8th Ed. Terrain Question

Could you place a shrine or building in the middle of a marsh? Wizards tower in a mash, for example, would be sweet.

 

Mmmm, like the marsh tower in the Holy Grail movie...

 

Also does aquatic mean that we ignore the effects of magic water now or has it become another pointless ability and yes you could put buildings in swaps and the like...we do it in real life.

 

Aquatic actually just became a very valuable skill. Throw down a Khemarian quicksand and let your skirmishers hang out in there at -2 to hit with shooting (-3 for chameleons). If anything big like calvary or chariots try to charge you, there's a 33% chance that they will die outright. Sounds fun doesn't it?

 

Read the lizardmen FAQ. The aquatic rule was changed so now it gives "Marsh Strider", "Lake Strider" and "River Strider" so if I recall the strider rules correctly then we would ignore the effects.

 

I don't think you ignore the effects do you? You just move through it without taking dangerous terrain tests.

 

You are correct. just checked my book when I got home, I think that was one of the last few rumors stuck in my head.

 

Another terrain question:

Can you have terrain in the centre of your gaming board? I was told that this was not allowed, made little difference to me but I couldn't recall seeing such a rule in the BRB.

 

There's nothing preventing you from placing terrain dead center now if you so choose. Even look at the example battles in the rulebook; they often feature such.

 

Why the hell not? I don't think there is any rule about that anywhere. tell them to bust out the rulebook for that one. Terrain in the middle is part of the fun to me. And a lot of the scenarios have terrain in the middle(including the historical ones, not just the 6 default). The watchtower one, the fight for the river, the brewery battle. And those are just the ones of the top of my head. Seems to me your opponent thought it was in his advantage to not have terrain in the middle.