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Pictors Studio04 Jun 2016 5:29 a.m. PST

GW is making these:

link

You get nine barrels, three crates and three pretty big shipping containers for 30 quid. That isn't bad. The shipping containers are bigger than the ones I got from the Reaper bones line for $9. USD

I'm not sure why they have stormbolters on them but I suppose it would be pretty easy to leave them off.

Aladdin04 Jun 2016 5:45 a.m. PST

"Hans….have you seen our shipping containers?…..they've got skulls on them….Hans, are we the baddies?"

(youtube: mitchell webb baddies)

Zargon04 Jun 2016 7:26 a.m. PST

So what part of my body does GW (EE) want me to sell?

Insomniac04 Jun 2016 8:00 a.m. PST

It looks like nine barrels and twelve crates, with three containers and six storm bolters.

Yo be honest, seeing as it is GW, it does seem to be quite a lot of scenery for £30.00 GBP

… but it would be much more fun to build scenery with card and papiermache though :D

nnascati Supporting Member of TMP04 Jun 2016 8:08 a.m. PST

If you use the barrels to judge though, those containers don't look all that big.

Pictors Studio04 Jun 2016 9:01 a.m. PST

It looks like they are about 70mm high.

picture

They look pretty well proportioned. I'm not sure that I would want them to be bigger.

Puster Sponsoring Member of TMP04 Jun 2016 9:12 a.m. PST

Thats £10.00 GBP for one sprue. They got botter deals, though you easily get them for 20% off.

The usual price for a sprue seems to be in the 3-6 rang (just got 50 for the WG/TTW castle for ~3 per sprue, but these are a bit smaller.

As they have internal detailing, I can imagine to get me one set for the odd scenery project, but I will definitly not use them to bulk out terrain, like a container area.

Your Kidding04 Jun 2016 9:18 a.m. PST

The detail is neat. However… Bolters? Tactical shipping containers?

GypsyComet04 Jun 2016 9:53 a.m. PST

Gothic arches on a shipping container?

haywire04 Jun 2016 9:57 a.m. PST

Yeah I just got the rules for them. They cane be used as standard terrain or Apocalypse Strategem Terrain.

You can use the bolters, or roll on a table to see what is inside which will improve certain stats if you are within 6" of it.

Option are -

1 monster inside
2 Nothing
3 +1 Leadership
4 +1 Weapon Strength
5 Shield Array
6 Comms Array giving you an orbital bombardment

The Crates allow you to reroll 1s
The Barrels increase your flamer weapon types to HEAVY. They have a chance of exploding if you shot at them.

Pictors Studio04 Jun 2016 10:36 a.m. PST

I can safely say that I'll probably be ignoring the official rules. If there is anything inside them it will most likely be not usable in the time of a game or very scenario driven.

Redroom04 Jun 2016 11:28 a.m. PST

They look pretty nice to me

PMC31704 Jun 2016 2:08 p.m. PST

It's a decent amount of terrain for £24.00 GBP-30 (depending on where you get 'em). I'll be wanting a couple of sets.

Mardaddy04 Jun 2016 2:42 p.m. PST

Y'know, in my old VOID games, some of the resin terrain we used was stacked fuel/watercans & barrels.

I had always houseruled that it was a Damage 6 large template explosion if they are targeted specifically and hit with a roll of 7 or better on a d10.

Made it chancy for both sides, for defense, whether to use for temporary cover AND for offense whether to target it and possibly not roll high enough and waste that unit's action.

Personal logo Dentatus Sponsoring Member of TMP Fezian05 Jun 2016 10:46 a.m. PST

Good find. Thanks.

Gnubrid01 Jul 2016 3:00 p.m. PST

pfft! only 9 skulls per crate, heresy

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