Wanting to start an Artillery-themed Imperial Guard army but need more hobby $$$? Check out this alternate model from China!
There’s an absolute steal making its rounds on eBay. You can get a fantastic artillery toy model from China (shipped from the UK looks like) for practically nothing.
Take a look at the details:
Long-Range Fire Support for Cheap
Cutting right to the details, this thing is going for less than $2 a piece on eBay. This mini would make the perfect “stand in” for either some Basilisks or Earthshaker batteries from Forge World.
Don’t believe us? You could get three of these for $6 OR three FW Earthshakers for $400.
If you are wanting to run some Basilisks but haven’t been able to find any, once again, this is still a fantastic alternate option. Do you have your lists already made and painted up? Have you thought about grabbing some of these for terrain on the tabletop? It wouldn’t be too hard to chop the barrels down and make them looked “wrecked.” Plus they don’t cost a fraction of what some GW terrain does.
Anytime you can get a cheap firing base in 8th edition is a good thing. Players need to have a back-field unit to sit in the deployment and hold objectives while the real workhorses take down the enemy’s heavy hitters.
Will you be sweeping up a few of these artillery pieces? Are they going to be used as units or terrain? Let us know in the comments of our Facebook Hobby Group.
About the Author: Wesley Floyd
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About Wesley Floyd: Wes has been in the Warhammer hobby since 2015 and joined the Spikey Bits writing team in 2018. He is known for his satirist takes on trending topics and imaginative yet amazingly affordable hobby solutions to painting Warhammer miniatures.
Imperial fanboy, tabletop fanatic, and the self-proclaimed King of Sprues. He knows for a fact that Mephiston red is the best-tasting paint and is the commission painting equivalent of a Wendy’s 4 for $4. If you like what he writes and want to contact him or have your tabletop minatures painted (to a mostly okayish standard), message him on Instagram.
