Reply To: Talking a bit about CLASH of Spears ( well more than a bit )

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Ok , on tables and basing..

First of all, basing.. I will say something interesting, we don’t even ask that all figures have the same basing. If some are on round bases some on square bases .. it doesn’t matter. We paid extra attention to that. The reason is very selfish…
We started playing fantasy with warhammer fantasy battle 3rd edition, our orcs are all in 25x25mm while the rest of the troops are mostly 20x20mm and we eventually want to release a fantasy version and be able to use our armies so we work to ensure that we don’t have the requirement “as long as all troops are based the same” 🙂 !!!

Tables. So because of the deployment and how the rules work you will notice that most table set ups provide a good game. There is no requirement to have X% covered with terrain. You can play a game on a city where you cannot enter buildings ( rules for entering buildings/fortifications will be in future supplement ) and fight in the streets that are open terrain and they are still a lot of fun. Also table symmetry is not critical because the hidden deployment phase balances that out. The victory conditions in the scenarios though are indeed carefully planned measured and playtested to make sure that the game is fun for both side.

But here are some pictures of some tables of games:

Some of the pictures I’ll post are part of battle reports so they will be in a “report/comic” format:

 

 

Does that provide a good idea of tables we use ?

For a standard game we use 4×4′ tables but the scenarios are prepared so that you can also play on tables that are only 3′ deep if needed since you don’t have the typical “deploy 6″ in” , because of the deployment phase !

 

Hope that helps…