"SF And Near Future 15mm Buildings: Combat Within?" Topic
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| Cacique Caribe | 09 Jun 2012 1:10 p.m. PST |
A) Are you always looking to buy or make SF houses and buildings that have lift-off roofs, so you can fight within its walls? B) Or do you resolve indoor combat off-table, on a printed floorplan of the building or other such tool? C) Or does indoor combat even matter to you at all, and view it as too cumbersome, particularly with something as small as 15mm? Thanks, Dan |
| Angel Barracks | 09 Jun 2012 1:13 p.m. PST |
Nah, I take them off and put them aside and fight out of sight and indeed out of site. |
| Mako11 | 09 Jun 2012 1:19 p.m. PST |
1 and 2. The liftoff sections, and/or roofs would work, but if you have more than one floor, then you need to find some place to put the additional levels while you fight out the battle. Given that, it seems to me that having a printed floorplan on a separate table might be the way to go. Another alternative would be for clipboards, with a magnetic sheet on them, and the floorplan drawn on top of that. Then, you could use magnetic chits or tokens for the various forces, as they move about "in the buildings". The downside of this method is that you don't really get to place your minis on the tabletop, but I guess you could use them as the tokens, if they were small enough, and the building is too. Portability is the advantage of this method. The printed floorplan on a separate table, with the actual minis inside it is probably best, if you have the space, and need to deal with more than one level per building. |
| nazrat | 09 Jun 2012 1:43 p.m. PST |
A). I only buy or build structures in which I can place figures. For ALL scales and genres. |
Chef Lackey Rich  | 09 Jun 2012 2:17 p.m. PST |
Mostly A, although B is acceptable for multistory or unusually cramped/oddly-shaped structures that can't accommodate figure bases well. |
| infojunky | 09 Jun 2012 3:23 p.m. PST |
B Mostly…. Unless I am specifically going for tunnel fighting then the entire board is inside terrain. |
| BigNickR | 11 Jun 2012 2:18 a.m. PST |
"A). I only buy or build structures in which I can place figures. For ALL scales and genres." put me down as a "ditto" |
| Altius | 12 Jun 2012 9:25 a.m. PST |
depends on the scale of the game. For skirmishes, I like to be able to lift off the roof and move the guys around. In fact, I've got a number of buildings I made with lift-off roofs and detailed interiors for that purpose. But for bigger games, say in which a stand represents a group of men, I don't like to mess with all of that and just say they are either "inside the building" or "outside the building". |
| Farstar | 13 Jun 2012 9:48 a.m. PST |
I don't like to mess with all of that and just say they are either "inside the building" or "outside the building".
This. Indoor and outdoor have very different scaling needs. |
| Cacique Caribe | 22 Jul 2012 7:42 p.m. PST |
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