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 privateer4hire wrote:
True. BSF is also very repetitive.
I really miss the quality game games they released in Betrayal at Calth and Deathwatch: Overkill. I still have BaC because it’s just so well done game-wise.

I think the best way to play Cursed City is to run it with a DM, controlling the undead. The issue with the gameplay is that the monsters are too predicable, in what they do.

Thanks folks

My copy arrived today from a third party seller. Looks identical to the unboxing videos of the first printing, except missing the errata for the assembly guide and the flyer for the book - which at least suggests this is a new printing rather than stock they've had sat in a warehouse for a while and are now being allowed to sell again. Copyright dates all still 2020.

I think we'd come to the silent conclusion that it wasn't an IP/Copyright issue but something shipping, supply or otherwise internal to GW. If there had been a copyright or other strike we'd have expected to have heard about it at some level even if from outside of GW from the rights holder contesting.

Mine has just arrived.

Mine has shipped

Interesting that they seem to be fulfilling orders from third parties at the same time as their own webstore. I would have thought it would have been (logistically) easier to batch them, but whatever; mine arrived yesterday and now I have to decide to assemble the undead hordes or my Avatar first…

If we ordered less or equal (or near enough) to the bulk of product that GW was able to have ready by this last week then it stands to reason that they'd ship it all in one big go. No sense having it hanging around the warehouse.

They have done broken up orders before, eg many of the limited edition models have often had multiple waves broken up over regions. It all depends on GW's back end and how they approach something. CC might have had a long period at GW prior to the launch with a lot of stock being made and held ready for a huge order wave.

Gw might have over-estimated demand and wound up with excess; which is fine as it will likely sell easily over the following years. They might even have intentionally done it that way so that they'd hopefully get it all out in one big go easily.



Not forgettting that this wave is going to directly impact the next expansion for the game. So the more they can get out early in this wave the more likely orders they'll have for the first expansion. Also the last thing they want is to push and promote sale of an expansion when people are still waiting on their core set to arrive.

I would have thought blackstone fortress would have disappeared by now. Looks like there may be some overlap!

To be fair there's not really a good reason to get rid of Blackstone. Both are board-game style experiences so can easily be on the market at the same time. If anything I'd hope Blackstone would get some re-releases of its expansions to go with its continued core set popularity as the expansions are basically all gone from the market now.


It also bodes well for GW perhaps returning to it and giving a fresh expansion (even if I'd rather like to see the next 40K Quest being a recreation of Space Crusader)

 Overread wrote:
To be fair there's not really a good reason to get rid of Blackstone. Both are board-game style experiences so can easily be on the market at the same time. If anything I'd hope Blackstone would get some re-releases of its expansions to go with its continued core set popularity as the expansions are basically all gone from the market now.


It also bodes well for GW perhaps returning to it and giving a fresh expansion (even if I'd rather like to see the next 40K Quest being a recreation of Space Crusader)

Space crusade! now youre talking. hopfully Hasbro will not get it and put fish men in it!

Ragweek wrote:

 Overread wrote:
To be fair there's not really a good reason to get rid of Blackstone. Both are board-game style experiences so can easily be on the market at the same time. If anything I'd hope Blackstone would get some re-releases of its expansions to go with its continued core set popularity as the expansions are basically all gone from the market now.


It also bodes well for GW perhaps returning to it and giving a fresh expansion (even if I'd rather like to see the next 40K Quest being a recreation of Space Crusader)

Space crusade! now youre talking. hopfully Hasbro will not get it and put fish men in it!

Neat thing about Space Crusade is that its not Space Hulk so you can have ALL The factions appear, and new ones as well; and its more than just stealers and terminators and you get the same kind of gameplay. So its just way more varied and interesting.

 Overread wrote:
To be fair there's not really a good reason to get rid of Blackstone. Both are board-game style experiences so can easily be on the market at the same time. If anything I'd hope Blackstone would get some re-releases of its expansions to go with its continued core set popularity as the expansions are basically all gone from the market now.


It also bodes well for GW perhaps returning to it and giving a fresh expansion (even if I'd rather like to see the next 40K Quest being a recreation of Space Crusader)

Blackstone is still a lot of fun and, yes it’d be nice if they reprinted the expansions (or just did a made to order for them). I’m not sure about whether it needs new expansions. If you’ve successfully played through the full campaign your characters are game breakingly powerful by the end of it.

I’d love to see a new 40K based Warhammer Quest though. Hopefully, when Cursed City has gone through its full, intended cycle, a new 40K setting will be on the cards.

Troll trader has some 'minis removed' boxes of cursed city for £25 if anybody was interested in just the game but didn't want the modern GW large sized minis

https://thetrolltrader.com/products/cursed-city-game-no-miniatures-4?_pos=5&_sid=2c85ee80c&_ss=r

Ragweek wrote:

 Overread wrote:
To be fair there's not really a good reason to get rid of Blackstone. Both are board-game style experiences so can easily be on the market at the same time. If anything I'd hope Blackstone would get some re-releases of its expansions to go with its continued core set popularity as the expansions are basically all gone from the market now.


It also bodes well for GW perhaps returning to it and giving a fresh expansion (even if I'd rather like to see the next 40K Quest being a recreation of Space Crusader)

Space crusade! now youre talking. hopfully Hasbro will not get it and put fish men in it!

Well, they will. Three at least because old Space Crusade included three Genestealers.