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I'm seriously considering tearing down my 4x6 table and replacing it with a 4x4. The 4x6 eats a lot of space in my hobby room, and frankly a 4x4 is plenty for most of what I play outside of 40k. The downside to doing this would be that playing 40k on a 4x4 tends to limit you to perhaps 1,000 points a side. Frankly I'm okay with that if necessary (I do more painting and general hobby futzery than I do gaming anyways, especially in my house) but I'm wondering if people have found good ways to fit more points onto a smaller table.

Going with special scenarios seems quite reasonable (I have Cities of Death, Planetstrike, and Battle Missions so I have plenty of stuff to pull from for that) but I worry that if I'm not careful I'm going to be playing scenarios that aren't well balanced. I was hoping people have tried to do similar things themselves, and have some advice they could share. Any good missions from BM? Planetstrike balance is probably a whole thread on it's own (and I'll have to poke around to find one... I'm sure it's been discussed to death from when it first came out.) Cities seems like it might be the easiest solution.

4x4 is what my local gaming store mostly play on aswell, its problematic for any teams that rely on distance, such as tanks and flyers.

Otherwise its pretty good for quick action games so you will do max a turn of running and then hell is loose, and no running across half the map for objectives and such.

Cut the board and use duct tape to make it fold. That way to can pull out the extra leaf when you need it.

 DeffDred wrote:
Cut the board and use duct tape to make it fold. That way to can pull out the extra leaf when you need it.

Or, uh, a hinge.

Or just have it in 2x2 blocks. Thats what I did! Makes it really managable.

Do you have a FLGS or friend's place with a larger table that you can play bigger games on? If the table in your house is the only one you use, I'd suggest either keeping it, or adding a drop-leaf or something. There will be times you want to play full games, and a 4x4 just won't cut it.

If you have local venues for when you want to play large games, you could cut your table down. So if you just want to play a quick skirmish level game, you have a place for it. When you want to go big though, you need to pack up and head out.

Oh, I have a few stores in the area I can hit up for a larger table. I can also just pull out a couple folding tables and some plywood and set up a fairly enormous board in my garage. (Heck, if I really wanted to get ambitious, I could tear down the partition walls in my basement and reconfigure the space; I'd have more room for hobby and more room for The Land of Finger-Severing Tools.) I'm just thinking of shrinking my permanent table so that I have a bit more room to hobby without having to strain my limited carpentry skills.

a lot of guys in this area have a bunch of 2x4 foot table sections. You use 2 of them to play warmachine and 3 to play 40k, and they're compact enough for storage and moving around.

Something like this plus a folding table would probably be a big help to you.

See...this is why I like my realm of battle board, I can just shove it back in the bag and hide it in the corner when I'm done and the table can be folded up and put back in the closet.

I'd like to try and nudge this back to where I wanted this thread to go.

Has anyone had luck with particular scenarios, missions, or house rules (either from a published 40k supplement or something they cooked up themselves) for playing larger games of 40k on a 4x4 table?