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Recently Ive been viewing a lot of the bat reps with pics and noticed one major difference from those games and the games my friends and I play.  We have been using WAY more terrain than what I have seen the pics of here.  So I have a couple questions.

1.  How do you decide how much terrain to use?
2.  How do you decide where it is placed?

Thus far we have just been placing it in a symmetrical way and going from there with no regard as to how much we use.

We play on a 4x6 table. We break the table up into sections. First we split the table in half lengthwise, then break that area into 3 equal parts. This results in 6 different sections of table, 3 along each long edge going from long edge to middle of table. We then roll a die to determine who picks which side for terrain. Whoever gets highest chooses which side he wants. So if I won for example and I chose my oppenents side, I get the two corners on his side and the middle on my side. If I chose my side, then I get my corners and his middle.

 We then roll 1D3 and place that many pieces of terrain sections (ie, a building, at least 6" of wall, at least 6" round section of woods, but area terrain could be up to 12-18" in area) per table section. This will allow you to control terrain somewhat to your advantage, but also allows your opponent to do the same so it balances out. It also allows for not playing on the same set up of terrain over and over. We also try to give it a kind of theme while were at it also, so it doesn't look too odd.

All in all, everyone I've played with is happy with this method.

The rulebook specifies that about one-quarter of the playing area should have terrain on it.

I think it's page 78 under a heading that says something like "How Much Terrain?"

Posted By Flavius Infernus on 02/27/2007 3:06 PM
The rulebook specifies that about one-quarter of the playing area should have terrain on it.

I think it's page 78 under a heading that says something like "How Much Terrain?"

Thats true, but if you look at the example pictures they have there it looks to be more like 40% covered. I will say that with the method I described above, our tables come out looking very close to those pics.