Warhammer 40,000 has plenty of terrain choices. But in case you’re constructing a desk which units must you get? Let’s chat.

I’ve lately gotten right into a little bit of a terrain kick. I blame Kill Team: Into the Dark and their actually nice terrain set. It’s tight, it’s cramped, it’s a Space Hulk theme — it’s unbelievable for that explicit look. However, it’s presently the one set of it’s type in that fashion. Again, I’m hoping that Games Workshop expands their Gallowdark terrain however that practice of thought received me fascinated about the varied units and which of them mixed the very best.

Today, I wished to have a fast chat about which units work the very best collectively. One benefit of all of the terrain GW has been cranking out recently is that the majority of it’s suitable with the opposite current units. That’s an awesome factor for anybody who’s trying to construct a tabletop’s value or increase an present assortment. But if I needed to choose two units which two work collectively the very best? That actually is determined by what you’re going for.

Let’s break this up into the totally different types of board you need to construct. I’ll provide you with three examples: Typical 40k Game, City Fight, and Necromundian Hive.

“A Typical 40k Game” Terrain

I’m not going to get into all of the ins and outs about “how much terrain” or “board size” or “terrain density” right here — that’s all within the core guidelines with suggestions anyhow. I’m speaking about which units I’d suggest in case you wished to really construct these out. And if I needed to choose two units I’d go along with these: Battlezone: Fronteris and Sector Imperialis

Battlezone: Fronteris – Nachmund

Let’s begin with the Fronteris set. Why this one? Well, you get two items of “objective” sort terrain with the radar dish and the radio tower. You additionally get the bunker-type constructing that you should use for varied terrain based mostly on the key phrases you assign to it. And you get some partitions and a pair different “boxes” for buildings that work nice as simply board filler. When you mix these items with the Sector Imperialis choices you’ll be able to actually get a cohesive set of terrain.

There have been a number of Sector Imperialis terrain units on the market — you’ll be able to completely go nuts with these items. What I feel works properly with the Fronteris set is that the majority of those buildings are ruins or solely partial buildings. You get the sense that these tall buildings received wrecked because of the combating and the Fronteris terrain blended in helps to create mixture of top and LoS blocking terrain. The Fronteris set is decrease and possibly explains why it’s nonetheless intact vs the bombed out Imperalis terrain. Turns out bunkers are good for surviving bombardments. Go determine.

City Fight Terrain

This subsequent batch must be fairly apparent as we’re going to be fascinated about an Imperial City. Personally, I’d go along with these two units: Battlezone: Manufactorum and Battlezone: Mechanicus.

The Manufactorum units are sometimes one or two story buildings which were bombed out. They are akin to the Sector Imperialis units and albeit work extraordinarily properly with these two. Like I discussed earlier GW has been doing an awesome job making all these units tremendous suitable anyhow — however we’re sticking with two for these imaginary boards.

When you mix the blown-up buildings of the Manufactorum set with the Mechanicus set you get a TON of choices. Both units have pipes that are nice for inflicting a number of obstructions. But you should use those self same pipes vertically and connect them to buildings to assist break-up their boxy look. The catwalks and platforms of the Mechanicus set additionally add good, flat raised surfaces for vantage factors to your models. They operate like “hills” — solely extra see-thru and supply much less cowl.

You can actually get a dense as you need with this fashion of City Fight board. Do you need it too cramped for autos? You can try this. Do you need it a bit extra open so your Knights can stomp round? That’s additionally doable. And you’ll be able to nonetheless have a great deal of cowl with varied nooks and crannies to your Infantry to scoot round.

Necromundian Hive Terrain

And lastly get to the densest and most claustrophobic of all terrain sorts – the Necomundian Hive! You in all probability already know which two units I’m going with right here: Zone Mortalis and Battlezone: Mechanicus.

Zone Mortalis Terrain is mainly THE Necromunda terrain already. You don’t want the tiles however they can assist your partitions and columns from shifting. You can actually go fairly nuts with this set already because it’s very modular and stackable. Want to construct a 4 foot tall construction you can play on? Yep. You can try this with these partitions and columns (and stairs). The solely limits are your creativeness …and funds!

This set pairs extraordinarily properly with the Sector Mechanicus units. All these further catwalks and railing actually assist to raise your recreation house and add plenty of verticality to your video games. It’s good for Necromunda video games in addition to Kill Team video games — actually any skirmish you need! The density is as much as you. While this combo may run you a fairly penny however you may not want a TON of it due to the bodily limits on the board/tabletop you want in a typical Kill Team or Necromunda recreation.

Essentially, you don’t want sufficient to cowl an old-fashioned 6′ x 4′ tabletop with 3 layers of terrain…though you 100% can with these two units. That’s plenty of terrain although! If you had sufficient to fill a 2′ x 2’x house or possibly even a 30″ x 30″ house that was extra vertical you’d have one hell of a terrain set to play on.

Is it dishonest to incorporate among the Crates and Shipping Containers? Those are mainly good for EVERY assortment.

And simply to be clear I’m not saying you solely want these two units — a “set” is simply the class that GW labeled them as. You’d need the varied kits from with that “set” to fill out the terrain for the board sort you wished to play on. Also, don’t really feel like you need to solely use these two units per desk sort – I’m not the terrain police. You do you. I’ve been identified to chop a foam hill or two in my day.

What can be your dream tabletop terrain set?

Writer, Editor, Texas Native, and Austinite for 15+ years, Adam covers all issues Tabletop Gaming. Which contains Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, D&D, Board Games and all the pieces else that includes cube, boards, playing cards and a desk.
A hobbyist, participant, and collector of miniatures and video games, Adam’s present obsession are his Death Armies for Age of Sigmar, his Blood Angels and Tyranids for 40k, and his ever rising Arkham Horror: The Card Game Collection.

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