What’s in the Box: Paddy Fields & Vietnamese Huts
August 9, 2013 by warzan
As the last of our unboxings Warren and Gareth sit down to have a look at some of the terrain you'll be using in your games of Flames of War Vietnam!
Here’s the run down on what you can win:
Prize 1: US Rifle Company
1 x Tour of Duty Rule Book
2 x Rifle Platoon VUS712
1 x Machine gun Platoon VUS708
1 x Mortar Platoon VUS705
Dice and Tokens VE003 VE004
Crashed Huey VE107
Loach VUSBX04
Prize 2: PAVN Army
1 x Tour of Duty Rule Book
Dice and Objective VE002 VE101
Infantry HQ VPABX06
Infantry VPABX07
Weapons Company VPABX08
Divisional Fire Support VPABX09
Local Forces Company VPABX10
To win all you have to do is comment on anything that we send out this week and at the end we’ll pull all the comments in to one big pot and pick two winners before announcing them on not this coming Weekender but the one following it.
So get commenting and enjoy the week!
Loving this scenery, the table was so cool in this weeks shows.
Loved the paddy, and the field, but the houses are the weakest IMHO
Individually they’re not much but there are 6 or 8 on the demo table used this week and I reckon they look pretty decent. IMO of course.
The huts are nice but the rice fields could be replaced by some corrigated card and a little light painting.
Very cool boxes of terrain, and I agree that the table was really cool too.
Blimey, look at the shag pile carpet in that first pic!
Bit swanky for peasant farmers I would of thought.
What’s Vietnamese for, “You’re not coming in here with those dirty boots on!”*
On the other hand the pile of the carpet looks thick enough to hide a cache of AK47s
*the marvels of the internet:
Bạn không đến đây với đôi giày bẩn trên!
which in English is:
You did not come here with dirty shoes on!
Which is correct. You don’t want to cross a farmer’s wife who has just vacuumed and is now about to kill a chicken and therefore holding a BIG knife.
I admit on their own the buildings and patties are a bit meh but they really pulled the scenery together in the demo games.
When Warren brought up that the huts would work well in the Pacific theater in WWII Flames of War, it’s exactly what I was thinking.
well we use the eastern front buildings here so i knew such “huts”, i have to confess there maybe better options, but the amount of time you can spare is a good deal. Instead of building and painting a “russian” “vietnamese” village you get some boxes and put them on the table. i think its a godd deal for people like me, who have to much to paint 😉
A great way to get the feel for Nam just need some jungle, long grass, hills and your away. The gaming board for the week was great to.
Not forgetting urban scenery for the Tet Offensive 😉
The FoW terrain boxes are great! I have a collection of them for my WW2 games.
Some sand bag bunkers and gun emplacements would be cool so you can make a American Fire Base.
What’s in the box ? A: huts and paddy fields. God the quiz has been so easy this week.
Am looking forward to the ones that will be made for the FoW WW2 Italian Campaign.
In the box will be Pizza Huts.and Paddy Fields of the 2nd Ulster Rifles
I do like the BB scenery. It’s not the greatest but you can do any better for pre-painted terrain for a reasonable price.
Wanted to try this, hope I win!
Great Demo, the ready madeterrain is a real time-saver……
I have a large number of their WWII buildings and they’re nice quality. I’m sure these are just as good.
For being as simple as these are, they look really great on the tabletop. Funny how a subtle bit of thematically-appropriate terrain can make such a world of difference.
yay free stuff
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Nice terrain. But, again, needs more trees…
Agreed that they aren’t the most inspiring looking of terrain pieces, but the fact that you can take them out of the box prepainted, and use right away is such a huge plus for me
The terrain is not mindblowing indeed, but come prepainted and are all very sturdy. Good quality overall and reasonably priced. And let’s be honest: Vietnam is not about the hooches, but trees, trees trees and paddyfields.
Trees you can find everywhere, even some palmtrees. Paddyfields you better make yourselves or take a look at the paddyfields used on the ‘What would Patton do’ site.
I always felt, that Battlefront terrain is quite expensive. And I still do. But: As I brought myself around to buy some I recognized how much use you get out of it and how practical it is. You use it in like every battle (not like those 10 Kingtigers you bought, they see light what? once a year?). It looks really good. And it fits the FoW bases, so puttin guys in and out of buildings is no pain at all.
If I had 10 Kingtigers it would be the only ~4000 points I would ever play. 😀
Good looking terrain, the price does concern me though. Gaming on a budget does make you think about the cost (and winning free stuff! 🙂 ).