Beset from all sides, the Imperium has been beefing up its frontier defences with a set of brand-new defensive structures you can use in your games of Warhammer 40,0000. Enter Battlezone Fronteris.
This battlezone is designed to give you a range of new terrain for your battles on frontier worlds or to add a little bit more militaristic utility to your existing gaming tables. It includes STC Hab-Bunkers, a Landing Pad, Vox-Antenna, Auspex Shrine, plus a selection of stockades, and will soon be available as a complete battlezone and in a variety of smaller kits.
These no-nonsense facilities are designed to weather the harsh conditions of thousands of frontier worlds the Imperium is attempting to keep its foothold on, providing defence against a variety of threats.
Severe and functional, these bastions have just enough gothic flourishes and skulls to make it very clear these are Imperial-made.*
Battlezone Fronteris is quite varied for a backwater position and comes with a Landing Pad, a Vox-Antenna, and an Auspex Shrine – elements that have plenty of utility. Tall, imposing, and perfect for blocking lines of sight, it’s also designed to fit into any existing terrain collection.
Campaigns set in Nachmund during the current Season of Warhammer 40,000 can benefit from terrain-specific Crusade Agendas found in Vigilus Alone. These include Transmit Signal, which gives your units extra experience points and adds to the ongoing narrative of the war for Vigilus as you transmit messages of hope and despair.**
There are plenty of other ways for you to spice up your games, matched play or otherwise, thanks to new Terrain Traits. Alongside the Light Cover, Scalable, Exposed Position, and Obscuring traits, the Fronteris Landing Pad has Hidden Supplies ability, which lets your troops raid its cargo holds for ammo and gubbins to give them the edge in a firefight.
The Auspex Shrine lets you Download Propaganda – an action that makes Combat Attrition tests easier to pass, as nearby troops fight overwhelming odds while backed up by messages full of anti-foe invectives.
Whatever faction you take to Nachmund, you’re sure to stumble across Imperial handiwork, making this terrain a must-have. It will be released later in the year as part of the host of releases that will make up this season of Warhammer 40,000.
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* Somewhere, somewhen, an STC mandated a minimum number of visible skulls required per buttress, and the Imperium has never looked back.
** Which of the two is entirely up to you and your interpretation of your game performance.