Alternative scenery for German Revolution 1919

[doctorphalanx]

I'm interested in doing this era but for reasons of storage, time and expense I don't want to model a complete cityscape in 28mm...

So I'm wondering how much fighting occurred in open country. Alternatively I'm thinking about a low-rise industrial site like a marshalling yard.

Any ideas?

[traveller]

If you would stretch the period a bit up to 1921 you would have fighting in several places, Bavaria/Munich, Ruhr, the Baltics and Upper Silesia. The latter two would for sure offer more rural settings. I guess that it must also been some figting in villages and in the outskirts of Munich and other towns. I am considering to build a scenario around the third Silesian uprising May-July 1921, which also includes the Battle of Annaberg. There you have an interesting array of belligerents:

German side
Freikorps
Sebschutz(German militia)
German regulars
Indirect support by British and Italian troops

Polish side
Polish insurgents
indirect support by French troops

[doctorphalanx]

Thanks for the suggestion but I already have the Baltic theatre covered in 10mm using Red Actions.

If I do go ahead with this in 28mm I see Sarissa has some good city block and industrial buildings.

[traveller]

If you still want to go with a city setting there are quite a few photos showing troops active in the big squares, parks and open spaces of Berlin and Munich. That would only require building facades alon the edges of the wargames table. I guess the conflict in the Ruhr would also include industrial areas which would have a lot of open spaces and walls.

Looking forward to see what you come up with 

[doctorphalanx]

Yes, I noticed some of the fighting took place in big, open squares, but they suffer from the opposite problem - almost complete lack of cover (except for barricades)!

I think it should be possible to create a balanced solution but it needs some careful thought.

Sarissa do some very nice viaduct arches which could be used to split up a table with maybe city blocks and a small square with with some trees and an abandoned tram on one side and industrial buildings on the other...The ideas just need time to ‘cook’.

I once did a Stalingrad-esque cityscape in 15mm for playing Crossfire. It took hours to get it right but I got there in the end.

[doctorphalanx]

One of the Spartacist strongholds in Berlin was apparently the large munitions factories in the Spanda area, so I think there should be quite a lot of scope there...