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Post by Archon Tireq on Jun 30, 2005 12:35:09 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]Im in the process of making a battle scarred desert battlefield. I want to field a WWP dark eldar team with some deep strike and mandrakes. decapitator will come along for the ride too. How would i make a good battlefield to suit a 1500 pt army and whoop the ass out of my mates kik ass tau and tyranids? (either will do as long as i dont blemish my immaculate win/loss ratio!)[/glow]
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Post by Archon No'ki on Jul 1, 2005 11:48:33 GMT
Hmm, well a desert doesn't realy lend itself to lots of terrain (in the form of trees) which is DE need quite a bit of usely. But a couple of ideas still to pop into my head. The basic Gothic Ruins that GW sell would work quite well on a desert battlefield, representing an abandoned outpost or similar which has been scored by the desert winds. A few abandoned vechiels could work aswell. Just imagine the remains of a destoryed convey on the side of a road passing across the board. Or similary a "vechile graveyard", the wind holwing through the emty carcasses of long forgeten tanks like the cries of the souls lost with them. Large out croppings of rocks would also be a mainstay of a desert battle field, just make sure alot of them are large enough to hide a Raider behind.  Well those are just a couple of ideas of mine (I've been thinking of making my second board a desert board) and I hope they're usefull. Sorry I havn't given any advice on how to actully model these things, but I'm not that great at that: I tend to just buy what I think I'll need and go from there  |
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Post by Archon Zaco on Jul 1, 2005 15:38:53 GMT
I really like the idea of desert terain, but as No'ki said it wouldn't provide the much needed cover that DE need. I would work on things like dunes, the abandoned vehicles is also a good idea. Also for making the terrain, GW has some great books about building terrain, even if you don't want to buy one, take a look through it while at your local hobby shop, its a great source of ideas and methods.
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Post by Archon Tireq on Jul 2, 2005 12:35:57 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]Thanks. This is good, but the nearest GW shop is about 45 mins away, so i don't go often. do you know any websites that details this sort of thing?
The reason that i want to make a desert ground is that i havent seen one yet, and you cannot usually choose where you get to fight. I also thought of trenches, craters and that sort of thing, but i did not think of an abandoned desert outpost. good idea.[/glow]
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