Mantic Take The Fighting Historical With 20th Century Brick Battlezones
May 14, 2015 by brennon
Mantic Games have constructed another set of Battlezones Terrain for you to use on your tabletops but this new stuff harks back to the 20th Century (not that it was too long ago). See what you think of the Brick Ruins made using the same techniques as the rest of their range...
Great For World War II?
As you can see below in some of these finished images the brick terrain, while a little stark against the rest of the terrain, makes for a really interesting urban landscape. With a bit more shading and some additional work tying it into the board this provides you with a lot of options when it comes to making your tabletops...
It also paves the way for Mantic to make a variety of other interesting terrain kits down the line that not only stick within this remit of the 20th Century but further back in time too. It would be nice to see them look at making some Fantasy/Medieval buildings with these techniques too.
What's In A Set?
Inside one of the sets you'll find a wealth of additional bits and pieces that you can't quite make out in the images above...
You get the buildings of course but in addition there are stop signs, bins, fences, fuse boxes and other details too. Hopefully this should provide you with a nice modular kit for making some interesting tabletops.
What do you think?
"You get the buildings of course but in addition there are stop signs, bins, fences, fuse boxes and other details too..."
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It looks like Litko but that isn’t a bad thing
If it’s the same as the stuff you get with Mars Attacks then it is great. I tend to use foam board or mdf, but for some scatter terrain it will be very, very useful. Ever tried making stuff out of the packs of individual bricks? D.x Go Mantic!
Its the same system surely. I’m more curious about the zombies? I’m not familiar with games like secrets or other historical zombie games but that is definetly mantics timeless zombie arms and torsos and heads if I ever saw them. (Never go out of print.)
Clockwork Goblin & Warlord are working on something Weird so it that could be a bit of a hint 🙂
Their walkers are amazing, this early on you shouldn’t want ORCA and Hurricane proxies. 🙁
also, with red bricks you can just brush on variations of off white and wipe it down crudely leaving the off-white to algae/sooty grout in the cracks
I think they really need to come up with connectors/plugs that mask the sockets somehow. The poduct is good but could be great. Junction boxes, plaques, drain pipes etc. or just matching/ cracked bicks……
Does the connectors make them compatible with their deadzone stuff?
Yea their the same size tiles(3″x3″) and standard connectors are the same as well.
I like them.
Historical for all battles fought in 1960s council estates.
..or early 21st century Govan!
(you know I don’t mean it)
Will probably skip this one though i like the brick tiles … There is definetely something mantic missed again: connectors. This issue with these is common knowledge, them being a pain to snap in, pain to remove with too small part for the fingers to apply force easily, and breaking often due to their lack of resistance to bending. This modern release seem to have some large flat ones but man are they awful ! Flat non-textured parts ? Where they could have done proper brick pillars to break the “squarish” aspect of that. I really hope this get changed… Read more »
In the bottom picture there are three intact buildings. From looking at the set on Mantic’s store, I am not sure you can build all of those. http://www.manticgames.com/mantic-shop/mars-attacks/scenery-and-accessories/product/mars-attacks-scenery-upgrade-pack.html .
Is there a different that can build all of these?
Ah, I found it. http://www.manticgames.com/mantic-shop/battlezones/20th-century-brick/product/20th-century-brick-ruined-city.html