Gale Force Nine Add Tar Rivers & Pits As Tabletop Hazards
August 21, 2020 by brennon
Gale Force Nine has a few new terrain pieces coming out for their Battlefield In A Box range. They are playing with Tar and Toxic sludge with their terrain, all of which could be used for Fantasy settings or perhaps something a bit post-apocalyptic.
Toxic River // Gale Force Nine
The first two entries into the collection are the Toxic River and Tar River, each of which are bubbling with menace and would no doubt be a terrible way to go if you were to fall in. I like the idea of using these has hazards below walkways and ruined buildings that your characters are trying to avoid at all costs!
Tar River // Gale Force Nine
If you were to use these in your mass battle games I would say that these would work well as narrative scenic elements. You could have them slow down your units as they march forward and maybe even act as pits of death, sucking them to an inky black demise.
You could maybe even do something historical with these too and have this be the landscape where your hunters are looking for prehistoric prey!
Tar Pits // Gale Force Nine
The bubbles and the sheen of the terrain is a really great touch as well; a good way to make it pop on the tabletop without having to do anything when it comes to painting. I like that there are even some 'popped' bubbles here and there which are descending back into the sludge.
Are you tempted to pick up these new pieces from Gale Force Nine?
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Really like these as always looking for something a bit different. Could see these as a addition to a forge world or heavy industrial zone for titanicus ?
They do look a bit too squeeky clean to be tar/toxic rivers.
It’s nothing that a bit of paint can’t fix, but part of the appeal of these sets is that they are tabletop ready.
Some bones from animals that got stuck would be good I think.
or footprints …
but that kind of would fix it at a certain scale
at the moment it is scale agnostic
To a degree but bones could be from anything from a mouse to a mammoth.
true that … but it would be a giant mouse or a tiny mammoth …
not sure if either is believable, unless it is a fantasy setting 😀
Lol an mammoth mouse?
Nice toxic waste rivers.
Lovely stuff.The Tar Pits and Tar River should lend themselves to a prehistoric game very well.Maybe @warzan can work on one which mashes early man in with dinosuars in 15mm ? It could be a cracking game for the @warzan tribe to play and learn.
Those sre some nice terrain pieces.
Where the heck is Dune ??