My Lian Yu Jungle Terrain Thus Far

Apologies for the lack of updates recently, I've been in a bit of a painting slump, although that appears to have shifted and I'm back in full paint mode.  If cranked out most of my Trident realm army for Kings of War this week, but you can't see that just yet, only when it's done.

In the mean time here's a showcase of my jungle terrain thus far.  Calenderman added for scale.  The mat is from DeepCut Studio.  The foliage is plastic aquarium plants, mostly the really cheap ones.  The trees are from 4Ground.  The buildings (you've seen those before) are from Sarissa Precision.  The ponds I made myself, they're not amazing but I think their a good first attempt.

I plan to use this lot primarily for the Batman Miniatures Game as the island of Lian Yu.  But it could be used for other games like Malifaux and Warmahordes or even small games of Bolt Action or 40K.  Hell I could even use it for the Walking Dead (jungle edition of course).

So what would I add to this?  Definitely more trees.  Maybe another of those big leafy buggers too.  I think I could do with a couple more buildings, and I definitely need a few crates and barrels.  I'm toying with the idea of some cliffs and a stream too.

Bolt Action World of Tanks Edition

I've come up with a new alternative way to play Bolt Action.  Those of you who like historical accuracy will probably not like this.  On the other had those of you who like World of Tanks will probably love this.

What you will need.

• all the tanks, tank destroyers and self propelled artillery your gaming group possess
• your gaming group preferably an even number
• the bolt action rules
• enough bolt action dice for both teams
• a bag
• some paper
• two sets of coloured dice, eg a red team and a white team.
• the usual dice tape measures etc   

 Firstly set up the gaming table.  A big one preferably.  Plenty on hedges, trees farm houses etc.

Next everyone places all of their death machines on a table.  Someone writes all of the vehicles down on slips of paper, folds them up and puts them in a bag and gives it a good mix.  There should be one slip for each vehicle.

Now pick teams, and assign a colour to each, eg red and white.  These should be even of equal numbers.

Now each team dices off.  The winning team get first pick from the tank bag.  The teams alternate between each other until each player has a tank, i.e. team 1 picks a tank, then team 2, then team 1 again and so on.

Once every one has a vehicle deploy them on the board, the team that went second in the tank selection gets to choose table sides.

Now put all the coloured dice in the bag.  These determine which team gets to activate a unit.  From here on out treat it like a normal game of Bolt Action, with the objective of wiping out the enemy team.