DeepWars Shallow Shelf Zone Battleboard with Minis

[antimatter]

Hi all,

What we have here today is the finished battle board for the Shallow Shelf zone in DeepWars, a region of coral, sand and clear waters. The game board was made by Richard Hale of Battleboards UK and will be at Gencon for demos starting August 15. We took some shots of the board with minis before it was packed up. This scene shows a couple of Dark Mariners fighting against creatures of the Scaly Horde.

First, the board itself. This zone has reef areas and plenty of bare sand to put things like Doom Clams and other dangerous terrain bits. The map itself is 36" x 36", made up of four sections. The sand is flat enough and has enough space to place a small Temple of the Ancients kit, something that we will likely do with this map for Gencon. A particularly nice touch is the dropoff to the Abyssal Zone at the edge of the map, indicated by the darker color for deeper water and the rough texture of the rock wall leading down into the darkness of the deep ocean.




Now for the battle. This would be a very small skirmish, with two Dark Mariners, the Annihiltor Biomech and Deep-Spawn Reaver Biomech fighting against a three Scaly Horde creatures, a Dire Fish-Lizard, Abyssal Gark and Hag-Ray. Also on the map are some Anklebiter Barnacles, nasty terrain bits that bite down on any unwary divers.

















Higher resolution pictures are on the facebook site

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.562209243826075.1073741840.150524491661221&type=1

[PatrickWR]

That table is gorgeous! Same goes for the miniatures. DeepWars really lends itself to creative paint schemes and scenery. I'm very impressed.

[Hupp n at em]

Wow, that is pretty incredible.  Looks great! 

[Cherno]

One of the best tables I have ever seen, and the miniatures are awesome as well. I love the caustic effect (?) on the seafloor.

[DeafNala]

The minis & terrain are LOVELY...INSPIRING WORK!

[maxxev]

Board and miniatures both are stonkingly gorgous in a way that shouden't be possible without paying some kind of tax on being really good at something .

[antimatter]

I'm glad you all like it. I hope many players come to try out the game and see the board at Gencon.

[Andrew May]

Amazingly astonishing amazingness!

[PatrickWR]

Antimatter -- what are the details for your GenCon games? I'll be there and would love to stop by and see this thing in person.

[antimatter]

Here are the maps of the demo area. We will have our point man running the demos the whole show and will have painted miniatures there for gameplay. We cannot sell anything in the demo area but will be giving out coupons for discounts for online orders for those that try out the game. We will have this battleboard and are working on getting another one of the deep Abyssal Zone.

Full map showing general location




zoomed map

[infelix]

That's a really gorgeous set you guys have, definitely wish that I could see it IRL.

[Dr Mathias]

Beautiful, I'm definitely checking that out.