Combatzone Terrain For Land, Sea & Space On Kickstarter!
September 24, 2014 by brennon
Combatzone Scenery have taken to Kickstarter to supply miniatures gamers with terrain for use in your games of X-Wing, Firestorm Armada, Star Trek Attack Wing and even Sails of Glory!
As well as basic asteroids they have also added small buildings onto them like you can see above with the Asteroid Defence Station. Each of the pieces is made of a plaster called Crystacal R that is very resilient to painting and, I must say, provides some very nice effects.
Some of the coolest pieces however are their larger planets which you can see above. Kronos II is probably the best piece of the lot as I love the look of planets like this where it's utterly destroyed and the fragments of it are held in space, almost like stasis.
Last but not least we have some terrain for use in games like Sails of Glory and Uncharted Seas. You get huge rock formations, islands and little settlements too making your deep ocean look all the more lived in and a little less drab.
This is quite the cool scenery based Kickstarter and could be just what you need if you play any of these space or sea based games.
Don't forget we did a Hobby Lab on Building Asteroids so check that out if you want an alternative!
What do you think?
Those red lava stones that you use to distribute heat in the BBQ would do asteroids a lot cheaper.
I think the real focus of the KS efforts is on some of the more embellished asteroids and the larger pieces of terrain.
BoW Ben
It may be cheaper per asteroid if you buy BBQ stones, but why would you want hundreds of them of use several and throw away the rest? Much better to buy them and save the time in making them.
I’m talking about the small bag of lava stones you put under the grill, maybe thirty all told, that even out the heat of a gas grill, not the briquettes. Easy enough to put a clear base and stand on those, and the space station embellishments are not that hard to do.
I’m also not keen on on the stone bases. Asteroids aren’t universally connected to flat pieces of stone beneath them. I would rather see an integral clear plastic base, or even clear connectors to make larger asteroid clusters.
I agree with you on the aesthetics, but I think the point is for the bases to reflect the true size/shape of the asteroid for the purposes of the game (base contact). As well the “tournament asteroids” appear to have bases the exact size of the starter set asteroids which I believe would make them useful if for whatever reason you had to remove the stand and floating asteroid you would still have the proper sized marker for it that would still look a little better than the flat card version.