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Can someone explain to me what the tiles represent? I don't know nothing about the previous game. The tiles don't look like the ground to me, so what is it?

Davor wrote:
Can someone explain to me what the tiles represent? I don't know nothing about the previous game. The tiles don't look like the ground to me, so what is it?

It's the Silver Tower of Tzeentch, that should tell you why they look like that!

Still undecided on this one. Minis are cool but there is way too many duplicates. I really like the dice allocations mechanism, but no campaign rules is a big minus. Also, it is scenario based, so i wonder how good the replayability will be.

 streetsamurai wrote:
Still undecided on this one. Minis are cool but there is way too many duplicates. I really like the dice allocations mechanism, but no campaign rules is a big minus. Also, it is scenario based, so i wonder how good the replayability will be.

They said you won't see everything in a single run through of the campaign due to the pseudo-adventure book element.

Now, what they means for actual replayability I don't know. But what I do know is that it'll last at least 9 sessions with my friends. And that works for me.

9 games through the main campaign, and at that point you'll be ready to come up with custom scenarios (one as the DM with a preset dungeon for example) and your own advancement mechanic (wouldn't be hard to make). Put something together really neat and you might get an official plug from the Facebook like SCGT did.

I cannot wait to get this...

But I have to :-(

I have not read a single bad impression from people who played the game.

Yeah, i know, there is a lot of negative reviews from people who didnt.

Well, call me crazy, but i tend to believe in reviews of people who tried a product.

That said, even tho i love dcs, even tho this one looks amazing, even tho it has some really nice twists on gameplay, im still not sold on it.

I can live with progression based on skills and gears, not stats, but it seems that will have no porgression between expansions.

That is a dealbreaker for me :(

Found another post on war of sigmar during one of the articles for warhammer fest this is one another one that caught my eye.

"Jervis Johnson, been with Games Workshop since the beginning of time and current game designer and long term strategy manager. He created Bloodbowl and Heroquest as well as being heavily involved in the creation of 40k, Epic and Necromunda. He also has been involved in the points development for AOS and met guys like Dan Heelan to discuss taking AOS forward.

....he's just so happy to chat about Age of Sigmar, he mentioned that he felt they had made errors initially with the launch but that the direction that it's moving in now is really positive and that he's really happy in how GW themselves are reaching out now to the community.

He was very aware of the salt and backlash it had received from a number of fantasy fans, he thought though that in recent months the attitude of the company had very much changed for the positive and it in turn was turning positive with fans.
He also said there were plans already on a 4-5 year scale regarding storylines!"


I say the future is going to be more interesting in terms of releases, new sylvaneth, summer campaign and the slaanesh update that's coming in the future. *sigh* If only Kevin was here before ;/ oh well that's the past.

Feels like Jervis is spot on there! Always good to hear from the man himself.

I'm going back and forth on this one. I like the models, especially that beastmen are getting different "flavors" as it were instead of goats. I also like the "self-contained game" thing GW is doing of late.

Where it falls flatter in comparison to 40k's offerings is that there's no other place to use the models given that I have no interest in AoS as a whole and the models look ill-suited to a base conversion to squares. Doesn't mean the game can't be fun on its own, but I think it does move it from "buy it when it comes out" to "see where there's a decent price in a few weeks and buy it then."

It was surreal meeting him in person. He was just sat there with a copy open next to him chatting away to people. Very down to earth. He mentioned Advanced Heroquest before I did. Was surprised by the love the announced of Silver Tower got. He said he has to love doing a project for it be right. And even then he has to consider will people like the product too. Clearly thinks a lot of about what he does. An evident enthusiasm for it, even after all these years.

 Bottle wrote:

I cannot wait to get this...

But I have to :-(

Sadly I have to wait as well. Good thing it's not a limited release so should be able to pick it up in the near future hopefully. Would have been nice to get this extra cards and what not you got for pre-ordering. Still at least we can pick it up at a later time.

Next week's box set containing the knight Venator, slaughter priest, auric rune master and Tzeentch sorceror is $55 €45 £35. That is just under half the price of buying them individually. Not bad!

Really? Half off for all those guys? Guess I'll be getting one as well...

Heck, the Knight Venator is almost the entire cost of the box alone. You could probably get 2 boxes if you want to make both flying knights, and sell off all the other figures and probably come out ahead in terms of cash!

Wow. Bundle character packs a la Start Collecting is fantastic.

Chikout wrote:
Next week's box set containing the knight Venator, slaughter priest, auric rune master and Tzeentch sorceror is $55 €45 £35. That is just under half the price of buying them individually. Not bad!

Do we know if there's anything in the box set besides the four characters and their cards in the box? Any more treasure, etc...?

Chikout wrote:
Next week's box set containing the knight Venator, slaughter priest, auric rune master and Tzeentch sorceror is $55 €45 £35. That is just under half the price of buying them individually. Not bad!

now that is a discount

Unfortunately it seems it is just the minis. A bit of a missed opportunity, but you can't complain too much at that price.

Everything will be in the app.

In the app you can roll dice, track wounds, skills, progress, etc.

The idea being a friend can bring the app and hero to play Silver Tower.

sadysaneto wrote:
I have not read a single bad impression from people who played the game.

Yeah, i know, there is a lot of negative reviews from people who didnt.

And a fair amount of people complaining about how it's not exactly like the original - yet have no experience with the original. (Which is very obvious, as the original is a painful chore to play and the roleplay book is horribly broken and unplaytested)


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 shinros wrote:
"Jervis Johnson,..... He created Bloodbowl and Heroquest

No, Heroquest was designed by Stephen Baker.

Chikout wrote:
Next week's box set containing the knight Venator, slaughter priest, auric rune master and Tzeentch sorceror is $55 €45 £35. That is just under half the price of buying them individually. Not bad!

While I am all for complimenting GW on their recent turn, and this is certainly part of that, its worth noting that those characters were ludicrously overpriced to start with. I see this bundle more as bringing them into the price range they should have started at. Again though, still a good turn.

The character bundle looks like a good deal. The stormcast guy is $40 alone I think.

I'm still torn with the game though, would be great to have but with so many projects going on I just don't think I'd ever get around to painting anything in it, and I rarely get time to play stuff these days. I'll probably cave and order before the week is out though, I usually do.

 judgedoug wrote:

sadysaneto wrote:
I have not read a single bad impression from people who played the game.

Yeah, i know, there is a lot of negative reviews from people who didnt.

And a fair amount of people complaining about how it's not exactly like the original - yet have no experience with the original. (Which is very obvious, as the original is a painful chore to play and the roleplay book is horribly broken and unplaytested)


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 shinros wrote:
"Jervis Johnson,..... He created Bloodbowl and Heroquest

No, Heroquest was designed by Stephen Baker.

It's not my comment I was not around during the original warhammer quest so I have no idea who made it first or who was involved in making it. All I posted was a comment I found on war of sigmar with a picture of shaking Jervis hand all I am interested is that the company seems to be changing direction. Honestly I took that line was maybe he was involved in its creation? But you know how people say things.

Anyone willing to part with a Slaughterpriest, then? Clampack heroes should be below 15 € again, though 10 at most would be best. Crom, a special character, was 9.95 on release, just saw it in an old WD. It helps that GW is doing cheaper bundles to get away from their cuckoo prices, but I bet simply lowering them would hwlp qzite a bit.

Jervis, well, he seems like a nice guy, but he seems to be one of the driving forces between dumbing down as well.

n/m

Saw the pic.

sadysaneto wrote:

Chikout wrote:
Next week's box set containing the knight Venator, slaughter priest, auric rune master and Tzeentch sorceror is $55 €45 £35. That is just under half the price of buying them individually. Not bad!

now that is a discount

That's a hell of a good deal. A Knight-Venator alone is $40.


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Chikout wrote:
Unfortunately it seems it is just the minis. A bit of a missed opportunity, but you can't complain too much at that price.

That's not a huge deal for it to not include the rules. The actual boxed game includes the rules for those characters.

Well that's a bonus, was thinking of getting the Slaughter priest as a random encounter.. will be picking up one of those packs for certain.

I thought the cards for those 4 were only preorder bonuses, no?

If they're already in the box itself, regardless of when you purchase it, then that's a pretty cool deal.

I can justify the cost of this box, whereas I certainly could not for a single Stormcast Knight.

And a fair amount of people complaining about how it's not exactly like the original - yet have no experience with the original. (Which is very obvious, as the original is a painful chore to play and the roleplay book is horribly broken and unplaytested)

It had its negative points like nearly every other game under the sun, but horribly broken?

No way.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I thought the cards for those 4 were only preorder bonuses, no?

If they're already in the box itself, regardless of when you purchase it, then that's a pretty cool deal.

I can justify the cost of this box, whereas I certainly could not for a single Stormcast Knight.

The rules for those four heroes are included in the rulebook.
The fact that the pre-order/swag cards were holo-foil was the only exclusive thing about them.

That's a great price for the expansion box. It seems that GW realise their prices are getting a bit much and are using cheap combo deals to sweeten the deal for sales. Pity they had to use that derpy imho old Tzeentch sorcerer though.