Wargames Scenery / Terrain – Trees and Woods

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After hills, trees and woods are probably the next most common and useful item to have as scenery on your wargames battlefield. Perfect for hiding behind, blocking line of sight or ambushes from the woods (Wood Elves anyone?) they are all round useful

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Another post on my main blog - this time looking at trees and woods as wargames scenery and how you can make your own. Alternatively you can buy ready made woods or perhaps buy the trees to make your own woods with. Either of the latter approaches make for ideal short cuts if you want to get some woods done quickly and don't have the time to make your own from scratch. I made some trees myself from scratch (actually using vine tomato vines), but have also made woods from ready made trees on the grounds that it is much quicker to do and ready made trees are not that expensive, especially if you buy somewhere like eBay.

Wargames Scenery / Terrain – Buildings

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Whatever gaming system you play, at some point you are going to want a building or two as terrain for your battlefield. Buildings provide cover, protect units, direct the enemy into traps, can be garrisoned with your troops and generally add to the atmosphere of a game. The bleak future world of Warhammer 40K looks great with bunkers, bastions and ruined buldings in general. Bulidings add greatly to Warhammer fantasy battlefields too

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My latest post over on www.wargamessceneryworld.com discusses that most useful of addition to any wargames battlefield in the way of terrain - buildings. You can make your own, build them from kits - plastic or cast plaster / resin- or even buy them ready made (and painted too, if you like). It all depends on how much of your own effort you'd like to put in. Whichever way you do it, getting a building or two to enhance your wargames scenery will be well worth it I'd say. It brings narrative games / campaigns to life to have some realistic buildings on the battlefield.

Wayland Games Offering Free Warlord Games Sprue

 

 
Wayland Games in the UK have a free offer on at the moment, where in exchange for your name and address they will send you a free (random) Warlord Games miniatures sprue. Warlord offer a range of nicely detailed miniatures covering a variety of periods including Ancient Britons, Celts, Romans, 17th century (30 years war) and Napoleonics. If you had ever wanted to try their miniatures or are thinking of trying a new period, this is a great opportunity to see what Warlord Games do for free. Free is always a good price! Apparently they have 'thousands upon thousands' of sprues to give away - all you have to do is sign up here and agree to receive the Wayland Games and Warlord Games newsletters, which seems a small price to pay. Go get your free Warlord Games sprue! I know I will be.

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Like it says above - Wayland games and Warlord Games are offering a free sprue of wargames miniatures just for signing up to their respective mailing lists here. Got to be worth a look for free!