What’s the point in having an issue dedicated to teaching
the rules regarding defending walls if you don’t have some walls to defend?
Issue #7 provides easy-to-follow directions for building
walls and fences for your game table. The materials are cheap, the skill level
is low (if not fool-proof, as we’ll see), and the result is as many obstacles
as you could desire for your games.
The walls are made from 6” sections of thick card glued
together and topped with thin card. When you pay attention to what you’re
doing, it works just fine. When you’re attention to detail is lacking, things
go a little awry. When building one of my walls, I wasn’t precise in my cutting
and that left a bump in the top of the wall. When I topped the wall with
section of thin card, the result was a less than even finish. Not horrible, but
a little more care on my part would have resulted in a better terrain.
The fences are made from balsa wood glued to a section of
thin card. The uprights are placed first, then once the glue has dried, the
crossbars are attached. A lot of dry brushing later and some flocking, and you’ve
got yourself 6” of cheap fencing that looks fantastic. I’ll likely keep using
my Pegasus
Hobbies stone walls instead of these scratch built ones, but the fences
have and will continue to see a lot of use in games.
That finishes off our look at issues #7. The issue’s promo
blurb for #8 tells us we can look forward to new rules for missile weapons, a
Legolas metal miniature, and techniques for making woods and forests. If this
was back during Battle Games in Middle-earth’s original run, we’d have all that
in two weeks. But I’ve got some painting and scratch-building to do, so we’ll
get to issue #8 as soon as I can.
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