"Favorite terrain for Sci-fi games?" Topic

Regardless of the miniature scale you play or game scale, what terrain is your favorite to game in/on?

1) Destroyed city/ ruins
2) Built up area/ undestroyed urban area,
3) Woodlands, rolling hills, forrest,
4) Under-city/hive, spaceship interior, (close confines)
5) Desert, wastelands, badlands,
6) Tundra/ frozen
7) Jungle, other heavy foliage,
8) Alien terrain/ unusual (Tyranid, etc…)
9) other, fill in.

I'm partial to desert, but only because it matches most of my bases.

Whatever we use, I like scatter terrain that can be arranged in multiple ways rather than static pieces.

It really depends on the scenario.

Other options:
Operational Space Ship
Enemy Space Ship
Derelict Space Ship
Victorian London
Sewers
Factory
Mega City One
Austere Outpost
Antediluvian Past
Gas Planet
Underwater Colony
Volcanic Planet
etc…

Generally mixed terrain for big battles: 2+3+9

9) Littoral beaches/waterways

For skirmish games:

10) On board spacecraft derelict/otherwise

For VSF Imperial Skies:

11) Ocean with some coastline/islands

Desert, woodlands, hills and ruins.

1 ruined cities or desert

Woodlands with some buildings/ruins

Oh, I forgot "a quarry in Wales". :)

Blasted plain with glowing radioactive craters
Derelict space hulk interior
Not yet derelict spaceship interior
The cold, dark vacuum of SPAAAAACE!

28mm are mostly based a gray/black which will pass for urban ruins or ship decks, but urban ruins is what I have. (Ewoks, of course, get grassed bases, and home court advantage in woods.)

5/6mm are geared for temperate zone countryside.

2 & 3

Destroyed city or alien jungles for 28mm sci-fi.
For historical and fantasy, then it's rolling hills and woodlands.

28mm Infinity: City. Have plans for a spaceship boarding action.

40k: industrial ruins.

15mm: desert or mountains.

6mm (Robotech): Either city or space.

I have a lot of options, but I try to avoid big towns or cities. GW's predilection of MOUT is not my idea of a good place to fight. Just like in the RW.

A little vill or hamlet here and there is fine with me !

I do like ancient [alien] ruins though … and alien flora …

The cold, dark vacuum of SPAAAAACE!

Whatever terrain that is being used I only have one requirement.

There needs to be lots of it, so that fields of fire don't cover the whole board.

This is far to open.

These are better:

Though they still could use a bit more terrain.

1 & 2 mostly.

Mithmee +1

Depends on the scenario, of course. In general, I feel that terrain only belongs on the table if it's going to make the game more interesting.

Mithmee +2!!!

Depends on the game of course. I think over the years the majority of games we played tended to be in a mixed terrain shown in these Mutant Chronicles: Warzone Resurrection pix:

Those look to be on a little sparse side as we lugged the terrain to a local con and there's wasn't awfully lot of it available, but that's the overall style.

If kaiju counts as scifi, add gingerbread cities to the list …

Got to do something with all that leftover gingerbread !!!!

Edges of urban areas, small towns, special facilities ( Power ponst, military outposts, mines and so forth) and research facilities interspersed with avariety of terrain are my choice.

There has to be something there worth ccoming into conflcit over, that's the main thing, so I guess it's a case of scenario-driven terrain.