Mantic Make Your Battlezones Look Awesome With New Terrain
April 3, 2014 by brennon
Mantic Games have put all their awesome Battlezone Terrain out onto their webstore and you can check out some of the pieces that are available below along with a video from Ronnie himself above...
Above you can see some of the pieces in all their glory being used on a massive Warpath battlefield. Not only would this terrain be great for Warpath and of course Deadzone but also something like Infinity or MERCS too. The terrain has a near-modern to sci-fi look and would fit in well with all of those games.
Above are the component pieces that made up that excellent looking diorama above. The first image shows the Urban District which will allow you to put together a massive hab complex using some of the ruined pieces to give it that blasted look.
Getting a bit more militarised we have the Landing Pad and the Fortified District and Defence Line which is most likely being erected to hold off the advancing Plague and set up a quarantine area.
I love that they come with those neat little turrets as well, a brilliant excuse to make them an objective or piece of terrain you can interact with on the tabletop. Not too shabby at all and it goes together easily using Mantic's connector system!
Do you think we'll need to do another big build day?
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I do need some more terrain to add to my Deadzone stuff…
I’m a sucker for terrain mounted on tiles because it allows you to add some depth to your layouts instead of being restricted to building up from the ground level. So that Urban Quadrant? Yeah it looks great 😀
It’s worth noting though that what you see in the first picture is actually a 2 x 2 area and it isn’t clear if that uses up all the terrain that comes in the set (which is described as filling a 6×4 table, or a densely populated section of 4×4).
The flexible terrain system is one of the many great aspects of Deadzone.
I Hope they will improve their connectors issues for the next production because it’s just an amazing product !
I’ve found just giving them a quick scrape with a blade works wonders, the problem is the manufacturing tolerances are so exact that any slight seam or blemish causes a bit of hassle, otherwise I’ve had no problems with mine to date after a quick clean.
I spoke to the guys from Mantic this past weekend at Adepticon and they told me they are looking into ways to improve them. They have such tight tolerances it does cause some problems.
I pick mine up today at Adepticon!
Wow … I look at this terrain and video and photos … and suddenly ask myself … is there a miniatures wargame for Starship Troopers? “BUUUUUUGS!”
There was, done by Andy Chambers.
All prepainted, I think. It was supposed to actually be a very good, well designed system but the publishers (Mongoose?) dropped it massively quickly for some reason and now kits end up going for quite a large amount on Ebay.
Yeah, I guess anything “out of print” gets expensive quick simply based on its rarity. I just saw some of those terrain features and was reminded of that base where the characters get swarmed by bugs near the middle of the movie. That base had a definite modular “pre-fab” look to it that you could easily represent with these terrain construction models. Without breaking the bank, I guess you could approximate the Mobile Infantry with some basic sci-fi infantry type figures, but the bugs would be tougher. I know zilch about 40K but I wonder if Nids could work (bug-looking… Read more »
Starship Troopers wasn’t pre-painted. It came as gray plastic you had to build and paint. About a year or so into publication, Mongoose tried to revamp the game and move toward pre-paints. As I recall they were going for a “Battlefield Evolution” system with which you could play anything from SST to moderns. Shortly thereafter, they lost the license to SST.
It was a very nice game that had air power and subterranean movement for the bugs so you had to think on 3 levels.
I will definitely be picking some of this up.
It looks nice, but I think I’ll do the stuff I got in the Deadzone box first.
I’m a bit unsure how to make buildings in this system that can be played in.
(No, leaving the back wall out is NOT a solution)
This stuff is so awesome I think we have just collectively crashed their site. I got their email on my smartphone and tried to log in, as I assume masses and masses have becuase their site is now down 🙂 That’s a good sign! Well done Mantic (no sarcasm intended)
Ronnie – get a BIGGER table. You will need it for Warpath 🙂