Comrade's Wargames

I’ve had a lot of fun building terrain for our grimdark / Inq28 style sci-fi campaign (The Cauldron). I tackled some large pieces for our modular underhive board, and now I’m back to showcase some smaller bits of scatter terrain to spice up the battelfield.

Up first are some industral pieces: two barricades (from Mantic’s Deadzone set, I think) and two gigantic oversized bolts that I liberated from my kids’ toy box and painted in crusty, rusty colors.

Up next we have some very simple alien growths, perfect for use as objective markers or to dress up a wall or panel. These are Tyranid cysts from some sort of 40k set. I affixed them to small pieces of plasticard painted in a simple rusty metallic paint scheme.

These pieces can be used on the ground as objective points, but to me they work even better when affixed to a wall or door with a bit of sticky tack.

They look like the sort of oozing, ichor-filled growths that would adorn a tunnel or hallway within an area that’s being overtaken by foul xenos. Yeah, that’s the stuff.

This last piece was something I’ve been wanting to kitbash for a long time – a servitor medicae station, one of countless thousands of such sites located throughout the working class levels of Hive Sacrament.

These little stations feature prominently in Darktide, the 40k first person shooter where you play as part of a ragtag Inquisitorial warband purging the taint of chaos from the cruel underhive.

This terrain build was pretty simple – a piece of pink foam fitted with a vaguely religious alcove piece kindly provided by John’s 3D printer. On top of that I affixed some industrial lamps, cables, and grating – all OSHA approved, of course. The servitor model was an old piece from the Inquisitor Karamazov kit that’s been bouncing around in my bits box for years.

You can see this servitor station in the background of our recent game in the underbelly of Hive Sacrament.

Look for more of these little scatter pieces in our upcoming sci-fi games!