By Joseph Forster I was horribly disappointed by the news that 4Ground Publishing is closing its doors this year. Their terrain is a mainstay of the Blood & Plunder community! But they aren't gone yet. They're taking orders through the end of June, so now is the best (and only) chance to pick up whatever … Continue reading 4Ground Terrain – Spanish Church
By Joseph Forster I'm always on the lookout for good terrain at an affordable price. I recently made a couple orders with HRC Wargaming Scenery on Etsy and I wanted to share some pictures of the quality gaming terrain I received from them. HRC Wargaming Scenery is an online terrain supplier based in Poland. They … Continue reading Product Review – HRC Wargaming Scenery
By Joseph Forster In my preparation for Raise the Black to be finished and delivered, I've been picking up some new terrain pieces to fill out my North American. In my web searches for 28mm terrain, I ran across the Acheson Creations website and I was pleasantly surprised by the range and focus of their … Continue reading Product Review – Acheson Log Cabin Ruin
Hi Guy and thank you for giving us some of your time and participating in this interview. Please introduce yourself as a person and as “a gamer.” I’ve been gaming since 1982 when I discovered D&D and some of the other early RPG games. Gaming was a big part of my teenage years as I … Continue reading Blood & Plunder Player Spotlight – Guy Bayes
By Joseph Forster I've just finished a massive 4Ground terrain project and I'm eager to share it with you! Today we'll be looking at three large buildings from the 4Ground La Haye Sainte collection. This set of buildings is made to represent a farm in France that was the location for a notable battle in … Continue reading 4Ground Terrain -La Haye Sainte Buildings
Hi Jozef and thank you for giving us some of your time and participating in this interview. Please introduce yourself as a person and as “a gamer.” Hello there! I am from a small town in Slovakia and I have been interested in board games, history, sci-fi and making and painting stuff since childhood, so … Continue reading Blood & Plunder Player Spotlight – Jozef Hudacek
By Joseph Forster I'm back with some more MDF buildings from 4Ground Publishing. When I first started collecting terrain for Blood & Plunder, a couple 4Ground buildings were among my very first purchases and since then I've come to count them as my favorite source of buildings and terrain accessories for the game. I thoroughly … Continue reading 4Ground Terrain – New France Cabins
By Joseph Forster No matter how much terrain I collect or create, it seems like there's always something else I could use. Or something else I need. In all seriousness I don't need any more terrain but a new piece always adds interest to a board and it's nice to have options. I've been meaning to buy the … Continue reading Terrain Building: Making River and Stream Terrain
By Guy Rheuark Setting up terrain for Blood & Plunder, as listed in the core book, can be a little uncertain. How much terrain is enough? How much is too much? The only guidance you get is to follow the scenario, but few scenarios mention terrain. I usually end up setting up terrain based … Continue reading A New Way to Determine Terrain Setup
Join Guy Rheuark as he paints a terrain piece and gives some tips on painting large pieces without ruining your own paint jobs. https://youtu.be/sLgVgrPhwjQ
This post is long overdue! It's been more than a year since Firelock Games came out with a line of resin terrain. I've had them painted for months but just haven't got them up here on the blog. Let's take a look at the 4 pieces of terrain included in the Village Bundle. The four … Continue reading Firelock Terrain – Village Bundle
By Joseph Forster We've reviewed the entire Port of Plunder line of 4Ground products here and now we're looking at a newer kit that Firelock doesn't event stock yet (I believe and hope they plan to). This is the Wooden Port Set and it contains two small warehouses, one large open walled warehouse and a … Continue reading 4Ground Wooden Port Set
By Joseph Forster I'm back with some more of 4Ground's amazing Ports of Plunder terrain series. I recently wrote on the Hovel set and the Port Houses set and now I'm taking a look at the docks and some of the other portside accessories. Here I have a setup using the Large Dock Bundle, the … Continue reading 4Ground Ports of Plunder Docks, Crane and Barrels
How I Stopped Making Horrible Messes and Learned to Love the Render PowderI've been working on a lot of 4Ground terrain lately and I wanted to share some technique and tips that I've picked up along the way. Much of the Ports of Plunder line of product comes with a "Render Powder" that has to … Continue reading 4Ground Render Powder
We got to release an exclusive set of Beta Rules for the Palisade Fort (and some other fortifications) and we want to celebrate by giving away a complete 8-piece fort kit! All you need to do to get your name in the pool is drop a comment either on this post on this blog or … Continue reading Palisade Fort Giveaway!