If you look over my blog, I have an
unhealthy amount of terrain which I intended for use with both MERCS and Infinity. Infinity is hugely popular sci-fi skirmish wargame, that requires a lot of terrain on a 4'x4' table.
Over on my other
non-MERCS blog, I did a post on
Infinity Terrain - Cheap and Easy. From that post, my '$14 and one morning of labour' solution probably created enough terrain to cover a MERCS table - but here's an even
cheaper, easier solution that looks a whole lot better!
With the launch of Infinity N3, Covus Belli have released the
Moto.tronic Scenery Pack, which gives MERCS palyers a very strong option for an
entire MERCS table for only $12.50 that includes:
- 1 Game Mat, 24"x34"
- 4 Buildings
- 6 Cargo Containers
So, the game mat is just shy of the standard 2'x3' MERCS board, but if you adjust the deployment rules for MERCS:
- each model must deploy with it's base touching the board edge
that should mitigate the missing inch on each side well enough.
The cardboard buildings and cargo containers are obviously not as sturdy as the other MDF terrain pieces I have, but taking a total of 10 minutes to assemble and looking fantastic right out of the pack, I'm not going to complain!
An element that is missing from this set is half-cover scatter terrain. There are lots of products that you could use that would fit in well with this MERCS table (I plan on using my Deadzone scatter terrain), and there are also heaps of DIY options if you want to
keep it on the cheap.
