Ingredients for my "New Mars" board: Styrofoam, plastic carton, wood glue, tooth picks, tinting colours, sand and rocks from a tram track bed. The only dedicated hobby stuff are of course a nice Mars mat, Vallejo Red Oxide Paste and Wasteland tufts for the scatter terrain built from the rocks. Terrain includes so far scatter terrain, low/high hills and different kinds of medium/high height rock formations. In general all points addressed how to build the table are valid. However the first question to be asked is what kind of scenario is going to take place here. If the answer is "Bunker Assault" (Oldhammer mission) then the board needs to be built like a real bunker environment: Three to four bunkers, minefields, razorwire, entrenchments, anti-tank barricades AND a wide area of no man´s land with very little cover. Exceptions may be tank wrecks. The attacker may however have several terrain pieces in his deployment zone for cover purposes. Hab blocks: Legions Imperialis will introduce proper buildings back into the wargaming community. Flat roofs on which multiple squads can stand without issues. 40K players have been brainwashed that every building needs to be ruined as the Grimdark future does not suffer unmarred architecture on it´s battlefields which is of course bogus.
I just played two HH games with large amounts of terrain restricting LOS. A world eaters army won every game by just rushing straight at the opponent. No real strategy.
"if anyone remembers the old realm of battle tables" yeah i do, the dice sounds give me ptsd almost lol The new nachmund buildings GW did are fairly useful, as are their large shipping crates and fuel tanks. But I've hated just about every other terrain they've done since 8th ed. I mostly play in a GW store and the tables can be a real let down if you aren't bringing in a few of your own terrain pieces, like a centerpiece or something. Don't even bother with the 3000 pieces of pipe and ruins every GW shop seems to have.
I second this to a degree, on the condition that it's less about which generic Rites of War work best for which legions and more about how each of the legions can work within a given Rite of War. Easy low-hanging fruit would be something like how Raven Guard, whose faction rules predominantly lean towards playing as Recon Company lite by default, can adapt the ability to infiltrate non-heavy non-terminator infantry (so long as they don't have jump packs) to other Rites of War for such examples such as infiltrating troop slot land raiders in an Armoured Spearhead RoW (not having to rely on 10-man recon squads as much when RG MSU tactical/despoiler squads can do the same thing for 45pts less), or running a sneaky veteran force (also potentially with infiltrating troop slot land raiders as dedicated transports) in a Pride of the Legion RoW.
very interesting. Thanx for making this.
Ingredients for my "New Mars" board:
Styrofoam, plastic carton, wood glue, tooth picks, tinting colours, sand and rocks from a tram track bed. The only dedicated hobby stuff are of course a nice Mars mat, Vallejo Red Oxide Paste and Wasteland tufts for the scatter terrain built from the rocks. Terrain includes so far scatter terrain, low/high hills and different kinds of medium/high height rock formations.
In general all points addressed how to build the table are valid. However the first question to be asked is what kind of scenario is going to take place here. If the answer is "Bunker Assault" (Oldhammer mission) then the board needs to be built like a real bunker environment: Three to four bunkers, minefields, razorwire, entrenchments, anti-tank barricades AND a wide area of no man´s land with very little cover. Exceptions may be tank wrecks. The attacker may however have several terrain pieces in his deployment zone for cover purposes.
Hab blocks:
Legions Imperialis will introduce proper buildings back into the wargaming community. Flat roofs on which multiple squads can stand without issues. 40K players have been brainwashed that every building needs to be ruined as the Grimdark future does not suffer unmarred architecture on it´s battlefields which is of course bogus.
I just played two HH games with large amounts of terrain restricting LOS. A world eaters army won every game by just rushing straight at the opponent. No real strategy.
"if anyone remembers the old realm of battle tables"
yeah i do, the dice sounds give me ptsd almost lol
The new nachmund buildings GW did are fairly useful, as are their large shipping crates and fuel tanks. But I've hated just about every other terrain they've done since 8th ed. I mostly play in a GW store and the tables can be a real let down if you aren't bringing in a few of your own terrain pieces, like a centerpiece or something. Don't even bother with the 3000 pieces of pipe and ruins every GW shop seems to have.
Hey lads, how about a rites of war review and which ones work best for different legions?
I second this to a degree, on the condition that it's less about which generic Rites of War work best for which legions and more about how each of the legions can work within a given Rite of War.
Easy low-hanging fruit would be something like how Raven Guard, whose faction rules predominantly lean towards playing as Recon Company lite by default, can adapt the ability to infiltrate non-heavy non-terminator infantry (so long as they don't have jump packs) to other Rites of War for such examples such as infiltrating troop slot land raiders in an Armoured Spearhead RoW (not having to rely on 10-man recon squads as much when RG MSU tactical/despoiler squads can do the same thing for 45pts less), or running a sneaky veteran force (also potentially with infiltrating troop slot land raiders as dedicated transports) in a Pride of the Legion RoW.