WARMACHINE URBAN COMBAT

This layout is a mishmash of a large building (Woodstone Cigars) made of foamboard with scrapbook paper for brickwork, a Lego building from a Spider-Man set, and a Hallmark Halloween building. The walls and fountain are from Department 56.

If you want to build your own structures then foamboard is the way to go. It's cheap, easy to cut, and simple to glue together. If you want to buy cheap buildings, then look at toy stores, and Goodwill stores. You can find cheap toy houses that can be painted and used for terrain. Or you can buy your own terrain from various sources like BMC, JR MINIATURES, CONFLIX, WALTHERS, PLASTICVILLE, and DEPARTMENT 56.

Legends, above any other WARMACHINE book, really brings on the urban combat environment. No open fields. No wide hills and valleys. Just narrow streets, looming buildings, and a thousand nooks and crannies for your enemies to hide.

Wikipedia says that city combat is very different from warfare in the open battlefield. Complicating factors in urban warfare include the presence of civilians and buildings of all sorts. Some civilians may be difficult to distinguish from combatants. Tactics are complicated by a crowded environment, limited line of sight and fire because of buildings, enhanced concealment and cover for defenders, below ground infrastructure, and the ease of placement of booby traps and snipers.

Games of WARMACHINE in a city can be a lot of fun as long as both players are comfortable with the changes in play style that will come with adding all the extra buildings as well as the possibility for elevated terrain features.