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Gondor terrain kids are on the Australian webstore now for pre-order.

Australian prices:

Settlement $418 (1x Mansion, 1x Tower and 2x Ruins)
Mansion $140
Tower $110
Ruins $84 (same as the old Osgiliath Ruins)

Like most GW prices these days they're beyond my (very modest) budget range, especially in multiples, which is a shame as they look like amazing kits.

Got myself two of the towers. At 20% discount they're a good enough price. Hope it comes out with a big terrain box at Christmas like Rohan did.

 DaveC wrote:
The terrain is even more versatile than it first looks - roofs in particular

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/03/31/how-to-make-the-most-of-the-gondor-terrain-for-the-middle-earth-strategy-battle-game/

That is stunning.

I feel like GW missed a trick by not putting these pictures or at least a link to this from the store page.

Love these kits, but they are prohibitively high cost. Oh well, back to 3d printing larger gondor buildings for a quarter the price.
Too bad, because they are wonderfully designed.

^ Yeah, they're nice and all but generic Osgiliath-style buildings and ruins have already been sculpted multiple times over in various different forms and the price of one building can buy you enough PLA to print a whole table of them. I've seen the GW sprues and they strike me as a little small, even compared to the older ruins of osgiliath kit which hit the sweet spot and worked great for 28-32mm scale as well as LotR.

And the 3d printed stuff typically has a detailed playable detailed interior, magnetized or clip-connected pieces to take them apart, remove ceilings etc, whereas the GW tower is a simple hollow shell.

Don't have to spend ages clipping off sprue, mould line removal, assembly etc. either.

Yeah that's nice and all, but i like the idea of having a completely modular board and not just the same print over and over and over again.

On the heels of the scenery, here comes the MTO:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/04/02/sunday-preview-death-conquers-the-mortal-realms/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sunday-preview&utm_content=sundaypreview02042023&fbclid=IwAR1YgLzC9JtM94Y8NqqgB58ntVHyLfpZuh5_lOMAl-vN4PY1xU35eP9ORmI

Yeah, i think it will be a few Grey Company for me. For collectors sake.

I am tempted to pick Witch-king on Fell Beast but I haven't even received the previous Fell Beast yet...

After the Steel Legion M2O, maybe wait for the prices before setting yourself up for sticker shock...

They were perfectly fine last time, (which wasn't that long ago) even a good price in the case of things like the rangers blisters. I have little reason to assume differently this time.

jullevi wrote:
I am tempted to pick Witch-king on Fell Beast but I haven't even received the previous Fell Beast yet...

Same here, this is the longest I've ever waited for a made to order. The fell beast was only £40, even if the witch king version is £50 its a good price and given It's a different pose and the only fell beast I don't have will definitely pick one up.

I just checked because I wanted to grab some of them, but dear god, 70€ for the 14 metal Orcs.

I want to say it's the same as it was last time. But it's all down to the collector more than anything. If you try and buy the whole set third party, you'll probably pay double that, minimum. Assuming of couse you can find all the different poses.

So it's whether you really want them or not. Alterantively, because they're all unique compared to the plastics, you could treat every one of them as a captain. And you'll never need another captain model again.

They sold in the USA for $65 last time. They are now $90. Major increase in price, for all of these.

Bought the cave troll I wanted second hand for cheaper. The metal orc archers are too expensive as well.

Well I did intend on buying a few boxes of those Orcs... like... 4-5 boxes. But at thay price, I'm not getting any now..

I guess whoever was in charge of the recent Armageddon Steel Legion MTO got to make the pricing for this one, because those prices are just as unreasonable as the ones for that. I already wasn't planning on getting anything, but this cemented it. I had halfheartedly considered picking up Halbarad, Elladan and Elrohir, and some of the Rangers, but not at those prices.

The Dunlending Warrior Warband is £55 for 14 metal guys, so the price wasn't a shock - but that just meant I knew I was priced out early.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Holy crap that stuff is cleverly designed.

Mr. Dranfield, please come back to 40k. I mean these are cool and all, but they have no modularity. We need your engineered excellence back in 40k!

Meh. Kinda disagree. Sure the main panels can join at about 17 different angles, but each one requires a unique capping piece to plug the ensuing gaps. No matter what you do you'll have a bag of useless plugs at the end and you probably still won't be able to do as many of a particular join type as you want because each cap comes in a finite quantity.

Witch King used to be the same price as Land Raider, so it's actually cheaper than I expected.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Holy crap that stuff is cleverly designed.

Mr. Dranfield, please come back to 40k. I mean these are cool and all, but they have no modularity. We need your engineered excellence back in 40k!

Meh. Kinda disagree. Sure the main panels can join at about 17 different angles, but each one requires a unique capping piece to plug the ensuing gaps. No matter what you do you'll have a bag of useless plugs at the end and you probably still won't be able to do as many of a particular join type as you want because each cap comes in a finite quantity.

They are very nicely designed and offer more variety in build options than anything barring scratchbuilding. There's only so much you can do to make something modular unless you turn it into some sort of brick-building system. Only stickler for me is that they cost a ton for the amount of terrain you'd want to really get the creative juices flowing so I'm sticking with my osgiliath ruins.

Hm, looks like that "fake" scenery piece that appeared on ebay wasn't so fake after all:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/04/13/middle-earth-faction-focus-isengard/

Nice. Don't want to think about how much they'll charge for it, but nice!

Bah, I was waiting for Easterling's drakes...

Johanxp wrote:
Bah, I was waiting for Easterling's drakes...

I hope I'm wrong but I have a gut feeling we will never see models for them. It wouldn't be the first time for the Middle Earth range.

If they planned on models for them we would have seen them by now I'm sure.

Nah, that's not how they work. They enjoy future proofing stuff.

zombie_sky_diver wrote:

Johanxp wrote:
Bah, I was waiting for Easterling's drakes...

I hope I'm wrong but I have a gut feeling we will never see models for them. It wouldn't be the first time for the Middle Earth range.

If they planned on models for them we would have seen them by now I'm sure.

Nah, if true we would never have seen Quickbeam for example.

What to expect for the next Warhammer Fest? A new supplement at last? New plastic character?

Johanxp wrote:

zombie_sky_diver wrote:

Johanxp wrote:
Bah, I was waiting for Easterling's drakes...

I hope I'm wrong but I have a gut feeling we will never see models for them. It wouldn't be the first time for the Middle Earth range.

If they planned on models for them we would have seen them by now I'm sure.

Nah, if true we would never have seen Quickbeam for example.

If I recall correctly, there are few things that got rules but never got models (so far), Azog's tower and the Catapult troll come to mind. Anything else? (And I'm talking current version of the game, don't start old "Legions of middle earth" talks. )

Isildurs brother is mentioned in the rules but has no profile nor model.

The other named Ent is without a model.

The Siege Troll from the Hobbit comes to mind. Rules with no model. That was so long ago it will never happen at this point.

My gut tells me Warhammer Fest will have something to do with the Elves. We last seen Glorfindel and Eldrond. The last video they did they spoke of Gilgalad almost as if it was already know. But just speculation. It wouldn't surprise me if they finally got to the Last Alliance Era considering the Rings of Power so. Yes, no relation, but why wouldn't GW try to piggy back off it.