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Sotahullu wrote:
Huh, going by that review Legions of Nagash Warband (that I started as warband but it grew into an army, oops) they got lot more options and all Leaders can summon skeletons, not just necromancer.

Which is especially nice as most new leader options are decently beefy. Danse Macabre remains as Necromancers ace though so having him as a hero is definitely not a bad choice.

 Meade wrote:
Well ive gotten few games in since covid but, im happy for the heroes and larger options in the game. It will probably result in some imbalance here and there but lets face it, warcry is a casual game from the start and not really built to stand up to the competitive treatment. There are basically 3 ways to play in the rulebook and i think they are all quite legit, and playing the campaigns changes a lot of things, the games get larger and higher powered, you get access to monsters/thralls and picking men from your roster is a more important part of the game....

Yeah, the focus is on narrative campaigns and matched play is the secondary mode. I think that is a fantastic way to run the game development and is a big part of why I like Warcry so much. Compare to AoS or 40k where matched is the focus and narrative mode(s) are secondary. (While open is not so much a way to play as a box of various rules people can adapt for their own use.)

Morrslieb wrote:

Sotahullu wrote:
Huh, going by that review Legions of Nagash Warband (that I started as warband but it grew into an army, oops) they got lot more options and all Leaders can summon skeletons, not just necromancer.

Which is especially nice as most new leader options are decently beefy. Danse Macabre remains as Necromancers ace though so having him as a hero is definitely not a bad choice.

Ahh so the Soulblight options are in Legions of Nagash - cool

Sotahullu wrote:
Huh, going by that review Legions of Nagash Warband (that I started as warband but it grew into an army, oops) they got lot more options and all Leaders can summon skeletons, not just necromancer.

That's how they get you...

Just getting into reading through all these and dam they are packed with content. Really good stuff, I am very happy with the grand alliance books. Expanding the options is great, updated mercenary/ally mechanics are great, and I am particularly happy with the amount of fluff. Every grand alliance has a review of what it is and why they want to go to the eightpoints, then each individual faction has a full run-down on what makes them want to go there and how they go about doing it. It makes for a fantastic narrative base when coming up with background for one's own warbands.

Great to hear!

Bladeborn boxed game announced it appears to be using a modified Warcry rule set and has rules for 2 of the Underworlds war bands. No mention if these are region restricted like past boxed games.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/02/03/peek-inside-three-new-warhammer-boxed-games-arriving-in-2021/

Ohh that looks cool

That actually looks pretty nice.

Might buy that even just for the models.

It seems to be a combination of warcry and underworlds. I imagine that expansions wouldn't be too difficult to do, it's just an underworlds warband with fewer cards.

 DaveC wrote:
Bladeborn boxed game announced it appears to be using a modified Warcry rule set and has rules for 2 of the Underworlds war bands. No mention if these are region restricted like past boxed games.

Khagra's Ravagers are Underworlds, the Untamed Beasts are a WarCry warband.

Unless I missed something about there being more rules for Underworlds warbands in the box?

Pretty sure it's Ravagers vs Godsworn Hunt, both from Underworlds.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 DaveC wrote:
Bladeborn boxed game announced it appears to be using a modified Warcry rule set and has rules for 2 of the Underworlds war bands. No mention if these are region restricted like past boxed games.

Khagra's Ravagers are Underworlds, the Untamed Beasts are a WarCry warband.

Unless I missed something about there being more rules for Underworlds warbands in the box?

The marauders in the box are The Godsworn Hunt, also an Underworlds warband. There are no Untamed Beasts in the box. And there are no Underworlds rules in the box since you need a full deck of cards for each warband to play.

I must be delusional from just waking up then, when I'd first read it I swear I saw Untamed Beasts not Godsworn Hunt.

Cool though! Hopefully we see rules for more of the Underworlds warbands in WarCry.

I'd buy that if it ends up being a better deal than buying the underworlds warbands.

It looks like a take on Warcry with hex based movement that uses Underworlds bands. The Glory tokens for UW appear to be used also. That actually sounds pretty cool, especially if it was like Blitz Bowl where they include some cards for other Underworlds bands in the box for some replayibility/variety.

I love Underworlds (and also enjoy Warcry), and the Warbands are awesome and characterful, but I do wish they had rules for Warcry or another more traditional skirmish game also.

Call of the Everchosen article

Welcome to Call of the Everchosen, the first in a new series dedicated to the Warcry community. These articles will feature all sorts of free campaigns, challenge battles, allied heroes, and more.

The Fall of Anvilgard campaign

 DaveC wrote:
Call of the Everchosen article

Welcome to Call of the Everchosen, the first in a new series dedicated to the Warcry community. These articles will feature all sorts of free campaigns, challenge battles, allied heroes, and more.

The Fall of Anvilgard campaign

I really like this, I would love to see more of these sorts of narrative campaigns.

I'm happy this is a thing, but I am left wondering about when/if any new warbands are gonna show up

Carlovonsexron wrote:
I'm happy this is a thing, but I am left wondering about when/if any new warbands are gonna show up

I imagine a little while at least, or they’d probably have shown something in the Mortal Realms preview.

Probably better to expand the current warbands to match the AoS bands instead of chuckin out one off.

Another round of kits for them would be cool actually. I don’t play Warcry so not sure how good that’d be.
But like Necromunda is now doing second wave kits, that’d be cool to look at, as these are nice models they did for Warcry.

I would like to see additional options for the cult warbands. New specialists, full on hero options, monstrous creatures, etc. Buuuut I realize the commercial viability of what is quite limited. Maybe some sort of upgrade kit so other units can be drafted into their rosters.

Cursed City crossover campaign and rules for

- Skeleton Warriors
- Deadwalker Zombies
- Kosargi Nightguard
- Corpse Rats
- Bat Swarms

A Fool's Trove in Ulfenkarn campaign pdf

It's cool how supportive GW is of cross-compatibilty within the various AoS games. Yeah it's a way to make the minis more appealing, but Kirby era GW wouldn't have made the effort.

GW today realises that one of the most important things is getting bodies through the door. Having lots of smaller starter games and such is great, but having them isolated can lead to segmenting their market and fragmenting it. Linking them up means that there's a greater chance for people to jump one to the next. I'm sure a LOT of Cursed City players will end up with a small vampire force

Just like a lot of people who get one or two Gargants for allies will end up Gargant army players.


The really nice thing is that GW is doing it whilst at the same time preserving the identity of the armies and factions. This isn't the messy attempt of "lets make everyone allies so you can soup armies together" approach. Which whlist it can work, only ever ends up destroying any semblance of balance and mucks up the visual appeal and identity of the armies and factions.


That latter attempt was what the kirby era was focused on. Primaris and Marines; Marines and every Imperial force there was; Yinnari; the Grand Alliance system at launch (not the one we have now).

I noticed one of the pages from the "A Fool's Trove in Ulfenkarn" pdf has the number 80 in the left right corner.
None of the Cursed City books have 80 pages so its not from there and in the article they say

Next month, we’ll be bringing not only another brand-new campaign, but a whole host of exciting things for you Warcry players to enjoy.

Does that mean we are gonna get a new book? Do we know anything about it?

I know we don't have rules for the new lumineth models and the new Vampire models (that are not released yet) but other than that i believe they have released rules for almost all the other models.

Well, we'll need profiles / rules for the new Lumineth units that should also be played in Warcry (meaning not the named characters, flying foxes and ballista), but I guess that should be present in a white dwarf or maybe the Tome of Champion 2021 (should come end of the year, though).

Otherwise, the door is certainly open to other specific Warcry boxes (may be new miniatures or simply repackaged boxes for the existing factions). Making new dungeon maps (easy to make, after all !), or dungeon furniture available separately from the starter box (easy since they're separate sprues), or something entirely new. Who knows ? GW does.

Not all of the new Slaanesh units made it into the recent Chaos book for Warcry.

We haven't had anything even previewed for Warcry since the four books in December. It would certainly be nice to get a new book with some new content. Especially if we got stats for all the new miniatures and Cursed City stuff in it (and an Order of Azyr warband while we are at it, to make expeditions into the Cursed City).

Actually now that I think of it, the first Warcry box was based around the Bloodwind Spoil. Wouldn't it be awesome to get a new expansion with some new Order and Death Warbands based around the Cursed City?