Man The Ramparts With Flatpack Forces Kickstarter
November 15, 2019 by avernos
Flatpack Forces are running their first kickstarter campaign right now for some fortifications, and by some I mean an awful lot.
(pictured above more than some) This beast is the full Castle and Keep from their Man the Ramparts Kickstarter and fills a 4 foot table almost to the edges. But fear not if this is more than your table or wallet can handle for Flatpack Forces have four levels of defenses to keep away angry Welsh from your door. (other angry neighbours available on request).
Starting with the Fort and working up through the Milecastle, Keep, and finally Castle, Flatpack Forces have come up with a gorgeous product that is ready for your table top minutes after you have the tape off the box. As you can see both sides of the mdf are printed in high resolution and the quality is so good that it fools the eye into believing there is actually texture on the pieces.
For people wondering how large the sections are, the wall pieces are 150mm long, 50mm wide and, together with the battlements, stands at 87mm high. While the tower sections are 100mm square. Flatpack Forces have found this to be ideal for figures sized from 25 - 32mm, But for myself I would have no problem with using this for 15mm figures also, it would be a grand castle then.
There is one final option for budding warlords, which is a "build it thyself" option, literally pick and chose what pieces you want yourself so you can have a completely tailored castle for your needs.
I absolutely love this, the quality is top notch and it would serve in games of Kings of War or many middle age games for myself. Even if it wasn't used in the game as a backdrop to your forces fighting it would still be worthwhile dropping onto the table.
Do you hear the enemy at the gates?
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5 to 10 years back I would have loved such terrain… but today… I think my overall “what I want from it” is higher.
weirdly I’m going backwards. Form and Function vie for me these days. But I’ve seen few 28mm castles that are actually fit for purpose wargaming wise. Seems to be a gap in the market.
maybe the fact that I don’t play any fantasy game (ignoring Blood Bowl) lends to the “not mine” aspect here…
simple it’s a 40K castle. No need to thank me 😀
Or it is a great setting for a game of Blood Bowl! Who needs a stadium when you can play right in front of Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle…
I don’t play 40k and my pitch it big enough and now please stop making me spend money XD
It does look pretty good, but I’m afraid the price is more than I can afford right now.
Always wanted a set of Dwarven Forge terrain, but that’s too expensive for my wallet too.
When that lottery win manifests itself maybe.
If I was going to invest in a castle for wargaming, I would go for this or go down a similar route and make it myself. Castles are massive – plastic 28mm castles are too small. My dad did a gate house for me from scraps of plywood and I loved it, it wasn’t even painted, but my toy knights I got on a Saturday when my relatives spoiled me looked great on it. Shame I don’t have it anymore. Even if I was going to do something for display or to show off, again I would build it from… Read more »
I like that it’s modular and you can get spacers to increase the depth of the walls and towers if you want to make it larger as well. I may get a small one and then gradually expand over time as budget allows. That’s the nice thing about modularity 🙂
Absolutely! The Renedra one is lovely but just small. I want big! I also want the idea of going to the local hardware merchants and buying a ton of plywood, nails, and bankrupting myself on Slater’s embossed plastic card to leave my head.
Buy dense styrofoam, 5mm sheets, do the embossing yourself with a pencil. Your wallet will thank you for it. Make it your December project, we will thank you for it. Win-win?
Nice castle walls the Keep is the best thing their I think.
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