I whipped up a new build for last weekend's game session.
The game was Tannhäuser, played as a tabletop for a change and with a handful of custom characters thrown into the mix. Unfortunately the pics I took during the game all turned out to be sub-standard , so I can only show you the build itself without any action shots. (I can't recreate the shots since I don't have all the minis we used - my gaming buddy brought a couple of his...)

Sewers, bottom level - lots of open space


Sewers, 2nd level. Plus: Connected cellars!


24" x 24", 5 levels high


View of the big house, plus elevated road section


Big house, upper floor


Big house, lower floor


High road and lower market colonnades


Entry to the dwelling


Dwelling, market colonnades and market official's tiny office hovel


Small house, upper floor


Small house, lower floor


Off-center house, terrace view


Off-center house, roof removed


Off-center house, upper floor


Off-center house, lower floor


Worked out fine. And at this scale I didn't really need to shortclip (though I still did in places) - still had quite a few ckips left after I finished this (out of 5 boxes).

Fantastic!!!

Agreed!

That's a fantastic, tight and well thought out build! Its really great to see some props in there as well.

So, I have to ask; what was the actual game experience like? Did your players enjoy it?

Thanks Denny (and everyone else)!

It was just a 2-player game, but me and my buddy enjoyed it a lot.

I controlled the Union, comprised of every official character released so far (John MacNeal, Barry Daniel Brown, Tala Aponi, Sergio Ramirez and Hound DOG, "Hoax" Lamsbury, 2x Commando Alpha and 2x Commando Delta) plus a few supporting characters that my buddy and I made rules for ourselves (the characters being Hellboy, Abe Sapien, Jennifer Murphy [a battlesuit operator, using an AT-43 U.N.A. model], two different kinds of BPRD field agents [HeroClix minis] and a Combat Engineer [Star Wars mini]).

My buddy had the Reich, with the whole arsenal of official characters (Hermann von Heizinger, Karl Zermann, Eva Krämer, Yula Körlitz, Hoss Harbinger, 2x Stoßtruppen and 2x Schocktruppen) and several homebrew characters, them being: Mantor (an Übermensch officer, using a Major Maxim HeroClix mini), Dr. Volkov (a mad scientist, using a HorrorClix min) and two each of regular and radioactive zombie troopers (using HorrorClix minis).
There also was Rittmeister Erwin Hochschild (using a Per Degaton HeroClix mini), but he was a prisoner of the Union.

The scenario we played was fairly straightforward. The Reich was on a serch and rescue mission to free the Rittmeister. Their objectives (for 1 Victory Point each) were:
1. Find the prisoner.
2. Get the prisoner of the "map".
3. Find the Union HQ map room.
4. Grab vital intelligence and get it off the "map".
5. Find and destroy the enemy radio room.

The Union's goals were:
1. Break the prisoner's mental defenses (2 VP)
2. Interrogate the prisoner (2 VP)
3. Get the gathered intelligence to the radio room and transmit it to Union HQ (1 VP)

I chose the cellar of the off-center house as the map room, the bedroom in the big house to be the interrogation room and the small room on the ground floor of the small house to be the radio room.
My buddy had no idea what was where and didn't know anything about the setup of the build besides what you see in the 3rd pic.


The Reich started their rescue in the middle of the night (reduced visibility) and entered on the edge with the street ramp.
Soon they were spotted by a patrolling Commando and all Hell broke loose, with the plaza at the ramp turning into a veritable killing field.
Bullets and stranger projectiles peppered the ground and walls everywhere and the Reich had a hard time advancing under the steadily increasing stream of fire that the Union was throwing against them.
Through some well-played special actions my buddy managed to get one character each into the big house and the small house, finding the prisoner and destroying the radio room. He also pressed hard into the off-center house and found the map room, where he managed to grab the plans and escape with that character. He couldn't free the prisoner though and everyone (and everything!) that tried crossing the plaza died at the hands of devastatingly accurate Union fire support.

But still the game ended with a 4 - 0 win for the Reich since I just couldn't get around to breaking the prisoner. Whereas I rolled gloriously in combat, I failed miserably in interrogation.
Still I count this as a moral victory at least since I only lost 3 troopers and 2 hero characters compared to 5 troopers and 5 hero characters on my buddy's end.


We really had a great time with this and scattering props around the built really helped with the game. I would've liked to place even more props, but this was all I could build in time for the game (and I didn't have access to my other load of props I did for my Maiden since my fully-propped Maiden stands on display at my FLGS!).
If you've ever played the Tannhäuser board game and liked it, you'll love it when you'll transition it into a tabletop game and use TerraClips for terrain. It's like it was meant to be played that way (with a few minor tweaks, but still...).

wow, I have to copy many of your ideas. sorry for that

terrible thought to unclip this fantastic build....

I consider it to be flattery if you copy anything I come up with.
Copy away, that's why I post this stuff: To give people ideas.

And it's not that terrible a thought to unclip this. I have these pics, right?
That means I can rebuild it any time I want.

Purdy... *drool*

All I can say is WOW!!!!! Very Very nice!! Love the props and just the whole build. I could see playing Malifaux and Mordheim on that. I am drooling.

love it! so beautiful!

What an outstandingly awesome building! You did a really great job on this... things are straight, rooms are large enough to move around in, there's lots of vertical depth to explore. What a blast it would be to game on something like that!

How long did it take you to build something like this? Ont including design time or placing props... just building with TerraClips.

How sturdy is the structure overall? Say if someone really bumps the table or accidentally hits it with a hand?

What about when you lift one level off and set it aside; how sturdy is that? Will it easily crumble in your hands? Is it rock solid? Somewhere in between?

Thanks for sharing pictures of this great build. Really shows off the product in real life!

Building this took me about ... I don't really know ... maybe 3-4 hours.
I hadn't really thought about a design beforehand, I just had a few ideas I wanted in my build (like the interconnected cellars and the "market arcades"). So basically I made things up as I went along.

Apart from the upper street section, everything was pretty sturdy and held up well. OK, the roof of the small house in the middle tended to slip whenever someone bumped the table, but that's it. Everything else held up great and removing sections was easy enough - aside from the upper street, which I could've made sturdier with a few more clips...

Terrific build, very inspiring, but also - DALEKS!