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I might be jumping the gun here, since they only came out today, but have any of you had any thoughts about decks for the two new Shadespire warbands?

I've got the Orks waiting for me when I get home from work. Really looking forward to sorting out the commons to get a handle on the options, but lately I've just been slapping every available card into my deck and using the luck of the draw to see how different cards affect the game for me. I've definitely got some earmarked favorites, but I think its too early to define my 10/10/12. I'll probably run back to the shop and pick up Death just so I can do some deckbuilding with everything at my disposal.

I bought the Orcs today. I was a little surprised there was no 'hold objective #' cards in their packs at all. Going through the cards briefly, I wondered if you are meant to have the base starter set to have access to these. If so, it's a bit gak.
I may be wrong, the Orcs may do fine with what they have in their pack. Can anyone say if they've tried Orc pack only objective cards vs Stormcast or Chaos?

They're definitely "expansions." I'm pretty sure the intent is that you'd have the core box, since you'd kinda need that for the boards and dice and tokens and rules anyway. The extra warband packs do not appear to be intended to "stand on their own."

 Gimgamgoo wrote:
I bought the Orcs today. I was a little surprised there was no 'hold objective #' cards in their packs at all. Going through the cards briefly, I wondered if you are meant to have the base starter set to have access to these. If so, it's a bit gak.
I may be wrong, the Orcs may do fine with what they have in their pack. Can anyone say if they've tried Orc pack only objective cards vs Stormcast or Chaos?

The game's business model is based on the idea that you'll want to buy every single warband/expansion because all of them contain new cards, including new neutral cards.

That said, the orcs seem to excel at using the objective cards that reward them for keeping the enemy off their board section. Their damage can be lacklustre but they're great at simply beating people back.

There's two objectives that grant a decent reward if you end the game with no enemies on your half. There's also objectives that reward you for being in his half.

You can built a pretty good deck around setting the board up with a bottle neck, denying the enemy entry to your board, then invade his board.

Players are most definitely meant to have the core set, at least at this point. One of the key elements of game set up is each player choosing a board from their own collection to play on. So far boards are only available in the core set. The same goes for tokens, as mentioned above.

Yeah, you essentially need a core set, but realistically if someone just wants a specific warband they can get away with borrowing a few things from an opponent who does. The basic hold objective cards are far from necessary. They might even be sub-optimal.

So far from the Tournament scene the hold objective cards aren't really used.

Most armies can do quite without them, and the Orruks really do quite well without needing to hold land.