ImAGeek wrote:

 pancakeonions wrote:
Hmm. Could we start another thread where we discuss AoS specific stuff that's not related to Warhammer Quest? It's hard to filter back and forth. No interest in AoS, but super keen on WHQ.

Thanks!

Well really if there was gonna be a separate thread it should be for WHQ, seeing as this is the General AoS rumour thread.

 pancakeonions wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 pancakeonions wrote:
Hmm. Could we start another thread where we discuss AoS specific stuff that's not related to Warhammer Quest? It's hard to filter back and forth. No interest in AoS, but super keen on WHQ.

Thanks!

Well really if there was gonna be a separate thread it should be for WHQ, seeing as this is the General AoS rumour thread.

LOL, you're probably right, as AoS is GW's parent game...! But I'm here for the WHQ stuff.

Hey, if anyone has the rules handy, what other creatures are in the bestiary that are not included as figures? I know we've seen pics of the Flamers and Screamers. Are there other monsters, or just those two?

 timetowaste85 wrote:
People are popping into the Warhammerfest news threads and saying the game is fun. So...that meeplemart guy is making himself look a wee bit foolish by providing no info about why he disliked it and won't get as much in. Glad I have my copy reserved, will be buying it on Sunday (out of town Saturday).

Spiky Norman wrote:

Binabik15 wrote:

Speaking of bits/bitz, still looking for advice on a witch hunter conversion now that the Militia kit is gone. I thought maybe a Skitari as a foundation for the cloak, but they're so scifi that I might be just as fast sculpting him from scratch. Where's the kitbash fun in that, though.

Maybe I misunderstand what you're aiming for, but why not use the GW Witch Hunter model straight out the pack?
Or if you don't like that one, then maybe the 40k Inquisitor with power sword and inferno pistol. That one can also be used as is in a fantasy setting, or you can clip the weapons easily and replace them with something else.

Binabik15 wrote:

Spiky Norman wrote:

Binabik15 wrote:

Speaking of bits/bitz, still looking for advice on a witch hunter conversion now that the Militia kit is gone. I thought maybe a Skitari as a foundation for the cloak, but they're so scifi that I might be just as fast sculpting him from scratch. Where's the kitbash fun in that, though.

Maybe I misunderstand what you're aiming for, but why not use the GW Witch Hunter model straight out the pack?
Or if you don't like that one, then maybe the 40k Inquisitor with power sword and inferno pistol. That one can also be used as is in a fantasy setting, or you can clip the weapons easily and replace them with something else.

Using stock models for small games is boring! (Is it even legal to own unconverted minitures?)

And while he is a nice model he is both Finecast and a bit too much of a fop compared to the gritty bastards that were the Mordheim witch hunters or Matthias Thulmann. The 40k Inquisitor is a bit played out as a conversion project.

FINDING A GAME wrote:
Anyone that played the game today care to give a quick review?
Much appreciated

Warp Rider wrote:

I'll try my best! So the overall length was a good four hours but we had a good long break half way and a few people swapping out, so on average you are looking about two hours.

Rules are simple, learned them within my first turn. It encourages to play a continous campaign and can be played solo (tzeentch stuff is played by whoever has the token after everyone has had their turn). Each character plays different such as playing aggresive with the fyreslayer or ranged with the elf. Also the further you play, the more items you have earned can carry over into subsequent scenarios.

It is cooperative and a load of fun so I am looking forward to the addition of other characters and hopefully more boards. Hope you find this of some use!

FINDING A GAME wrote:

Warp Rider wrote:

I'll try my best! So the overall length was a good four hours but we had a good long break half way and a few people swapping out, so on average you are looking about two hours.

Rules are simple, learned them within my first turn. It encourages to play a continous campaign and can be played solo (tzeentch stuff is played by whoever has the token after everyone has had their turn). Each character plays different such as playing aggresive with the fyreslayer or ranged with the elf. Also the further you play, the more items you have earned can carry over into subsequent scenarios.

It is cooperative and a load of fun so I am looking forward to the addition of other characters and hopefully more boards. Hope you find this of some use!

Thank you

Is the Behaviour Table diferent for each monster?

 ShaneTB wrote:
Ha. Brian's fried so yes or no answers would be better right now...

I enjoyed it. Each turn you roll your four dice and place them in the squares of your character card. You then use these against action costs to activate them. So moving is a 1+. An ability might need a 4+. At the end of the round any monsters then react according to a random table (per monster). Exploring brings up a new tile from the deck.

There's also an adventure book element. On the final card you read X paragraph from X page. The aim is to collect the eight secret pieces - each one in a separate realm with its own special rules. This is the campaign.

More to it than that but there's the basics.

I can see a lot of modern boardgame influence in it. Was super easy to pick up.

And I am in love with the little fish familar. She is a stunner.


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Oh, and when there are no monsters you get respite. You heal and can move to anywhere on the board (i.e. regroup).

Oh, each hero has four wounds. These are your dice slots. So when you take a wound a skull token goes on a square. So you're down to three dice. Then two. So you get considerably weaker each hit.


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Oh, and rules for other heroes in the app are for "plastic" heroes.


...Brian? I meant brain. Possibly called Brian, who knows.

 NTRabbit wrote:


Worth reading

 pancakeonions wrote:
Here's another "first impressions" thread:

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1575561/first-impressions

 NTRabbit wrote:
Actually I believe they're trying to make sure they don't have a stack of unsold games they need to flip for peanuts on ebay just to minimise the loss, as happened to the AoS starter practically everywhere, and the Calth box here and there

 NTRabbit wrote:
Actually I believe they're trying to make sure they don't have a stack of unsold games they need to flip for peanuts on ebay just to minimise the loss, as happened to the AoS starter practically everywhere, and the Calth box here and there

 Mymearan wrote:

 NTRabbit wrote:


Worth reading

Almost missed this... Completely idiotic to talk about a product you sell in this way. Personally I wouldn't shop at a store that pulls a stunt like this, no matter which product they were talking down. All they do is ensure people who actually want this will be getting it someplace else.

 chiefbigredman wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:

 NTRabbit wrote:


Worth reading

Almost missed this... Completely idiotic to talk about a product you sell in this way. Personally I wouldn't shop at a store that pulls a stunt like this, no matter which product they were talking down. All they do is ensure people who actually want this will be getting it someplace else.

Hmm that's so weird that they posted that. I've heard of meeplemart before (good things) so it's strange that they are saying negative things about it.
I guess we can just wait and see!

I do agree with people saying maybe it's so they don't over order (I.e Age of Sigmar)

FINDING A GAME wrote:
Anyone that played the game today care to give a quick review?
Much appreciated

 Azazelx wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:

I despise that word, "entitled", it's such a load of BS and is always deployed to shut down criticism that can't otherwise be refuted.

Almost everything about the way GW are pushing nu-WHQ is based on evoking the nostalgia people have for the original game, and even if it were not GW would have to be literally deaf, dumb, blind, and clinically stupid not to recognise that evoking a brand with a strong emotional component to it IS going to create expectations - it's their job, literally their job, to manage those expectations effectively. If they're incapable of effectively communicating to people what the product they're selling is, that's their problem and it's total horse manure to lay the blame for the fallout of that failure on the heads of potential customers.

If GW were to next "bring back" Mordheim using Mordheim's branding, talk about returning a "classic", repeatedly reference the original in their marketing etc, then you're damn right they would be responsible for creating an expectation that what people would be getting would be close enough to the original to justify such close comparison. If the resulting product wasn't set in Mordheim, had none of the factions of Mordheim, and completely dropped the complex post-game sequence for a much simplified system that barely met the definition of campaign progression, then calling people who react badly to the total disconnect between the product on-offer and the product "sold" to them by the marketing "entitled" is just petty trolling.

It's been done before, and examples were given here as well. Space Hulk was changed between editions. Rogue Trader, 40k 2nd Edition and 40k 3rd Edition are distinct, and different games to what came before. Especially 3rd. WHQ was a long time ago, and it having new/changed rules is a very reasonable thing. I actually missed out on the original, and didn't want to pay $400 on eBay so was looking forward to a straight re-release, but... I'll still take this, since it looks good on its own merits.

I've been following this thread without commenting, and aside from the obvious question (Why is a GW standalone Fantasy boardgame release thread bizarrely embedded into an AoS thread, despite being it's own thing - unlike DW:O, or Renegade, or even piddly little Last Patrol??) It seems that you're mostly here for a fight, since you appear fixated on having the same pointless circular argument about it not being a straight re-release of the 21-year old original. Are you the same poster who mentioned that you had major issues with the ridiculous pantomimes embedded in the legacy model rules when AoS came out due to ASD-specific discomfort? That's a serious question, asked deadpan with no emotion or judgement embedded in it.