diff --git a/src/games/advancewars/AdvanceWarsBattleAnim.js b/src/games/advancewars/AdvanceWarsBattleAnim.js
index c14aaf3..afab6f7 100644
--- a/src/games/advancewars/AdvanceWarsBattleAnim.js
+++ b/src/games/advancewars/AdvanceWarsBattleAnim.js
@@ -31,15 +31,28 @@ const BG_SHEET_KEY = 'advancewars-battlebg';
 // matter for a static background behind a fighter.
 const TERRAIN_TO_BG = { bridgeh: 'bridge', bridgev: 'bridge' };
 
-function battleBgFrame(terrainId) {
+export function battleBgFrame(terrainId) {
   const key = TERRAIN_TO_BG[terrainId] ?? terrainId;
   const i = BATTLE_BG_KEYS.indexOf(key);
   return i < 0 ? BATTLE_BG_KEYS.indexOf('plain') : i;
 }
 
+// The engine has no separate "terrain underneath the building" value (a
+// tile only ever has one terrain id), so this is an editorial pick of what
+// a given building would plausibly sit on, used where a scene wants the
+// bare ground rather than the building's own backdrop (e.g. the capture
+// cut-in, which already shows the building itself as its squishing prop).
+const BUILDING_GROUND_TERRAIN = {
+  city: 'plain', base: 'plain', airport: 'plain', hq: 'plain', port: 'shoal',
+};
+
+export function groundBgFrame(terrainId) {
+  return battleBgFrame(BUILDING_GROUND_TERRAIN[terrainId] ?? terrainId);
+}
+
 // Painted sheet if loaded, else a generated stand-in with the same frame
 // map — mirrors the pattern in AdvanceWarsMapView.js's ensureSheets().
-function ensureBattleBgSheet(scene) {
+export function ensureBattleBgSheet(scene) {
   if (scene.textures.exists(BG_SHEET_KEY)) return BG_SHEET_KEY;
   const procKey = `${BG_SHEET_KEY}-proc`;
   if (!scene.textures.exists(procKey)) paintProceduralBattleBg(scene, procKey);
diff --git a/src/games/advancewars/AdvanceWarsCaptureAnim.js b/src/games/advancewars/AdvanceWarsCaptureAnim.js
index 0049451..15c91d2 100644
--- a/src/games/advancewars/AdvanceWarsCaptureAnim.js
+++ b/src/games/advancewars/AdvanceWarsCaptureAnim.js
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { GAME_WIDTH, GAME_HEIGHT } from '../../config.js';
 import * as Logic from './AdvanceWarsLogic.js';
 import { armyColorInt } from './AdvanceWarsMapView.js';
 import { FONT } from './AdvanceWarsUI.js';
+import { ensureBattleBgSheet, groundBgFrame } from './AdvanceWarsBattleAnim.js';
 
 const W = 380;
 const H = 500;
@@ -41,10 +42,17 @@ export function playCaptureAnim(scene, rules, view, capturing, captured, onDone)
     .setStrokeStyle(3, 0x3a4260).setDepth(50);
   objs.push(dim, panel);
 
+  // backdrop is the terrain the building itself sits on (plain/shoal/etc),
+  // not the building's own battle background — the building is already the
+  // scene's main squishing prop, so showing its backdrop too would just be
+  // a duplicate building rendered twice.
+  const bgSheet = ensureBattleBgSheet(scene);
+  const backdrop = scene.add.image(cx, cy, bgSheet, groundBgFrame(t.id))
+    .setDisplaySize(W - 6, H - 6).setDepth(50.3);
+  objs.push(backdrop);
+
   const groundCenterY = cy + H / 2 - 50;
-  const ground = scene.add.rectangle(cx, groundCenterY, W - 60, 80, 0x27324a, 1).setDepth(50);
-  objs.push(ground);
-  const groundY = groundCenterY - 40; // top edge of the ground strip
+  const groundY = groundCenterY - 40; // where the building's base sits
 
   const label = scene.add.text(cx, cy - H / 2 + 30, (t.name ?? 'Property').toUpperCase(),
     { fontFamily: FONT, fontSize: '26px', color: '#ffffff' }).setOrigin(0.5, 0.5).setDepth(51);