"Quar terrain ideas" Topic

I have signed up to host a game of Songs of our Ancestors at Trumpeter Salute in Vancouver next month. I have almost finished painting the figures I need, so now I can focus on making some terrain.

I plan to do the Double-Cross scenario from the book, with around 1000 points per side, Crusaders vs. Partisans. The plan is for the "deal" to take place at a crossroads on a wild-west-ish board, a dusty not-quite-desert scrubland. I have a few nice rock outcroppings with stony arches. I have some pieces I'm going to use to build a sort of hive-farm in one corner. My wife suggested I get a dinosaur skeleton model kit and have an area with bones sticking out of the ground.

Beyond this, I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to fill up my board with enough terrain to make things interesting. Does anybody have suggestions for thematic terrain pieces I can include? Bearing in mind that I only have around 2 weeks to finish!

A small waterhole, complete with animal skull.

Scatter a few Quar-equivalent animals around the board. Some can even have an in-game effect. A lizard, a gila monster, a longhorn bull, a vulture.

Add some alien cacti, maybe a few tumbleweeds.

A crystalline formation.

Some termite mounds would be good.
Some kind of chapel or shrine for ancestors.
Find out what Quar cemeteries look like. There's a picture in Of Spats and Pedrails which looks very mystical. I couldn't tell what it was, but Josh said it was a cemetery with tombstones of volcanic glass.

andy

There's nothing wrong with some fields with stone walls or bocage.

I think I recall seeing someone who had taken some of the old 40k plastic corner ruins pieces and done them up with woodland overgrowth and used them for Quar Terrain. They looked much more european than grim-dark and they work great in 15mm and 28mm.

Plus they are so ubiquitous that even if you don't have any, chances are you know someone who has a few they'd let you have for cheap/free.

These are the ones I mean

The "termite mounds" seem to be typical country-quar terrain, but I like the overgrown 40k corner ruins idea. Cheap and readily available. I mean, the Quar have been at war for what, 2000 years more or less straight?

If you have more time to devote to the terrain, I'd consider including some tall, steep hills and maybe a termite mound house or two. Swing by a wine store, see if they have the cardboard wine-bottle packaging you can snag.

I prefer the Heroscape ruins instead:

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But that's just me. I'm not that into gothic style windows.

Dan

Anything but GW inspired Gothic !