Russian Village Buildings (game report and new hut, 13 April)

[Poliorketes]

Honestly what it needs the most is a decent gaming board. The green cloth lessens the look of those great buildings a lot. You need nothing complicated, just some sanded styrofoam-boards with a browm drybrush and some lanes in a contrasting tone.

[Wirelizard]

I'd love to have the space for terrain tiles, but honestly they're a non-starter. I don't have a huge amount of storage space and do very little gaming at home, so transport is an issue as well.

The cloth I used for that last game is game club property, and I'm not a fan of the old-school billiard-table-green look either.

The cloth in this photo is also a loaner, but looks one heck of a lot better than the older one:

Advance to Attack! by WireLizard, on Flickr

This was Sunday afternoon's RCW outing, in which the Whites punted the Reds, who were trying to hold the edge of the town with a couple of rifle sections and a Maxim HMG.

The mat here is one of Hotz Artwork's "European field" mats, a much greyer green with some stenciled/sprayed patterns in different colours. I'm either going to buy one of these, or do something similar up myself if I can find suitable fabric.

[Poliorketes]

Looks definitely better. On the other hand I think Hots is rather expensive for what they deliver (Though part of the cost for mine was due to the horrid shipping to Germany)