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The humans look far too WoW-ish to me, but I do like the look of the undead.

Not for me (unless I can get hold of some of the models cheap for use in KoW) but it does look like it could be a rather nice introduction game to someone getting started with tabletop gaming.

If it takes off; twenty years in the future ,I could see a lot of people citing this as the game that got them into the hobby. Like so many of us started out with heroquest or battle masters.

The undead looks pretty nifty, though I'm thoroughly unimpressed by the humans. Too bulky, and the limited poses really sticks out for their cavalry


Still, the rules sound like they could be interesting, using a bunch of neat features, like the movement templates, action/effect dials and interlocking bases.

I don't forsee it replacing KoW as my primary fantasy game; but it looks like it could be a great introgame for beginners to the world of ranked battlegames.

SKR.HH wrote:
So... FFG announced the Expansion packs. Containing 4 or 8 models. At a price point of 30 USD.

Ehm... okay... Not what I expected for a R'n'F game...

With those prices, I have a hard time seeing the game take off.

Even if the rules are good, when you're new on the market you need to be a good deal in every aspect since you start from square one.

It's not like AOS who started with a inbuilt potential audience and could get away with both horrible rules and ovepriced models since as long as they retained a portion of their existing one, they had a playerbase rather than needing to build it up from scratch.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
For that price, I can get waaaaaay more AoS stuff. WAY MORE. Even before any online discount, AoS is only £75, has more models (better? YMMV, but I feel so).

Considering this is clearly a ahem discounted 'bargain' starter set, it's an absolute joke.

The models look gash, and they're pre-painted.

And they want £100 for it? £100???? For a game format that even the industry leader had to give up due to flagging sales?



Are they mad?

The flagging sales weren't primarily a fault of the game format but rather due to the market leader's rules being crap.

But I agree that I don't see this game taking off with those prices.

Also, the minis aren't prepainted I think? If they'd been, at that quality of painting, I think the game would have a lot better potential to find it's niche.

 agnosto wrote:

 Elbows wrote:
Watched the BoW' how to play" video...and was really underwhelmed.

TBF, I'm consistently underwhelmed by BoW videos.

Whenever I've seen a video from them playing a system I'm knowledgeable in myself, I can spot them regularly getting the most simple concepts and rules wrong. So it might be that video is not representative of the actual quality of the Runewars ruleset.