Thursday 19 September 2013

Khurasan BTR, Spartan Games Gunship, Angry Badger Barricades

by Chris

Khurasan Miniatures has released the BTR-3000 for the Nova Respublik faction.


This near-future wheeled beauty includes several weapon options... you can leave it disarmed, arm it with a single antipersonnel laser if you want a more traditional APC, or use the pictured laser/missile launcher combination for a heavier IFV. It's a great aesthetic match for the rest of the Nova Respublik vehicles - a good range for near-future games.

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The selection of laser-cut terrain options continues to expand.

Spartan Games (Dystopian Wars, Firestorm Armada) has created the Invincible-class Planetary Gunship for 15mm and 28mm ground games. 

It's an interesting concept - a large ship that can be used as terrain or an objective. Or if you're really crazy (or using a gym floor as a game table), you can use the attached flight stand to turn the Invincible into a game piece. Spartan Games is offering two versions - a fiberboard-only version for £50.00, or the deluxe version with additional resin details (pictured) for £70.00. I'm curious to see how many of these end up being used on 15mm battlefields given its size and price... but it's a good sign that Spartan Games may have some other interesting products for us in the future.

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For a more conventional terrain item, Angry Badger is now offering a complete 15mm barricade kit

For $40, you will get a laser-cut MDF set consisting of twenty 2" modular walls, one entrance wall, twenty straight walkways, four corners, four guard towers, two staircases, and a tank-sized entry gate. It's a pretty tempting set, if nothing else for how easy it would be to get it to the table. Spend a few hours sanding and gluing the parts, give it a coat of flat black spray paint, a quick drybrush or two of your favorite military color, and it would ready to use. 

It's quite reminiscent of a bug-defending compound from a certain iconic movie, and I can easily imagine building small settlements inside these walls for post-apocalyptic games. It will be worth keeping an eye on Angry Badger for more offerings.

4 comments:

  1. Hadn't seen that kit from Angry Badger... very nice!

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  2. That compound wall kit does look very tempting for $40 and you get so much of it for that price to, i like the fast that it's generic enough to be used for present day or the near future and with a few add on bits and bobs possibly far future gaming.

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  3. Yeah, Angry Badger kinda came out of nowhere. I think we'll see this more and more from the laser-cut terrain folks - there is no additional 3d printing, cleaning, molding, or casting involve. It's usually a simple matter of scaling down an existing 28mm design, fitting a few more pieces onto the sheet, and making sure none of the details became too small to cut.

    I'm half tempted to buy a decent cutter myself. I have some ideas for Infinity-ish 15mm buildings, and wouldn't mind dusting off my old resin modular bunker idea as an MDF project.

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  4. An amazingly versatile piece if terrain. Besides mbeing used as a defensive structure, I see it used in industrial settings, space ports, etc.

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