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Is it compatible with the Forge World tiles then? If it's a different height to the old ones, maybe not?

 Slinky wrote:
Is it compatible with the Forge World tiles then? If it's a different height to the old ones, maybe not?

WD25 states the 40k tiles are compatible with the Realm of Battle. The designer explains that's why some areas have bare earth. It smooths the transition from city to open space...if that's your thing. By extension, they should be compatible with the ROB Forge World tiles.

The GW site images shows it as a flat tile profile, I'm not sure why they would photoshop the depth out if it wasn't the case?

No matter how you put it, it's simply a textured surface with a little bit more depth.

Would happily pick up an expansion set of say 2-3 tiles so we can mix up the RoB board a bit, however that price is pretty steep, I think ill stock to our city gaming mats for now

If those tiles are missing clips to hold them together, there rises a new question in my mind:


Do the Forge World tiles have clips? Especially this set of four? http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Warhammer_40,000_Terrain/REALM_OF_BATTLE_CITYSCAPE_BATTLEFIELD_SECTOR.html

The Forgeworld ones don't have clips - they are solid resin.

So i would have to use a table to place them upon. Damn...i had hoped you could just use two horse stands...would be quite space saving. Oh well...

No you'd definitely at least need some frame under them. But you could probably use a pair of stands and a 12mm MDF sheet.

Yeah

Herzlos wrote:
The Forgeworld ones don't have clips - they are solid resin.

The Forge world hawk down and strong point tiles are hollow resin, have these, they do not take clips.
I expect their city ones are the same.

Panic...

Herzlos wrote:
The Forgeworld ones don't have clips - they are solid resin.

No they're not solid resin. Having just bought the four cityscape and a thunder hawk board I can attest to that. If people don't mind waiting I can post photos of the underside later. Currently in Scotland for the games so I'll post them when I get home in August?

Cheers

Andrew

My bad, it never occurred to me the taller ones would be hollow...

Enjoy the games, I'm doing my best to avoid them (my normal train has been replaced with a tiny old relic so that the nice trains are shown off around Glasgow, but I'm not in the slightest peeved)

Maybe they didn't want to use the clips cause it was too generic to copy right and some party will cash on their design

Yeah. Third party clips are all the rage these days.

Couldn't you just drill holes and attach clips?

"Quick lads! Raise those fallen walls!" "C'mon, put your backs into it"
...
"But sir, the arches... they are too heavy" *LasPistol zzsnap* "Alright, enough of that then. Here men, we'll use these sidewalks to build a temporary landing strip"

Not getting this one, not enough effort put into making a complex but playable design. Why not just make it a very plain design with recognizable Imperial elements and dare I say... an affordable RoB tile? [So that we but Lotz!]

I know I'm just repeating myself here, but the true value of this sets it at the same price as the Forgeworld boards. This board would really shine by pouring so much of those plastic GW buildings on it that it basically becomes an urban forest, a giant jumble of ruined alleyways, catwalks, and balconies. Oh, and for those asking what the purpose of the board itself is at that point, it's to tie it all together with a cohesive and detailed appearance. But That's more work than Forgeworld. It would make the duplicate tiles irrelevant, but there is a psychology in such a situation that says "why should I invest so much of my time and money into something when the company that made this didn't?" I think that's the heart of this. It really is on the wrong side of the fence, and the fact that you can drag it back over to be on the right side at great personal expense would be symbolic of, well, a number of things if such a thing were to actually happen, which it might, but only once and not really.

I think I need to see and feel it in person to get an accurate opinion. Hopefully a store nearby will get one for a table.

 Tombard wrote:
If those tiles are missing clips to hold them together, there rises a new question in my mind:


Do the Forge World tiles have clips? Especially this set of four? http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Warhammer_40,000_Terrain/REALM_OF_BATTLE_CITYSCAPE_BATTLEFIELD_SECTOR.html

According to White Dwarf, the new urban tiles do have clips.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Tombard wrote:
If those tiles are missing clips to hold them together, there rises a new question in my mind:


Do the Forge World tiles have clips? Especially this set of four? http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Warhammer_40,000_Terrain/REALM_OF_BATTLE_CITYSCAPE_BATTLEFIELD_SECTOR.html

According to White Dwarf, the new urban tiles do have clips.

That was an error.

I don't read the daily blog, so pardon.

yeah,
A couple of photos from facebook group 'The Overlords'
By user Hud Ofthedead.
Hud says he's half way through with painting, But already it looks much more awesome in multed tones.





Panic...

That board looks like a slightly less fancy version of the Frontline Gaming Battlemats that are less than a third of the cost, require no hobby time, store easier, and you can actually roll a dice on them.

This product confuses me greatly.

4X4 piece of plywood, with my own scrap and sand mixed paint, and I'll spend that other 180.00 on something that is worth it.

I've seen the Dark Vengeance set in person. Its as over priced and overblown as you'd expect. The prices for all of the GW's stuff have pretty much killed it, especially in light of people picking up that 6th stuff, then to turn around and see the price creep !@#$ all over everyone.

The new models are not selling, by the way.


On a better front, though I'll pick up a 120.00 box of the buildings for the new Necromunda thing I'm doing.



HUD's done one hell of a job with what they have there. I'm going to shamelessly steal some of those ideas for the new board I'll do.

Absolutely top notch stuff.

yeah,

 TheKbob wrote:
That board looks like a slightly less fancy version of the Frontline Gaming Battlemats that are less than a third of the cost, require no hobby time, store easier, and you can actually roll a dice on them.

This product confuses me greatly.

It seems that you're comparing a 2d mat with a 3d one.. I can see why you're confused.
Also while the front line mats look great, for as long as they insist in putting their logo on the surface I will never buy one.

Panic...

I'd take a logo over that thing any day.

Yep. I don't care how well the textures 'tie in with' the urban ruins.

Building foundations are flat, but roads have huge segmented dividers and sidewalks are hazardous metal grating. This makes no sense. It's not grimdark--it's stupid.

Pedestrians would be scrunched up against the buildings, trying to avoid the uneven, metal 'sidewalks', and then forced out onto the sidewalks every few steps by the buttresses of the architecture.

It would have been child's play to use the pre-existing CAD files of Imperial surfaces to create a plausible looking board (and one that, perhaps, contained more than one elevation level?). Instead, GW churned out this inane rendering. Now we'll presumably get to see it over and over and over in the battle reports.

And their own writers admitted that it was almost impossible to roll dice on--another great design feature! Maybe the next ROB will be impossible to place models on and you can just buy it, paint it, and admire it!

It still looks flat because it doesn't have many buildings on it. They made it all flat so it would be easy to pack the whole board up in their nylon bag-case. Considering they made no accommodation for the buildings, nor ever present the board actually full of buildings I'm left to believe that this flat, almost pop-up book aesthetic is their ideal. They don't care about its style compared to its functionality, which is the exact opposite of where they needed to go to get away with charging premium price. How could they possibly think that it was their place to do that when that's what custom terrain does anyway. I can see this being the compromise, but again, compromise-shmompromise, that's not what people buy from them for.

I actually got the chance to look at this in my local gaming store. Like everything they sell, it looks better in real life, and the material looked really durable, not to mention enticing to paint in general. It's just... that's what they were focused on. It's happened again, they've made something completely void of inspiration that checks their quality control boxes.

Still, after all this, it's better than playing with GW buildings spread out randomly over a grass mat.