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Title: Simple Space Station tiles
Post by: Dean on July 12, 2025, 09:24:45 AM: It’s amateur hour here at Horrendous Gaming. I needed some quick way to represent a particular set of room layouts in a hurry.

Armed with foamboard, cardboard, and a can of Rust-Oleum Gunmetal, I knocked these up. Pretty happy with the results and made a stack of stuff that can lay out quickly as needed.

Dithering over adding short height walls and no surprise where those doors came from given my history lol

The markers are also very obviously home made.
Title: Re: Simple Space Station tiles
Post by: Dean on July 12, 2025, 02:02:56 PM: First game played - https://horrendousgaming.blogspot.com/2025/07/its-real.html
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Post by: Kourtchatovium104 on July 12, 2025, 02:29:08 PM: Inspiring idea! :)
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Post by: Spinal Tap on July 12, 2025, 02:31:45 PM: They're really good looking tiles and get a quick set up.

My usual Battlesystem walls take a lot of setting up and, tbh, I'm getting a little tired of them.

Funnily enough, I set up for another game of Call Security last night and will be playing it within the hour.
Title: Re: Simple Space Station tiles
Post by: Storm Wolf on July 12, 2025, 03:53:27 PM: Hi Dean,

Looks like fun. Colour me intrigued.

Interested in possible play-testing etc, email sent.

Good luck and don't set your phasers to "stun!"
Title: Re: Simple Space Station tiles
Post by: Dean on July 12, 2025, 04:35:49 PM: “We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill!”

Thanks K104!

Cheers ST, looking forward to your feedback as always.

Great SW, copy sent, let me know how you get on.
Title: Re: Simple Space Station tiles
Post by: Storm Wolf on July 12, 2025, 04:50:04 PM: Quote from: Dean on July 12, 2025, 04:35:49 PM
“We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill!”

Thanks K104!

Cheers ST, looking forward to your feedback as always.

Great SW, copy sent, let me know how you get on.

Cheers Dean, looking forward to giving these rules a blast (as it were ;)) :D
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Post by: punkrabbitt on July 13, 2025, 06:23:39 AM: Looks great to me!
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Post by: Dean on July 13, 2025, 08:09:27 AM: Thanks Harry
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Post by: Seal on July 13, 2025, 08:20:19 AM: I love this!
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Post by: Dean on July 13, 2025, 10:15:38 AM: Cheers Seal
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Post by: Dean on July 30, 2025, 04:52:21 PM: Bit the bullet today, had some strange hard foam packing material kicking around, rigged up a jig for my hot wire cutter, and cut it all to a uniform height. It’s chunky but I need it to stay standing up on its own to be flexible across all 10 table layouts, so it should work.

Quick cut with the hot wire allows for the old Space Hulk doors to insert, and I’ll pull them out when the door is open. Don’t have much of it, so will probably leave back ends of room open for easy access for now, we’ll see how it looks.
Title: Re: Simple Space Station tiles
Post by: Dean on July 31, 2025, 02:59:54 PM: So I think I was right and it needed walls to help define the rooms and probably to make line of sight more obvious, any thoughts?
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Post by: Dean on August 01, 2025, 11:06:51 AM: Bit more Headbunny Games terrain done
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Post by: Dean on August 03, 2025, 05:51:51 PM: [COMMERCIAL]

The rules are now live at Wargame Vault - https://www.wargamevault.com/product/531471/Call-Security?affiliate_id=4612915
Title: Re: Simple Space Station tiles
Post by: Storm Wolf on August 03, 2025, 06:25:26 PM: Quote from: Dean on August 03, 2025, 05:51:51 PM
[COMMERCIAL]

The rules are now live at Wargame Vault - https://www.wargamevault.com/product/531471/Call-Security?affiliate_id=4612915

Congratulations Dean, I must apologise for my tardiness in not even getting a game in! What with real life, my wife breaking her wrist and my daughters graduation from university its been a bit bonkers this past month or so.
However, I have read the rules and I think they look good, I plan on giving them a whirl at the fist opportunity. So I wish you luck :D
Title: Re: Simple Space Station tiles
Post by: Dean on August 03, 2025, 06:42:59 PM: Thanks, really appreciate that! Easy to fix problems so please don’t hesitate to email me with any issues.
Title: Re: Simple Space Station tiles
Post by: Dean on August 07, 2025, 02:18:49 PM: Next up, really simple space station scatter. Beds are foam board, strange stuff at the back recycled containers (the spiral bit hold desiccant), benches from lolly sticks and matches, cabinets are xps foam with cardboard details. All sprayed with rust-oleum metallic spray. Need to paint the bases and the two vending machines but the rest is good enough for solo hahahaha.
Title: Re: Simple Space Station tiles
Post by: Sunjester on August 07, 2025, 02:55:45 PM: Nice scatter, that do the job. That Headbunny Games stuff looks very effective. I've got dome fantasy stuff from there in the past, I'll have to have a look at the sci-fi ranges.
Title: Re: Simple Space Station tiles
Post by: Dean on August 07, 2025, 08:51:54 PM: Thanks mate and yeah Headbunny is worth a look.

It’s all starting to come together now.
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Post by: Dean on August 09, 2025, 01:23:46 PM: The futuristic cargo containers are Headbunny Games again.

I’ve finished the last of the Stargrave Scavengers sprues by creating a set with improvised weapons, a few more with guns and a set of strange invading aliens.

These last ones were starting to feel like a chore, a final seven out of 40 can feel like that, so I motivated myself by deciding that they are blind to the colours of our human perceptions and therefore monochrome clothing makes perfect sense to them.