Friday, 24 January 2020

Scenery for a Fantasy Gaming Board

This is not the first post I was expecting to have on 2020, but it just happens to be that I managed to finish the last pieces of the terrain over xmas, therefore, here it goes!

I have a gaming board at home that I use either for 40k games or for Fantasy.
Fantasy games that I currently play are Warcry, Warhammer Fantasy or The 9th Age.

I have the starter set of Warcry so I have enough scenery for playing it.
For Warhammer Fantasy I usually need:
  • 1 small house
  • 2 forests
  • 2 hills (one should be small)
  • 2 barriers
For 9th Age, I generally use a map from the Map Pack, that relies on having terrain from the Terrain Pack, which consists of: 
  • 2 buildings
  • 2 fields
  • 2 forests
  • 3 hills
  • 2 rocky area (impassable terrain)
  • 2 ruins
  • 3 barriers
  • 2 ponds
Because the list of Warhammer Fantasy is covered by the list of 9th Age, I simply needed to collect those to have my gaming board ready.

Buildings

As I was never -ever- going to get around building my own, I decided to buy two models from 4Ground publishing, from the Fabled Realms, Mordanburg city, as they are simply some of the best I have ever seen. They are not cheap, but the quality is superb.


Fields

They are two bases of plasticard that I decorated with some bits from my bits box and some gravel. One of these fields is a graveyard that should fit nicely with some undead scenario.


Forests

For the same reason as with the buildings, I bought a few trees already pre-made, glued them to circular bases so I could shape the size of the forest and move them around to fit in the troops, and prepared two bases of plasticard with some gravel and some bits. Without the trees they can be used as fields.


Hills

I bought them at my local hobby shop.


Impassable terrain

The starter set from Warcry supplied them. There is also some Gobbo icon from The Batlle for the Skull Pass starter set.


Ruins

From Warcry.


Barriers

These are a mix of stuff lying around on my bits box as well as the ones that come with Warcry.



Ponds

The ponds I have created using plasticard, bits and gravels. Once painted these holes will make sense, trust me.



All of these needs paint! But the miniature queue is long and it goes before the terrain!
Next post will take me back to the Genestealer Cult, until then!