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Geocraper is a terrain building system which lets you build up a miniature modern city.

While most of the 60mm square pieces are designed from today's Tokyo, there are also some SF pieces (Evangelion) and some landmark buildings from other cities such as a Taipei mega slyscraper.

https://hlj.com/search/go?ts=custom&w=Geocraper







These look awesome good fun, and relatively cheap at about £5 per piece. They come ready painted, and could be improved with judicious shading and highlighting.

The only thing is I can't at the moment think of a practical wargaming use for them!

A strategic level city gang game, perhaps? An air-to-ground strafing game?

Has anyone got any ideas?

Build a cityscape up, 4x4 or 6x4. Suspend a piece of perspex over the entire thing and et voila - an impressive aerial combat table ready for your dogfights. Either that or get some appropriate monster minis and godzilla it up...

Before anyone asks, Titanicus is about 1/200, so about 10x bigger than these buildings.

Are there any models, besides ships, in this scale?

I'd use them for an RPG game. Build up a city map that players can use to decide where to go and so fourth.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
A strategic level city gang game, perhaps?

 Monkeysloth wrote:
I'd use them for an RPG game. Build up a city map that players can use to decide where to go and so fourth.

I think these ideas have the most merit. Using the tiles as a 3D campaign map would be pretty cool, especially if sections of the city were "blacked out" and hidden until players explored or otherwise gained access to those sections of the city.

I immediately though of games like Wild in the Streets or Necromunda, but really any game set in an urban setting would work. Back when I ran Vampire: The Masquerade campaigns something like this would have been super useful for helping players visualize the domains of their characters and adversaries.

 DarkTraveler777 wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
A strategic level city gang game, perhaps?

 Monkeysloth wrote:
I'd use them for an RPG game. Build up a city map that players can use to decide where to go and so fourth.

I think these ideas have the most merit. Using the tiles as a 3D campaign map would be pretty cool, especially if sections of the city were "blacked out" and hidden until players explored or otherwise gained access to those sections of the city.

I immediately though of games like Wild in the Streets or Necromunda, but really any game set in an urban setting would work. Back when I ran Vampire: The Masquerade campaigns something like this would have been super useful for helping players visualize the domains of their characters and adversaries.

The second photo is only 18cm x 18 cm. You could double that size and take up little room on decent sized table.

These might work as for Dropfleet Commander objectives. I'd prefer to use them for Dropzone Commander, but DzC is 10mm Scifi, so these buildings are too small for that. (Don't understand the scaling system, so I don't know how 10mm turns into 1/nnnn.)

As far as I'm aware, 20mm = 1:72, 15mm = 1:100 and 6mm = 1:300

Which don't match up, unfortunately. Taking the average of the shortest and tallest averages from this Wikipedia page I get 1640mm. "mm" sizes are apparently the measurement to the eyes, not the top of the head, so taking that into account, I'd say " x mm" is x:1500 making 10mm = 10:1500 or 1:150. ish. Give or take a bit.

Clearly you can use one tile to model a 28mm scale wargame being played by your 28mm scale miniatures.

 Monkeysloth wrote:

 DarkTraveler777 wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
A strategic level city gang game, perhaps?

 Monkeysloth wrote:
I'd use them for an RPG game. Build up a city map that players can use to decide where to go and so fourth.

I think these ideas have the most merit. Using the tiles as a 3D campaign map would be pretty cool, especially if sections of the city were "blacked out" and hidden until players explored or otherwise gained access to those sections of the city.

I immediately though of games like Wild in the Streets or Necromunda, but really any game set in an urban setting would work. Back when I ran Vampire: The Masquerade campaigns something like this would have been super useful for helping players visualize the domains of their characters and adversaries.

The second photo is only 18cm x 18 cm. You could double that size and take up little room on decent sized table.

A campaign map doesn't need to be a playing surface. The smaller the better, actually, since it is just a reference aid.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
As far as I'm aware, 20mm = 1:72, 15mm = 1:100 and 6mm = 1:300

Which don't match up, unfortunately. Taking the average of the shortest and tallest averages from this Wikipedia page I get 1640mm. "mm" sizes are apparently the measurement to the eyes, not the top of the head, so taking that into account, I'd say " x mm" is x:1500 making 10mm = 10:1500 or 1:150. ish. Give or take a bit.

Thanks for the answer. Apparently it is close to N scale which is 1:148 to 1:160 according to Wikipedia. Makes sense why they chose that scale. Plenty of railroad stuff they could use.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Clearly you can use one tile to model a 28mm scale wargame being played by your 28mm scale miniatures.

Heh. Along that vein in Zombicide: Rue Morgue, one of the tiles has a game store. On the tables can be seen a miniatures game, a RPG session, and a game of Zombicide. Considering the typical physical fitness of gamers, they are probably among the zombie horde you're cutting your way through.

Since there are so few good skyscrapers out there, scale be damned I'll use them for Battletech!

Battletech's ground scale is 30m is a 1.25" hex (32mm in proper units), so about 1:944 scale.

Monsterpocalypse, maybe.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
Battletech's ground scale is 30m is a 1.25" hex (32mm in proper units), so about 1:944 scale.

Mechs would look ridiculously big on these though as those are around 1:300 scale(well except that mech scales are all over the place)

There are 2mm Ancients figures which would match reasonably well but are the wrong period.

I've got a Napoleonic army made of 6mm figures based on 60mm squares, which matches the Geocraper tile size. This is a mass battle army with one base representing a division of several thousand men. This again would fit reasonably well with the ground scale but doesn't match the period.

Modern armies don't fight in such dense formations, of course.

The Neo-Evangelion (?) set includes a couple of giant mecha figures. That or Godzill looks like the best bet.

Ideally you would also create damaged city blocks.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
There are 2mm Ancients figures which would match reasonably well but are the wrong period.

Mix in some toy dinosaurs and you've got a time travel apocalypse game!

Wondering how well 3mm models would look with them 1/600 ish.

Contact the company, and ask them to start up with 10mm/ 1:50 scale buildings?