Post Apocalyptic & World War II Terrain From 4Ground
July 27, 2018 by dignity
Today I'm joined by Cad from 4Ground to talk about their new Post Apocalyptic terrain and World War II Japanese themed war camps for games such as Konflikt '47.
Remember you can WIN three sets with all the different colours by commenting on this post with your best scenario ideas for this type of terrain.
The guys at 4Ground just can't keep their hands off those storage containers and what they've made this time is something short of genius for those games that you may want to play in a post-apocalyptic setting. Plus we're taking a look at some Japanese inspired war camps with lots of barbed wire and lookout towers for those jungle scenarios you want for games such as Konflikt '47 or perhaps Spectre.
What kind of house would you make from a Storage container?
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I want them, I want them all. Those containers are awesome.
There’s a phrase I never thought I’d write.
A nice Cross shaped home with a central hub of two containers with the long sides together and 4-6 coming off like spokes for individual rooms.
Who doesn’t want containers? .. I’ll add them to my Core-Space Frontier set .. be pretty awesome. I also get a ‘Rerady-Player One’ vibe on these if I stack them up … do some house rules. I could also use these with my MERCS. So many good times to be had.
Of course recreate my Fallout 4 settlement…. or an Orc Fort…. or or…. GOD HOW CAN ONE CHOOSE?!
What would I use these for…….
I would create a main street using the wild west as a theme: including a saloon, hotel, garage, undertakers, general store, etc. I would have to manufacture appropriate signs to fix to the containers.
Off to one edge of the street, I would use the barbed wire fencing to create an octagon for the MMA-ish entertainment for the locals. Broken containers for street food vendors and such.
Great for a Spectre Ops game, need a ship to store the cargo containers on. Then have some PMC v pirates action. Modern pirates mind, I don’t see flintlocks and cutlasses doing well against M4 carbines.
4ground always giving stuff away
men I would create a renegade camp like on Mad Max 2 movie. with barb wire, containers, and ad some items from the industrial line of 4ground. that would look sweet. I could play dark age, infinity and 40k on that table…
Nice kits.
Great kits. I see that watchtower and instantly the theme from The Great Escape starts playing in my head
I’d make a junkertown home with this terrain
it all makes sense now… Is that their entry into the end is nigh? Great products as ever!
I would use these kits to build a Brotherhood of Steel forward operating base for Fallout Wasteland Warfare.
4ground always makes great stuff. Those containers especially!
That video contains quite a bit of containers. ??
I would probably do like a scenario of defend the settlement with the containers as the settlement and the defenders in the middle. Something like a post-apocalyptic Rorke’s Drift.
“Zombies, thousands of ’em. Don’t shoot until you see the white of their ey….hang on!!!!”
Post-Apocalyptic stuff… I’ll take five, please.
I fail to see the problem of filling the content with container talk. Those are great pieces. I have a vision of a firefight in the dockside maze of stacked containers. The wide range of colors is a wonderful option.
Awesome. The idea of some containers having zombies in and some having loot in. Shuffling them up in some way or having someone lay out your terrain for you and you not knowing what is where. Fantastic scenario.
The containers are great. I could see a scenario where you are searching for a VIP/hostage in a ship yard. Much more evocative than a marker.
A scenario for these would be to follow up on Justins thought for a zombie game, a defend the shelter from oncoming zombies. It looks fantastic!
firefly….these containers have firefly written all over them. Bit like Badger’s criminal den!
barbed wire fences also have so many applications but for me it will be walking dead. not just the prison but also just putting around a semi-permanent camp site
Storage Wars sounds like a great name for a post-apocalyptic scenario – how about some of the containers with a fenced off, barbed wire entrance and a heavily armed, biker-gang-esque auctioneer stood on top of the tower? Post apocalypse slave auction with survivors penned into make-shift slave pens and some friends trying to bust them out. Maybe a deviation on the Gangs of Rome mob rules? You have to sneak through the crowds and engage the guards, doing your best to free your friends before the mob either turns against you or the place devolves into a riot!
It might be cool to use these as half of a Ready Player One/Cyberpunk style game. Imagine running a concurrent virtual game on one side and a defense game on the other where the virtual team had a mission, but the real world team was trying to defend them in a container slum in the real world at the same time. Complicated, but could be very cool, especially with two very different set ups (apocalyptic slum and super high tech) in the same table.
I’d make a post apocalyptic shanty town, but they could also work as utilitarian housing for space colonists, reusing the shipping containers as housing once they arrive on a new planet.
I’d add an external stair and use it as an office in a scrapyard
they could be good for AVP Hadley’s Hope table.
love the WW2 fences, can imagine instead of the great escape have the great brake in where the scenario is to brake in to a prisoner of war cam to get out a general or scientist. be great for konflict 47 using big stompy US Mec’s agents a German Compound garden by undead.
I know the scales wrong but I can see these on a gaslands table. Especially the thro and thro container being a short cut if you can ‘thread the needle’.
Also a few home made ramps at either end to have cars racing along the tops of the containers, all the while praying you don’t slide or spin off.
Idea #1) The garbage people camp from this last season’s Walking Dead. The entrance was all containers and the head garbage lady had an amazing setup for her container. Would work as a game scenario too.
Idea #2) Use three containers going up to create a column. Then from the top container, go out two containers. The top structure would be held by poles. There are stairs that start at the back of the structure all the way to the top and the top three containers have guard fencing all the way around. This would be a lookout tower/control tower structure that could used it various games.
Idea #3) Someone had already taken my idea but I will repeat it, use them as obstacle for Gaslands. Tunnels, ramps or just barriers. A Start/Finish tower would be cool. Two containers suspended in air to make the bridge/tower and then two others to raise them above the track.
Idea #4) Not sure if anyone knows about the Board game named “Containers” I would love to use these to store all the game pieces for that game.
Idea #5) I have dozens upon dozens of N-Scale diecast cars for the game Rallyman. I would love to make car racks to store the cars. Would be thematic when I took out the cars to play.
I would make my dream house from Containers! They are cheap, plentiful and sturdy. I would use all sorts of scavenged and re-purposed materials to make this a reality. Each Container would be a room and a functioning part of the whole house. We don’t need to wait for an Apocalypse for this!
Usual high quality kits from 4Ground. I also love their passion for what they do.
Absolutely gorgeous!
I’d use them to recreate the internal storage section from the ship in pandorum with the weird evolved mutants chasing you around them all stacked up
Lovely, lovely, lovely. I am such a sucker for any post apocalyptic stuff. What is wrong with me?
I would make a makeshift torture chamber in the shipping container to get the info i needed.
4Ground’s is some of the best flat-pack stuff out there at the moment.
Those containers are super versatile. I can see them working great as scatter terrain as well as more solid buildings when joined together. I would like to experiment with the opened up containers to create a labyrinthine ‘fortress’. Perhaps even put some of them up on their short ends to create lookouts.
I would use these to set up a “District 9” board
I already have one of the normal industrial containers. Great piece! These do also look great.
I just picked up Ash Barker’s Last Days Zombie Apocalypse, which would be a great fit for these containers. Scavenging through an infested dockside could be made perfectly claustrophobic with these.
I would love to add some of these to my MERCS games! The container houses are awesome!
Looks good, I would like to see what a town of these would look like. could make an interesting game in for all sorts of rulesets
Those Storage Containers are just the job for a Zombie Apocalyptic World, i can see lot
s of small community's springing up with walls of containers surrounding them. Or you could have an ex-military mountain base (like the one in Star gate) with a wall of containers across the front of the base, and have two of the containers those that have doors at each end facing out so you could send out small recon vehicles (vehicles such as Jeeps – Motor cycles etc that can pass through the containers). Thinking on, you could have a container port that has been transformed into a camp. Using the container fork lift trucks, you would have a wall surrounding the place in double time and with the insides of the containers you could have a maze. With the 4Ground containers there`s no limit to what you can do, and you could rename the container port Rainbow City.treasure hunt all the way
These would be great for a slum. I have an idea for making a slum for an Infinity table to either represent a slum in one of the great cities or a refugee camp/slum on Paradiso for all the people displaced by the CA. These would be perfect for that.
Had my eye in the 4Ground Standard Shipping Containers for some time now – now with even more colours! But the 14.99€ price per container at my FLGS has been holding me back… And there was always something else that seemed better value or more tempting. For me though, they would be used in Zombie Apokalypse Games.
I hear Zombicide is becoming an RPG. In which case a lovely wobbly stack of container flats surrounded by a fence and sniper tower, and it’s an instant Home Sweet Home from one point of view, or some nice canned brains from the other!
I’d be using them for overly-large barricades in Gaslands! They may also double-up as some bonus terrain for a Killteam board.
Would really be awesome for a game like Eden especially those containers.
Did they announce the winners of the last 4Ground comp (the one with the walls), I keep loosing track of these things (they don’t put up notifications on the weekender show notes like they used to)?
I’d go with a Hacker Hideout (put loads of PCs and servers inside), perfect for a game of Shadowrun 🙂
These look amazing. I can see them in use in Fallout, Walking Dead, or Skirmish Sangin
Ahh the options! How about a Gotham slum for a game of Batman? Perhaps an old dock in Arkham City where a gang has taken up squatting out of forgotten and long since looted containers with a makeshift fence to keep out the neighbours…
A Japanese love hotel, capsuled up from all the containers ?
More fantastic terrain from 4Ground. Good for all kinds of post apocalyptic games. I would work it into Terminator or the Drowned Earth games.
Just in time for Fallout
Love thier stuff. I’m thinking camp raid for the Marines in the Pacific.
I’m curios. Did they announce the winner of this set?