Great Escape Games - Dead Man's Hand Street Scatter review You can never go wrong with some good scatter terrain and this set, made for Dead Man’s Hand but usable with other Wild West games (or in European and Eastern areas for that matter), is certainly that. Two frames are included at the very reasonable price of £10 and with them you can build a broad selection of boxes, barrels, and crates to lay around your run-down camp or bustling gold rush town. Beyond the basics, there are increasingly specialised items that you can make into objectives or add to your gaming board to make narrative areas. Suitcases and packages can represent the connections that the expanding rail network brought to the US and could be found at stations or on trains. Bundles and ammo boxes might be stored away in the sheriff’s office, ripe for a bold gang to snatch and grab, or be hidden in a secret hideout. Grain sacks will give a stable or general store extra character (Wi Painter Matt added produce names to his) while cowpokes could protect a churn full of the state’s finest, prize-winning milk in an entertaining game. Maybe the local drunks have gotten together to rush a saloon and swipe a tray of hooch (some of the bottles are removable, so could be used as a tracker for gaming or added to a vignette or bases). The possibilities with this set are broad and if you play this period (or various other ones where the pieces would still be useful) there’s no reason to not get yourself a set or two. Because of the texture detail, you don’t have to apply a Matt Parkes finish to get them looking good either, a splash of Army Painter Speedpaint or Citadel Contrast will get the job done.
