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table to life and also offer more cover to your little guys that are
running around there trying to make your opponent's little guys
dead.
Name: Bits of Mayhem
Designer: Matt Lyon
MSRP: $15.00
In this third set we jump up a couple of dollars in price but get
some very useful bits that can augment the previous two sets.
You get five different types of files (buildings, ground tiles,
vehicles, gas station and props) all with easy to follow instructions.
The building that you get is a good looking downtown style
three story building that can easily be modified to be taller,
shorter or made into a shape other than a square footprint. I
easily modified my first go of this building to be just three windows
wide instead of four to give some room for miniatures to
run around the perimeter without going on the sidewalks or
streets of adjacent street tiles. You also get a pdf that will allow
you to make a fire escape for this, or any, of your other buildings,
and while I think that I’ll put them together in the future
they are definitely a back-burner item for me as I construct
buildings and other terrain features. If you really want to go all
out with this building you can print off a set of windows that
come as a separate pdf file onto clear acetate. The ‘glass’ will
look more realistic and if you have added actual floors to the
interior you’ll be able to see your guys that are on the inside
from the outside. It would be a lot of work but would look
mighty cool.
You don’t get any new street tiles (not like you needed any if
you pick up the Streets of Mayhem set) but there’s a blank concrete
and grass (with some dirt mixed in) tile that you can use to
make a park, backyard or just a concrete slab to throw down
smaller buildings on.
In the vehicles folder you get sports cars, vans, a bus and a couple
trucks (the kind that pull large trailers) in several different
colors. There are also burned out versions of the sports cars
that you can use to replace the ones that you blow up in-game
or just toss out there for additional cover. Building the vehicles
requires significantly more cutting on your part than constructing
a building and I found that they also took somewhat longer
to glue together because there are several small areas that need
gluing and you want to make sure that each part is done before
moving on to the next. Given a bit of patience you can crank
out a parking lot full of cars and have busses driving through
your streets that will add lots of cover for your troops to hide
behind and creating some house rules for action movie style car
explosions is definitely in the future for my games.
For the gas stations you get two different station names
(Mayhem Petroleum and Golden Shield) each in a different
color, but both with the same design and layout. Each one
comes with a set of pumps, an attendant’s station, a large sign
advertising their prices ($3.19 a gallon for regular!) a basing tile
and an overhang to protect your customers from the elements.
The overhang adds some more realism to the gas station but
might get in the way of hands reaching down to the table to
move figures around, especially if you have lots of other buildings
on the table. Of course, you can choose not to glue it
down to the supporting pillars and just take it off when you
need to. I’ll probably go for this option because I’ll want it in
place to obscure the line-of-sight of enemy snipers. The attendant’s
shack will take you a bit of time to put together if you
want to do it right because it has a small interior section that
shows off racks of ships and other goodies and makes a space
large enough for a figure to fit in. It could be a great place to
get some cover during a firefight!
Last up are the props and there are a
lot of them. There are new billboards
that can also be glued onto the side of
buildings, a large dumpster (complete
with garbage for the interior), a bus
stop (kind of fiddly to build because
there’s a lot of white space to cut
away during the assembly), street
signs and my favorite, a phone booth.
The phone booth is also a bit fiddly to
assemble but it’s very cool and worth
the effort. There’s also two flavors of
chain link fencing. One that’s black
in between the links and one that’s
clear for printing on clear acetate. I’ll
go with the clear ones with the fence
just for added realism. There’s also
trash cans, park benches, soda machines,
mailboxes, newspaper machines,
barrels, street signs, and parking
meters in this set.
Even with some of the bits requiring
some more cutting and gluing than
the easier to churn out buildings they
are worth the time and effort.
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