Build On Your Shadow War: Armageddon Terrain With New Kits By Games Workshop
April 8, 2017 by brennon
If you're looking to add to your Shadow War: Armageddon terrain set with more industrial buildings to fight over then three new kits are available this week on Games Workshop's webstore for pre-order.
Shadow War: Armageddon has gone down quite well it seems amongst the community with its hark back to the rules of old. It is a little dense in places but it provides a rather neat look into skirmish gaming in the world of Warhammer 40,000 using all of those armies you've been collecting over the years.
Much like with Kill Team before it, it allows you to pick up a small group of models and take them to the gaming table without having to worry about needing a massive army.
New Terrain
Added into the mix now we have three new plastic terrain kits. Each of them is inspired and/or directly takes from the original kit that you see above and gives you more options for the tabletop. We begin with the Sector Mechanicus Galvanic Magnavent.
This set of walkways are built around a central structure here but you could mix them up and use them in different ways if you saw fit. It adds a nice level of verticality to the tabletop which is great for a narrative and skirmish driven experience like Shadow War: Armageddon.
Following on from that we have another piece for Sector Mechanicus, the Ferratonic Furnace. The guys in the design studio must have a lot of fun making up the names for these...
A perfect place for a showdown between two Kill Team leaders I would say. The platform would be a good vantage point for a sniper considering the amount of cover it offers. However, it's not entirely safe and works as a nice gaming piece which is always welcome.
It's fairly simple and you could probably end up making most of this terrain yourself if you really wanted to. A bit of scrap cobbled together from your house and you'd have a proper industrial looking Imperial world.
The final piece of terrain is the Alchomite Stack which I swear has been done on purpose considering everyone said it could easily be replaced with a bottle of beer or wine.
This is the kind of stuff you probably couldn't replicate quite as easily but if you used this alongside some scratch built terrain you'd open up a world of opportunities. The plastic terrain that Games Workshop have made has always been pretty good though in terms of pricing and its use on the tabletop so it's up to you really.
Could you see yourself diving further into the world of Shadow War: Armageddon?
"...you could probably end up making most of this terrain yourself if you really wanted to"
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Too damn expensive as usual. Sigh. Was expecting a set of the terrain from SW:A without the minis or rules for a little cheaper than SW:A, not £25 dearer.
It’s all very pretty, but the insistence of ‘ gouging ‘ the buyer with these prices is just wrong.
Seems like that great looking terrain is big part of SW:A boxed set’s price.
The terrain is very nice. Managed to get a set. It’s the cheapest way to get the terrain. I think I am looking to use a mixture of genuine GW terrain and scratch built.
It’s a shame that the terrain has overshadowed the SW:A game in some ways, especially for those people who wanted the full set and not just to save some mulla.
I see there are a number of people selling the rules etc on ebay for £50+ already. I even spotted one business who is selling the boxed game complete with a starting bid of £90.
The price does seem a little bit brutal. I got my hands on an original Necro box set a little while ago cheap and im in the process of making alot of scratch built terrain to use with original card terrain and i confess to using pressmould copies of original bulkheads to help along. I think a set of this would great to add detail to the builds, but this tertain set is a little lack luster alone. At the price of this terrain one would have to sell a kidney to get a good amount if this terrain to… Read more »
Agreed but then some lack the skill, time or confidence to build their own terrain, not to mention those who genuinely like what’s on offer.
Having failed to pick up a box, and with it sounding that another run is unlikely, I shall make my own. I fancy something inspired by Mayan cities and underground carparks.
Get over to yaktribe.org, plenty of inspiration there for stuff. You’re already a member iirc?
I also failed to get one so will get back to my never ending task of hive construction the old fashioned way.
Aye, have been wanting to get back into these rules for a while. Got lots of ideas, the problem as always is a lack of time.
To actually make a 3×3 board with just GW terrain is going to cost about as much as an army. Bloody hell.
If I were a cynical person, I’d wonder if that was the point. If I were a cynical person, that is…
I managed to get a boxed set but for the rest my table I’ve gone to TT combats laser cut and some Bandua prepainted much cheaper. The GW stuff shall be my center piece terrain.
I’m a bit picky with terrain and tend to dislike mixing it up. If I’d gotten a hold of the boxed game, I would likely have slowly built up a board with just the new GW terrain. Oh well, their loss.
check out http://www.wargamestournaments.com/ they do entire tables full for £75+
The problem with the price is it’s going to make sense to pick up another copy of the main game(when it’s back in stock) and save money and have some bits and pieces to give away or eBay.
Especially given that most, if not all the new terrain kits are in the boxed game or at least the sprues are.
It seems to me that GW just didn’t really plan this all very well or they’d already have plans to sell the rulebook on its own. Even if they do sell it on its own I assume the tokens wouldn’t be included.
Its just sold even more then what they imagined it would. Gauging interest and converting those into sales is a tricky business. I dont believe these will be a limited run if they can make money off the boxes. They’ll be a few more production runs before they call it. Calth and Prospero were supposed to be limited runs too. They’re now lovely revenue and sales generators for them.
My guess it that they put together a really good deal to get the hype going for the initial sale and not as a boxed game that will be around for everyone. The book is coming out for pre order 22 April so the chance of another run of the boxed deal is very slim.
A one time deal to boost sales initially.
Aye, I don’t think they realised how popular the game itself would be.
looks to be a good terrain set.
I was really really looking forward and wanted this and tho I will pick up the rulebook if they make a physical copy thats prob it unless they reprint the whole box. The good news is now I have the money to put towards the Gloomhaven 2nd printing Kickstarter.
Worse the prices in US dollars are way off the current exchange rate with GBP and GW won’t let UK retailers ship to the US.
It’s nice terrain but there’s a lot of this stuff out there now.
This is to probably off set the currently low exchange rate of the £ vs $.
I pre-ordered one of these and went to the store yesterday to pick up some models to build a kill team. While there, purely on spec, my brother decided to buy a copy so we unboxed it when we got home. The quality of the components is, as you would expect from GW, incredibly high. Although the instructions say things should be glued I think there might be some limited scope to push fit some items for a small amount of reconfiguration however my advice would probably be to glue it. The Gantries stand around an inch shorter than a… Read more »
Not my type of terrain. Like to use my terrain cross game and this fits only in the 40k setting.
You can look at this terrain and know you are in perfectly safe hands in that you can assemble this stuff with the minimum amount of fuss. Conversely, I’ve bought MDF stuff from a variety of companies, and some kits are a significant challenge to put together, to the extent you start to really appreciate how easy GW makes things. Recently I bought a kit, looked at the instructions with text simply not matching the figures; in the end, I did a dry fit run in a completely different way and it was much easier. Another kit, some of the… Read more »