Showing posts with label Kerr & King. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kerr & King. Show all posts

11 May 2014

All Quiet on the Quar Front - More Terrain


With extensive mazes of trenches made obsolete by alien invaders air (or grav, or orbital) supremacy, the Quar quickly adapted and started using small carefully camouflaged bunkers, single use firing positions and tunnel networks... And because of my overexposure to Vancouver Film Studios production, logs are the ubiquitous material for those positions. Well, that and I also happen to find log fortifications a bit more rustic and low tech than sand bags. Plenty of choice here! WW2: so far I like Flames of War Log Emplacement - Dug-in Markers and Log Emplacement - Gun Pit, Kerr & King Machine Gin Nest, etc.  


Kerr & King MG Nest. Picture from manufacturer website.

10 May 2014

All Quiet on the Quar Front - Terrain

Joshua "ZombieSmith" Qualtieri just confirmed that my Quars order is underway. The All Quiet on the Martian Front vehicles are getting closer (trans-Pond shipping being what it is, I'll try to wait for everything I want to be released - or at least available for pre-order - before I order them). My TO&E is finalized. Time to have a look at terrain options...

The obvious choice for this not-WW1 force is a muddy noquar's land full of trenches, shell craters and other obstacles... But I don't intend to use my Quars in a closed Quars-only background and want to use them against and maybe even along my other, higher tech, 15mm sci-fi forces... With, in my opinion, means that while their equipment remains decidedly low tech, their TTPs will have had to adapt quickly to the dynamic warfare conducted by other forces. Asymetric warfare and guerilla tactics anyone? So while I can imagine the odd remnant of defensive positions from a war before alien contact, I don't want to pin this forces in a (fox)hole and want a more versatile board. But I still want it to be indubitably Quar!

Jaw-dropping board by Sidney Roundwood from Roundwood's World.
There plenty more goodness where that one comes from!