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Author Topic: Dungeon crawls in 15/18mm fantasy, SF, etc.,  (Read 1874 times)

Offline Conquistador

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Dungeon crawls in 15/18mm fantasy, SF, etc.,
« on: November 12, 2016, 04:04:11 PM »
What it says, as my fantasy, historical, and science fiction armies build in 15/18mm I know eventually I will want some dungeon crawling and I will want terrain (Cartographers are visual people,) so let me start my research the easy way – asking other knowledgeable people for advice:

1) Who makes suitable dungeon terrain? USA sources preferred with similar priced pieces.

2) Do you suggest walls, half walls, no walls? Doors that open/close?

3) I have rules but open to thoughts on those…

4) Dungeon monsters beyond the basic humanoids that I am currently building forces with?
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Offline Hobby Services

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Re: Dungeon crawls in 15/18mm fantasy, SF, etc.,
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2016, 05:46:36 PM »
Thoughts on things I have opinions on:

2) I like the "no walls" option, and in fact prefer flat terrain.  There are tons of beautiful printed maps and cardboard tiles and whatnot out there courtesy of the roleplaying market, and you can find a lot of it fairly cheap if you poke around a bit.  YMMV of course.

4) Splintered Light has a lot of nonhumanoid figs at this point, and more keep coming.  I also just got a GZG shipment in and I will heartily recommend the "Crusties" (his District 9 homage range) cavalry mounts and scuttle bugs as excellent dungeon fauna.  The actual humanoid Crusties are obviously scifi models and not as suitable, but their buggy friends are just great as weird fantasy critters.  The cavalry mounts even have their saddles cast on the riders so using them as monsters is just a matter of leaving the riders off.



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Offline Bloodaxe

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Re: Dungeon crawls in 15/18mm fantasy, SF, etc.,
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2016, 05:52:26 PM »
Some small dungeon sets & figures by Pendraken. Available from WarStore.

http://www.pendraken.co.uk/Fantasy-c21/

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Re: Dungeon crawls in 15/18mm fantasy, SF, etc.,
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2016, 07:09:10 PM »
There's one nice serie of DC games by Greebo, named Dungeon Storming: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/36552/dungeon-storming

Unfortunately, afaik it's produced in small runs just for "Lucca" Con, and it's in Italian only...

Offline Bloodaxe

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Re: Dungeon crawls in 15/18mm fantasy, SF, etc.,
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2016, 02:31:52 AM »

Offline markdienekes

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Re: Dungeon crawls in 15/18mm fantasy, SF, etc.,
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Offline frenchfever

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Re: Dungeon crawls in 15/18mm fantasy, SF, etc.,
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2016, 10:02:40 PM »
if you have a budget, maybe why not looking for pre slotta 25mm minis from Ral partha and grenadier ?

you can find Lots of them for cheap on EBay to start a dungeon


Offline Conquistador

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Re: Dungeon crawls in 15/18mm fantasy, SF, etc.,
« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2016, 01:36:28 AM »
if you have a budget, maybe why not looking for pre slotta 25mm minis from Ral partha and grenadier ?

you can find Lots of them for cheap on EBay to start a dungeon


Why?  Because I am switching to 3mm/6mm/15mm figures for everything.

Plus I have (still, after my 2016 giveaways,) close to 2k 25mm figures to dispose of...

Budget is more of a self limit than a driving factor.

 

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