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It's art! well skin me and run me up the mountain. They appear to be playing Flames of War in these photos.
http://www.ethanham.com/blog/2008/09/worlds-largest-wargaming-table.html

I want one more than I want my kidnies.

Anyone wanna buy a kidney?

Imagine that guy playing with Vortex missiles in a massed game.

"So these missiles have unlimited range yes?"

Orlanth wrote:Imagine that guy playing with Vortex missiles in a massed game.

"So these missiles have unlimited range yes?"

It was amusing enough seeing a game on an 'L' shaped table formed from four 4x4 tables (so the long part was 12 feet long, and the short side 8 feet) when the ImpGuard player suddenly remembered the full range of his Basilisks AND that thre was no rule against shooting across the L.

article wrote:I'm a fan of Timothy Hutchings's work.

His The World's Largest Wargaming Table is very striking. I love how it starts as a blank landscape and becomes populated by gallery visitors playing with it.

Ugh...

article wrote:

His cardboard works, which range from formalist studies to large-scale models, are quite interesting, too.

Okay if he is talking about the buildings just shoot me now.

I spent 4 years in art school. That inane pretentious jabber that art people spew just drives me up a wall. It is a disease and I had many friends succumb to it.

Apparantly art gallery + that stuff makes something art.

"I love how the area around this pizza on a pedestal is empty and becomes populated by the gallery visitors eating it."

See if I just knew a few people I could make some money right there.

Hey how about a tv show where all they do is walk around and analyze everyday stuff with artspeak. Theres another million.

Its a badass table to play big ass games on, all it needs is some cupholders.

/rant sorry sometimes I see things like that and get worked up. Its like shellshock I tell you. You want a real test of will sit through an upper level art analysis or history class. Dont pay for it, god help ya, just show up.

White Dwarf showed this table some time ago. It took me awhile to remember where I've seen it.

This is what I posted in the blog entry:

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It may sound heretic. But: What's so great about it? I think the biggest problem with art is a) most artists cry out loud once a potential piece has an actual use b) most non-artists consider art to be defined as "without a specific purpose other than creating a feeling of art".

This seems to be the worst possible combination: It seems to have a purpose, so it will annoy the "pure-art" artists. And it will annoy the non-artist gamers, because it does not improve anything: It is just four tables with three bridge. You can play on each of the four tables. But if you want to play on more than one table, you'll see that it all concentrates on the bridges which limits wargaming (remember, it says "wargaming table" in the title)) options a lot. Who wants to play "Hot Gates" all the time?

Basically, there is a reason why gaming tables have such boring and nearly standardized measurements. When it comes to two dimensional tables and human ergonomics, there is not much else to do.

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Pretty interesting, though, because I am currently building a modular table myself (though quite boring measurement: 4 parts, each 4ft x 2 ft).

And while I think that this is the optimum that can be done in _two dimensions_, I am just starting to think about layering two of the 4ft x 4ft parts above each other.

...I'll need to build modular buildings that can act as pillars to the upper level...

...which themselves also should be stairs, elevators and whatnot...

Whee! This piece of art is inspiring!
Well, in the same way that a caved-in building is an inspiration to an architect, but anyway...

Kind regards,
Tierlieb

How about one layer flat and the other layer vertical?

WOW!!! That is just one large, and massive, and amazing gaming table. I personaly like the way it is designed. Plus the sheer size of it would make APOC games just down right fun!

The size is interesting, but I'm not a fan of the neat rectangular cutaways for access to the middle.

If you're going to build something that large, it would be much cooler to insert the cut-ins as impassable mountain areas, ravines, or coastline and have them all varying in size and placement... rather than just having half of the board inexplicably missing.

It's nice work, though.

What would be cool is to build two tables with cutouts that interlock, and mount both on castors. That way you could pull the tables papart to get to the middle and move units, then push them back together to see how everything related.