FW Newsletter #315 (Get your HOT Realm of Battle Cityscape Tile talk here!)

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**Salacious Greed**

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wrote:Alright, alright, We've beaten the overpriced vs worth it to death.
Lets talk more about the tiles!
I think they are great, from what I can tell, from a detail POV.
Since they have only made 4, you would have to duplicate two to make a 6x4 table or risk having a 2/3 table of awesome with a 1/3 table of DIY terrain.
Which two would duplicate the best? Obviously the one with the rhino is out.
I think maybe the concourse and the generator ones....

Looking at the picture on the first page, I think I'd go with the top two being my doubles. I'm kind of torn on the generator ones, as they're much more raised on the one board edge. Though it is growing on me....

How about everyone else?

**MightyGodzilla**

Pacific wrote:
I guess these will serve the tiny percentage of hobbyists who have that much disposable income, but for whatever reason don't have the inclination to make their own terrain.

But, as this thread has proven (and remembering that those commenting here tend to be the more keen type of fan) they are well beyond most hobbyists price range.

Learn, make your own, most of us will get far more enjoyment and make something that is at the very least comparable in quality to these boards.

I know, for a fact, that were given the money to purchase the full 4x6 table, not only could I make a better table, but with the leftover money I could buy 2-3 battleforce boxes of my choosing....or heaven forbid the terrain to go on the board.

I can also tell you that if a portion of a whit of mold injection I'd be pumping out terrain plates at $20 per. Threads like this make me wish I could go back in time and give myself a little direction. There is such a demand here, there is so much money to be made.

**Kroothawk**

The Cityscape Tiles are now available for immediate dispatch, as announced in today's newsletter using the text from the old newsletter as copy-paste. Each still costs £75.00 and the set of all four £280.00.

To celebrate this, here some new photos with decoration (not included with the tile):

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/REALM_OF_BATTLE_CITYSCAPE_GENERATORUM_SECTOR.html

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/REALM_OF_BATTLE_CITYSCAPE_SHATTERED_PLAZA.html

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/REALM_OF_BATTLE_CITYSCAPE_CONCOURSE_SECTOR.html

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/REALM_OF_BATTLE_CITYSCAPE_PRIMUS_SECTOR.html

All four:

**Vhalyar**

Kroothawk wrote:
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/REALM_OF_BATTLE_CITYSCAPE_GENERATORUM_SECTOR.html

Constipated Marine is back.

**Commander Cain**

If they included the plastic buildings and whatnot I would be every so slightly tempted to get a couple. As it is they are just overpriced, flat pieces of terrain.

**RiTides**

That's pretty misleading on their part... makes it feel like it comes with the buildings.

**H.B.M.C.**

First it was immovable hills that were always there, now it's an immovable blown up Rhino that'll always be there.

**Kroothawk**

RiTides wrote:
That's pretty misleading on their part... makes it feel like it comes with the buildings.

It is not misleading if you care to click the link. I just used the links with the extra stuff, because it wasn't posted yet.

FW wrote:Models, plastic buildings and additional cityscape boards shown in some images are for illustration purposes only.

**Soo'Vah'Cha**

Love the tiles..but I think FW loves them a little to much..that price for a game board is way out there, such a shame, since I have bought almost every game board related product so far. "sigh"

and is it just me or do those imperial speeder bikes look...a little...phallic

...

Paint them in shades of flesh tone..and they could get you tossed out of your FLGS

**Miguelsan**

Going by GW's funny exchange rates 280 pounds will end like 50,000- 60,000 yen in Japan. I can hire somebody to build me a whole gaming table for less. Sigh, because they look cool as usual.

M.

Automatically Appended Next Post:
So you can have a reference the Chaos Marines Codex costs 6800 yen, a little bit over 80$.

M.

**Tannhauser42**

They look nice, but, oh, those prices. I would almost rather buy the city grounds, levels, and ruins from http://www.miniaturescenery.com and build my own city table with even more customization.
And the size of the jetbikes still bugs me. The fluff claims that jetbikes can't be built today because they can't make the antigrav engines small enough, and yet those HH jetbikes are as big as the current landspeeders.

**Pacific**

Soo'Vah'Cha wrote:
Love the tiles..but I think FW loves them a little to much..that price for a game board is way out there, such a shame, since I have bought almost every game board related product so far. "sigh"

and is it just me or do those imperial speeder bikes look...a little...phallic ...

Paint them in shades of flesh tone..and they could get you tossed out of your FLGS

Haha.. it's not just you. They look pretty cool, but my first thought when seeing them was Peter's car from that episode of Family Guy when he is trying to compensate for his manhood:

Again the argument for those tables is that they would suit people with enough money to blow on something like this (and I think really the price is arbitrary - there is no reason at all they should cost anything like that) but who doesn't have the time. In the same vein, buy your FW miniatures and presumably pay a painting studio to paint them. I suppose there is nothing wrong with that per say, but it makes you wonder what percentage of the 'hobby' would be left for you after all of that.

**Panic**

yeah,

Pacific wrote:
... In the same vein, buy your FW miniatures and presumably pay a painting studio to paint them. I suppose there is nothing wrong with that per say, but it makes you wonder what percentage of the 'hobby' would be left for you after all of that.

especially if you don't have time for games/ and hate the new WD...

I love these tiles they are on my list... but the list is long.

Panic...

**Alpharius**

Panic wrote:
yeah,
Pacific wrote:
... In the same vein, buy your FW miniatures and presumably pay a painting studio to paint them. I suppose there is nothing wrong with that per say, but it makes you wonder what percentage of the 'hobby' would be left for you after all of that.
especially if you don't have time for games/ and hate the new WD...

I love these tiles they are on my list... but the list is long.

Panic...

Same here!

It will take a good company bonus and a good tax return, and then, maybe in early 2013...

(Along with all the other FW HH stuff that will be out by then - ouch!)

**ghagha**

Peregrine works at FW?

**Alpharius**

ghagha wrote:
Peregrine works at FW?

Say what?

**Eisenhorn**

Bolognesus wrote:
Alpharius wrote:
Lovepug13 wrote:
The tiles are pure win.......I am tempted to buy them.....gonna see how much enthusiasm I get from the gaming group on Wednesday evening....

All £300's worth?!?

Good for you - and your gaming group!

450 Quid you mean? at least, for the full 6'x4' table to play a nice, big cityscape game... I think for that kind of cash there's better terrain to be had (or built), but to each his own

Very little resale value for DIY terrain,these if times get tough,you will have a much,much easier time selling, I will most likely get at least half my investment mostly likely more.