Box review: Icons of Bast terrain pack

Asmodee Deutschland has awesomely sent me two boxes to review. First of which we look at today is CP180 Icons of Bast terrain pack.

First of all this pack is huge, absolutely drawfing any regular minis set. What it contains is a little bit more than what's shown on the front here as the waterfall is also included twice.

Small Panther statue sprue. Included twice in the set. Size 2 terrain.

Waterfall sprue. Also included twice and is size 3.

The big Panther Statue, which needs two sprues and sits at size 4. That one is only included once.

Building instructions can be found here on AMGs website if necessary but they appear to be very easy to build even without them.

I haven't looked at the instructions for either the big not the small Panther statue and was able to build them with absolute ease in about 5 minutes each. The longest step there is the cleaning the sprue connection points.

The waterfall is build very easily two and comes with some additional flowers you can use as base decorations.

The big Panther Statue stands up taller than Dormammu while not being nearly as wide as a regular size 4 building. It does look awesome though.

Overall the terrain is super detailed and looks fantastic. Downside for some is probably that you can't stand on any of the pieces included. Not a deal breaker for me personally. The official price tag of 83,99€ is extremely high though.

The idea is that you combine it with the CP59 Kingdom of Wakanda Terrain set coming in at the same prize point for a full table. While on the sparser side it would make a good full table in that combination with a total of two size 4s (Big Panther and Vibranium Hauler), two size 3s (the fountains found here) three size 2s (the two small Panther statues and the tree from CP59) as well as eight size 1s (the lamps form CP59).

I sadly ran out of primer during the priming session of the terrain but I could at least finish one of every piece here:

If you are new to this fantastic game you should check out my articles on How to start Marvel Crisis Protocol and my Affiliation Overviews.

Thanks again to Asmodee Deutschland and Cheers from Germany 🍻

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