Re: [GZG] Sheep con Queso

[J L Hilal <jlhilal@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- laserlight@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> So I'm opening it up to suggestions from people who are NOT going to be
> playing. What would *you* like for the terrain to include?  Teleporters,
> one-way doors, sinkholes, ice sheets...you're not going to have to play on
> it, so indulge yourself and make a suggestion...
> 

Aside from using RoboRally tiles (already suggested), I have three other ideas.

The first is a simple idea but might take alot of terrain: make the table into
a big box canyon/valley (eg w/ geohex).  The two long table edges are sloped up
10-12 levels each, as is one short edge.  No other cover.  So forces are
fighting across a valley without cover other than the military edge of their
slope (see WW2 Italian Campaign,  Korean War, or Afghanistan for similar
situations).  Victory conditions force players to make their way to the valley
floor.  I can send you scans of the templates I use to cut geohex pieces if you
need.

Second idea is the inverse of the first: flat plain with a single large, high
feature in the middle.  Imagine light infantry fighting around (and on) Ayer's
Rock.  This situation actually occured in 2002 in Afghanistan during Operation
Anaconda.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/imint/afghanistan-45.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/afghanistan/shahi-khot.htm

The third idea uses a lot less terrain (easier to build), but is a more complex
concept:  A network of platforms, bridges, and ramps (made out of foamboard)
like the Ogier Ways from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time.  Platforms are large
enough for a squad to spread out, but ramps and bridges are only 1 or 2 figures
wide.  No cover from those above, military edge cover from those below.  If
Armhold Musclehugger/Artie Swartzenbigger brings his man-pack Plasma/5, you can
blast platforms and bridges out from under your opponents.  Victory conditions
force players to make their way to the lower platforms.  The black death cloud
can show up to consume anyone who tarries on the upper platforms (and also to
consume any elder cthuli that appear :) ).

J
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