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Hell, I hope some of them get rules to play in silver tower!

This sound like Dungeon Command: Warhammer Edition. I really liked Dungeon Command, so I look forward to this.

I think they could do a "campaign" format for the game.

you start with your chosen warband and their fixed deck, then as you win or lose games you can replace cards in your deck.
if you wanted to go crazy you could even "draft" cards or make "sealed boosters" to hand out.

this game has potential for taking cool ideas from Board games, CCGs and deckbuilding games.

tpryan01 wrote:
I think they could do a "campaign" format for the game.

you start with your chosen warband and their fixed deck, then as you win or lose games you can replace cards in your deck.
if you wanted to go crazy you could even "draft" cards or make "sealed boosters" to hand out.

this game has potential for taking cool ideas from Board games, CCGs and deckbuilding games.

I'd prefer it stay like an LCG with seasons. The base box and six expansions is year one, which is a fair outlay over that time but provides a lot of variation. Year 2 moving to a different bit of Shadespire with a new boxed set with two new boards and another eight factions (Sky pirate dwarves, ogres, trees, Nurgle, Tzeentch, Ghouls, whatever else is new to AoS in the meantime).

I don't want to deal with CCG crap.

I'm wondering if the next season will be somewhere other than Shadespire. See, the name is Warhammer Underworlds; Shadespire. Which to me is suggestive of other locales.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I'm wondering if the next season will be somewhere other than Shadespire. See, the name is Warhammer Underworlds; Shadespire. Which to me is suggestive of other locales.

This is what my GW manager speculated. We chatted about it a bit and I was talking about how you need to add things to the game to keep it interesting, and what happens when all of the factions have their warband? He did say with certainty that EVERY faction is going to get a warband, so that's promising, but after that, the speculation is that they'll release new worlds, likely with new boards, cards, and new features.

I'm sure if it's successful enough to survive releasing all of the different factions, the next step for GW would be to add more to it. Imagine if they added another Stormcast faction and you could mix and match them with the other Stormcasts. I could see them doing something like this to keep the strategy fresh, but then the challenge becomes balancing not only those factions, but every mix of the factions as well.

Well figure the initial general card run is something like 400 cards. At least people were saying they are numbered and I think it was up to 400. And each faction essentially comes with about 30 something. So stands to reason 10-12 season 1 factions. After that we might see season 2 at a different location with different units. I mean considering they are doing them based on basic battleline units with a hero leader only sometimes there are a ton of factions they could do.

 Hulksmash wrote:
Well figure the initial general card run is something like 400 cards. At least people were saying they are numbered and I think it was up to 400. And each faction essentially comes with about 30 something. So stands to reason 10-12 season 1 factions. After that we might see season 2 at a different location with different units. I mean considering they are doing them based on basic battleline units with a hero leader only sometimes there are a ton of factions they could do.

In the GW webstore, you can see that the cards are numbered up to 437 (character cards does not appear to be part of the numbered system).

Ben2 wrote:

tpryan01 wrote:
I think they could do a "campaign" format for the game.

you start with your chosen warband and their fixed deck, then as you win or lose games you can replace cards in your deck.
if you wanted to go crazy you could even "draft" cards or make "sealed boosters" to hand out.

this game has potential for taking cool ideas from Board games, CCGs and deckbuilding games.

I'd prefer it stay like an LCG with seasons. The base box and six expansions is year one, which is a fair outlay over that time but provides a lot of variation. Year 2 moving to a different bit of Shadespire with a new boxed set with two new boards and another eight factions (Sky pirate dwarves, ogres, trees, Nurgle, Tzeentch, Ghouls, whatever else is new to AoS in the meantime).

I don't want to deal with CCG crap.

Hmm I was hoping this version of the game would last longer than a year. I mean the number of expansions revealed so far isn't that many. Plus there's duplicate khorne/stormcasts. I would hope for at least 4 more unique factions ton top of skaven/fyreslayers/farstriders/blood warriors/orks/undead. The big question is will the rules change if they do a new location, if they do then that's where i'm going to get annoyed. As i'd like the warbands and cards to be compatible across the WH underworlds brand. After they pump out the initial round of teams to give the game some legs I could see them slowing it down to 1 team per quarter, or going similar to the pace of Blood Bowl releases.

GW has put up some new content.

How to build the warbands:













And how to paint them:

Appreciate the videos, but those have actually been on the Underworlds website since it launched. Still good tutorials. Can't wait to get started on these guys!

Whoops, oh well, never hurts to share.

Bookmarked the Ironskullz guide for now, that's a good one to remember should I ever become stupid enough to try and paint yellow.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/10/16/shadespire-deck-building-101-gw-homepage-post-4/
A good article and video about deck building in Shadespire.
Really looking forward to getting my own set at the weekend.

Ben2 wrote:

tpryan01 wrote:
I think they could do a "campaign" format for the game.

you start with your chosen warband and their fixed deck, then as you win or lose games you can replace cards in your deck.
if you wanted to go crazy you could even "draft" cards or make "sealed boosters" to hand out.

this game has potential for taking cool ideas from Board games, CCGs and deckbuilding games.

I'd prefer it stay like an LCG with seasons. The base box and six expansions is year one, which is a fair outlay over that time but provides a lot of variation. Year 2 moving to a different bit of Shadespire with a new boxed set with two new boards and another eight factions (Sky pirate dwarves, ogres, trees, Nurgle, Tzeentch, Ghouls, whatever else is new to AoS in the meantime).

I don't want to deal with CCG crap.

I was talking about what formats the community could create from the material not what GW could do...sorry for the confusion.

Someone at the local GW as talking about there being no 1-card deck building limitation. I actually haven't heard this confirmed or denied, and still haven't got a peek at the rule book.

Can anyone comment on this?

It's going to get very salty if you an include multiple copies of a card in one deck

WUWU wrote:
Someone at the local GW as talking about there being no 1-card deck building limitation. I actually haven't heard this confirmed or denied, and still haven't got a peek at the rule book.

Can anyone comment on this?

It's going to get very salty if you an include multiple copies of a card in one deck

They are absolutely wrong. All cards are unique, only one per deck. You only ever have to buy one of each product to get everything.

Ben2 wrote:

WUWU wrote:
Someone at the local GW as talking about there being no 1-card deck building limitation. I actually haven't heard this confirmed or denied, and still haven't got a peek at the rule book.

Can anyone comment on this?

It's going to get very salty if you an include multiple copies of a card in one deck

They are absolutely wrong. All cards are unique, only one per deck. You only ever have to buy one of each product to get everything.

Great news! Thanks. It wouldn't be the first time sources at GW retail were wrong

I just realized the Orruks were Ardboyz (Black Orcs) and not Brutes. Suddenly I'm far less interested. :(

 Niiai wrote:
Has anybody had any tets game with this yet?

I am conserned there are only 4 actions, and 3 turns. That is . tital of 12 actions, not that much,

I’ve played a few games. It’s really not a problem. It’s not like you feel like the game ends when things are getting good or anything like that. It’s fast paced and the length feels about right. It works really well. The mechanics and such for this are super polished and smooth. It’s not like a typical GW game. Reminds me a bit of Wizards of the Coast’s old Dreamblade which I absolutely loved. I can’t wait until this is released. I’m going to play a ton of this. It’ll keep me occupied until the Blood Angels Codex drops.

I preordered this because I just moved provinces and am living in a temporary location until we get our house up and running, which means my Warhammer stuff is safely stored away. My wife has been eager to play a Warhammer game of some kind and while I have some kill teams for SW:A, we never had the opportunity to play. Enter: Shadespire. Should be a perfect entry into the miniature gaming scene for her!

Also she likes the Stormcast minis so that works perfectly. I like the Khorne ones. Can you tell?

Originally I was thinking of playing Skelies, but I'm thinking Orks are actually going to be the Warband I play the most. They fit my style of bashing skulls and nothing much else very well

I may end up actually getting all the Warbands just so I have them and can do various testing of Warbands at home.

I'm looking to get into this, but only want the pick up the Orc, Skaven, and Undead warbands for now...neither of the ones in the starter box. Is it still worth picking up the core set if that's the case?

piperider361 wrote:
I'm looking to get into this, but only want the pick up the Orc, Skaven, and Undead warbands for now...neither of the ones in the starter box. Is it still worth picking up the core set if that's the case?

Well you'll need all of the cards, boards, tokens, dice to play the game properly so pretty much. At some point someone might sell the core box without models on ebay or someplace. But honestly seeing as how you can get the game for 50 bucks from some sellers...might just be worth it to get the core set anyways. Skaven might not release until january if rumors are to be believed.

piperider361 wrote:
I'm looking to get into this, but only want the pick up the Orc, Skaven, and Undead warbands for now...neither of the ones in the starter box. Is it still worth picking up the core set if that's the case?

If a friend gets the core box, then you can play with them by only getting the warband you want. The warbands themselves should come with enough cards to play that specific warband.

If you don't have a buddy that has the core set, then you'll probably want to invest in it.

drbored wrote:

piperider361 wrote:
I'm looking to get into this, but only want the pick up the Orc, Skaven, and Undead warbands for now...neither of the ones in the starter box. Is it still worth picking up the core set if that's the case?

If a friend gets the core box, then you can play with them by only getting the warband you want. The warbands themselves should come with enough cards to play that specific warband.

If you don't have a buddy that has the core set, then you'll probably want to invest in it.

The expansions will definitely come with enough cards to have 12 objectives and 20 power cards. So if someone else is providing boards, cards, dice and counters then it will definitely be enough.

Just checked ebay, people are already parting the set out.

Ben2 wrote:

tpryan01 wrote:
I think they could do a "campaign" format for the game.

you start with your chosen warband and their fixed deck, then as you win or lose games you can replace cards in your deck.
if you wanted to go crazy you could even "draft" cards or make "sealed boosters" to hand out.

this game has potential for taking cool ideas from Board games, CCGs and deckbuilding games.

I'd prefer it stay like an LCG with seasons. The base box and six expansions is year one, which is a fair outlay over that time but provides a lot of variation. Year 2 moving to a different bit of Shadespire with a new boxed set with two new boards and another eight factions (Sky pirate dwarves, ogres, trees, Nurgle, Tzeentch, Ghouls, whatever else is new to AoS in the meantime).

I don't want to deal with CCG crap.

I was talking about the community...use the decks of cards we own to create different formats...NOT asking for GW to create CCG style packs.

If this is like many card games, there will be cards that only come in the starter set that you will want to use in your skaven or orc decks.

http://statelyplay.com/2017/10/17/cardboard-critique-warhammer-underworlds-shadespire
Thought I would share this very thorough review.
The critical reception of this game has been universally positive so far even outside of those who are typical GW fans.
GW is promoting this game heavily. I hope it has the kind of life that bloodbowl has enjoyed.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Hell, I hope some of them get rules to play in silver tower!

This would be great /, especially if they release and other deck of cards of shadespire hero's that also include the white dwarf hero's and the branchwych from the app.

Chikout wrote:
http://statelyplay.com/2017/10/17/cardboard-critique-warhammer-underworlds-shadespire
Thought I would share this very thorough review.
The critical reception of this game has been universally positive so far even outside of those who are typical GW fans.
GW is promoting this game heavily. I hope it has the kind of life that bloodbowl has enjoyed.

Thanks for flagging that review up, really nice overview.

Steve