Many of you from the original Wildlands Kickstarter remember my set by set reviews were I take a look at each and every add on set and analyse them for functionality. I’ve done the same here but want to preface this by saying that my preferences, current DF collection, and spending habits may not match yours. I’m unlikely to spend thousands of dollars on a campaign so megabuilds are generally out of my price range. I’m also very likely to pick through exactly what I do and don’t want on a set by set basis so I am very unlikely to ever buy a bundled set. Finally, my focus is on coverage more than dressing as my own collecting is still being built. If you’re going to drop $4K on the campaign, your dressing needs are likely to be very different from my own.
Also, I didn’t include picture shere because this is already so long and there are fantastic pictures on the GameFound site.
Bundles
I’d written previously about the bundles but wanted to tune them up based on more details that have emerged since they were released on GameFound. For one the price comparison and component set list is readily evident on GF so it makes seeing what you’re saving and paying for very easy to determine. This is a huge help for this analysis.
Wildlands Reforged Mega Bundle
This is pretty much just the three other bundles plus trifectas to go with your escarpments. This saves you $263 off retail but still costs $100 more than just picking up the three other sets on their own. That said, you need those trifectas if you’re going for all of this together so I wouldn’t advise getting those sets individually. This doesn’t have the battle mats, terrain trays, or the waterfall which must have pieces when you’re going this big. This really isn’t an all in pledge by any means. You’re going to be spending another $500 to get the rest of the pieces you need. Considering two of the bundles in here I’m not thrilled about it’s easy for me to pass on this set, but then again, I was never going to spend this much to begin with. Even with the potential savings, you’re better off picking up the pieces you actually need. But if you’re in the realm of charging $4k to walk away with a bunch of stuff, you may have the money to not spend the time figuring those kinds of details out.
The reliance on a battlemat here when compared to the Heart of the Wild certainly makes the reforged build feel less imposing, but larger overall in scale. I feel that there is definitely more flexibility with the reforged bundle as it has expansive space. I almost feel that the reforged bundle is a wargaming set up while the Heart of the Wild was a D&D set up. They certainly are different offerings.
Dreadhollow Forest Reforged
There are a lot of forest floors here, which has some advantages and some disadvantages. As far as coverage goes, this is an expensive way to get ground coverage but it is a very good way to get a fair bit of forest ground coverage. This is a 18x27 inch build which is a pretty good gaming field. One major disadvantage of this bundle is that it doesn’t provide much elevation outside of the trees and a few stump lumps. It’s also got a fair bit of what I would consider extra dressing, not in the trees but in the bushes, flowers, and pools. At a $45 savings, you’re basically getting a free Faerie Plants pack which I could easily do without. Considering things I’d leave behind like the Enchanted Pool, Teardrop Inserts Pack, and Wilderness Ambush Dressing pack. I’d take a pretty hard pass on this set.
I honestly have a difficult time suggesting this for a first time buyer, or anyone else really. If you already have OG Dreadhollow this will build it out. But so will just picking up a half dozen floors. It doesn’t really add much flexibility to any existing builds without any banks. Now if you’re just interested in significantly increasing the landmass of your forests, this will do that. But so will just picking up a half dozen floors. I wouldn’t advise starting here, and I don’t see who should be ending here.
Erinthor Mountain Reforged
Before I kick this off I really want to share that I have a strong dislike of wyverstone. It’s very specific and even if painted up differently it is something that doesn’t feel like it will translate to most battlefields. That said, this is a pretty serious upgrade to the escarpment megapack. To me it just comes down to the discount compared to the price of the wyverstone. This has two Driftstone Packs and one Wyverstone Scatter Pack for $165 in driftstone alone plus $75 in risers. This pack saves you $49. I’ll be honest, I wouldn’t buy the scatter and driftstone packs for $116 so again, I’m a hard pass on this set. It’s a lot to spend for what really amounts to a scatter only build.
I also really don’t like the assortment of what you get in this set for escarpment builds. I easily want two advanced builder and the stairs, but don’t see the need for three Basic Builder sets and two Convex sets. The numbers are just way off from what I want. Comparing this with the heart of the mountain is difficult as the heart of the mountain was really focused on providing ground level terrain and had a lot of its value stored up in floors. This forgoes most of the floors and is designed to sit on a battle mat. I’d be curious to see what could be built out of this set just including itself as ground level terrain. I get the feeling it would feel swarmed with Wyverstone and a little crowded, but may still be usable in that form.
Bleakmyre Swamp Reforged
The swamp packs have a tendency to just be good. Lots of coverage, lots of flexibility. Some decent trees to fill in. It does look to me that this is missing the two swampiest trees from the Felbourne Trees set that doesn’t even seem to be included in this campaign. I’ve heard they are coming in a restock but not having these trees in this campaign is a big miss. But you get a fair number of stick trees, a couple of good trees, and lots of solid coverage including some pieces of elevation here and there. Everything here is pretty useful. As noted below, I might not have gone for two swells packs, but that’s not a huge issue. Much like my reviews of the Hearts, I feel that the swamp is a pretty strong champion here. I feel like this is the best bundle essentially saving you $44 or 2/3s of the swamp skirmish dressing pack.
Modular Trees Bundle
I love trees… Still haven’t painted mine yet but I do love them. This is probably the best thing you can get in the entire campaign if you are just starting out. This is my number one suggestion for investment. These trees are fantastic and I love them all. Quick aside that this doesn’t have the Faerie Glade Trees or the Felbourn Trees you’ll want those too when they come into the webstore. However, this was my biggest want from the original Wildlands KS and it is still a fantastic offering here. Full transparency, I won’t be buying one, but that is only because I basically already have one. There’s a few changes this time around but it is pretty much all the same except for losing the swamp log and swapping out a couple of stump lumps. Nothing is wasted here (other than some small tree toppers) and 10 trees is enough to start up pretty much any battle field. That said, you only save $9 on the painted bundle so if you prefer to have more of one set or another, get them individually.
Plants & Traps Bundle
This is an $8 discount for $300 of stuff I don’t want. I wish I knew who this was for, but it is a big dressing pack and I’m sure some people feel they need more dressing. But the only pieces that I’m excited about here are the swamp logs and the Forest Skirmish Dressing pack, which I’m not even really excited about but just don’t hate. As not the biggest fan of extra dressing, this is a really easy pass for me. But I’m sure some people might like it but $350 for what ends up being 90% dressing and 10% coverage is something I could never do.
Hazardous Stones Bundle
This being a mix of more regular rocks as well as wyverstone makes for a really haphazard bundle to me. I did buy both crags bridge and the wyverstone scatter pack but I’d much rather have another escarpment advanced builder than the Huge Hummock. You also don’t really need both the mountain skirmish and the forest skirmish sets as there’s lots of duplication in there (although the pieces are still useful). I suppose if you’re just looking for a way to add random terrain to a battlefield and want the wyverstone to go with it this is fine. I don’t feel like you get a lot to build with or anything that really heads in a specific direction here so I’m not the biggest fan. Get an advanced builder, crag’s bridge, basic builder, con-cave, and winding stairs pack set instead.
Trifecta Ledges Companion Bundle
This is designed to line up with the escarpments in Erinthor Mountains Reforged Bundle. Initially I thought that if you’re getting the mountains bundle, you need to get this as well, even if you don’t plan on needing it right away eventually you’ll want the ability to have the right matching pieces eventually. However, I don’t think you need this many of these sets of trifectas. The reality is if you’re building with escarpments, you don’t need trifectas for all of them and you can use the “wrong” trifectas just fine few times. Considering it’s only a savings of like $8 painted ($2 unpainted), I think you can get away with one of each trifecta set to go with the Mountain bundle. The fact that there are three basic and two convex sets here is really overkill for what you are likely to end up needing. Save yourself a bunch and just grab one of each unless you’ve got big plans.
Forest Floors
Each of these forest tile sets includes the same equivalent of two 6x6 tiles except for the small floors which gives you 32 square inches and open ground which has two extra 3x3s. The new breakdown pretty much just divides the medium floors from the light forest set and puts the light and heavy forest pieces together. Otherwise, it matches what we saw in the original Wildlands KS.
If I didn’t have any forest floors I think my priority would be as follows:
Open Ground (Trails instead if you have trees for it)
Glade
Trails (or Open Ground if you bought Trails above)
Dense woods
Small Forest
Glade
There’s a big difference between painted and unpainted here as this is only $1 more than the trails pack unpainted (and $4 less than the open ground pack) but in painted it runs significantly more than either of those two packs. If you aren’t considering cost, I’d say this is one of the best sets to just add forest floors quickly and easily. It also gives the flexibility that the other sets lack. Filling out two 6x6s with these still looks great and provides open ground without having to deal with the inserts, which I’m not a huge fan of. Now you’re going to want some mix anyway but if I felt I needed another square foot of ground terrain, I’d probably be looking at a couple of these first.
Dense Woods
The redesign here is great as the original Dreadhollow forest was way too dense to be practical. This allows you to get some forest heavy pieces without having to bury yourself into the deep dark woods. I never bought the heavy forest pack as it doesn’t really do a great job creating playable space, but getting these two different tiles evenly is pretty a pretty sound mix. It is the most expensive forest floor coverage set but you’ll one one or two of these for a background tree line at least.
Trails
The trails are good pieces if you want to include some trees without needing an entire forest. I feel that most basic builds would be happy with one of these and you could easily go for a second before picking up a dense woods pack. This is all about having playable space and these still have lots of room to move around on.
Open Ground
The best deal for forest floors is right here, especially unpainted. The extra 3x3s really stretches the coverage you get without a huge increase in price. For painted you’re gaining 25% more land mass for like 15% in price over trails, so it’s a good deal there too. This is how you get a lot of coverage at the best price. It can also be used to massively increase your swamp island size very quickly.
Small Forest Floors
One thing that I’ve seen this is needed for is to help your 6x6 fit with 4x4 cities tiles. It can also be useful to just fill in some extra area. It isn’t a revolutionary set or anything but if you’re going big into forest tiles you’ll want at least one of these just to add flexibility. I probably wouldn’t buy this until I had pretty much all the other sets here unless I had a smaller build and I was really looking to mix with the 4x4 city tiles.
Mountain Floors/Escarpments
The escarpments are an expensive big chunks of dwarvenite but the ease of building with them makes them a worthwhile investment. While I was originally encouraging people to look at the OG Erinthor set due to coverage and customization, ease of building with the escarpments makes them a very useful set.
Mountain Floors
The mountain floors are nice because they match up with most escarpments but it’s pretty expensive coverage without a lot of impressive definition. That said, if you have escarpments, you probably want ways to build around them. Just realize to build inline with your escarpments you need ledges as well, and to build on top of them you need stilts.
Small Mountain Floors
What I dislike about this set is that the most practical uses for it aren’t fantastic. I get that the set needs to exist, but I’ll probably never buy it. The primary use of mountain floors is to use elevation with escarpments. This set doesn’t actually help much. Also there aren’t great ways to use these pieces as little outcroppings as there aren’t ledge pieces that match with them very well. At some point you’ll have enough floors that you want some but I can’t imagine hitting that point until I have at least four of the regular mountain floor sets.
Basic Builder
I really think this is the perfect set and while I’m sad to see the con-cave removed from this set, I think it still holds up really well. This is a great little hill, peninsula, or just 12 inches of horizontal coverage that terminates well. I had said earlier that I think this is the perfect mountain starter set, though it might have been better with the con-cave for that purpose. One important point is that this is now the only way to get short straights and short convex escarpments. But these are two of the most flexible pieces and you’ll likely always be wanting more.
Advanced Builder
Considering the Advanced Builder set is the best way to get the coveted 1x3 escarpments, this set still holds up really well. The end caps are also pretty useful pieces as they work as a reasonable climbing up location without having stairs. I’ve also found putting the two end caps together can make a decent peak in a pinch. If I get more random escarpment pieces, I’ll heavily consider grabbing another advanced builder.
Straights
Big ole straight escarpments. Two of them. I don’t think you can have too many of these. These are true bread and butter escarpments. I’d probably advise getting the basic builder first, but this is an easy second escarpment choice unless you really want some con-caves.
Concaves
The concave not including the Con-Cave piece is a bit of a marketing blunder. Personally, I’m glad I got the old set because I don’t think I need two of the concave escarpment pieces. This pushes the priority on this piece down to me and in my opinion makes it one of the worst escarpment sets now. That doesn’t make it bad, it just makes it a much lower priority because you can get away with using the concaves for the same purpose.
Convexes
This used to come with two extra “corners” in the form of short convex that have now been moved to the basic builder exclusively. The large convex piece is the one piece I’m missing from having the full pack of escarpments (well, I suppose the Hideyhole, but I don’t exactly count that one) and I’m not sure I need two of them. But already having an advanced builder, I’m not sure I really wanted the two additional corners either. So I’ll be getting this, because I need the piece. I do like that it pretty easily makes a protrusion so I guess I’ll end up with two of the large convex pieces.
Con-Cave Builder
Considering how useful the concave is, I’m glad it is in its own set. Its relatively low painted cost makes it a pretty good deal for filling in additional space, plus having the flexibility of the cave is always fun. I think I have three concaves overall and don’t feel like I have too many so I’m pretty happy with what is offered here. This also has one of the lowest painted markups I think we’ll see in this campaign at 36%.
Hideyhole Builder
This being in its own set makes me slightly more interested than when it was bundled with another cave. Though I still feel the hideyhole is the lowest ranking of the escarpments. This does come with enough to lift it up to escarpment height but it still just feels a little off from everything else and is definitely my least favorite escarpment piece.
Winding Stairs
My only complaint about the winding stairs is that they are four inch long escarpments while everything else is built on a three inch grid. This means that reliably using them with other escarpments you either need to stack them (although that makes it difficult to line up with floors for a number of reasons) or you need 1x3s to go next to them. My suggestion, get two advanced builders for the extra 1x3s, which is a lot to spend for the stairs. But the stairs are great and you’ll make decent use of them.
Majestic Waterfall Deluxe
Still my favorite piece from the set. We don’t have the option of the smaller waterfall but you really want the whole thing. Remember this really needs some terrain trays as there aren’t any other pieces that match up with it well. But this is the showpiece you really wanted from the wildlands KS and that hasn’t changed here.
Trifectas
You really really want one set of trifecta ledges for your first of each of the matching escarpment packs. Additional streights are also really useful as they make great edging for negative space builds. Because you double the number of trifectas you need, you probably don’t need to buy too any extra sets. I’m not going to dive in to each one because this really says all that is needed for these.
Swamps Banks
The swamp banks megapack in the wildlands KS was one of the packs that grew on me massively over the course of the campaign. There isn’t much different here from what there was in the KS. If you don’t have any swamp banks I’d look at the following order of acquisition:
Islands
Rivers
Advanced Builder
Swells
Basic Builder/Winding River
Considering this order, I might want a second island before I get a winding river. However, once you hit that point or if you have the banks megapack, you’re mostly going to want lots more rivers and winding rivers as these add a lot to builds pretty quickly.
Swamp Floors
I’m not sure I’d ever buy this pack as I’ll end up with plenty of these and I’d rather buy the glade pack and end up with the 3x6 forest floors. I suppose if I felt I really needed a few swamp floors I’d grab it but considering the Island pack comes with one and is a good enough pack to get two of, I’m not entirely sure I need more. It is a pretty cheap way to get painted 36x6 in “forest” tiles, though the forest trails pack is slightly cheaper painted.
Basic Builder
I wrote up a review of this pack before but decided to come back and rewrite it because I really don’t like this pack very much. I get why it exists and it’s the only way to quickly pick up the small concave bank in multiples. But if I wanted corners I’d get another islands pack. If I wanted straights, I’d get the rivers pack. So the primary purpose of this pack is to grab those concaves. It’s not bad because the other pieces are still always useful, but I feel like this pack is largely skippable. If I’m getting a winding river, I could happily skip this pack. If not I’d definitely want one.
Advanced Builder
The Advanced Builder is kind of a misnomer here as there isn’t anything particularly advanced about this set. It used to be the Ponds set which included parts of the basic builder and the long straight bank. That set was a bit awkward because there was so much in there that the two big bank pieces were locked behind. Now you just get those two pieces. Generally, I’d rather have multiple of this set than the swells set as it is much easier to make use of but it isn’t a set you need multiples of until you have pretty much everything else.
Islands
If you’re only getting one swamp set, this is the one to get. This is the swamp starter set. It’s also the best way to get pieces that terminate swamp islands as it has seven corner pieces, the convex bank, and the end cap. I generally feel that you want a couple of these just to have enough corners to close anything you ever want to off. This is certainly the all-star swamp set.
Rivers
It’s straights. Straights are useful. Straights are necessary. It’s also a long border. You can use this to run pretty much an entire 36 inch table edge. You can also make a long, 18 inch island with termination points. This is just an important building block you can’t have too many of these.
Swells
The swell pieces are really cool but I’ve found them fairly difficult to use and really don’t want too many of them in a smaller collection. I’d be much happier with doubles of the advanced builder but these two pieces are still really cool and you do want one set for sure. But otherwise you really need some 3x3 floors or other bigger pieces before you get more. It is a great way to increase coverage with banks and again, these are some of the best looking swamp pieces.
Winding River
This new pack is really interesting. While the islands set is a great starter that you can plop into pretty much any build, this set does something very different. It basically creates a turn in an otherwise straight river that could be built from a number of the river sets. I think this set isn’t very good on its own because you can’t build anything out of it. But this and a river set lets you drop a negative space river in the middle of your Forest Bundle, or Heart of the Forest, or possibly even Dreadhollow. I think this is a good composition because of what it can build and I can imagine grabbing a few of these sets, but not until I have all the other ones. I think if you’re grabbing this set you can skip the basic builder as it is only short on one small concave bank.
Scatter and Dressing
Most of the scatter sets remain unchanged from the KS and they all have their place. The new additions primarily focus on scatter sets labeled skirmish, ambush, or lair. It’s been rumored that the stand alone trees are early unlocks to be added during the campaign. This is really important because these are really good pieces that tend to be pretty affordable, even if they aren’t technically modular.
Crags Bridge
I’ve always been a fan of Crags Bridge and I’m happy that this became its own stand alone set in Wildlands. It’s a good set piece for mountain terrain which provides lots of good verticality. Personally I’m not huge on the wyverstone coloring but I buy all my stuff unpainted and I can make it whatever color I want. Including just painting it like rocks.
Driftstone
Again, not a huge fan of wyverstone but for your shifting platform game this is an easy and fun way to do it. Additionally, you flip these over and they serve as very functional terrain making them very flexible. You can also use one as a base and another as a top. Personally, I don’t have this pack and I don’t see myself ever getting it. I’m a little disappointed it is included in the Mountain Bundle as I feel the mountains look better without it.
Wyverstone Scatter
I did pick up a single wyverstone scatter pack primarily to use as objective tokens. The four small wyverstone clusters make for decent numbered objective tokens for wargaming and can be added to any caves to give it that gemstone look. Now that I have one, I don’t think I’d ever want a second though.
Huge Hummock
I’ve never been a big fan of the hummock. It’s a big expensive rock, but it doesn’t have the same flexibility as titanstooth. It is easy to plot wargaming terrain but it’s got the inserts I don’t really like. It will butt up against other terrain edges okay but it really seems more like it is a stand alone island. I just don’t need one this big.
Faerie Plants
Here’s where we get into my general distaste for random dressing sets. This is dressing, but I can’t imagine I’d ever want this over the nettlegorst pack. Also, in that pack I don’t really want a bunch of the tangles anyway so I’m not excited to get them here. I have a shimmerfrond or two. I don’t really want any more and they’re at the bottom of the bucketlist as far as what I’m looking forward to being able to table.
Enchanted Pool
This is largely for use with a light puck. The light puck has packs that include this piece and others you might want to use it with. If you got a light puck without this, I could imagine you choosing to pick it up. But without a light puck I’m a hard pass on this.
Forest Skirmish
My biggest problem with the forest skirmish set is really a problem with the mountain skirmish set. Pretty much everything of significance included in this pack is also in the mountain skirmish set besides a few bushes. So if you’re getting that set, you can probably skip this one. However, if you don’t want the hidey hole and titanstooth base, you can get this instead. This is still fairly expensive for some random scatter terrain.
Mountain Skirmish
Again, this set is the forest skirmish plus some harder to find pieces. I kind of wish they just left the crescent rock and stepped rock off this set to bring the price down. I do agree that the stepped rock and crescent rock can be thrown pretty much everywhere in multiples while the titans tooth and hidey hole can’t. But that doesn’t mean people are likely to buy more of this pack because of that. I also can’t see most builds needing more than a total of two titanstooth bases (one with the tooth piece and one more freestanding). Outside of that, this is probably just a good mountain scatter starter set, especially along with crags bridge.
Swamp Skirmish
Considering I generally want bigger decoration pieces in my skirmish games, I don’t see why this set exists except as a way to put out some random pieces that might otherwise not have a home. The litllypads are nice and I love the floating log. But I don’t feel like I’d ever want much more than I got from other sets. One note is that the trees bundle doesn’t have the floating log and you do really want one or two.
Wilderness Ambush
I feel like putting all the traps together into a single set is a fun idea. You pick this up and then you’re full of options for tricking PCs. That said, I’m not sure why the log is here. I like the log, so I don’t mind it. But it doesn’t really fit here. I’ve found these traps to be cute additions mid game but are more useful for photography and dioramas than actual play. They also don’t tend to fit into wargaming very well.
Bestial Lair
This is an interesting reconfiguration that gets you some pieces that have been difficult to access such as the wyvern nest and burrow hole and egg sack. I don’t feel that this really needs the stump insert or the wyverstone platform to be fleshed out but the set might be pretty small without it. For some hard to find dressing this is worth it but if you already have the pieces, you probably don’t need to go for lots of multiples here.
Teardrop Inserts
My one problem with this pack is that there’s nothing to put into the burrow hole teardrop insert to fill it out. The eggs are only in the bestial lair dressing pack and you get two of the burrow hole here. I’m sure you can find something to put in there but it would be nice if it came with a way to fill it in. Most of these inserts come in other forms sets so you don’t really need this pack. But if you feel your insert variety is lacking here’s the quick fix.
Table Coverage
DF’s offerings in table coverage here really center around four offerings: Battle mats (24”x24”), Terrain Trays (12”x12”, thin), Battle Boards (12”x12”, thick), and Stilts. Of these products their battle mats are fine, but the limitation of 24x24 is significant, terrain trays are nice for rivers, battleboards are expensive and not what I would consider a fully developed product, and the stilts are really expensive.
Swamp Water Texture Mats
While the price for these mats is pretty in line with other expectations, they aren’t particularly remarkable mats. The colors do blend acceptably with swamp pieces, but not perfectly. Personally, I’d rather buy larger mats and avoid seams. That said, I did pick up one of the lake texture mats because the colors matched the river terrain trays.
River Terrain Trays
These are fantastic for adding dynamic water to a build. Until DF gets around to building sculpted rivers, this is what you have to work with, but they do work very well. Personally, I never use the overlay to add texture as it simply throws up way too much glare. Initially, this product was supposed to be slightly textured but that never ended up working out and the overlay was the work around. If you’re getting river terrain trays and a waterfall, I’d get two straights first, then two curves. One curve can work as a straight but a straight works just fine as a curve and you’re most likely to build something straightish and with the waterfall make use of the mountain lake side.
Mountain Ground/Packed Earth Terrain Tray
I don’t much like terrain trays for tiles that there are sculpted options for. They’re useful to build on but I’ve also just bought some 12x12 steel tiles from Home Depot and painted them black for similar effect. Now those aren’t much cheaper at around ($14) so buying terrain trays works fine. I just generally feel that for a base layer you can get away with a battle mat that doesn’t run you close to $25 per square foot, and when building up you are better off just fronting the cash for some sculpted tiles. The packed earth side may be more useful since there isn’t really an equivalent in dwarvenite to make negative space build roads, but again, a battle mat can serve that purpose.
Battleboards
Everything I just said above goes double for battleboards. They’re half again as expensive as the terrain trays and all you really gain is an additional floor of thickness. You can buy a four pack of 12”x12” plywood for $30 and stick terrain trays on them if you need something to get your elevation up. If you’ve got the money, battleboards are great to build on and easy to work with. I just have a hard time seeing them as something necessary unless you’ve got all the dwarvenite you want first.
Risers and Stilts
Risers are 38mm, Stilts are 50mm. Personally I’m sad that risers are more expensive than stilts, even though they are shorter. Honestly, I’m a little sad that these things cost $2.50 to $3 each either way. I will say that the 38mm are probably more useful than the 50mm. 50mm brings your platform up above escarpment height meaning you need more pieces to build around your floor piece or terrain tray. This is problematic for a number of reasons. First off, it doesn’t work very well with the waterfall to have the extra level of terrain to cover. Second, you need at least a trifecta pack to edge it. If I only had one option, I’d want all 38mm stilts. I’d probably want 4 packs of 38mm before I’d want a 50mm pack.
As a quick aside, I didn’t buy any stilts. I bought blocks, which work just fine. 1.5 inch blocks are equivalent to 38mm stilts and 2 inch blocks are equivalent to 50mm stilts. For just over $30 I got all the stilts I’ll ever need. Don’t get me wrong, DF’s stilts are better, but I have a hard time paying for dwarvenite that no one will ever see.
Stretch Goals
All of the stretch goals are not Reforged sets at this point so they’re pretty easy to review. I assume prices will match those in the store so I’ll write up the first five here now.
Standing Stones
The high price of these betrays their functionality in my opinion. Two light up rocks for $48 is just a really high price. I really like these pieces but at $24 per piece, I find it really hard to justify.
Felbourne Trees
The stand alone trees are amazing and cheap to add to builds. These are great as both monsters and terrain. Your players never know which one it is. Get one of these. You’ll find it fits into lots of builds.
Faerie Glade
Again, free standing trees. These are both beautiful, iconic, and fairly cheap in comparison to other trees. The only issue here is that these trees stand out on the table a bit and you might want to go lighter on them rather than filling your entire table with them. The lack of modularity matters a bit more for the Faerie Glade than the Felbourn Trees.
Holl Knole Pack
This is designed to go with the light puck and isn’t a very impressive piece without it. If you have a light puck and you don’t have this, you want it. Otherwise I think you’re better off with pretty much everything else.
Oblivion Nexus
Set pieces like this are both gorgeous and difficult to use, as well as difficult to stock. This also goes with the light puck but is something that will pretty much never be in stock in the store and works just fine without the light puck. Not being fond of wyverstone I’m not huge on this piece but if you want a copy of it now is absolutely the time to go for it.
Conclusion
That’s it for now. Hopefully I’ll be back for more stretch goals if the campaign crosses $500k.
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