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Yesterday I went to Warhammer World in Nottingham with my mates and we saw an amazing battle board. It had a wreacked Reaver titan, wreaked super heavy vehicles, more then two sets of forge world fortress walls which had the usual heavy bolter/lascannon turrets replaced with Vulcan mega bolter turrets, cities of death kits and a load of scratch built scenery. We were told we could play on it if we wanted, but when told the price the table cost to build we decided not to in case we damaged it. The GW staff said the total cost was £10,000!!!

Below are the pictures.

They should have built it into a Sultan, that would have bumped the price a bit!

http://www.geekchichq.com/Co.%20Store/Sultan/Sultan.html

I want that

Awesome find, thanks for sharing it. I remember looking at old conversions in white dwarf where one or two major parts were used from another model and thinking that it was a waste of money and not something I would be able to replicate, but that table is just insane.

That is insane

I totally would have played on it.


Remember, their cost is not your cost. They have Forge World next door. The pieces that Forge World sells to you have a high cost in order to create margins that are big enough to pay their employees for the time that they spend working on them. But, for GW, the cost of a big piece of resin is really no more than the cost of a bag of resin mix.

That's an awesome table, with some great terrain, but £10,000? Someone was yanking your chain. Two imperial wall sets and a reaver titan total £1,761.70. Probably cost about £2,000 for that table. That's a farcry from £10,000

They must include super high paid salaries in that equation too lol

That is a pretty fragtastic table, although it could have used a bit more terrain in the middle - that'd probably be a real meat grinder for whoever was assaulting the fortifications. I definitely would have played on it.

The power generators are particularly cool.

Well, most fortifications would have an open killing ground, usually larger than the range of the most common weapon (Take Castles. THe open ground surrounding them was greater than a Bow could fire. Otherwise your enemy just hides in the woods and bombards you).

And this is why I like living in Nottingham

Morskul wrote:And this is why I like living in Nottingham

and why I am jealous


Gimmie!

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Well, most fortifications would have an open killing ground, usually larger than the range of the most common weapon (Take Castles. THe open ground surrounding them was greater than a Bow could fire. Otherwise your enemy just hides in the woods and bombards you).

The main man concedes his point.

KingCracker wrote:They must include super high paid salaries in that equation too lol

According to Nick Davis, working for GW is a lot like being in college, you're living off of Ramen dinners.

They posted lots of pictures when they were building that table, just can't remember when it was so I can find them again.

Morskul wrote:And this is why I like living in Nottingham




and that's why i live in Britland

and why i want teleport

The Table's construction photo-set - http://warhammerworld.typepad.com/photos/recovery/index.html

And having played a damned enjoyable game on that table, you know what the most annoying thing is? Someone / some people have snapped many of the turret guns off. Several of the hydra turrets are missing barrels, some of the heavy bolters are in half. They provide this table to play on for free, and people can't respect it? Makes me mad.

Aye it made me and my mates really mad too. I think on one of my photos you can see a broken hydra turret, plus there are holes in the board revealing the pink foam. It must be really infurating for the staff who made it to see it get damaged. We only had 2000 pt armies with us so it seemed a bit excessive to use a such a huge table. There was a fairly large Apocalypse game on the go when while we were there. Looked brilliant.

Tazok wrote:That's an awesome table, with some great terrain, but £10,000? Someone was yanking your chain. Two imperial wall sets and a reaver titan total £1,761.70. Probably cost about £2,000 for that table. That's a farcry from £10,000

Hmm, I dunno. All the super heavy wrecks and converted/scratch built vehicles were all the resin versions (not the plastic baneblades), plus there's all the material that went into making it and labour. We just have to take the staff's word for it. Still, even £2000 for a games table is pretty staggering.

Morskul wrote:And this is why I like living in Nottingham

I suppose it had to have an upside somewhere...

Kinda looks like something out of the second 'Dawn of War' book where they were excavating some ruins near a monestary.

Platuan4th wrote:

KingCracker wrote:They must include super high paid salaries in that equation too lol

According to Nick Davis, working for GW is a lot like being in college, you're living off of Ramen dinners.

What if you're already doing that?

Nerf_IG wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:

KingCracker wrote:They must include super high paid salaries in that equation too lol

According to Nick Davis, working for GW is a lot like being in college, you're living off of Ramen dinners.

What if you're already doing that?

Well, then you're already ready for a life of not earning enough!

I had the great pleasure of seeing this board up close with wannabe writer when we went to warhammer world, and i was speechless! the detail, the work thats gone into it and even the paint job was great! we were lucky to see the ork space hulk board that was in white dwarf recently too!

bob

I'm surprised they even let people play on it.

Its a pretty pointless table with the giant wall blocking most access except for the blasted door, and the 2 damaged wall sections, 1 with difficult terrain on one side and the other too narrow for most vehicles...

I could build it for less than $5K and have it built in two weeks.

I'm not surprised by the high price tag. I see on this:
1 Wrecked Warhound
1 Wrecked Baneblade
6+ Sanctum Imperialis
3 FW Imperial Fortress Walls
2 Hydra Turrets
1 Imperial Moisture Condenser
4 Macharius Turrets
5 Large Plasma Cannons (Resin StormBlade)
1 Modified Plastic Shadowsword
2 Converted Chimeras
1 Imperial Water Fuel Tank
12 Battlefield Accessory Sets

Before wages of who ever built it and adding in an extra to cover the other basic supplies: ~£3500

At minimum wage, the remaining £6500 would be about 1000 man hours, to assemble, convert, build, deal with the forgeworld resin, design, and order everything. In all likely hood 3 or 4 people worked on it, and probably were making more than minimum.

A bit of a stretch to say £10000.

GCMandrake wrote:The Table's construction photo-set - http://warhammerworld.typepad.com/photos/recovery/index.html

If you follow the link on GCMandrake's post you can see the step-by-step build posted by Warhammer World themselves and it does indeed say the cost is £10,000. Crazy amounts of money. They don't itemise the cost though, so hard to see where all the money was spent.
Think I'll stick with the realm of battle board just now, a little more affordable.

Oh man, I remember seeing that table at Warhammer World. It's fething epic.

Actually, pretty much all of the "big" tables were amazing.

I still prefer that giant cathedral and giant destroyed tower though.