Fat Dragon Games PDF Terrain
A company I have never heard of before, Fat Dragon Games, has released a paper terrain product meant exclusively for the Classic Battletech game. They even use a CBT miniature in their previews online. (Kudos to the first comment that identifies the ‘Mech!)
And they expect us to pay $11.99 for it. The kit includes 8 city buildings, a ‘Mech hanger, a static defense turret, storage tanks, generators, satellite dishes, fire template, and city scape tiles with and without hexes.
I am not sure if they are aware of the wide assortment of card stock terrain templates already available for free courtesy of the CBT community. See the forum post for more.
If the quality is good enough I am sure there will be a few sales for them in the future. Honestly I am glad to see third party vendors making products for our little niche of a game. It is a good sign and positive attention for us. I’ve bookmarked their site to keep tabs on further releases.
If I were to give them any advice, I would try running with the map tile idea. Honestly the only competition in that field would be Heavy Metal Map which is not the map making dynamo that I had expected when I purchased it a year ago.
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I have this set and several other Fat Dragon products and love them. They are high quality and very easy to put together. I have been playing Battletech for over 20 years and have to say that it pleases me to see some affordable terrain come out. I have some of the freebies, but the quality leaves a bit to be desired and the resin stuff is just way too expensive to do any serious size table.
I actually e-mailed them and asked about future sets, they said it would greatly depend on the sales of the first set. I even suggested a starport and a bunch of other BT related stuff as well, so here’s to hoping that there are enough of us out there buying this set to warrant future sets.
Oh and that is a Gallowglas.
Good call on the Gallowglass. Thanks for the comment about the new terrain. It is good to be able to hear form someone who took a chance on the product and can provide some insight.
If they make another set then we should have our answer as to how many people made the leap.
~Brian