With the figures done it was now time to look at what terrain I had to play on. Unfortunately I have no futuristic terrain with the exception of a few 40k buildings.

The first decision was do I repeat a Sci-Fi version of Gotham Grease and Gunk with its 3D board, roads, and footpaths or do I use a mouse mat. I already have boards for Gotham and the Wild West and storage was becoming a problem so I decided on the mouse mat base.

I have bought a few mats from Deep Cut Studios and decided on this 1200mm X 1200mm one which will fit nicely with the red and black of the Nomad figures.

The feel I was after was a Gothic post apocalyptic one, but one that would be versatile across a number of game systems. I already have enough scatter terrain and a number of smaller pieces that will fit so it was really just looking at what buildings were available. I have cube based storage systems for both household goods and wargaming terrain so it needed to be tough to withstand being thrown in on top of one another so mdf. buildings seemed logical.

I use TTCombat and Knights of Dice for my mdf buildings, both of which have lots of Gothic and Hive buildings to choose from. Knights of Dice quality tends to be superior quality but are more complex to put together and are more expensive. TTCombat have less detail use more greyboard, but are simpler models.

I ended up with buying the packets of brick scatter from Knights of Dice and the rest from TTCombat. In the past I have just cut up plastic sprues for the scatter but I just cannot be bothered with such “ship” these days.

About fifteen years ago I had built a modular Gothic terrain table to use at the Arcanacon conference every year. This consisted of 24 only 300mm squares Unfortunately I sold it and the blighter only gave me the deposit and did not send the rest – just can’t trust 40k gamers can you! Some pics below:

These were made out of cardboard and foam board but were too fragile and difficult to store. Still it is one of those many hobby sales that I have lived to regret.

I will create the same sort of effect with the mdf terrain. The first that I chose was some pieces to provide some texture to the opens spaces on the board. Four of these should suffice.

My normal table is size 7 feet X 4.5 feet so I wanted enough terrain to cover this although only about half would be used at any one time for Infinity games. Skirmish games need lots of terrain so any excess will not go astray.

The first piece was a landing pad that could go in the centre of the table to provide enough cover without dominating the table.

Next I bought a variety of Gothic style building sets that I will base and provide a desolated post apocalyptic look like I had with the city-scape years ago.

I just need to find a few pieces of futuristic furniture and accoutrements to place in the ruined buildings to provide that “extra touch” of “realism”. Fortunately TTCombat has a range of resin furniture that is suitable.

I will provide some updates as we go along. At the moment I just have to wait for the pieces to arrive. I think I have a few things to fill in my time while that happens!