Reply To: 3D printing stuff for modern wargames

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Good afternoon ~

@collins – I’m not 100% sure I understand the question.  Things you’d find in a British patrol base?  Would that really be what your table is?  I would imagine most firefights take place away from the PB / ISAF base camps.

Well, for one, you can’t go wrong with shipping containers.  Everything on these bases seems to be very pre-fab, dropped in, and assembled on site.  A lot of tents, (nothing terribly permanent) a lot of concrete barricades like we see on highways and construction sites … and I’ll be honest, these “basket” looking sandbags (?) I see stacked up in many photos.  I’ll be straight, I don’t know what they are, I’ve never seen them myself.  But these seem to be a feature of many base camps in the region.

If you’re looking for a ISAF base area … just have some elevated firing positions (1-story tall towers fortified with sandbags), long fields of fire around the perimeter (any buildings we be demolished or vegetation cleared) – Taliban can never get close without being seen … only one road and that is fortified with “dog leg” switchbacks or barricades (so a car bomb can never drive straight through even at suicide speed).  This would all be in military “prefab” buildings, I wouldn’t use “local” buildings to my knowledge.  If your table is big enough, some hint of air ops, a helo pad or the corner of an airfield.

I hope I’m not off base here (no pun intended).  I hope I understand the question.