So more and more information has been revealed about these. I for one have been waiting almost a year for this crazy delayed product. Now we got to see some videos of the packages and how the cardboard pieces of terrain looked like. The quality looks solid, and it was a good thing Wyrd delayed to make it proper and high quality stuff since there were reports of serious warping and craptastic qualities of the early prints.
You can see how the box contents look like in this video:
However, I got really dissapointed when I saw that the connectors (small plastic clips) that you NEED to build these terrain boxes will NOT be included in the terrain box. You will have to buy them separately. The terrain boxes, reportedly covering an area of 2x3' requires you to buy 2 sets to build a 3x3' table which is the standard for Malifaux games. Each set is reasonably priced imo, just the right amount of cash for what you get. BUT, add the connectors of which you need one box per TerraClips terrain set, and the cost spirals out of proportion.
2 sets of connectors is pretty much the same cost of buying 1 box of terrain. Realizing that I could get a 3rd box of terrain for the price of some plastic clips.
How can you leave out a critical piece like the connectors from the building sets and how can you charge that steep a bunch of plastic pieces that probably didn't cost more than a few bucks to produce? Just watch this 3.5 minute long video of the guy talking about these plastic pieces... Gotta love the tip that you can store your clips of the same type in one single box.
This makes no sense to me, marketing the product this way will put off anyone but the diehard fanboys that have too much money to spend to realize they are getting ripped off. I was planning on getting 2 sets of terrain, but that was when I thought the connectors would be included. Now I'll probably save my cash and scratchbuild some terrain instead...
Fellow Malifaux players, and everyone else for that matter, are welcome to share their opinion on this subject.
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