Recreating the ruins of Bremen 1945

[TacticalPainter]

Ever since we played the Road to Bremen campaign for Chain of Command back in 2018 I've been wanting to have another crack at creating the final map - the ruined city itself (or a small part of it at least!). I finally had the chance this weekend as I've been taking a new player through the campaign and we've now reached that particular map.

While I've had many of the buildings since I made the original table I didn't have a suitable mat nor did I give enough thought to rubble. If there is a single lesson from this, it's how well a bit of scattered rubble manages to tie a table together. The majority of buildings are scratch built using foam core and as usual for me this is in 20mm.

[Ash]

Great looking table.

[fred]

Great stuff - not often you see a table like this for WWII - even though it’s a very evocative look from period photos.

Even with more rubble, I think you could easily add even more rubble!

[Daeothar]

That's looking absolutely epic! 

And indeed, no matter the work you put into those buildings (which are great btw), it's the rubble that binds it all together and makes the table.

It must have been awesome to game on that table for sure 

[brunei35]

Looks excellent table, not that the first iteration  did not look great. Hopefully another AAR coming soon?

[tomrommel1]

very nice iundeed

[Tom Dulski]

 Great work, that's quite a impressive table.

[marianas_gamer]

Nice work! I imagine that it is quite the chore to set up and take down.

[Digits]

Really cool.  Looks like a lot of challenging fun to play across!

[TacticalPainter]

Nice work! I imagine that it is quite the chore to set up and take down.

Actually, surprisingly not. Unlike putting together a Normandy table with hedges, orchards, woods, buildings, roads etc this was simply a case of putting down the buildings and fences and then sprinkling rubble as scatter terrain. Less fiddly than many other tables although it may appear otherwise.

[FifteensAway]

Looks good.  Just a guess but about 20 'modular' pieces to facilitate setup and take down???

[TacticalPainter]

Looks good.  Just a guess but about 20 'modular' pieces to facilitate setup and take down???

Yes, that’s probably about right. Then add fences and a few pieces of scatter like telegraph poles before the rubble goes down.

[CapnJim]

Sweet Bejeebers!  Well done!

[MaleGriffin]

Impressive! That's a lot of destruction!