Imperial City, Mike-lopolis

Deaf... I though you WERE being critical of the work... in a POSITIVE way! I mean... I like it!

Now that I read your thought (THANKS AGAIN!) I understand what you are saying... and you are right. The 2-3 story buildings are right for an Imperial 'town' but an Imperial 'city' should boast larger and grandeur structures. You are 100% right and my wheels are turning. GLUP! The Emperor have mercy on our souls! Fluff wise Mike-lopolis is not a city... rats! I need bigger & taller buildings!!!

The question I have is regarding game mechanics. If I have a 5 story Cathedral, then a typical model would take (using stairs) 4-5 Turns to climb... and only Sniper Rifles could shot to/from the highest location. So I need to find a balance between size and practical game use.

THANKS for the thoughts... I need all help I can get.

It is going to be great to get all of Mordheimer's terrain and my terrain together as we will have enough for 4 tables of stuff.

We have a few more surprises for the game once we get past this final proofing of the living rule book and when I can finish the changes to the Kroot squad.

Damnit Deaf... I can't stop thinking about what you said!

I need to find a solution... how to make couple HUGE buildings, without making their top layers 'playable'... so not to disturb the flow of Death Squads (or 40k). We had a game once in which one player climbed to a 5th floor... the monkey-wrench from hell! We resolved it, but we sweated blood.

I will make you a building... you see... nobody stumps me for long (hey, I can dream!) It will be known as "The Bastion of the Hearing Impaired Hollow Reed"



You see... I will come up with something!

One of the features on the Monkey Head [name of the Gaming store... I'd rather not think about why it was called Monkey Head ] table was elevator shafts. Rules-wise a model moves to the elevator door; on the next turn he/she/it was allowed to make a full move away from an elevator door on ANY level of the structure. To represent the less than perfect condition of the elevator, a die was rolled at the beginning of the ride; on a "1" some malfunction occurred & 1 of 2, depending on the direction of the trip, tables consulted: the results ranged from a 1 turn delay to an instantaneous arrival in the sub-basement with a rather messy end to the passengers.

On a practical level, the shafts gave an added stability to the structure.

Ahhhh! Another addition to the rules. I see it now!

Great work Deafnala.

Mordheimer...what you think?

What can I say... I can't argue greatness!

It is a good idea... nothing too complicated can be done. I mean, the elevator could take any models that their bases fit to any level by the beginning of the player's next turn on a 2+ roll (of a D6). On a 1, there is an 'incident'... one table regardless direction. Some things are not that bad (like fighters being available by the END of the player's next turn, thus no shooting), other indifferent (like elevators doesn't move) and others bad (like possible injury!)

We can work something out for sure. Let's put it on our to-do list.

THANKS DEAFNALA!

I have finished the Hall of Valerium... lots of pics at the Death Squads Forum... will post few of them here soon. Gotta run...

Here are SOME pics as I promised. Sorry for the wait! Seriously... there LOTS of pics on the Death Squads Forum. Also... to say the least, I got 'creative' with the camera... sorry for the bad puns. Sorry for the multiple posts in a row...



You can follow the link and see a Slide Show of pictures. Comments, suggestion, constructive criticism, etc ALWAYS welcomed!

Great pics. I am reading another GW novel to give me some more inspiration for Death Squads and it is about this Imperial World that is infected with Nurgle but if you don't kill the bad guys out right they turn into Zombies. It is great. Only 30 pages into the book but it has already got my creative juices flowing and some more insight on a destroyed cities and terrain.

Is that big guy finnished?? What have you done with him??

Trulsa wrote:

Is that big guy finished?? What have you done with him??

You mean the statue? Yes is done. What I did to him? The ultimate abuse? I wanted to create a granite statue... not only a visual, but a tactile conversion. Several years ago I saw a statue made of granite... with 'large' grain. Up close the statue was kinddda blah, but was still recognizable at a distance. The artist created it with simple tools (no mechanical grinders) and after adding all the factors together, it was very impressive! I know that I could had just paint multiple layers and simulate stone... but by adding some texture I could create that 'rough' sculpting look. The bolter is without texture... simulating that it was made of gold (or bronze). It becomes a nice focal point.

The model is NOT sealed... so if there is anything I could so... PLEASE let me know! I could still go back to it.

Oh, I don't know what you could do else, I actually like it a lot But it looked so strange that I had to ask about it
Did you use roughcoat on him or something like that??

I spotted some GF9 terrain over on The Miniature Page that MIGHT be of interest to you. It's reasonably priced AND prepainted for you Uberbusy types: http://theminiaturespage.com/news/806521/ .