Rohan is a proud realm that has ever stood against evil, yet it is no stranger to war and turmoil. Even now, bands of Dunlendings and scouting Uruk-hai raid the villages and settlements, killing people, destroying farms, and burning whatever buildings remain standing.

 

This multipart plastic kit builds a significant Rohan Stronghold for your armies to fight over in the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game. The six houses offer a number of assembly options with double-sided house walls – each with different details – and a choice of decorations for the timber roof lintels. Each can be built with one of three porch options, and the kit also includes a number of fences, barrels, and ropes for you to further decorate your houses. Both watchtowers include a warning bell with which defenders can sound the alarm, and are proudly adorned with the horse-head icons of Rohan. Each palisade includes a walkway that is 25mm wide to accommodate archers or fighters manning the walls. The palisade gate can be assembled to open or close freely, and can hold a removable crossbeam to allow defenders to lock the gate. This kit also includes eight ladders to reach the palisades, of which four can be connected to make a pair of taller ladders for infantry to reach the watchtowers.

 

This set contains:

 

– 2x Rohan Watchtowers

– 8x Palisade Walls

– 6x Rohan Houses

– 8x Palisade Ladders (pairs of which can alternatively be connected to make Watchtower Ladders)

– 6x Dormer windows

– 6x Porches

– 12x Barrels

– 36x Ropes

– 24x Fences

“Only in Death Does Duty End”

 

The claiming of war trophies by victorious forces has been commonplace for millennia. While in centuries past, these souvenirs may have taken the form of flags, art, weapons, or other trinkets, in the grim darkness of the 41st Millennium, the spoils of war are much more macabre.

 

Customise your miniatures with the contents of this morbid kit, featuring a huge variety of components that can be added to bases or used as narrative elements. This collection includes skulls – human, alien, and other – as well as severed heads, some still wearing the helmets of their previous owner. Also included are other grim tokens such as parts of servo skulls, and an – almost – complete fallen Space Marine.

 

Contains 288 plastic components:

– 1x crushed Space Marine base topper

– 1x Adeptus Custodes helmeted head

– 2x Death Guard helmeted heads

– 2x Chaos Terminator helmeted heads

– 2x Vespid Stingwing heads

– 2x bird skulls

– 3x Terminator helmets

– 3x Thousand Sons helmeted heads

– 3x World Eaters helmeted heads

– 3x Ur-ghul skulls

– 4x large creature skulls

– 4x horned animal skulls

– 4x Ork jaws

– 5x Genestealer Cult mutated skulls

– 5x Ork Gretchin skulls

– 5x Adeptus Arbites helmeted heads

– 5x Kroot heads

– 6x T'au Fire Warrior helmeted heads

– 6x Aeldari helmeted heads

– 6x Chaos Space Marine helmeted heads

– 8x Adepta Sororitas helmeted heads

– 10x Tyranid heads

– 12x Space Marine helmeted heads

– 12x T'au Empire skulls

– 15x Ork skulls

– 16x Servo Skull components

– 23x Astra Militarum helmeted heads

– 25x mutated human skulls

– 40x human skulls

– 55x damaged human skulls

 

The plastic components in this kit are designed to be used alongside other Warhammer 40,000 kits, available separately. They require assembly and are unpainted – we recommend using Citadel Plastic Glue and Citadel Colour paints.

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