I’ve been looking at making my own hills. Big hills to complement the smaller commercial hills I’ve already purchased. I knew I should use High Density Polystyrene which is otherwise called Blue or Pink Foam. But I was struggling to find that. Luckily, after a bit of googling, I found a good explanation of Styrofoam on Blue Foam, Pink Foam, Foamboard and Styrofoam.
Crossfire Terrain
Crossfire Inside a Giant Stalingrad Factory
Some musing on playing Crossfire entirely inside a giant Stalingrad factory.
Generic Building Sectors for Crossfire
Most of my Crossfire buildings are generic 3″x3″ sectors of foam board on a cardboard base. Some are building complexes of more than one sector. And I’ve also done Triangular Blocks to give Diagonal Streets.
Triangular Buildings for Diagonal Streets on a Wargaming Table
A while ago I played a Crossfire game called 2 Foot City. It was fought on a 2’x2′ cityscape. Since then I’ve played a few more games in heavily built up areas and they have all been on an assumed square grid. The trouble with a square grid is you only get streets that exactly fit the grid, i.e. vertical or horizontal, with no diagonals. Lately I’ve been wondering how to superimpose diagonal streets on my urban grid.
Visibility in Crossfire with Different Terrain and Troop Profiles
In my musings on Desert Warfare using Crossfire I starting thinking about the possibility that different terrain and/or troops might be different heights. As it happens Blitzkrieg Commander implements this concept. Here is how it could work in Crossfire.
Making Wargaming Terrain: Terrain Templates
Terrain is a key part of war and wargaming. I use terrain templates to define the perimeter of my area terrain features. The same templates are used for most terrain types, I just put different items on top to represent the type of feature, i.e. fruit trees make an orchard.
Making Wargaming Terrain: 15mm Wooden Buildings
These are generic instructions for making two sizes of Wooden Buildings. The painting style is described in Painting Wooden Buildings. For more examples see Homemade Wooden Buildings
Homemade Wooden Buildings for 15mm Wargaming
All these 15mm (1/100th) scale Wooden Buildings were made and painted by me. The painting style is described in Painting Wooden Buildings and the construction in Making 15mm (1/100th) scale Wooden Buildings
Sandbags: Making and painting sandbags for wargames
Sandbags are useful for entrenchments and other fortifications. So I thought I’d make and paint some.
Making a Wargaming Terrain Mat / Base Cloth
I’ve been using a plain green felt base cloth for my games since, well, forever. Originally it was a dark green pool table baize I got off Evan Allen. More recently I got a lighter green felt base cloth from S&A Scenics. But they are well, dull, so I’ve been toying with what I could replace them with.
Flocking Wargaming Figures with Flat Earth and Dry Brushing
A method inspired by Mark Case’s blog on Basing the Hussars. Mark specialises in the Peninsular War, which rang a bell, so I thought I’d give it a go for my own Peninsular Spanish.
Measuring Ranges in Crossfire using Terrain Features
“The action [in Crossfire] takes place within the effective range of small arms” (p.1). Having said that there are some weapons that had very short ranges, e.g. Infantry Anti-tank weapons) so people have speculated on how to specify ranges in Crossfire. Some people have suggested introducing rulers, but this seems at odds with Crossfire’s intent, so I explored an alternative way of measuring ranges.