Sunday 29 May 2011

15mm Sci Fi Potential at WorldWorks Games

 
If you are looking for some different Sci Fi terrain then take a look at some of WorldWorks Games more recent releases. WorldWorks produce a large range of download and print terrain for Modern, Fantasy, Horror and Sci Fi gamers. Reduced by 60% on your printer their products can easily be utilised by 15mm Sci Fi buffs.

I know some of you already utilise the Modern 'Mayhem' porducts and a few, like me own Mars Station. If you are a fan of the Xbox game Mass Effect, then take a look at the newly released Codename Titan set.


There's just something about Codename Titan that reminds me of the corridors of the less than salubrious OMEGA space station in Mass Effect 2. This grungy, utilitarian terrain can also be used to create external settings, such as the streets of a heavily industrial world or asteroid mining city. But perhaps Mass Effect's not your thing and you prefer Gears of War instead?


Then take a look at both WorldsWorks Fantasy and Horror products in addition to the Sci Fi offerings. There's plenty of terrain for recreating the action from Gears 1 & 2. Shelldrake Manor could easily proxy for Adam Fenix's home.

The Himmelveil Streets set pictured above offers not just a chance to game Cogs of War but also has a strong  flavour of New Mecca on Helion Prime from Chronicles of Riddick. Offering the gamer an old world whose architecture isn't for once Gothic.


Mars Station has been replaced on my 15mm tabletop by GZG and Critical Mass Games' products but still does stirling work for 28mm Sci Fi skirmishes. Which remind me that I must buy Antenociti's 28's. Beautiful high Sci Fi miniatures in the Mass Effect style. If only they did the GOT Troopers in 15! Some great poses too!

Mars Station comes with interiors plus control panels etc. Again, a 60% scaling reduction will bring your outpost to life and being printable it can be as large as you like.

I was never a fan of gaming tiles. I liked all my terrain to be 3-D but I've mellowed under the constant bombardment from both Masterchef and Alternative's Armies' Firefight 2.0.

All the above game come with 'tiles' grided and ungridded. The Himmelveil Streets tiles are magnificent, Masr Station allows you to build not only a 'red planet' gaming mat but the canyons you see in the photo as well!

To sum up. Plenty of opportunity and potential to produce staggering 2D or 3D scalable terrain to meet your gaming needs  for a small initial outlay and a little effort.


Cheers
Mark

4 comments:

  1. Antenociti's Workshop have mentioned that they plan to release some of their vehicles in 15mm... maybe we could eventually persuade them to do the infantry as well. I know I'd gobble up at least a few packs of them.

    Paper terrain can be a surprisingly addictive sub-hobby in itself. The only thing I've learned about it is if you're going to do paper, you pretty much have to do ALL paper for the table to "work." WorldWorks has enough variety in their packs to make that happen. Tommygun's paper buildings are also worth mentioning, especially if you want shanties/post-apoc forts:

    http://tommygun.sector-17.com/tommygun/main.php?g2_itemId=183&g2_page=2

    These scale down to 15mm extremely well... it's what I used until I painted up my GZG shacks and BWS startown slums.

    Chris

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  2. Oops, wrong link for the Tommygun page:
    http://tommygun.sector-17.com/tommygun/main.php

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  3. Timmygun's stuff is great. use it myself.

    Also must mention Topsolitario. Especially the industrial mat:

    http://www.toposolitario.com/workshop/index.html

    Cheers
    Mark

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  4. Heya

    I realise that this is off topic kinda but we're talking about scaling down so i thought i'd chip in with scaling up...

    remember a few posts ago talking about drones mechs and thinking laterally... watch Avatar... assuming you haven't already.

    Now there we have vegetable shacks full of human controllers... drones in the field, but here's the great bit they're huge. So i was thinking now you have 28mm figures with 15mm vehicles in a scenario that works.... all you need then is some floating terrain :)

    http://haarken.blogspot.com/2010/11/finished-floating-islands-of-atlantis.html

    Of course this has no relevance to paper scenery so for that i appologise.

    happy thoughts.

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