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I love forests. I've grown up my entire life around woods and trees and whenever I wargame my table has all I can put on it.

But, individually based trees can be a hassle. It's hard to make a stand of trees that looks both realistic AND playable. Trees get knocked over, and it's a pain to make them dense enough to be believable cover but far enough apart to get your hands between. I'm moving on to 15mm figures for my other wargame, Fast and Dirty, and I was looking for terrain ideas. I came across this:

http://www.architectsofwar.com/how%20to/forests.pdf

With some simple adaption, it could work rather well for 28mm. I think it might much better than individually based trees, which I have been messing with for Warhammer for some time.

M.

Cool. I have always liked the idea of having lush forests worlds to do battle in. I have never liked the look of sporadic trees arbitrarily placed on the board. I think you could do some cool things with a forest themed table. Great forest tutorial

sorry like your post but your link crashes my vista laptop, vista doesnt do pdf's , microsoft is pants sometimes.

"Vista doesn't do PDFs?" Firefox opens a PDF in-browser fwiw. On Vista.

Are you using Acrobat to open the PDF?

Dude, this is the best idea yet. It seems to make placing you models in the terrain better, and removing them as well. I even think that los problems will be sorted out easier as well. Thanks for the link.

Got to try this sometime.
Thanks

one relatively easy thing i have seen done, was with a large-ish sheet of some magnet friendly metal (thats also light weight) glue your sand/dirt what-have-you down (you'll want to seal it down with another layer of PVA glue, so the more coarse the material, the better) then, use some model railroad trees, and place magnets into the base of the trees.. this will allow you to have nicely painted and formed trees, and depending on how much work you want to do, you can get anything from "sparse desert trees" to "impassable terrain"

Oh... my God. This is WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR.

It solves all my problems:

- Woodland scenics are expensiveand not quite the right size

- Woodland scenics are expensive

- Get troops in and out would be a pain

- Trees would break all the time from play

- rules would have to be worked around

- woodland scenics are expensive

Nails are cheap and come in all kinds of sizes! This is boss.

mmm iam using acrobat, and firefox/ funny thing is my xp desktop just crashed trying to open it and i dont usually have any probs with that. will investigate further , now i must see the terrain..!!!!

Overall I think it gives a much better effect. One of the reasons I dislike many 40k clubs I've seen is that their terrain is piss; their tables, even when covered in it, are essentially open fields of disjointed crap. It's like fighting the US Civil War again, only with tanks.

And there are much better rules out there for civil war battles..

M.