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My little group have been talking about adding some rules for weapons interacting with terrain. So far we have agreed that area terrain will be treated as destructible..Only blast and template weapons have enough area destruction to cause enough wreckage to affect area terrain. The area is treated as T5 with 4 Wounds. Large blast weapons inflict 2 wounds if they wound. Weapons cannot be fired directly at the terrain, only at models taking cover in the terrain. One wound from each weapon can be allocated to the terrain instead of a model as normal. When the terrain has zero Wounds, it is no longer considered area terrain but is considered difficult terrain to move through. Although not providing cover saves as area terrain any particular modeling on the terrain will continue to provide cover saves as per normal.

Next we are going to see what we want to do with ruins. That is going to be much more tricky I think.

The way this is phrased a manticore can ID any area terrain.

For destroying ruins, I suggest taking a look at Cities of Death.

Honestly, a huge aspect of WW2 was that bombing an area simply made it *easier* for troops to hide in. In Italy in particular, once they bombed a city it became an almost invincible fortress and a total nightmare to clear out - far harder than one that was relatively intact.

Ruins should be destroyable, becoming area terrain, but area terrain should absolutely not be destroyable.

Lately I've been playing games where forests can catch fire. We resolved it as whenever a flame template touches a tree, the forest takes a hit against T5. If it fails the whole thing catches alight, causing wounds to any models inside on a "1" at the start of each turn.