Wargaming scenery

Playing tabletop wargames is a fantastic experience, even if you haven’t time to finish painting your models or the scenery surrounding them is provisory. In the beginning, when you start your journey with this hobby, it sure looks like that. But when you gain more skill and experience, you begin to think about more realistic, more professional terrain for your - finally fully painted - miniatures. It’s a natural way of things.

Wargaming scenery for the ultimate battlefield experience

No matter which system you play, the scenery is vital to any wargame. Either futuristic, medieval-themed, fantasy or historical, good-looking terrain brings unarguable immersion to your play.

There are many different ways to become an owner of a wargame terrain. The significant criteria differing the solutions are resources, time availability, and artistic skills. If you’re short on all of them - especially when you don’t want to spend much money - the preferable option for you could be a paper or a cardboard wargaming terrain. These are undoubtedly two of the most economical ways to get some scenery (either by preparing it on your own or affording templates). Still, it’s good to remember that the effects might not be satisfying enough - you’ll have the terrain, but it won’t look realistic.

Goblins fleeing from horrific Putrid Snail Beast through the Dark Forest

Another solution, similar to the paper or cardboard option, is wargame terrain mats and wargaming terrain tiles. In this case, you’ll have to spend more, but by affording that accessory, you’ll have a pretty realistic-looking terrain. The only catch is that this solution is good mostly (or only) for flat terrain features, such as lakes, rivers, and mud. If you wish to make your battlefield as realistic and complex as possible, stay with us for the rest of that article.

Create a realistic battlefield with our wargaming scenery

The two most common ways of getting realistic tabletop wargame scenery are to build it by yourself or find a hobby store or company with a range of already prepared, pre-painted sets. In both cases, you’ll need to buy something - no matter if it’ll be the essential materials or the product itself. It’s tough to prepare a professionally-looking wargaming scenery alone, based only on your resources. In addition, it requires much time and skill - nowadays, not everyone has either. That’s why we would like to give you a handful of information, so you would know what to do in such a case.

At Kromlech, we have it all. Our Tabletop Scenics gaming series products are a range of almost-instantly-ready-to-play wargaming terrains. And among the whole Tabletop Scenics offer, you’ll find many different types of terrain - from scenery for ancient wargaming, through frost scenery, to classic fantasy wargaming scenery. The only work you’ll need to do with these is to assemble and paint them - just like you do with new miniatures.

If you’re not keen on affording previously readied terrain, you can always check our Kromlech Basing Kits & Scatter Terrain or 3D Workshop offers. You’ll find many different resin scenery elements you can paint, convert, mix, and merge as you want. These products are universal, so resin rocks and trees can be used to create any forest terrain or wargaming hills. Barrels, ruins, and treasure chests will significantly add to any city-themed maquette. There is everything that could help you bring to life any themed battlefield you would like to create.

Imperial Crusaders in a Planetary Base on a new, mysterious world

And finally, even if you want to add finishing touches to your rising scenery, you’ll find something in our offer. That’s because we also have a wide range of modeling and basing accessories - including static grass, small rocks, cork, and much more. You’ll find all of these useful when adding extra detail to forests, ruins, hills, or any other terrain features prepared by yourself. What’s more, with the help of such modeling accessories, you can even convert and upgrade the pre-prepared scenery that you already possess. The possibilities are limitless.

The perfect addition to any wargame

Now that you know what, where, and how to find, you need to answer a straightforward question: how much time, work, and resources would you like to engage in creating a battlefield full of wargaming scenery? As you can see, there are many different ways, depending on the answer to this question.

And if you’ll finally decide, and make your dream scenery, don’t forget to handle it carefully. Once finished, a wargaming battlefield could serve you well during many battles if you watch out for it. What can help you much, even during the most exciting matches, are gaming accessories. They make many things and activities during the game much easier so that the risk of unintentional destruction of the effects of your hard work is as small as possible.