Games Workshop Fashion Munitorum Armoured Containers For 40k
June 4, 2016 by brennon
Games Workshop are working towards some new terrain for the world of Warhammer 40,000. Their new bits of plastic for this week include the Munitorum Armoured Containers which come with the aforementioned containers and some scatter terrain too...
Inside the set you get yourself three big armoured containers which form the main focus of the box. Each of them is armed with guns on the top because everything in the Warhammer 40,000 world needs to be deadly.
You will also get yourself Promethium Barrels and twelve Supply Crates which will help provide you with some set dressing, scatter terrain and cover for your soldiers.
I genuinely quite like what they've been doing with this terrain set and I think it could be a great way to build up a proper industrial area of a Hive world. Get a couple of packs of these and you'll have a rather interesting board.
Imagine the funnels of death you could create as Space Marines and their foes battle between the crates in close quarters combat.
What do you think?
"Imagine the funnels of death you could create as Space Marines and their foes battle between the crates in close quarters combat..."
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Good stuff. The crates look good, especially the ventilation grates and the attached bolters. In 40k there is only war, even in the dock yard 😉
How rare, GW making something that wouldnt look out of place in other games… Wonder if the lids are detachable, would make a 2.5d spacehulk board easy (but expensive..)
Anything is detectable if you’re determined enough.
mmhhh….not sure about that, did you see the skullz and the imperial eagle right? 😉
it seems like they barely even tried to jam skulls everywhere.
Noting stopping you filling the containers with skulls…
By my counting i make 10 skulls a container, and 1 per barrel, looks like you get 9 barrels so i make that 39 skulls on the terrain, I dare say heads will be rolling at GW HQ (not because any one is in trouble, just to make up the short fall ;))
Those are not bad but IMO without skulls those would look even better.
From what I hear the quality of the bases released last week leaves a lot be desired, with a distinct lack of detail. Apparently they are almost totally different to the pre-production examples that were used on the box art – they are Chinese produced does any one know if the crates are also from China, in which case I’m sure they will be an easy pass for people.
I have to say as well they are cheap and good value for money, £30 earth pounds no less so that with the barrels and the boxes as extra’s make for a rather good looking deal. Have a look around at some of the less tooled burnt wood and you do have some excellent stuff removing skulls is after all an excepted part of any modified GW scenery etc.
Chris G
I have to disagree with these being cheap. For €40 I can get 6 containers and 26 crates from systema games (that is two €20 bundles) that won’t require the careful removal of detail to stop looking ridiculous.
Bravo!
I think it’s illegal to keep 14-year-olds captive, especially if they’re producing your stilted CGI models. They should be let out now and again to see what actual sea cans look like, and the realistic mdf representations of them that now permeate the industry for a fraction of the cost.
If these are the containers I wonder if they will do a vehicle for transporting then, in 40K or Horus heresy, I somehow do not see the delivered in ones drip fed. So a really, really big delivery system would be required. I also see these as a working theme for many games, from simply find and secure, to hide and seek from what being shipped in there, so scenery and games all for £30. If you look at it as £10 a container that means the boxes and barrels are free. Free and Games Workshop (and I am a… Read more »
@chrisg Well if your playing spacemarines you can already get the thunderhawk with rhino’s or land raiders hanging underneath from forgeworld, for guard nothing really exists outside of the fluff, but the converted gi joe flyers the BoW guys were showing off a while back look the part.
In my head (and the designers if you look at the recent offerings) then rewatch aliens and you wouldnt be far off what the fluff suggests…
I picture these as airdropped rather than truck-borne for the most part.
They certainly look nice, although that being said I’m much interested by the release of the plastic enginseer outside of the Leman Russ bundle. It’s a nice model but WAY too expensive for a single plastic character (I have no idea why they feel the need to ramp up the prices for characters so much).
Containers are awesome. Both in looks and price. Way to go GW.
The Enginseer is laughably expensive though. Why the hell they feel the need to make them that expensive is beyond me. Half of that price would be just about reasonable.
Wow, I never would have thought it possible, but GW managed to make even stock yard shipping crates look gothic!
And straight to the top of the table for best looking shipping containers.
Brilliant vale for money, and so many ideas on how to use them. 😀
I’d love to try convert these into alternate Stormwolves/Stormravens. 🙂
Or maybe as tanks. haha
I’m thinking of making a trailer for a Taurox to use as some kind of cargo truck.
It’s already been done – image is out on the web somewhere
I am sure its not an original idea but these containers will make it easier.
they look great, love the lifting hook eagle heads.
I love the look of them but let’s all be honest, the storm bolters weren’t necessary. Other than that all good! Love that they have some other things with them the barrels and other things, a lot like the citadel trees, but for 40k.
It looks like they’re optional, so I think they’d be a great bitz box bonus more than anything else unless the crates are used as a prefab military installation.
Yeah I think that they are optional is their saving grace! I think yea them being in a bits box is fine I looked at the design and if they are the same design as for rhinos and razorbacks that is great but if the are there own this a little harder too use.
This is something that the GW range did not have. Containers, crates and barrels – the most playable terrain ever. Yet, I will agree with @caladors the storm bolters don’t seem to fit. Anyway, a big thumbs up.
I think they had a barrel in the barricade sprue they did.
They used to do sprue with multiple barrels and two different types of ammo crates. No ridiculous skullz adoring any of them. I still use the many I accumulated over the years as scatter terrain in a wide variety of games.
The ammo creates were fairly good as you saw the different types of ammo in them.
Those were really good generic and cheap scattered terrain.
They are quite nice for city terrain, I am hoping now maybe we might see whole buildings! I know revolutionary idea.
I like these a lot. They will look great on my flgc’s tables.
Warsenal sells them for $12 each, and you don’t have to file off skulls and eagles. They’re also modular, and can be configured in a bunch of different ways. There are plenty of others out there. Those were just the first ones I came across to compare these too.
https://warsen.al/products/large-shipping-containers.
As for the weapons, I wouldn’t want to be the one standing in the open ten feet above everyone else manning one! They should have at least left room for sandbags or some other cover.
What a shame. I was getting my hopes up after the bases.
Maybe they’re automated, or remote-controlled from within.
The Storm Bolters are silly on them as to stack containers you will have to unbolt them and bolt them onto the next one every time you want to stack another one on top.
Only in the Grim Dark of the future can we find more inefficient ways of doing things! 😉
If you thought the Imperium cared about efficiency, you’re in for a shock.
Sing me up for three.
Modeling suggestion: Make them a military quick-setup deployable base like this to justify the armaments: http://www.bergco.com/shelters.html