Spring Clean Hobby Challenge. Adeptus Titanicus world building (city scape and Titans)

I wanted to get a lot more done this week than i actually managed which was a little annoying. I did manage to get some of my knights built and these are now base coated and about to go under the airbrush.

The rest of the week was spent on some battlefront bits and doing some more work on the table. I thought that i might well run through my thought processes for why we did it like this and where i am up to.

The table is a 4×4 and when titanicus was being released it was suggested that this would be the optimum size for a board. We have seen lots of people playing with 6×4 but felt rather than making it bigger we would make more line blocking terrain and see how we liked it. Even with going for a 4×4 it didnt fit on any table in my house across its width so a decision was made to build an under board. This was made out of 18mm mdf to give it enough weight that it could not be easily upended even if it was lent on. We then edged it in pine to prevent the tiles from spreading during play and also the board can be used with a mat for flames of war so it has dual purpose.

The edge pieces go in next, these are done so as to give little tactical advantage but just add to the narrative a little. These are forge world resin kits, vanguard miniatures parts and tiatnicus bits super glued on, then covered with pollyfilla and pva and painted using 3 colours of aerosol, a rough and ready pin wash and some powders. These are intentionally dowdy so that the titans would hopefully stand out a little more. You can see where some sections of the board have only had their first base coat over the polyfilla.

The individual tiles were designed and spaced so that lines of access could be closed down or opened up depending on orientation the image below shows, for example, a scenario where the titans would enter a city from the outside so the cover is quite sparse for the attackers with big building that easily hide a warlord for the defenders.

As you will be able to see from the first aerial shot, the firing lines and lines of attack are reasonably regimented, the second aerial shot shows how by rotating the boards in the bottom left hand corner and one of the middle right hand side tiles other avenues of attack are opened up. We have found that most games can be tailored, in this way, and they can be made more or less tactical.

The next two images show the models eye view and how the rotation closes down some lines of attack from bigger distances. The final two images show the city scape from a different angle and the board set up with cover for both sides and a more open kill zone in the middle of the board.

I hope you have enjoyed this, feel free to fire questions at me if you have any and thank you for looking and hopefully i’ll have some finished kerniggets by the end of the weekend.