New terrain?

[Sheepshagga]

So, with talk of the next campaign being more hive/block centric, what do you guys think of terrain that has tunnels underneath it?

Here's the idea:

I was watching a special on Stalingrad the other day.  The fighting was pretty ferocious and up-close, with brutal fighting taking place everywhere, to include the sewers.

I was thinking about creating a series of terrain pieces, modeled after an industrial center.  The largest piece is about 20x26 and about 15" tall.  The first 2" is really a base for the rest of the building.  It's a tunnel system, completely accessible.  The idea is to have a series of tunnels (with the tops exposed, sort of like cutting PVC pipes in half and playing in the bottom half), then the ground floor.  There would be enough floor to fight and move in, and enough open spaces so people can reach the models inside the tunnels.  There would be several openings to both the outside and inside of the building from the tunnels, plus (almost) enough room for a Land Raider to go through the building.  Then from the ground floor up, it is rubbled building- think the regular buildings at GE, but a bit more tricked out....

Do you guys think this terrain is worth building?  I can put a rough foam board together and take pics if that helps demonstrate what I mean...  What do you guys think?

[spaz102]

I think it would really cool.

[GI_Joel]

Jason was talking about "boarding action" Type scenarios to take some of the more important buildings on the map.  Some of these cool terrain bits you are able to create can be used for floor plans of the buildings. I am open to the idea, lets see what comes from it.

[Sheepshagga]

I did some rough work on the tunnels, the foundation of the building, and the building itself.  It's a workable piece of terrain, with everything I was hoping for, but it's big.  Not so big that it messes up the rest of the table, but for my storage and transport purposes, it's a little bulky.  This was to be the biggest piece of a series of industrial buildings, but that would mean transporting a city's worth of terrain every weekend.  I could save myself transporting them every time and just donate them to GE.  That way it's there when we need it (as long as it survives the abuse...).  I dunno.... gotta think on this a bit more. 

I've got half a million things to accomplish over the next couple weeks.  Now that I have a rough done, I'll shelve it for now and knock out a couple more things.  Maybe I'll have some done in time for our megabattle.

[Espa]

Sounds awesome Greg!

As Joel mentioned, a type of boarding action will return to determine control of particularly important terrain pieces.  Don't worry I. Guard players - you'll have a different objective.