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Hmm, disappointing looking product. I'd sooner stick to the easily available and cheap fishtank fauna than fork out £80 on that.

Here's hoping for more xenos terrain, though!

As a Kroot fan this deathworld terrain is going to make some sick dioramas.

I don't think it fits a jungle vibe at all truth be told lol.

I hope to see more deathworld terrain and maybe even neutral monsters themed to other types of deathworlds.

Also I am biased towards Tau terrain. I like the Tidewall but it feels almost like a vehicle as opposed to something I can decorate a board with. So I want to see a ruined Tau city style set to expand on.

 stahly wrote:
The broken Eldar masonry pieces are quite nice. Everything else is pretty horrible. Don't know what they were thinking.

Hopefully, the Eldritch ruins will be available separately. They should be salvageable when you cut away those tree pieces.

Congrats on getting featured in this month's issue Stahly! A wonderful collection of miniatures presented :-)

I admit perhaps as an ignorant Yank but what does Daddy or Chips mean?

Just a nonsense poll

I prefer small scenery items that I can glue onto base. These are exactly that. Definitely getting a set or two.

160 cad!??! Haha nope. They just decided to charge an extra 30 dollars cad just for gaks and giggles it seems.

GW finally releases xenos terrain and with that crazy price and wonders why no one buys it and then thinks no one wants them. -_- Companies are so dumb sometimes.

Bloody hell! Those are awful, and the price tag adds insult to injury.

Years ago, Gav Thorpe and Nigel Stillman did an article on this very subject. Gav did the rules, Nigel made the terrain, some of which was quite good. It just so happens that I have that issue of WD in a box somewhere.

If there's anybody out there looking to make your own deathworld terrain, don't worry if you don't have this issue m- there is tons of good advice out there if you want cheaper.

From the top of my head:

Use cheap aquatic plants, and jazz them up a bit with bright colours: pink, bright orange, sky blue etc etc

foam with cocktail sticks in them.

Wayland and other places sell lots of coloured crystals for basing, or make your own. Very handy.

Shower curtain rings can be adapted for weird looking plants, as the rings come in all shapes and sizes.

Wire can be twisted into various twig like shapes, and then covered with kitchen towel soaked in PVA glue. Paint bright colours when dry, and you can use expoxy resin for ichor dripping from the branches.

And so on and so on. Just experiment, and remember: the world is your hobby shop.

Worth mentioning that from what it says, it seems like this is a "bundle" in a box to start with.

Not the only way these items will be sold.

I want to see them in person before I knee-jerk react. At the moment, they get a "meh" from me.

Hmmm. NOt a big fan of the eldar terrain... I would really love it if they were less geometrical, a bit more like the art we see in DOW/Eldar codex. As it is they look a little blocky - nice and cyclopean, but they give me a more chaos/necron vibe than eldar.

I like the Shardwrack Spines and the Elritch Ruins. The Spines will go nice with my Tyranid army.

I quite like them. Pretty freaky stuff . Steep price tag, mind. To the discounters!

Eldar stuff is nice, though I was hoping for a wee bit more than a giant wraithbone glyph

 Kanluwen wrote:
Worth mentioning that from what it says, it seems like this is a "bundle" in a box to start with.

Not the only way these items will be sold.

The article says the grapple weed is exclusive to the box.

Are you supposed to be able to kill this stuff? Given the grapple weed is quite mobile, it would be annoying if it got amongst your troops and you couldn't do anything about it.

A lot of people here know that I'm a huge fan of GW terrain. I own tons of the stuff, as well as heaps of Pegasus and GF9 terrain, and have almost as much unbuilt as I do built! With the terrain I own I could almost cover 6 or so tables, probably more! I adore building terrain and setting up cool themed boards.

So let me just say that these are terrible!

Such a disappointment. Ugly, ugly miniatures that cost way too much.

Horrible.

I bloody love this stuff myself. Looking forward to picking up a box or two I think.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Just a nonsense poll

Well, "daddy" is burying the needle on the creep-o-meter so I'll vote for chips.

It was the strapline from a UK TV commercial for oven chips, for our pals across the pond...

Anyone else notice that all of this 'vegetation' is a 4+ cover save? I remember when hills and woods went to 5+, I wonder if it is going back in 8th edition and this is the first part of it we have seen. Interesting stuff actually. I like the idea of terrain having rules for narrative play, but more rules that slow tournament play down is always bad.

Where were you when GW officially ran out of ideas?

Jebus. Incredibly "Meh" all the way around. Terrible execution too, as these seem to serve no purpose for LOS blocking and are just expensive gribblies to add weird mechanics to the game. Might have been interesting if the sculpts were even remotely decent, or they had been built into more functional terrain pieces (hills or rocks covered in the plants, for example) rather than bizarre latticeworks.

These are the sort of references I usually love too, harkening back to old Rogue Trader stuff. But these are so cynically... basic. And the price tag is ludicrous.

Doesn,t look to good from the pics we have :/

No one is noting the angry forests combined with Eldar ruins could only mean something along the lines of Exodites? I believe they get do a good job defending their worlds because they turn the planet into a spirit matrix (world spirit) and have it animate plants and animals to fight invaders.

For those liking the Eldar bits, but not the others - just to clarify the wording of the articles very much suggest we'll be able to get the kits individually in time, so not a dead loss

 generalchaos34 wrote:
No one is noting the angry forests combined with Eldar ruins could only mean something along the lines of Exodites? I believe they get do a good job defending their worlds because their turn the planet into a spirit matrix (world spirit) and have it animate plants and animals to fight invaders.

My Exodite spidey senses were tingling when I saw these pics. I hope this is a hint of things to come!

I stopped to take a look and counted as best I could. There are supposed to be:

3 Barbed Venomgorse (the big trees)
2 Eldritch Ruins
5 Shardwrack
2 Grappleweeds

So 12 miniatures in total. The picture seems to have the three barbed venomgorse, 2 ruins, 3 shardwracks, and and one of the grappleweeds.

So it's missing some of the models from the set. I hope I'm counting right. When it goes up for preorder I might reconsider if this is the case.

I can't stop laughing at how bad this is. It's like they said "hey.. we need terrain".. "oh... all our sculptors are busy".. "no problem.. ring up that guy that did those possessed for us a while back.. those were super memorable"

While not a fan of these if this in any way points to Exodite and Catachan focus in the future I'm happy.

I really hope the way this sells reflects the poor execution and not the lack of demand for non imperial terrain.

 Eldarain wrote:
While not a fan of these if this in any way points to Exodite and Catachan focus in the future I'm happy.

Nah, it's making way for the new Cadian Last Standers, an expert force consisting of the last survivors of the Fall of Cadia as they get used to the Jungle Deathworld their Eldar friends take them to. They learn from Striking Scorpions how to stalk through the jungle but add their own Imperial flare with... that's right! Lasguns! (and plasma)

Trees look like wire covered in papier mache. Xeno ruins remind of 90s GW. Horrible price tag, but, I guess, people will just buy them for stupid gud rules.