More Trenches

I picked up these angled tranches from Miniaturemarket's Tiny Terrain series. 

They expanded on the ones I bought before and painted in 2019. They are good for small scale up to 25mm scale, as the 30mm Warmachine Swordknight looks a little big. I think I drybrushed them with a little too much yellow in the brown though. 

Armorcast Building

 An old Armorcast building I've had laying around for a few decades, made for Battletech scale games. Now I will use it for any small scale games. Painted with Dollarstore paints.

Even More Firestorm Planetfall Terrain

I've made some more purchases of Firestorm Planetfall items and with them came more terrain. They are made for 10mm scale and go together very nicely. Even though they are made of cardboard with plastic frames they hold up together very well. I have been expanding the amount I have over the years here last year and here in 2015.

Here they are with 6mm scale Wizkids Mechwarrior models that I have painted up for use with the Horizon Wars rules.

They also come with these items for utilizing connecting walkways between buildings and adding decorative features to the tops of the buildings.

Here are the buildings with 32mm scale Stormtrooper from the Star Wars Legion game and a 30mm Cygnar Swordknight for Warmachine.

Here they are with the 10mm scale Aquan Planetfall models. 

These should be great for any modern to future small scale miniature game.

Escape Pod and Crashed Escape Pod

Form Miniaturemarket's Tiny Terrain series is the Escape Pod and the Crashed Escape Pod. It is a good scale for and painted up quick. Perfect for Horizon Wars, Planetfall, Dropzone Commander, Bot War, or any 15mm scale or less miniature game. Could be used as a cramped single model escape pod for larger models too. They were painted with various Dollarstore paints.

This model is a little top heavy but can glue it to a larger base.

Elder Sign

Elder Sign is a one to eight player game set in the Lovecraft world of unknowable horror. I picked this up a while ago used for cheap at a gaming convention. The game ends when either the common enemy is defeated or the players are eliminated by reducing their mind or health to zero.

Here is the table after I finished the third solo game and managed to defeat the enemy. There are lots of items to keep track of, common in many Fantasy Flight made games.

The main opponent is drawn randomly at the start of the game. Each is different and can sometimes influence the game as it is being played or reserves its strength for fighting the players at the end. The end phase of the game takes place when their right side is filled with tokens, which happens as cards and events occur.

The character that you play is also random and each has different mind and health stats as well as special abilities and starting items.

As the game progresses you can use up and gain items to help you against the minor and major foe.

When attempting goals you have to succeed in tests, determined by a roll of the dice and usage of items and spells. If your first roll does not succeed then you can keep some dice and reroll the dice pool as long as you get more dice to succeed. If you fail to get any successes then you must discard one die and roll again. If you fail there is a penalty in the lower left, in this case two health damage and a token placed on the main foe. If you succeed then you get what is on the lower right and place token on the success board equal to the number in green on the left side of the card, two in this case.

This game is fun and captures the unknowable horror of the Chuthulu mythos. 

Crokinole

 I played crokinole when I was young at my grandparents summer cottage. It is played by flicking wooden pieces at opponent's pieces and trying to deflect into them to push them towards the lower scoring areas at the edges while getting yours closer to the middle. If you get in the middle 20 spot, you take it off the board and score it at the end. The pegs around the center 15 point ring add difficulty and awesomeness. It seems like a simple dexterity game but has some strategy to it. Its also fun for all ages.

I picked up a board and pieces at a yard sale, but it was a basic model with basic materials. I rediscovered this game in my storage and tried it with my wife and she liked it enough I decided to upgrade. Below is what I got, from Crokinole Canada.

It also came with a carrying/storage case, wood polish, fast powder, very fast powder, rules, scorecard, wood score pegboard, and tin for when scoring 20's. Its pretty sweet.

Pegasus Hobbies Technobridge

The Pegasus Hobbies Technobridge is a good, cheap way of getting terrain on the table. It is easy to assemble and really easy to drybrush paint. All I did was prime black and drybrush with dollarstore gunmetal. Its usable for many scales but the box says it can fit a "dirt pirate" aka 40k Landraider.

Barricades

Usable for small scale games, these barricades were simple and effective to paint up with dollarstore paints. Games I will use them for are: Horizon Wars, Planetfall, and Gaslands to name a few.

If you look carefully you can tell where these barricades came from...Ticket to Ride. I got a transparent set of trains for participating in a tournament several years back and had no use for them until now.

If you didn't know what they are, you would think they are prefabricated concrete blocks.

Generator or Barracks

This generator or barracks was painted with dollarstore paints and can be used for multiple scaled models. It was made from a cookie container and the two antennae were interesting items that my spouse was recycling.

Missile Silos or Factory Exhausts

This terrain can be used for a variety of things: missile silos for small scale models, exhaust ports for larger scales. It was painted with dollarstore paints.

It was made from new items from my spouse's work that they were not using anymore.

Administration Building

This administration building can be used in games of models of various scales. It was painted with dollarstore paints.

It was made from a plastic package for some tech related item and unused items from my spouse's work.