Ruins of Forgotten

Ruins of Forgotten - Scenery for Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40K

The strong thick walls of the dead town rise up open to the heavens. Who lived here and what calamity brought about the ruin is not remembered. One thing is for certain, more will die here as this place perpetually becomes a battle ground. As the roofs, doors, and former citizens have rotted away and scattered as dust on the seasonal winds, so also will those left whose corpses are left here after the battle. All in time becomes as this empty town of death, all becomes Forgotten!

Modular Panels Provide Flexible Configuration for Various Scenarios

The panels of the town can be arranged in different ways for a tight town together flanked by muddy plains...


...a wide city with separated by a large pavement (by flipping the muddy plains panels over)...


... or in a number of other permutations by moving the panels in other combinations and/or using less panels.

Constructing the Ruins of Forgotten

The panels and the walls are "Expanded Polystyrene Foam Board Insulation" .75-in x c. 14-in x 4-ft from a hardware store. I used a box cutter (scoring on each side) with a straight edge to cut the panels that were used for the walls. The walls are glued together with Styrofoam white glue with sewing pins tacking the bottom of the walls and corners together for additional strength. After the glue dried, I used silicon caulking (tube in a caulking gun) along all of the bottom and corners to fill in the gaps and provide additional strength. The paint is acrylic craft paint and I used brushes, sponges, cotton balls, and cotton swabs to create the desired textures with the various layered colors. Since the panels don't always lay quite flush with each other, I also painted the edges so to blend the gaps better. The polystyrene foam boards worked well on the top for my desired rough weathered edges, but if you are trying to make clean edges for a wall or building, I recommend using some other type of board!

Battles in the Ruins of Forgotten

For the battles played so far, treated all of the terrain as normal except the walls are impassible for anything that doesn't fly (fliers can not end a turn on the wall). The door way gaps and passages that the walls form are impassible if the model's base does not freely fit through (a Space Marine Tactical Squad model can fit through all door ways, but some are too tight for Terminators). Also, the walls are considered indestructible giving smaller units a place to find cover from larger units.

The following pictures are from a battle we did of my Ork forces against my Space Marine forces. The white backgammon pieces are neutral objectives and to control an objective a model had to sit on it and then on that player's next turn replace the token with one representing that force (we used the red backgammon pieces for one side and black checkers for the other). The rectangular wall in the middle where one of the objectives is are dominoes that provided cover. Moving onto the domino wall required 1.5 inches of movement from the base of the wall just to get on top and another 1.5 inches of movement to be on the other side. As the domino wall is an inch wide it was permissible to end the turn centered on top of the wall. If your eye noticed the knight on horseback, the Ork Warbikes were not quite finished and the knight stood in for one of the war bikes to even the points on both sides. This game was also before I fully had the scenery completely painted and if I were playing this configuration today I would use the reverse muddied black top in between the two town halves.