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I specifically mean the boxes that are just terrain and the game mat. I'm interested in expanding my terrain collection for games (as currently I can BARELY fill a 6x4, and that's mixing AoS with 40k terrain). If I do pick one up, which is just flat the best value? Im also taking terrain size into account on this.

Although, if anyone knows of a GW box that has even more terrain per dollar, i'd love to know about it!

Warzone Sector Mechanicus is relatively solid imo though the sector imperialist is probably the best utility for 8th Ed.

If you want my advice though in terms of bang for your buck it's tough to beat some of the top quality MDF terrain - as someone who works for a game club and has painted ~10 tables worth of terrain I would recommend death Ray designs. Their imperial bunker terrain looks KILLER with gray over black zenith highlight then a drybrush of white. I have never seen a company do what they do with MDF wood.

Yeah, those are incredibly good deals. I would pick Sector Munitorum. Containers, if painted nicely, look damn good. Plus, they perfectly block LOS.
For 65 euros you are getting 112.5 euros worth of terrain elements.

How large is the Xenos deathworld terrain? It looks deceptively small, compared to the mechanicus and munitorum.

This is the contents of the box plus three containers and the scenery from the death watch team box. It's actually one of the more full ones.

I calculated the cost of the space marine box, and you basicly pay an extra 15 bucks for the terrain, seems worth it.

The mechanicus terrain is great and super modular. I’d buy another killzone box of it if it wasn’t out of stock everywhere.

 Badablack wrote:
The mechanicus terrain is great and super modular. I’d buy another killzone box of it if it wasn’t out of stock everywhere.

The mechanicus and the new ruins were the most fun because you really can build your own thing (basically 40K lego). The others were very boring in comparison.

The Munitorum box is great value. Six containers, a pile of boxes and barrels and a set of cranes/tractors. That's 3-4 good sized pieces of terrain right there, or 6-8 smaller ones.

The Sector Mechanicus is also great - one large terrain piece and you can make 2-3 decent terrain pieces from the pipes and stacks.

The only better terrain value is found in Renegade, where the Galvanic Magnavent is basically included for free on top of 2 underpriced Imperial Knights. That and the Kill Team box set itself.

Edit: I'd avoid the death world box simply because it's not good terrain. No LOS blocking, no elevated positioning of models, and it looks terribly easy to knock over during gameplay.

Thanks for the advice everyone! I ended up going in a totally different direction, and picked up the Sigmarite Mausoleum (the double garden of moor) at 20% off at my FLGS. TONS of good cover walls, some decent LoS blocking buildings, and they just look gorgeous on the board.

One of the big changes that makes all of it worth it is that terrain, even generic with no special rules, has a much bigger impact on the game compared to normal 40K. This adds value on top of the savings.

I just bought two of the Munitorum one, save about $100 on the contents. I'll buy a couple more even though I don't really need anymore cranes because your still saving and I can always sell off the excess cranes