Sector Imperialis Terrain Thoughts?

I should be getting mine today in the mail, I'll let you know - everything I've heard is that its just outstanding. So configurable and customizable, and it ties in with the sector mechanicus terrain they make as well - the floors are all the same height, have some of the same connecting points, and things like pipes and cables can connect to the various parts of the new terrain to create custom pieces using bits from both.

From a gameplay stand point, 50% of the wall panels have LOS blocking in mind...for infantry models. Each wall sprue is 4 panels, 2 of which are windows floor to ceiling, 2 of which are covered halfway by a vent or decorative bas relief. Its enough to give even primaris marines complete LOS blocking cover, but things like monsters and dreadnoughts will be visible. Of course, you can also get funky and block the windows with popsickle sticks to board them up, or whatever, so I wouldn't let that get to you too much.

Yeah its frustrating for sure that there aren't more just straight up walls in their terrain sets; basically the only things they make that block line of sight period are the shipping containers and only when you stack them up lol which is just kind of mind boggling.

I'll take some comparison shots and post em up here. Its out for delivery right now, so should get some pics later tonight once my wife and kid go down for the night.

I've seen some battle reports that just count all the terrain as line of sight blocking even if they have doors and windows at ground level, trying to alleviate this very problem.

I think ITC does that Russell, and people seem to love it.

Built one of the sections last night, and its actually better LOS blocking on those closed panels than I thought - you still won't be able to block LoS completely to something like a carnifex or swarmlord, or anything larger than that obviously, but everything else I had can completely hide (including rhino chassis tanks and even venoms, but didn't get pics) - check it out:

















So if you build whole wall sections out of those half panels, you can create some solid LoS blocking ruins. Also this kit is huge - this ruin is almost the size of one of my homemade ruins in footprint once all the panels were glued together after these pics were taken. And this is the smallest ruined section of 3 that the main building kit makes for the KT box (it comes with 4 building sprues and 4 ruin sprues), so its pretty incredible. And a joy to work with too, the sprues clean up so easy, and everything fits together 1000x better than the old building sprues. 

Haha yeah its the pimp cane that gets you

Yeah everything in the box is colored plastic - the admech are red plastic, the genestealer cult are this light grey almost blue grey plastic (very space wolf colored), and the terrain is like...khaki basically. Its kinda cool because a non-wargamer can bust this open and put it all together and play it like a board game, while the rest of us sophisticated folk can paint it and cover over it, and everybody wins.

I plan on just spray painting mine with like a 3 tone scheme - brown primer all over, high angle spray with like a mid-brown, then a zenithal dusting of like a bone color, and then I'll do washes and detail work on the metals and floor panels after but it'll get me most of the way there.