Fighting in the Zone Mortalis with Forge World
February 27, 2012 by brennon
Forge World released this new information on Friday, but here is a collection of all the information you will need on the Zone Mortalis boards. Check out the images below, and the video above...
The board sections can be bought as single pieces, or as an entire board with a bit of a snip off the price tag. Incredibly detailed resin pieces that are extremely durable according to the Forge World entry. Something you certainly want for a gaming board. Check out the scale of it below with model in shot...
Big enough for a Dreadnought to walk down the corridors this would be perfect for playing some Deathwatch missions in. Would it even be far fetched for someone to come up with some new Space Hulk style mission for this terrain set?
If you want a better look at the rules for this terrain then check them out here.
And discuss the story more on our forums here.
Will you be fighting in Zone Mortalis?
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Wow hold on fellas. When did I sign up to be an X-wing fighter?
Good set. I could see it used in all sorts of games, not just space hulk.
I am seriously hoping one day my friends and I can play through this with our Deathwatch marines…would be so epic.
BoW Ben
Good terrain set. Modular, well detailed and very expandable – I can see this being a big seller for FW.
me and my friends are going to split one of these sets between us and use it to make a 40k CoD zombies game. (sad i know, but it is workable). it’s ideal for it, it’s almost like FW read our minds…
Is it bad that I’m looking at this and thinking of Project Pandora?
It looks like a good set, I like the Idea of creating a BattleFleet Gothic scenario, where a boarding action using this terrain affects the main bfg game.
Like a downed ship etc?
There’s a cheeky story in the Dark Eldar codex where a Salamanders (I think, I forget) ship is captured by the dark eldar. But the Space Marines keep repelling any Dark Eldar who try to get in – meanwhile another battle occurs outside with more spacemarines, who are trying to save the captured ship. In fact I think it would be epic to re-fight that battle.
Add one of those mark 1 edd 109 dreads and you got yourself a game of good ol’ space crusade!
yeah im not the only one that remember space crusade
Nice and at a reasonable price in plastic they’d sell thousands
Hate to bring up costs, but its £98 for a 2′ x 2′ coverage .
You need six sets for a tables worth, and given the layouts of the tiles, at least two sets to make up even a small space hulk style map.
Great models, dont get me wrong, but frighteningly expensive if you actually wanted to use it in a game.
You could ask for it as a birthday present 😉 Or go halves like bloodhunter above. I’d like to see the wall sections and flooring sold separately, allowing for more customisation.
Could wait till someone sells it on ebay or an online bits shop though ;P
Personally I would be inclined to just use CoD plastic kits and scratch build whatever I needed to plug any gaps.
It looks like each wall is as thick as a floor tile aswell, so I’d end up with more space to play on aswell.
Thats mazing looking terrain althought those have most likely very high price tag.
I mean amazing. I am typoing a lot today.
It was after all, pretty mazing.
The comments about the price are ridiculous. This is high end, well detailed scenery boards. You couldn’t make boards of this quality for this price unless you splash out on resin/plaster casting moulds (just as expensive in fact) then spend your time making them, which would equate to more money spent in reality for most people with a decent paying job.
How many miniatures do you buy a month for one system? We all buy figures that are sometimes £25 alone. I don’t see a problem at all with the pricing of this stuff.
You say it’s “just as expensive in fact” but, come on, be realistic. There’s very little variation in there (I think it looks incredibly boring, might just be me though) so you’d probably get something more interesting out of just 2 hirst moulds; http://www.hirst-arts.co.uk/products/00091-large-catwalk-mould.html and http://www.hirst-arts.co.uk/products/00078-starship-wall-mould.html maybe? Cost, just a little over £50. I’d very much doubt it’s come to the extra £550 needed to cover a 6′ x 4′ with this stuff would be more than the plaster to make however many tiles you needed. The comments about price are certainly not ridiculous. I’ll give you that it’d take… Read more »
MAS/sarrisa buildings are 25 quid a pop, most MDF building sets are around 20-30 a pop, and many gamers will put 6-8 down on a table just to begin with if doing a really classy table (high end looks/quality), without getting all the resin extras like street furniture and other bits and bobs. The Images of the gaming board on the vid is of 9 tiles costing £205. You do not need a 6×4 gaming board for wargaming when running boarding actions/chasing round hulk corridors. I still don’t see the issue with the prices.
Well from reading on it seems that 4′ x 4′ is the recommended play area so a £400 investment straight off to get you started on this game but you’re right, most people might even end up spending close to that on regular terrain but that’s built up over time with £30 here and there with DIY/cobbled together scenery rather than shelling that sort of money out straight away. Specifically though the reason I posted was you said it’d be just as expensive to cast it yourself from plaster with moulds but, like I say, for just over £50 for… Read more »
It’s not so much the price vs. the quality. It’s the fact that even so people just don’t have that kind of money anymore. Also it’s terrain, not minis. Terrain you can only use so many times. I can’t see getting my money or time worth out of it before I’m sick of using it. $900 just to buy a table worth and then the time put into painting, depending on if you want to do a decent job. That’s a huge investment for something you may not play a lot of. If i won the lottery this would be… Read more »
I guess if you don’t have that kind of disposable income (neither am I tbh) then that is a valid point, but then again I’m not the kind of person who would stand outside a ferrari dealership complaining about the prices either. If I cannot afford something, I just skip the purchase, But I don’t get annoyed at price tags for quality products.
I’m not complaining about the price. Far from it. They need to ask for that price for the product. It’s a lot of detailed resin. I just think it was a mistake to come out with something no one can buy at this time.
Don’t be so hasty to pidgeonhole everyone else in the same financial bracket. I know plenty of people with cash to spare to spend on hobby, regardless of the current economic climate globally.
I like these but I just dont have the room to store them. Regarding size, I saw on Dakka Dakka that FW are recommending 4′ x 4′ for 1000pt games because the lack of vehicles means you will be slogging it on foot to close with the enemy.
personally i think 3′ x 3′ would be better. it’s cheaper and considering the dense terrain and low points your not going to want anything much bigger.
I have a question about the vid. At time stamp 0:12, they show a door. What is this door from?
it says on the FW website that they will be available soon, so you have to buy them separately at a later date.
Do I sense a new 40K Expansion in the pipeline ?