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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/01/24/your-quest-continues/



Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower was one of the highlights of last year’s Warhammer Age of Sigmar releases (and that’s saying a lot, because there were some great ones). The return of the classic format, but set in the Mortal Realms, was an instant hit, and we’ve been bombarded ever since with questions about a follow on game.

Well, today we’re delighted to reveal that one is on the way.

Warhammer Quest Shadows over Hammerhal will be an entirely self contained game with a whole new cast of heroes and villains.

We’re very excited about this for all sorts of reasons. The game will obviously see new quests and challenges for gamers, but perhaps just as excitingly, this set will have an even more involved narrative, and will explore the dark labyrinths beneath one of Sigmar’s new Free Cities: Hammerhal, the twin-tailed city – a metropolis that is built around a Realmgate and sprawls across two realms!

This new set is a little ways off yet, but we were super excited, and we just wanted to share it with you.

For those of you who have not played Warhammer Quest yet, give Silver Tower a go – it’s a great game and packed with loads of great models too (cough*all-the-heroes-for-your-new-Tzeentch-army*cough).

Nice! I have been thinking of picking up Silver Tower lately but maybe I'll wait until I see what's in this box and the pricing.

For those wondering where this is from.

Oh nice.. any speculations on for how many players this will be?

Excellent news! I do hope the heroes will all be new (as per Silver Tower's set), as the four primary figures on the art are all existing figures (including that damn Slaughter Priest who shows up everywhere these days), and that cover is just a placeholder... Shame that rumoured undead-themed game doesn't seem to have had any truth (for now), but this sounds like a very interesting underpinning concept (beneath a city straddling two realms). Lots of story (and component) potential there. Shall be preordering as soon as I can.

The Heroes have to fight someone, Undead perhaps.....

Anyway I hope this moves a step closer to original WQuest, Silver Tower just didn't have the same Progression or Peril that I associate with it.

What worries me is this guy is in that picture.

This better not be a box that just re-uses old miniatures.

And I'd really hate it if the rules for this were different to the last game (ala Calth vs Prospero) making them incompatible.

Hopefully they will both be compatible so you would be able to swap around the heroes and monsters from both sets

Well gosh do I see a Putrid Blightking?!

I'm in for one set, or probably two, like with Silver Tower!

I do hope the new duardin, men and aelves are in this. That dwarf in pic could also be the cogsmith Damminson model. Hope not. But WQ is a great way to introduce new factions early. Color me excited!

 VeteranNoob wrote:
I do hope the new duardin, men and aelves are in this. That dwarf in pic could also be the cogsmith Damminson model. Hope not. But WQ is a great way to introduce new factions early. Color me excited!

Well, there does seem to be a high elf in the bottom right of the pic.

Uhh... great, looking at that artwork it's going to be existing minis rather than new ones.



So we've got:




(I think)
(... again! Jesus GW, you just re-released him in this)


So all existing models, some of which they've already released as Quest expansions.

No thanks.

Who cares, it'll have a bunch of cheap Nurgle guys.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Who cares...

I'm sure a lot of people don't fancy the idea of buying something they already own all over again.

Depending on what adversaries are in it, I'll be picking this up. I need a Lord Castellant for my Stormcast (plus Gryph-Hound as added bonus), I can use the Sorcerer as a Magister for my Disciples of Tzeentch.

What if it is just the card and the rules and it lets you play with any minis you have.
My first thought was yay more warhammer quest, then oh no old heroes, then yay proper campaign play with some more generic board tiles.
I'm definitely curious but the art dampened my excitement a notch.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Who cares...

I'm sure a lot of people don't fancy the idea of buying something they already own all over again.

But they'll have round bases. New content!

Out of all those characters, I only own the Castellant (Stormcast guy). And the Slaughterpriest. Don't care for any of the rest, but if its a good deal, I'll drop my money on it.

Cautiously optimistic about this. Mainly excited for new background on the setting and more involved narrative.

I own the Slaughter Priest, two of the Sorcerer, and the Dwarf Engineer.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Who cares...

I'm sure a lot of people don't fancy the idea of buying something they already own all over again.

Considering the article specifically said the game is still a ways off, we can say we don't know what characters are in it, if the sculpts or hero's are new or not or if the artwork is even a final choice. A bit early to be naysaying quite yet.

Then why draw something that has some very specific miniatures for it if that isn't the box art?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Then why draw something that has some very specific miniatures for it if that isn't the box art?

One piece of hype art doesn't require a lot of effort and, unless they say so, isn't indicative of the final content.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
A bit early to be naysaying quite yet.

I wouldn't call it naysaying.

I'm excited for this, but not as excited as I would be for new mini's from factions other than Stormcast. I think others are expressing the same.

It could be new sculpts for the miniatures. We shall see as we grow closer.

I have asked about new sculpts on Facebook as have many other people. No official answer yet.

I sincerely doubt we'll see new sculpts for the heroes that already have existing models, which is unfortunately most of what I'm seeing in that art.

I'd buy old models if the rules really expanded on the game. The Silver Tower was rather lacking. What good are great looking unique models if they never get used because the game had no longevity. Just my 2 cents, but I would really like a AoS pen and paper RPG.....

Is that the same slaughterpriest? It doesn't seem to have the tusks hanging over its shoulders, and the axe head is quite different.

Its almost the same pose as they gave the slaughterpriest in the gorechosen art, but details seem different.

I think reusing kits is an interesting (and not necessarily bad) idea, for GW. This isn't the new grand release of warhammer quest - it's a follow on product, and probably won't sell as well. It moves a lot of heroes (most of which will be new to most players) and some recent plastic kits (we see kairic acolytes and putrid blightkings, both of which are very nice plastic kits).

Strangest part of the art is that there's a mix of tzeentch, nurgle, and khorne baddies - there doesn't seem to be a coherent theme.

I wonder how the mechanics will change (lots of the silver tower rules were heavily tzeentch themed).

Given you can pick up the rules/tiles portion of the game for under $10 US on ebay, I wouldn't fret too much about having to buy existing miniatures.

Still not happy to see a big recycling of existing figures. Loved that ST introduced a bunch of new models/characters that didn't exist already.

This is awesome. I am hoping for much more generic dungeon tiles. I have quite a few of the models already but I can sell/convert the duplicates.

decker_cky wrote:
Is that the same slaughterpriest? It doesn't seem to have the tusks hanging over its shoulders, and the axe head is quite different.

Its almost the same pose as they gave the slaughterpriest in the gorechosen art, but details seem different.

I think reusing kits is an interesting (and not necessarily bad) idea, for GW. This isn't the new grand release of warhammer quest - it's a follow on product, and probably won't sell as well. It moves a lot of heroes (most of which will be new to most players) and some recent plastic kits (we see kairic acolytes and putrid blightkings, both of which are very nice plastic kits).

Strangest part of the art is that there's a mix of tzeentch, nurgle, and khorne baddies - there doesn't seem to be a coherent theme.

I wonder how the mechanics will change (lots of the silver tower rules were heavily tzeentch themed).

His tusks are still there, same guy. Axe head also looks the same. Do you have a photo of this different one?