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Sooo the local club made a decision. Instead of 3 Fronteris sets we're getting 2 large format FDM printers for the same money.

Cool. What version?

Huh. The little connector clip pieces to connect the stockade walls to the buildings were clever enough to sell me on buying the big box until I saw the price. Landing pad is too small for anything to land on anyway.
Shame, really. I was quite excited about intact buildings and wanted to show GW with my wallet so they made more in the future. Just not so excited that it would cut into my "heck yeah non-primaris space marines!" budget.

 Oguhmek wrote:
Oh and most of the Sector Imperialis stuff, which seems to be OOP, which is a shame.

I'm hoping the Sector Imperialis stuff gets a proper re-release. Was tempted to buy a few sets of Killzone Chalnath but reluctant to do so when so many of the kits are OOP

If the previous edition of Kill Team is any indication, the other Sector Imperialis sub-sectors will get their own separate inclusions in future Kill Team boxes or Warzone terrain sets.

No One Important wrote:
Landing pad is too small for anything to land on anyway.

An Arvus seems about the right size but a Valkyrie might look weird. It would make sense that the skyshield is for anything larger than an Arvus.

chaos0xomega wrote:
If the previous edition of Kill Team is any indication, the other Sector Imperialis sub-sectors will get their own separate inclusions in future Kill Team boxes or Warzone terrain sets.

Yeah, I'm hoping for another mechanicus sector release with a manufactorum sunctum adminstratus or two.

 Flinty wrote:
Cool. What version?

Anycubic Mega X, they're only about 230€ right now for a foot by foot plate.

Racerguy180 wrote:

No One Important wrote:
Landing pad is too small for anything to land on anyway.

An Arvus seems about the right size but a Valkyrie might look weird. It would make sense that the skyshield is for anything larger than an Arvus.

Is it big enough to fit a munitorum container so you can mock up an ISSAPC style cargo docking from a lifter chassis?

New article up.

Seems the designers were Richard Butler and Dave Andrews.

Some pictures:


Now someone go and try to tell me that 9th isn't Tournament Edition 40k.

Yoink!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

I'm seeing the frontier town ranch, but where's the livestock? Hm, GW? Where are the grox models?

Lazy bums, releasing Eldar models nobody* asked for when they could have made space cattle instead.

Grox? Just take the giant flea things from Necromunda :-)

 The Phazer wrote:
Grox? Just take the giant flea things from Necromunda :-)

Yeah, I think we need a higher fence for that.

Ok, but I actually want Grox.

Eliminate a faction and give me space cows.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

gungo wrote:

I’m hoping the battlezone fronteris box isn’t limited at that reduced price point.

Battlezone Charadon lasted a while and is still languishing in stores worldwide.

Yup, my local Warhammer has a few of them, FLGS has 1 as well. Maybe they'll produce less of this new one because of it, but who knows with GW

I wrote rule for Grox once for one of the 40k RPGs. I gave them a special rule that they were especially tasty.

You know, if GW still produced it, the ambull would fit nicely in there.

Sure it's massive, it can tunnel underground, and even just smash through the walls, but man is it tasty

For Grox, I have 2 of these to be painted as cows.



https://www.reapermini.com/search/burrowing/latest/77372

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
For Grox, I have 2 of these to be painted as cows.



https://www.reapermini.com/search/burrowing/latest/77372

Those look more like D&D Bulettes.

Doesnt really look very "GW"

I like the sat dish and the barricades. I want to buy it but I have similar enough terrain. Iffy

They're live on the GW NZ site:

I really like the look of the spiky fence/wall, although a grox model would really top it all off. Kid_Kyoto's suggestion for the Reaper bones Bulettes is a good sub in though!

feth me dead... look at them Kiwi prices!!!

Vertigus was AUD$250. With the 10% price increase that terrain got all over the world, that should make this box AUD$270.

The NZ Price is $445, which is AUD$410 (!!!). Even if it's the price of a Super-Giant - AUD$320 - that's still a significant jump.


[EDIT]: Jesus H. Christ... it's AUD$370. AUD$520 to buy all the components separately.

Oooof, $370 AUD. No thanks

Those prices are going to bite them on the ass. Recently I backed a KS that offered STLs for bunkers and defensive walls. It cost me 24$. It's not all that detailed compàred to the Fronteris but for that price I can buy a filament printer, and print as much terrain as I want.

GW might have the advantage of quality when talking about figures still, but that terrain it's not worth IMHO those prices.

M.

Thank the Emperor for 20% off and $150 in store credit.

But for everyone else, man, that is... that is one hell of a price.

Vertigus was $250. Two-fifty??? What the feth happened in two years to make GW think that a 48% price increase on big terrain boxes was perfectly fine. It only gets worse when you consider the type of terrain GW is bringing out these days - completely non-modular affairs, all starting with 9th and the terrain that arrived around the time of the Indomitus box - are inferior to the Sector Mechanicus and Sector Imperalis kits they did release (and, in the case of the Sector Imperialis kits, mostly took off the market without warning - those big statues go for a mint on eBay these days!).

How this can be AUD$120, just $5 shy of this (a fully modular kit with endless customisation) just boggles my mind.

How this, this time AUD$140, can only be fifty shy of this (already very expensive) modular building kit doesn't make any sense.

And then there's this (certainly clunky), but significantly larger kit:


Compare that to the small size of the new "landing pad":


How is this new one AUD$120 but the old one AUD$69???

I consider myself very fortunate to be in a position where I can get these things (but if I didn't have that store credit, this would be a different conversation entirely), but for anyone else especially new players, this kind of pricing eco-system is just not conducive to bringing in new people. They are creating further barriers to entry.

WintersSEO brings this up in his videos from time to time, how 8th saw a massive expansion of people as the game became easier to get into, and how 9th has been pissing that away with over-complicated rules, endlessly layered rules, and more and more pathetic tiny DLC books that cost as much as a regular book that make new people coming into the hobby go "Oh, really, I need all that?".

Seems GW wants to further add to this barrier by pricing their terrain to the fething moon.

It's not evil, it's just stupid.

Add to that the fact that "Japan is different" (sic) so Japanese customers will have to wait several months for the set to be available here, probably at a higher price due to rampart inflation.

M.

Yeah, Japan and NZ (I think...) pay an even higher price for this.

Yeah, given the relative exchange rate between NZ and Oz, that pricing differential is outrageous.

These kits are horribly overpriced in all regions. They are such a simple kits that they should be priced at beginner-friendly level, something that you could start your own scenery collection with.