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Herzlos wrote:

 Quarterdime wrote:
And the price tag is $40 more than the regular realm of battle. Considering the hilarious level of detail when compared to the original, I must say it's a fair increase.

Except you could use the regular board for pretty much any land based game ever whilst only having to cover up the skull pit. You could leave it as wide open plains for historics, have it as an outpost in WHF/40K, even make it into the edge of a city. But with this it's a 40K city and only a 40K city.

Whilst the regular one was expensive, games clubs and gamers can justify it as a versatile purchase (both in terms of layout and of game use); but this new one is even more expensive with almost no versatility at all.


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 Quarterdime wrote:

You're right. But this board is made to be covered up.

If it's made to be covered up why should I use it over a sheet of MDF painted grey?

Because it's only partially getting covered up. With this, you can finally have a thick City of Death with minimal effort. Forgeworld's Cityscape was more of an open square, while this looks like it could be in an enclosed hive city with a massive dome protecting it from the hostile outside atmosphere. And this cityscape looks like could be built over the remains of thousands of years of old city.


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Also, concerning my defense of this gaming board, I just calculated the amount of GW buildings you would need to actually turn that into a city of death would run the board well over $1,000. That is, unfortunately, far beyond my price range.

That's the biggest problem. You spend all this money on this table and you still don't have any terrain. What's the point?

I wish Forgeworld sold terrain the way they used to. Something that you put on a board as opposed to the board itself. I'd buy the Anphelion Base if they still sold it :(

 Quarterdime wrote:
I wish Forgeworld sold terrain the way they used to. Something that you put on a board as opposed to the board itself. I'd buy the Anphelion Base if they still sold it :(

While I really like the tiles they've been putting out, I'm right there with you. The old ruins they put out were a lot less over the top than the GW plastic ones, as much as I like those too.

If this board was the same price as the regular Realm of Battle board and had three tile designs instead of two, I'd think it was worth it. Right now it's just a little too much for just a little too little. That being said, I do like the look of it, even if it seems like it'd be a massive pain in the butt to paint with all that detail.

A crashed Thunderhawk terrain piece (rather than tile) would be a wonderful thing.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
And Malibu Stacy has a new hat, that is to say the new Dark Vengeance box comes with one extra model, the plastic Aspiring Champ that's been out since the Chaos 'Dex hit. The pictures are here, at least for the time being. Obviously I can't upload them to Dakka, so for the time being these terrible terrible pics may work:




$410 Australian for the new gaudy board. Wonderful...

The DV Chaos contents:


And a couple of Ork bundles:



As always, the person taking these photos chose to do so in the middle of an earthquake, as that's my only explanation for photographs so terrible. So enjoy... I guess.

Good mork, GW has gone mad...they are expecting people to play on 4chan D:

Anyway, what does bother me about the boards is that they have a lot going on them.
Though then again, it does fit the IoM aesthetically, so I guess it works.


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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
A crashed Thunderhawk terrain piece (rather than tile) would be a wonderful thing.

It would be indeed.



Hell, I would design an entire table to look like the crash site of some space ship. Would make for an interesting game ^^

GW did that back in the day. Scratch built with a cut up Star Wars Rebel Transport toy.

It looked better and more fun and WD didn't have to advocate a spare box be on hand to avoid cocked dice!

Never hotlink from 4chan, if you're unlucky the image will be replaced with goatse.

Compel wrote:Admittedly, it is only 4' by 4' however, this is soon going to be released for Infinity.

Spoiler:

All you need is a decent sized bit of wood for the board itself.

That mat is really cool. I've been getting very tempted by the new Infinity starter. I played the game way, way back in the early English PDF days and have been thinking about getting back into it. For the price of the GW ROB board, I could probably really set myself up with two or three factions + terrain for Infinity.

Man these boards are simply amazing! It finally completes the city scape! The painting tutorial was well done, my city board will finally be finished with these. Good and gaudy! :p

 Kelly502 wrote:
Man these boards are simply amazing! It finally completes the city scape! The painting tutorial was well done, my city board will finally be finished with these. Good and gaudy! :p

Genuine question, sincerely asked.

Are you really this enthusiastic about GW IRL, or do you just think you're balancing the more negative opinions in some way by being excessively positive about GW releases?

 azreal13 wrote:

 Kelly502 wrote:
Man these boards are simply amazing! It finally completes the city scape! The painting tutorial was well done, my city board will finally be finished with these. Good and gaudy! :p

Genuine question, sincerely asked.

Are you really this enthusiastic about GW IRL, or do you just think you're balancing the more negative opinions in some way by being excessively positive about GW releases?

I thought that it was yanks that weren't supposed to spot sarcasm.

Hand in your tea pot and natural sense of superiority at the border when you are exiled to France.

Yeah I'm excited about it, it appears as though a long term project has come to fruition. Yeah a bit pricey but hell, it's 110% 40K! I'm of the opinion that a great looking table can really make the game better. I used to play games using books and blankets... Lmao! I wish I lived near my old pals, I had a game room set up for us, my goal was to had enough terrain for any randomly rolled 40k world, to break up the monotony.

notprop wrote:

 azreal13 wrote:

 Kelly502 wrote:
Man these boards are simply amazing! It finally completes the city scape! The painting tutorial was well done, my city board will finally be finished with these. Good and gaudy! :p

Genuine question, sincerely asked.

Are you really this enthusiastic about GW IRL, or do you just think you're balancing the more negative opinions in some way by being excessively positive about GW releases?

I thought that it was yanks that weren't supposed to spot sarcasm.

Hand in your tea pot and natural sense of superiority at the border when you are exiled to France.

Kelly502 wrote:Yeah I'm excited about it, it appears as though a long term project has come to fruition. Yeah a bit pricey but hell, it's 110% 40K! I'm of the opinion that a great looking table can really make the game better. I used to play games using books and blankets... Lmao! I wish I lived near my old pals, I had a game room set up for us, my goal was to had enough terrain for any randomly rolled 40k world, to break up the monotony.

*takes teapot back off notprop*

Sense of superiority restored I feel?

 notprop wrote:

 azreal13 wrote:

 Kelly502 wrote:
Man these boards are simply amazing! It finally completes the city scape! The painting tutorial was well done, my city board will finally be finished with these. Good and gaudy! :p

Genuine question, sincerely asked.

Are you really this enthusiastic about GW IRL, or do you just think you're balancing the more negative opinions in some way by being excessively positive about GW releases?

I thought that it was yanks that weren't supposed to spot sarcasm.

Hand in your tea pot and natural sense of superiority at the border when you are exiled to France.

That was funny!

But not as funny as the assumption that people in the USA aren't good at sarcasm!

The three of you need to get some stand-up routine going...

funny part in the WD magazine, they think the new urban battle board is cocked dice madness. i guess all the ridges and such caused a lot of cocked dice in their trial game.

 azreal13 wrote:

notprop wrote:

 azreal13 wrote:

 Kelly502 wrote:
Man these boards are simply amazing! It finally completes the city scape! The painting tutorial was well done, my city board will finally be finished with these. Good and gaudy! :p

Genuine question, sincerely asked.

Are you really this enthusiastic about GW IRL, or do you just think you're balancing the more negative opinions in some way by being excessively positive about GW releases?

I thought that it was yanks that weren't supposed to spot sarcasm.

Hand in your tea pot and natural sense of superiority at the border when you are exiled to France.

Kelly502 wrote:Yeah I'm excited about it, it appears as though a long term project has come to fruition. Yeah a bit pricey but hell, it's 110% 40K! I'm of the opinion that a great looking table can really make the game better. I used to play games using books and blankets... Lmao! I wish I lived near my old pals, I had a game room set up for us, my goal was to had enough terrain for any randomly rolled 40k world, to break up the monotony.

*takes teapot back off notprop*

Sense of superiority restored I feel?

Wha....wel...waa...whoddathunkit?

Touché!

 Kelly502 wrote:
Yeah I'm excited about it, it appears as though a long term project has come to fruition. Yeah a bit pricey but hell, it's 110% 40K! I'm of the opinion that a great looking table can really make the game better. I used to play games using books and blankets... Lmao! I wish I lived near my old pals, I had a game room set up for us, my goal was to had enough terrain for any randomly rolled 40k world, to break up the monotony.

You do understand that to actually fill even 90% of the building slots it would take a combined cost of over a grand? Due to the small amount of building supplied per box with the fact that each box is $33...

What's New Today says the board doesn't have clips. So, how does it hold together?

You have to roll on a chart each turn to see how the world stays together.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
You have to roll on a chart each turn to see how the world stays together.

Haha, nice one.

"because the pieces fit together so seamlessly the clips simply aren’t necessary anyway."

So I guess this means you need to have a 6x4 board underneath, or else the tiles will fall off? Wasn't that one of the selling points of the RoB board, i.e. that you could plonk it on a dining table etc with plenty of overhang and it would still work?

It's a surface to put on a surface, and the surface needs to be big enough to support the second surface because the second surface will break apart and flip off the edge, sending terrain and models flying.

Oh yeah. That $410 looks like a good price there...

Maybe they did it without clips simply for easy apocalypse games?

So a slight bump and the board goes crooked?

So really you need a 6x4 board to go underneath with a slight lip al the way round to keep them in place, I spose...

Yeah I hadn't realised but tis board looks to be 1cm thick plastic tiles as opposed to the 3cm thick fantasy RoB sections.

It would certainly alleviate the horrible hollow clatter that the old RoB boards have.

So these are purely texture tiles rather than a "board" (not that the old RoB was really a board either) that still wants a table.

So if it doesn't have clips, and it's not the same height as the original RoB board, how is it "compatible" with that board? Wouldn't it need to use clips and be the same height to be compatible?

I mean, clearly, one flat surface can bump up against another flat surface, but by that standard, the BFG rulebook is compatible with the RoB board.

Have they actually done two boards, each of different height?

On one hand, at least now every game in WD won't be on the same RoB board. On the other hand, some of them will be on this.

Someone who posted earlier is probably right. After the dust settles and everybody who likes the board (or who can stomach the board) buy it, GW will actually release urban tile expansions that are actually commuter friendly, which should have been the variant tiles in the first set.

Looking at them, I for one am more interested in them from a conversion point of view. I still have my How to Make Wargames Terrain book, which has some great tips for making buildings, and I reckon this board would be a great base for building a city/forge world with. There's a place nearby that sells foamboard as well, so that's good.

I need to finish my jungle board first though- and brace the foamboard I made it from with some wood...Bloody warping mutter mutter...