looks at some new terrain products, which use space age technology!Hell Beach
Publisher: DramaScape
DramaScape Battlemaps Volume 03
This product is designed for use with 15mm miniatures, and is a 48" x 30" battlemap with no overlay.
You are about to embark upon the great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hell Beach is a single large map of a French beachhead defended by Germans on the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion, done on a 15mm scale for miniature wargaming. The German defenses include obstacles built of timber and steel to impale and sink Allied ships placed on the beach and in the water on the coastal shelf, mines hidden in the water and in the sands of the beach, two sets of barbed wire, two sandbag bunker positions for MG42s and mortars, and three pillbox casemate bunkers placed on top of a cliff looking down on the beach.
Will the Allies again prove victorious on D-Day? Or will the German defenses defeat them this time, creating an alternative history?
Beyond a wargaming reenactment, this could also be used for some interesting alternative roleplaying or wargaming. For example, the player characters are super soldiers for the Allies (super powers or greatly improved physical and mental attributes), and are sent in during the invasion to deal with new German threats, everything from German soldiers that revive as zombies when slain but only once, to German soldiers that transform into monsters, to German super soldiers that could have abilities similar to their own. Their ultimate mission goal is to enter a French town and gain access to the main chateau where the experiments are being performed by a mad German scientist (or even a collaborating French scientist who derives a sadistic pleasure from turning Germans into monsters). Where the most powerful German super soldiers guard their creator (or they even turn on their creator as a twist).
Price: $1.99 USD