"Making a Ruined City table" Topic

Put together a blog post comparing my two experiences of building a ruined city table for the times I've played The Road to Bremen campaign for Chain of Command. It's quite a different challenge playing in such a dense urban environment, but now it's given me the itch to do something similar for somewhere like Stalingrad… or Berlin… or Tarnopol……
Making a Ruined City table

Looks very good.

How do you store it?

How do you put away the loose scatter rubble?

Would be a fun board to play a Bolt Action game on! nicely done

That looks great.

Just awaiting for a game to be played on it! Should be a very excellent and engaging game on that table.

It is impressive, but the loose rubble material crosses a line for me, personally. I drew a line between making gaming terrain, and making a diorama which is impractical for my gaming purposes.

While it would not work for me, it is gorgeous, nonetheless. Cheers!

How do you store it?

The buildings all go into a couple of my storage tubs. Most are single storey and they are robust enough to stack, so simple and quick to get out/put away.

How do you put away the loose scatter rubble?

The rubble is of two types as you can see in the blog post. The larger modular pieces are very easily stored in a small plastic tub.

The loose rubble is very impressionistic and all I've used for this entire 6x4 table is stored in a small plastic food container (you can see how small it is compared to the other terrain storage, it's the small container top left in the first picture). After removing all terrain pieces from the game mat I simply pick up the mat and pour the loose rubble back in the tub.

To be honest the table is a lot less work than one of my Normandy tables which have a much wider variety of terrain like buildings, hedgerows, orchards, trees, roads etc.

It is impressive, but the loose rubble material crosses a line for me, personally. I drew a line between making gaming terrain, and making a diorama which is impractical for my gaming purposes.

As I've shown in the reply above, it's a very small amount of loose rubble for a 6x4 table. It is far more impressionistic than realistic. Like you, form must follow function and it is first and foremost a gaming table. I play in 20mm and I think these pictures show it remains very playable.

Very nice.