Both as an act of vanity to offer a nicer background for upcoming miniature photographs and as an enhancement to the overall gaming experience, a city begs to be built that will host the game’s chaotic actions. In my desire to embrace Marvel Crisis Protocol, I am considering the hobby side of things, which is probably at least as important to me as the game aspect. Indeed, painting miniatures and building a nice table for them to romp on is often my primary pleasure in this hobby and MCP would be no exception. Also, having a nice terrain to photograph the miniatures around is a major perk as it places the miniatures in their environment, thus highlighting both decors and actors.
As often, it all started with a core box …
It is not often that one can purchase a game starter box and be able to play for hour on end without the need to further acquire material. Atomic Mass Games offers this rare gem in the form of the MCP core box. But most importantly not only does it provide the miniatures but also the terrain; and much terrain is needed for MCP to attain its full flavor. One may argue that the box offerings are rather low to the ground, but they offer a good start for an environmental mayhem playground.
While the MCP corre box offers a nice selection of terrain, I wanted to give some altitude to my table, mostly to accommodate the initial miniatures shots by providing background to them. My online search pointed me to Corvus Games Terrain which urban range is offer plethora of models fit to build my NYCish environment. If you play MCP, ensure that the models have not been pre-sized for the game ‘O Scale’ so as ou can resize them appropriately. My decision to do so was based upon the fact that I could always use oversize terrain for other games (Last Days, Walking Deads, Mad Dog with Guns, Fistful of KungFu) without much of a scale issue but that the primary role of the terrain would perfectly fit the MCP miniatures. Also, if Knight Models batman game is in my future, they would also be scale appropriate.
