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Landing pad? I thought it was a missile silo with that top hatch

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 Rolsheen wrote:
Landing pad? I thought it was a missile silo with that top hatch
They specifically call it a landing pad:

comes with a Landing Pad, a Vox-Antenna, and an Auspex Shrine
   
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Hope the set has more than that, like a full thing of walls and the main Fronteris hab building.

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 Stormonu wrote:
I guess Rampart has GW running scared.

Don't like the looks of this terrain though. The radar looks like it was made from an erector set and the "bunker" is boring.


In the UK Rampart is no cheaper, if not more expensive and imo doesn't really look any better than some of the GW offerings. If some of the high quality MDF terrain hasn't scared them by being easier to assemble and much cheaper, I don't know that another plastic company has.
   
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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Hope the set has more than that, like a full thing of walls and the main Fronteris hab building.


It includes STC Hab-Bunkers, a Landing Pad, Vox-Antenna, Auspex Shrine, plus a selection of stockades, and will soon be available as a complete battlezone and in a variety of smaller kits.


I think the "STC Hab-Bunkers" are the Fronteris buildings
   
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The Fronteris building is literally in the slideshow gallery.

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I assume this will be on sale for couple of months and then will vanish without an explanation.

   
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 lord_blackfang wrote:
The Fronteris building is literally in the slideshow gallery.
I more meant included in the bundle.

 Crimson wrote:
I assume this will be on sale for couple of months and then will vanish without an explanation.
It's GW terrain. That's a given.


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I like it. Cool stuff.

beast_gts wrote:
 Rolsheen wrote:
Landing pad? I thought it was a missile silo with that top hatch
They specifically call it a landing pad:

comes with a Landing Pad, a Vox-Antenna, and an Auspex Shrine


Honestly? I thought it was an entrance to an underground facility and was confused at first when people talked about a landing pad since I didn't see one in the pictures posted on the first page.

Even now I don't think you'll land anything bigger than a jetbike on it.

Names aside, it's a pretty cool terrain piece, though.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
 Crimson wrote:
I assume this will be on sale for couple of months and then will vanish without an explanation.
It's GW terrain. That's a given.


Can't you guys let us live in a happy fantasy at least for a while? Like, until stuff actually gets released. Or five minutes later when the panic buying starts?


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 Geifer wrote:
I thought it was an entrance to an underground facility and was confused at first when people talked about a landing pad since I didn't see one in the pictures posted on the first page.
I thought the same, but reading the article it looks like an entrance to a cargo hold:

Fronteris Landing Pad has Hidden Supplies ability, which lets your troops raid its cargo holds for ammo and gubbins to give them the edge in a firefight.


   
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 Crimson wrote:
I assume this will be on sale for couple of months and then will vanish without an explanation.


Oh noes! I'd better buy 5 RIGHT NOW!

 
   
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 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
 Crimson wrote:
I assume this will be on sale for couple of months and then will vanish without an explanation.


Oh noes! I'd better buy 5 RIGHT NOW!


It probably works exactly like that for some people. Personally, the effect has been opposite. I usually cannot or want not to invest a huge amount of money in terrain at once, and I'd like to build a collection over time. But I'd also want my table to have a coherent theme. But as the terrain keeps vanishing, reliably collecting a table's worth of terrain in one style over a longer period of time is not possible. So I am not going to start.

   
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 Geifer wrote:
I like it. Cool stuff.

beast_gts wrote:
 Rolsheen wrote:
Landing pad? I thought it was a missile silo with that top hatch
They specifically call it a landing pad:

comes with a Landing Pad, a Vox-Antenna, and an Auspex Shrine


Honestly? I thought it was an entrance to an underground facility and was confused at first when people talked about a landing pad since I didn't see one in the pictures posted on the first page.

Even now I don't think you'll land anything bigger than a jetbike on it.

Names aside, it's a pretty cool terrain piece, though.


Someone pointed out that the door seems to be the size of one of the Munitorium Containers and I'm convinced it's less a "landing pad" and more a "supply drop point" for colonies. A cargo lander flies over with an under carried container, doors open, and the container is lowered onto a lift platform that takes the container into an underground storage. The rule above further supports this idea.

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We're talking about this, right?



Being large enough to fit this?



Not sure I'm seeing it. Dropped down door first maybe if the width matches, but I it looks like the container is longer than the door in the landing pad.

Just going off base sizes, though. I don't have first hand experience with the containers.

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The walls are a bit low and the spikes are a bit silly, but it is a very good terrain feature that has been missing. Hoping it comes in a separate box with a decent price per inch of walls. Mounting it on some foamboard for extra height will probably take it up a good notch.

The fronteris building is ace, and can be built up to a larger hab-block with some ingenuity. Good to have some more civilian style buildings as well as the industrial / administrative versions.

   
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I thought the shape of the roof door seemed to match the base of the radar dish piece so they could be put together.

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Maybe the dish piece fits in that hatch area on the landing pad?

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Hmm, at first I was a bit skeptical about this "bunker" because it looks too low to be an effective LOS blocker (would only block small infantry, not vehicles), but combined with a stack of containers it maybe would work pretty well.

By themselves, containers need to be stacked 3 high to properly block LOS, and that becomes rather unstable, but with this one you maybe only need 2 layers of containers.

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 NAVARRO wrote:
Best terrain feature is that theres no skulls or Aquilas logos spam! I spend ages trimming that stuff down!


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 Illumini wrote:

The fronteris building is ace, and can be built up to a larger hab-block with some ingenuity. Good to have some more civilian style buildings as well as the industrial / administrative versions.

It takes a hell of a lot more than ingenuity, tbh. You'd need to do some pretty brutal hacking or sawing -- with precision -- and then put it all back together again -- with precision -- and patch up the scars.

Source: I bought the Kill Team terrain set with 1x intact buildings and multiple ruins and turned it into 2x intact buildings.

They could have made this a pretty fantastic modular set if they'd planned it out from the beginning, basically by separating the "wall" sections from the "corner" sections.
   
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Some intact buildings like might be useful for something like Five Parsecs From Home in a 40K setting.
   
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Was there a release date for these?

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 Rolsheen wrote:
Was there a release date for these?


No actual release date. Just this:

It will be released later in the year as part of the host of releases that will make up this season of Warhammer 40,000.


https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/01/17/seek-shelter-and-send-an-sos-with-this-multipurpose-new-battlezone-fronteris-terrain/

So presumably any time in the next six months, which doesn't really narrow it down.

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And we're finally here. I was expecting later in the year, but I guess they're pushing it out now.








What surprises me is that the big box comes with two of the hab blocks and two sets of walls. Plus all the individual kits are coming out at the same time. Shame they never released the Autochoral Shrine from Vertigus separately.

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So the Hab-Bunker fits on top of the Landing Pad? Interesting...
   
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beast_gts wrote:
So the Hab-Bunker fits on top of the Landing Pad? Interesting...


Looks like the antenna can as well!
   
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The stockade walls are interesting, especially with the way the corners work and, I presume, those joiner bits that allow you to make them go flush against the hab block walls.

Of course this means I'm going to need a lot more red paint.

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 Shakalooloo wrote:
beast_gts wrote:
So the Hab-Bunker fits on top of the Landing Pad? Interesting...


Looks like the antenna can as well!


From the earlier photos it also looked like the Radar slots in.
   
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I'm less enthused than I was initially. I like the new board and the stockades, but the antenna and radar and landing pad I can do without, plus I have plenty of bunkers already, I'll skip this.
   
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Rihgu wrote:
Interesting that the landing pad is apparently obscuring, and that they think the antennae platform is "perfect for blocking line of sight"? Whoever wrote that isn't really clear on how LoS works in 40k, I guess.


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