Terrain for Infinity (N4 & CodeOne): Building a Dense Sci-Fi Table

Ask any veteran Infinity player what separates a great table from a frustrating one, and you'll get the same answer: density. Corvus Belli's Infinity N4 and CodeOne are games of angles, reactions, and information. Every model on the table can respond to enemy movement through Automatic Reaction Orders (AROs), which means a sparse table turns the first turn into a shooting gallery. If your terrain collection was built for other skirmish games, chances are it simply isn't dense enough for Infinity.

The good news: building a proper Infinity table is very achievable with physical, printed terrain kits, and the cyberpunk aesthetic is practically the game's native visual language. Here's how to plan coverage, verticality, and sightlines for a table that plays as well as it looks.

Why Infinity Demands More Terrain Than Other Games

In most skirmish games, terrain is scenery with a side of cover. In Infinity, terrain is the game. Because every enemy trooper with line of fire gets an ARO, long open lanes are lethal in a way they aren't in Kill Team or Necromunda. A well-built Infinity table should make it impossible to draw a clear firing lane from one table edge to the other at ground level.

A common benchmark for a standard 48" x 48" N4 table is covering roughly a quarter to a third of the surface with terrain, arranged so that a trooper can advance from deployment to midfield using Cautious Movement and total cover. CodeOne tables are usually 32" x 48", which actually makes density easier to achieve with fewer kits — a great entry point if you're building your first table.

Start with a City Core

The fastest way to reach Infinity-appropriate density is to start with a bundle rather than collecting one building at a time. The Cyberpunk City Terrain Bundle gives you five buildings, three vehicles, and a set of scatter pieces in one purchase — enough to anchor all four quadrants of a CodeOne table, or the central engagement zone of a full N4 board. Because it ships as unpainted printed kits, you can assemble, prime, and paint the whole set with a unified colour scheme, which instantly makes the table read as one coherent city rather than a pile of mismatched pieces.

When you place your buildings, think in terms of blocks, not islands. Push two or three structures close together with alley gaps of 1-2 inches between them. Those alleys become the safe approach routes that let skirmishers and infiltrators do their jobs, and they chop long firing lanes into short, contestable segments.

Verticality: The Dimension That Wins Games

Infinity is played in three dimensions more than almost any other miniatures game. Snipers claim rooftops, jump troops vault between buildings, and a catwalk at the right height can dominate the midfield. Flat tables — even dense ones — leave half the game's tactical depth unused.

This is where elevated infrastructure earns its place. The Cyberpunk Elevated Transit Bundle pairs a trainline with modular stairs and walkways, letting you build a second storey of battlefield above your streets. Run the elevated line across the midline of the table and you create a contested high ground that both players have to fight for — and the support pillars underneath double as ground-level cover.

Two practical tips for elevated terrain in N4: first, make sure stairs or ladders connect every walkway section to the ground, so models without jump packs can still contest the high ground. Second, keep walkway railings low or open — Infinity's silhouette system means true line of sight matters, and players need to see whether an S2 trooper is actually concealed.

Fill the Streets: Scatter and Mid-Size Buildings

Once your major structures are down, the remaining gaps decide whether your table plays fair. Ground-level scatter — vehicles, crates, kiosks, street furniture — is what lets a trooper cross an open street without eating three AROs. The vehicles and scatter included in the city bundle handle most of this, but purpose-built smaller structures do double duty as both cover and objectives.

The Cyberpunk Eateries Bundle is ideal here: the Locust Eatery and Parlor Bar are compact, characterful buildings that slot into the gaps between your larger blocks. In mission play, they make perfect consoles, supply-box locations, or the seedy bar where your HVT is holed up. Narratively, nothing says "Infinity" like a firefight erupting around a noodle stand.

A Sample 48" x 48" Layout

Here's a layout approach that works for both pickup games and ITS missions. Place your two largest buildings from the city bundle diagonally opposite each other, about 12 inches in from the corners. Run the elevated trainline across the centre, perpendicular to the deployment zones, with stairs at both ends. Tuck the eateries into the midfield on either side of the trainline, then distribute vehicles and scatter to break up every remaining lane longer than about 16 inches.

Stand a miniature in each deployment zone and check sightlines at eye level. If you can see more than a sliver of the opposite deployment zone from ground level, add scatter until you can't. Rooftop-to-rooftop lanes are fine — those are earned positions, not free ones.

Assembly and Painting Notes

Because these kits arrive as unpainted physical prints, a little prep goes a long way. Wash the parts, assemble with plastic-compatible adhesive, and prime everything in one session so the whole table shares an undercoat. For a fast, striking Infinity look, base-coat buildings in two or three desaturated urban tones, then pick out signage, doors, and trim in saturated neons. A unified street-level grime wash ties the city bundle, transit line, and eateries together into one continuous district.

The Bottom Line

A dense table isn't just more balanced — it makes Infinity's signature moments possible: the infiltrator slipping through alleys, the sniper duel across rooftops, the desperate dash under the trainline. Start with a city core, add a layer of verticality, fill the streets with scatter, and your N4 or CodeOne games will immediately play the way the designers intended.