showing off such stuff and emphasis on having so-great-stuff scares people from skrimish games in the first place and keeps them to WH40k with two terrain pieces.

Your first table should be ful of pic rel so you actualy play the game before getting old.

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Where would you buy terrain like this?

looks like stuff GW produced and put either inside the boxes (gorkamorka, mordheim etc) or sold for very much monies.

I think it's (poorly maintained) cardboard terrain from Mordheim starter box. You can't really buy the original now except for couple overpriced ebay auctions but there's plenty 3rd party alternatives of comparable quality

This one sadly not anymore.

Umbum models has some interesting stuff, check for them in your country.

But all in all, print some walls, place them on card, reinforce with glued wooden sticks, and fill a table 4x4 for your first games in two evenings.

Hey, quality tables are great, I just started a wild west one. But your behaviour is what makes featurles plain meeting engagements dominant face of wargaming. Skrimish wargames claim to carter to people who do not have the place/money to accomodate bigger games. And thanks to (You), it's completely the other way.

Your posts are to wargaming what porn is to sexual life of elderly couples. ,,Inspiration" that turns out nothing but reason for frustration and turns people from the best parts, like actually sticking it in.

there's probably scans of the pieces somewhere, it's just the plastic corners and doorframes (which would act as bracers for the structure) that you'd really need

having said that i still wouldn't risk anything irreplaceable standing on any of that, it's rickety as shit

also that square tower in the back looks like it's vintage first WHFB box set shit

It's best if you add few little lead weights in the low parts, indeed.

what do people think about MDF terrain? cheaper than plastics, easy to put together, even unpainted looks sorta like whitish stone with shadows

Except that looks like shit.

Thats look like perfect mordheim stuff. Easy to make new map everytime.

Stuff like this is awesome but dosent really have any advantages over some easily movable buildings.

That's why you want a cross between the 2. Movable buildings that look like the op. Constructed decorated and painted well

>Looks great
>Helps to make interesting gaming situations
>Will be yours before spending months and cars worth of $$$

Choose two.

Also OP-like buildings are pain in ass for storage and fragile as fuck, while costing fortune and requiring serious skill.

Next, OP is a display piece- looks great, still it's unfit for gaming on a table of this magnitude. It seems fragile and unacessible as many places are unfit for reach.


Shit, nobody remembers how we were playing games, not using rules as excuses for railroad modelling?

immersion > convenience

Have you played Mordheim or enyother skirmish game? It gets really fuking boring fast when you use the same map all the time.

Im not saying that buildings should look bad but full made city where you cant move buildings or make new "map" is bad for gameplay.

There is balance between the two.

it can still be made modular, it's just tricky

Not enough images going on

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Can I buy any of that somewhere?

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>it's just tricky
what are template bases?
the hardest part is building them and that gets infinitely easier with experience.

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They've cut down on their range since that image (was their demo table) but I think the detail bits are still available.

> Not knowing how to make modular terrain...

How can you be that clueless? Using simple and widely available stuff like pink or blue insulation foam, foam-core board, some bits of sheet metal, and some magnets it isn't hard to make nice looking terrain that's easy to game on and easy to store / transport.

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If you want it to look semi-fancy, then you can add in some of GW's city fight terrain or other hobby model building materials without going broke.

Once the basics are done, coat the foam with a couple of good layers of Gesso and you're ready to put down your primer / base colors.

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Doing the Gesso allows one to use inexpensive spray primer and not dissolve / destroy the Styrofoam.

With a bit of planning and a few more magnets, one can create elevated walkways, and other 'optional' configurations for the building.

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After that, even a simple paint job will look good enough for basic table top play.

thanks for tutorial, kind user
looks really cool and seems simple enough that even such a talentless user like myself could do it

A mostly finished example - Outside

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Inside shot.

You're welcome - it isn't difficult. It just takes a bit of planning and a little creativity.

posting my own half-finished shitshow

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I'd be looking for some smoke and serious covering fire before trying to cross some of those open spaces. City fighting is a bitch!

Cool. I just found my necromunda stuff. Thanks. That's actually cool.

Wil be more problematic with Mordheim.

I had to teach that exact lesson many times.

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Is it safer there?

>Wil be more problematic with Mordheim.
They recently had a black friday sale special.

Needs moar Red Genestealer ...

Never this.
Never, ever, ever this.
Not this.
Anything but this.
The absolute opposite of this.
Convenience will always win over not only immersion, but everything in the whole world.
So in short, I disagree.

That guys board is absurdly great.

then go play with wooden meeps, since they are much more convenient than fragile minis that you must assemble and paint too

this is probably the guy who either buys them painted, paints them half hearted, or doesn't paint them at all

does multi-layer terrain work in the likes of Mordheim? like walkways, bridges, (short and/or full of holes) tunnels, etc?

talking of immersive modular terrain

Is that supposed to be an ADVENT City, XCOM 2 style?
'cause it sure looks like it

Damnit! Don't remind me of the red genestealers. Everyone knows they're nigh indestructible...

"Shoot the red one! SHOOT THE RED ONE!!!"

I choose all three.

It works well and is pretty interesting at that.

hm, what about running a mordeim/frostgrave game on a two-level table (you know, with a shelf halfway below actual table surface), with the city on the table and large sewer system on the shelf?

The eBay auction has a fair price.

It's fun but awkward.