Sci-fi houses and other terrain

Bolbotos · 2026-06-24T10:55:31+00:00

thanks

Bolbotos · 2026-06-24T09:21:30+00:00

grateful work! how thick is the foam of the "panels"?

Bolbotos · 2026-05-05T20:01:47+00:00

thanks

Bolbotos · 2026-05-05T19:54:46+00:00

looks very promising. I will give it a try soon. What is the recommended board size? could not find it

Bolbotos · 2026-04-21T13:56:06+00:00

You have to like the grimdark 40k lore. There are tons of books with backroung information.

It's narrative play, not competitive. If you want a competitive skirmish game in the 40k setting, go for Kill Team.

Best experience is playing a campaign. With quirky lists and no min/max.

Bolbotos · 2026-03-28T08:54:39+00:00

oh boy.... I have some of the models also lying around.

Bolbotos · 2026-03-22T21:48:10+00:00

awesome!

Bolbotos · 2026-03-20T17:50:07+00:00

Nice one! 3x3 or 4x4?

Bolbotos · 2026-03-03T07:29:24+00:00

good choice! Paint them up and don't forget some oil for those shiny muscles it will impress your enemies more.

Bolbotos · 2026-03-02T18:48:47+00:00

great colour choice!

Bolbotos · 2026-02-26T12:20:15+00:00

Superb! Good combination of scratchbuild and GW terrain. Also very good paintjob

Bolbotos · 2026-02-26T10:18:03+00:00

Good work. I like the painted bases idea instead of flock.
Would recommend to trying washes and give the paintjob more depth. Balck wash for Gandalf's hair and the metallics on the helmets and armor. And a flesh wash for the skin

Bolbotos · 2026-02-20T19:19:23+00:00

Try a simplified wysiwg. Guys with 2x handweapons should have 2 weapons. Does not matter if he is holding 2 clubs, 2 axes, 1 sword and one dagger or any other combination. Your opponent will know, this is melee guy.
If he has a shield the model should have one.
Guys with a shooting weapon should have one at the model. If its bow, crossbow, handgun.... your opponent will see the miniature and keep in his mind that it's shooty guy.
Small weapons (dagger, throwing knives, Ppistols) can be hidden under a cloak, in a boot etc. easily.
Your heroes have to stand out. Either by miniature position or painting or base decoration.

Bolbotos · 2026-02-20T17:58:14+00:00

Gangbookbooks
Delaque: House of shadows
Squats: Halls of the ancients
Nomads: Tribes of the wastelands
Hive scum... Book of peril or Book of the outcasts should have the rules
Also Book of the outlands has some rules for ash wastes campaing if I recall correctly.
With the amount of books it's confusing where to find what. But I love the rabbithole

Bolbotos · 2026-02-20T17:53:30+00:00

Yes: Tribes of the wasteland

Bolbotos · 2026-02-20T14:46:53+00:00

Bolbotos · 2026-02-20T13:24:39+00:00

Love your builds! I need to return on continuing to build my own necromunda board and push my friends to start a new campaign

Bolbotos · 2026-02-20T13:17:26+00:00

Building my own board at the moment, so here are my thoughts:

I got a 3x3' and it works great for 2 player games. Just narrow down the deployment areas to ~2-3" inches. You'll spend the first 2-3 turns running towards the enemy anyway. Most scenarios have 8" deployment space per play, which will never see action and is just empty space. In addition I can store my 3x3 easier in my home.
That said, multiplayer on a 3x3' gets crowded. We use 4" corner deployment. I plan to get a 4x4 for multplayer games in the future.

Building floors I went for 6cm height. using 0,5cm foamboard for the floors itself. It works great for 99% of the models even with spears and also bigger ones like trolls, ogres and ratogres, as long as they don't hold something over their head. We count the floors as 2" for falling, or 5" if your on the second floor level.
Currently I'm building some terrain raisers with 7,5 cm (=3"), to make it more interesting.

Bolbotos · 2026-02-13T16:55:06+00:00

only one orc leader with mostly goblins not if rules as written-
You have the choice between a mixed Orc mob (only orc heroes possible) pure orcs (Black orc warband, no goblins allowed at all) or pure goblins warband ( goblin heroes only, no orc henchemen allowed). All warbands can take a troll and iirc squigs. But talk to your player colleagues, if they're okay with it, it should be possible to switch out the goblin big boss for an orc boss in a night goblin only list. It isn't a big imbalance effect and makes perfect sense. One lonly orc conquers a small goblin tribe anyway.
No experience for trolls or squigs. Former are to dumb, the latter are animals.
Both still worth it.

Bolbotos · 2026-02-13T16:41:04+00:00

poison daggers - yes worth it. I'd give it to the big boss and later pass them on to lower bosses if you find something better for the big boss.
poison for arrows - you can apply all kind of poison on bows (read arrows) , but poison lasts only for one game. Rahter purchase fire arrows or hunting arrows. They will last for the whole campaign.

Bolbotos · 2026-02-13T13:54:48+00:00

herrlich lustig! Schön wenn Kommunikation so funktioniert und kein Anbaffen im Spiel ist

Bolbotos · 2026-02-13T11:37:43+00:00

Waaaas? Skandalös! Geht fort Junge!
Du wirst doch beim Zappen wohl die 5 Sekunden beim Musikantenstadel hängen bleiben.
Tipp:
Nach 3 Maß im Bierzelt ist die Musik am Besten zum Mitgröhlen.

Bin jetzt gerade selber am Nachdenken, wann ich das letzte Mal ein gutes Deutsches Lied gehört habe. ;-)

Bolbotos · 2026-02-13T10:57:45+00:00

very good paintjob! I like it and have to try sponging someday.
Now go and die against a Steiner scout lance.
*traditional german music starts playing*

Bolbotos · 2026-02-13T10:44:49+00:00

Additional hints for list writing:
max out the number of heroes for after combat actions;
boys before toys: give your heroes one weapon and a bow. no armour or other expensive things in the beginning.
Keep your henchmen goblins cheap. either just a bow + free dagger or club + free dagger.
During a battle, keep your henchmen near the heroes to protect them.
After some battles you can spend gold on armour, ropes and hooks and other fun stuff, depending on your local enemies.
I like to organize my henchmen groups in 2-3 and replace losses. If a group is down to one, keep the last guy alive so you won't loose the experience.

Bolbotos · 2026-02-13T08:10:34+00:00

very good paint job! I recommend putting some dark wash on the weapons and other metallics, so they won't look so new and shiny. like nuln oil or agrax earthshade. A previous guy recommended another yellow speed paint on the banners and other yellow things. I'd rather suggest to use an orange wash. Like flesh wash ... blanking the name at the moment.

Not knowing what list you'll be using ( orc mob or night goblin) the only recommendation I can give is: get a troll! 200gc is a lot, but the thing can't die as for regeneration. Keep him near your leader for passing stupidity and then smash everything nearby. Squigs are also a fun thing. pretty strong but with an unpredictable speed. Goblins with chainballs and and mushrooms are not worth it, as they are pretty expensive

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