Walls, gates and buildings

Walls, towers, gates and buildings are made of pieces laid on the grid, and they play exactly as they look. There are four sets: a stone castle, the Tuatha Dé Danann's crystal city, the exiles' own camp of stakes, poles and hide, and the Firbolg's walls of salt.

In a fight

• Walls block movement and sight and give full cover. The battlements on top alternate: a merlon is full cover, the gap beside it half.
• The walk along the top of a castle or city wall is walkable ground at its own height, so whoever holds it holds the high ground.
• Stairs and ladders are ramps: the way up from the ground to a deck.
• Gates are wall while shut and a doorway while open. Only the squad works them. Enemies never open or close a gate.
• Breakable pieces take a set number of hits from a Shaper's Hurl or an area blast. Timber also burns, so a fire arrow damages it. A broken palisade drops to half cover, and a broken gate leaves an open doorway.

Nothing about a wall is drawn one way and played another. What blocks the eye blocks the shot.

Where they stand

The home camp's palisade, gate and watch tower come from the camp set. The map editor's Build tool lays out every set: wall lines that join themselves at corners and crossings, gates set into a run, buildings dragged to size, and decks painted along the top. It refuses an edit that would leave the map unplayable, and says why.

The Tuatha city and Firbolg sets are in the editor now. The campaign's own generated maps still use their older walls.

The sets

The castle

The Tuatha city

The exiles' camp

Firbolg salt walls