Battle In The Deathworld Forests Of Warhammer 40,000
February 13, 2017 by brennon
You don't tend to see many forests on the tabletop when you play Warhammer 40,000. Well, Games Workshop put together quite the alien forest over the weekend with the Deathworld Forest...
So what exactly is this?
"Deadly, menacing and bizarre, forest deathworlds are attritional battle zones. When a soldier fights on one, they have to withstand not only the vicious artillery of the foe, but the horrifying cluster-vines, crystal shards and strange relics add an extra layer of unimaginable danger.
Shardwrack spines form impenetrable barriers over the millennia, barbed venomgorse and grapple weed snake insidiously toward any living being, pumping them full of debilitating neurotoxin and eldritch ruins resonate with the psychic energies of their long-passed creators. Where there grows a deathworld forest, nothing is safe."
The set does come with a variety of different options when it comes to gaming. The various types of plants each have their own special rules and you can mix and match as you like.
I'm not entirely sure that it's worth £80, however interesting a terrain piece it is. Maybe it's time for you to break out the hobby equipment and have a go at your own alien forest.
What do you think?
"The various types of plants each have their own special rules and you can mix and match as you like..."
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WTF…….they look like cheap ass toys.
A little surprised at this release. I can only assume it ties in with the Fall of Cadia campaign. The last time GW pushed ‘Deathworld’ boards and scenery was for the Catachan Jungle Fighters. Great fun if you’re a Catachan player, shite if you’re anything else.
Idea: A+
Execution: Someone left their homework to the last minute didn’t they!
Non-Imperial terrain is decades overdue, but these are just…. I dunno!
Awful, and the price is ridiculous.
There are so many other companies doing terrain that is much better at a reasonable price. Shocking stuff.
GW have been doing great recently with reasonably good value and quite nice box sets.
This Imo is none of those things. £20 may be a fair price if you like the models.
I’ve looked at the picture a few times and I just can’t see anything I like.
This isn’t the finest thing GW has produced in the last 18 months……(and may well be the exact opposite of finest). I suppose it does look alien……. no, personally, I really don’t like it much
chaos have infected the sesame street set?
There has to be something we are missing in this release because…. Like everyone else…. I just don’t get it.
Compare this to the Lake Town kit and it’s a bit of a joke really. I can get three decent sized houses plus a load of jetties and walkways for £70 or a box full of plastic space pubes for £80?
ewwww …..I’d be shaving …. and I am not usually like that …… Yeah mate I don’t see this as good value. Some people like it and that’s their prerogative ….. but I am not the target market for this product …..(the Lake town Houses on the other hand I have 4)
Having recently read Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness” I really like this kit!
What its lacking is a foot print/base. Of course you could get some card/wood and make one yourself, but for this price you really should be getting that as part of the package!
Not what I would add to my game table, even though it could be used mostly outside of the GW setting for a change.
That is hands down on of the most horrendous items GW has ever made, it looks like appalling
Those have to be worst terrain that GW has created so far.
I like it but there just needs to be at least more of it in the box, i feel there needs to be an extra construct of some sort that is a fair bit bigger than the rest of the terrain, like a giant twisted alien oak tree equivalent… and maybe some more ground level foliage as extras too, then the price might be more justifiable for me
This is not to GWs standard. Any of GWs minis you can glance at and instantly recognise what it is, even if you don’t know 40k, for example you look at a Carnifex and you know its some kinda monster or you look at a marine and know its a sic-fi heavy trooper. But, this set is just…just…weird. I know its alien flora but that doesn’t mean it needs to be some kind of spikey mess. Even knowing what this is meant to be I’m still not sure what it looks like. I don’t think they even did a good… Read more »
I think they knew it wasn’t table-top excellent/ top-range sellable. I was hidden away in White Dwarf 🙁
But I am really conflicted – Deathworlds were such a big thing in First Edition 40k
From the age of about 11 onwards I used to scour the ground on mountain park/forest walks looking for weird stuff like seedpods for use in 40k 🙂
I quite like them. Nobody else does much by way of alien plants.
I don’t like the price though. Halve the price and we’ll do some business.
I don’t quite know what to say, except… lol.
Not impressed.
I don’t mind the large ones. Would look nice in a pool of resin water like a mangrove swamp on a jungle board. Could do with some thicker and dencer parts. The small ones are not very nice.
To be honest I dislike the normal GW terrain because of the skulls on everything.
£80 for this is ridiculous.