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The wilds of Pennsyltucky

Guys,

So I have fallen in love with the Pegasus Gothic building set and I intend to make an entire city fight table out of it.

My question is how do you set up your table? Do you do 1' x 1' squares for the buildings? Do you do street sections? How far is a good  distance for streets? 6" is just enough for a land raider but may be too short to act as a realistic challenge in game terms.

Any advice I can get would be appreciated. The table I have is 6' x 4'.  

Thanks, ender502


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Foul Dwimmerlaik






Minneapolis, MN

Me personally? I make area of plastic card (0.80 thick) for the base. They arent a set size, as a city shouldnt have long avenues for LOS.

For example: I have 16 building bases for my table. The base size varies from anywhere between 4"x6" to 16"x21". This gives a wide variety for you to choose from to form roads between the bases.

I base this off of the eisenhorn novels, as they describe the kasrs of cadia to be a chaotic street map. Very jagged like a trench works system to disallow long avenues of fire.

For defence, this is a good strategy. When assuming the role of attacker in cityfight, you should expect a tough fight for whatever objective you seek due to the troops being lodged in place well, and knowing the territory well due to home ground.

Hope that helps. May your cities be bloody.

   
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Clousseau





Wilmington DE

While it's a pretty large map, take a look at the Vogen campaign map and concentrate on one corner. Better yet, get a tourist map of an older, non-grid city (Paris, Boston, Rome, etc.), concentrate on a city block, and see if that works for inspiration. A lot of what I'm doing for COD is based on what I saw in Paris when I went on vacation last year (sad, no?).

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North Carolina

Mine is based on 12" by 12" squares of 1/4" MDF. I cut a couple of them diagonally and put half of some of the buildings on each side. Anyway I build my buildings no bigger than 10"x10" and leave 1" all the way around the building as a sidewalk. The final touch is that I route down the edges of the boards to make it look like a rounded curb. This way when I put them on a black /grey board the areas between all the buildings look like city streets.
   
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Knight of the Inner Circle






The table I am working on uses 16x16 MDF boards. That will allow me to have on a 4 foot wide area a board set up with ...
4" street area then 16" city block  then 8" street area another 16" city block then another 4" street area. This seems to work well for me.  Plus you can have Lowes / Home Depot to cut it for you in perfect 16x16 sheets that you can put in the back seat of you car instead of a 8'x4' sheet of MDF.
I looked at the 12"x12" but seemed small but the good point with that size is you can buy flooring tiles for your base.

 
   
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The wilds of Pennsyltucky

I was thinking I would be doing my bsaes of MDF mostly so i could get a nice sidewalk/street feel.

excellent advice for having homedepot do the cuts!

I am originally from NYC nd I guess I was thinking very midtown manhattan for my set up. Maybe I should be thinking more of a west village sorta thing?

Thanks for the advice. I really appreciate the help. In an odd way this discussion has decided m eon a seperate topic... I need a 6 x4 mat to put down on my table. preferably a forest one. That way I can just paint my table grey.

ender502

 

 


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Plastictrees



Amongst the Stars, In the Night

For inspiration I'd suggest a good place to look is WW2 era photos of cities that have been bombed out and blasted to smithereens. Monte Cassino, Stalingrad, and Berlin in particular would all be good places to look at. All were so smothered with destruction as to make whole swathes of urban landscape look like the surface of the moon, but riddled with foxholes, underground bunkers and other such features that make urban combat the deadly thing it is. Even in an ordered grid-based city like Manhattan or similar would be chocked with debris after being smashed with artillery, bombs & other ordnance, creating impossible gridlock.

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