BoB Nachtpfiffels new Table - Ideas so far

[Nachtpfiffel]

Hi Folks!
Here I plan to posts my ideas and future progress for my next gaming board.
But first I have to tell you, that I will only start after the "Spiel" in Essen after mid october, because I have to finish a lot of other projects.
So you have to be patient.
Until now all my boards have been extremely modular, because I had just one flat surface and placed a lot of different terrain pieces on it.
This one will be different
An Infinity Player in Kiel made a table a few years back which inspired me to plan this board.
He tried to make a board that gives the players the impression that their forces are fighting over rooftops of Skyscrapers. Sadly the impression was not convincing, nevertheless it was a nice table.

The question will be if the reducing of possible routes (bridges are the only solution to connect the Buildings) will inflict the games played on it on a bad way. Will it be fun? I don´t know.But I hope so.

I will post tomorrow pictures of the method I plan to create an impression of deepness.

What I will need :
Styrodur- a lot
a new printer - the old one is not working any longer
Time - nearly two months but probably more.
What I have:
me and an idea.
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comments are always welcome- except from spambots

[BrandonKF]

I like it. I was actually dreaming of doing a similar scheme once when I started getting back into Infinity. The concept of falling off a skyscraper while engaged in black ops is just too good of an idea to let go. Too many action movies I guess.

[Fenrir]

Hi Folks!
The question will be if the reducing of possible routes (bridges are the only solution to connect the Buildings) will inflict the games played on it on a bad way. Will it be fun? I don´t know.But I hope so.

How about big billboards? When I think of rooftops those immediately come to mind.

[Nachtpfiffel]

Billboards are allready planed at minimum two places to block LOS

[Nachtpfiffel]

OK let me show yoo the results of my thoughts so far:
The way to create the impression of deeper Houses is quite simple but not perfect: mirrors.

As you can see buildings appear at least double the length deep.
BUT
-when there are buildings smaller than the others, they don´t seem to reach the ground as the others do.
- Bridges will appear double
- you will see the reflection of the ceiling and surrounding players.
-Billboards might appear mirrored at the ground.

Nevertheless I hope it will look cool



I will work with (in germany called) Styrodur on which I will glue printed textures, which look the same from top or bottom.

Here you can see the planed design in a very rough sketch:



There are much more bridges that you would expect from skyscrapers, but for a good game where not only super jump troops might reach every spot on the table it is a necessary unrealistic element.

[Nachtpfiffel]

I just exported my sketch up try into a 2D image [/URL]

[jherazob]

If you make it look like there's some sort of urban remodelation going, all the bridges become reasonable as the workers won't have super jump either, and as a bonus this lets you use construction yard type scatter