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I was rereading my guard codex for the Nth time this evening, and I came across page 81. On that page is a picture of a bunch of catachan chilling out behind an aegis. But wait, this picture was taken some 4 years before the aegis came out.

Was there a model for the ADL years before the actual rules came out, or was it something that the 'eavy metal guys happened to scratchbuild to look almost exactly the same as a future upgrade?

Yeah the kit has been around for awhile,before it was just scenery.

Hmm could have been what inspired the ADL. Now that i think about it i vaguely remember seeing something similar in a old white dward mag. Im gonna root around see if i cant find it.

I might be completely off here, not owning the expansions, but I thought most of the terrain bits started their life for planetstrike or city of death games. Both of which have been out for a while.

ADL, bastions, and the like were released with Planetstrike. I have the WD sitting right next to me advertising their release.

 Nevelon wrote:
I might be completely off here, not owning the expansions, but I thought most of the terrain bits started their life for planetstrike or city of death games. Both of which have been out for a while.

Yep, the aegis defence line was just terrain before 6th edt. Same for the fortress of redemption.

Yup, white dwarf #354, July of 2009.
It also has pictures of ork, Tau, and eldar bastions.

There are a number of pieces of terrain hidden in rulebooks that didn't come out for months or even years. The statues of Space Marines can be seen in GW photography going back to 5th edition, and they didn't show up til near the end of the edition. The Bastion is in the 5th ed rulebook in a cruder form, and the back cover of the IG codex has the Battlescape, which didn't come out for a few months after that book came out.