Warmill is a UK start-up shaking up the market for wargames terrain with innovative laser-etched acrylic bases and beautiful terrain for 28mm wargaming. Among the greatest challenges in wargames terrain is creating multi-level buildings that allow fights to “move in and out” of buildings without disrupting the game itself. Warmill takes on the challenge with their latest M.U.L.E. (Modular Unit – Living Environment) kit.
Who are Warmill.co.uk?
Warmill is know best for its beautiful acrylic bases and display bases (called “Jewel bases“). These fantastic bases offer a wholly different approach to basing your miniatures on transparent bases, highlighting custom designs or logos engraved with laser technology.
WarMill Jewel bases are laser engraved and cut in high quality acrylic. As standard we offer 25mm and 40mm bases in 3mm thicknesses, and 60mm in 5mm thickness.
I have not worked with those bases yet. But I can only imagine how cool a tabletop army would look if it’s based entirely on those transparent custom bases. Not to mention, that you would never again have to worry about the bases being painted for the “wrong” wargaming terrain you are playing on. Check out some of those bases below:
MULE: Multi-Storey Terrain by Warmill.co.uk
Bases are not their only product. Warmill also offers a growing range of very nice and affordable wargames terrain for the 28mm miniature games. Their multipart terrain kits are likewise laser cut and usually made from MDF (Medium-density Fibrebards).
Warmill already offers a growing range of kits, including barricades, webway gates and Utility Pods. It’s all pretty cool looking stuff. Have a look at their range on their website.
MULE – short for Modular Unit Living Environment – is a set of sci-fi buildings representing sci-fi modular living quarters for colonists on a foreign planet. Of course, the modular also applies to them as a set of wargames terrain that can be expanded with different modules. The coolest thing about MULE, however, is Warmill’s latest stab at producing terrain that will allow tabletop fights to move into and back out of the buildings themselves without disrupting the your game. Here is the concept in their own words:
One of the things we realised about multi-storey buildings is no matter how easy they are to un-stack, most of the time you probably won’t bother using the different floors due to the hassle of taking them apart without sending models flying, so to combat this problem as well as stacking, the pod units can slide out from each level without disrupting the stack, letting you move a mini around inside then sliding it back into place. Also, the central units totally support the MULE, so you can have suspended units without needing a separate L-shaped building.
We reckon it’ll make this the most useable multi-level building out there.
Lets have a look at the picture. First up, the basic MULE module. It seems like four of these can be connected to a central core.
Here is a computer render to give you an idea of who the building-complex would look with four MULE “wings” and a central hub.
Here is a shot of the basic MULE module expanded with the outer Walkway all the way around and the central hub in the back.
Another shot of the MULE module with a 28mm wargaming miniature for scale.
A picture of this piece of wargames terrain from the top-down “gamers’ perspective”.
From a top-down perspective, it also becomes easy to see how the roofs and other elements can slide out - without needing to take the building apart – to allow your miniatures to continue the fight inside.
All in all, a pretty amazing piece of terrain that will can add a very welcomed flavour of urban house-to-house warfare to any 28mm sci-fi tabletop wargame.
I am already brooding over ideas on what to do with it. The one question I have no answer to at the moment is the price. But, as you can see for yourself on the Warmill.co.uk website, their terrain kits are very affordable. I have no reason to believe that MULE will be different.
Let me know what you think and leave a comment below!
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