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Material is the same they have used for all their current minis. All the Imperial assault material is the same as this game.

As for the game, it goes pretty fast. the game is also standard 8 turns. Its very objective based.

Everything I hear about this game gets me more hyped for it! I'll check out the video when I get time.

The golem especially was beautiful in person at Gencon.

When will it released? January 2017?

 agnosto wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Do we know the prices or materials of the minis yet?

Starter will be $100 for 48 miniatures and other accessories. Haven't seen the material.

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/runewars-the-miniatures-game/products/runewars-miniatures-game/

I'm with Doug on the discount issue, then. For 30% or more off, I'd be pretty tempted. At 10% off, I remember all those unassembled Mantic minis I have that I should really get around to first... And that's assuming the minis look fine unpainted and come in a decent material with good casting quality--conditions that are far from given. If they have a set for just the humans, or just specific units I'm interested in, and their prices are similar to the starter, that would be a pleasant and astonishing surprise.

When I hear "Fantasy Flight Games" my first thought is "one dinky figure and a crapload of tokens/cards/tiles to justify the obnoxious pricing", so I'm not very optimistic about this.


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Actually, the human faction really does it for me. Is there anyone in the Orange County area who would be interested in splitting a starter 50-50 on costs who would want the undead minis? You can have the chits, tokens, proprietary dice, tiles, rulebooks and pamphlets, too.

Miniature market has a pre order discount of 15 percent.

http://www.miniaturemarket.com/ffgrwm01.html


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Bob, that price might encourage a 50/50 purchase for you.

RazorEdge wrote:
When will it released? January 2017?

As of now its Quarter 1 of next year so Jan, Feb, or March

I am thinking the human faction are a bit Warcrafty for my personal tastes, but I reckon that I could make use of them, by either giving them head swaps to be evil versions of themselves (Frostgrave Cultist heads would work perfectly), or painting the armour in a dark, dull grey (Coat D'armes Iron Grey, something like that) for a less high fantasy, heavy infantry look.

Skellies look good. It's hard to make skeleton minis I don't like, though, to be fair. As long as they have a bit of a Jason and the Argonauts vibe, I am good. They're just so much fun to paint too. Really rewarding for very little effort!

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

Actually, the human faction really does it for me. Is there anyone in the Orange County area who would be interested in splitting a starter 50-50 on costs who would want the undead minis? You can have the chits, tokens, proprietary dice, tiles, rulebooks and pamphlets, too.

I like them as well and I usually avoid fantasy humans. To me these look like the Mantic Basilians should have if they had been sculpted without ballista-bolt spears and produced without ape arms.

I'm not an early adopter so I see me picking up a stater when Miniature Market has it on sale for 20% off or something later down the road.

Ernster wrote:
Miniature market has a pre order discount of 15 percent.

http://www.miniaturemarket.com/ffgrwm01.html


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Bob, that price might encourage a 50/50 purchase for you.

That is 5% more palatable. Thanks!

Of course, I'm assuming the figure numbers are roughly even. If there are only a dozen or so humans in the box, I'll need to rethink my strategy.


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Agnostic, that's what appeals to me about them. They also look a little bit like Confrontation: Age of Ragnarok minis in style.

That BOW video is showing the game with what comes in the core set. I think it was something like a unit of 16 humans and similar amount of undeads with bows. 4 human cavalry and 1 big undead worm thing, a troll thingy and a few characters. Looked like a decent starting size for both sides and I agree they would work good for Baseleans.

after watching the videos I'm more interested, but I think I would also want to wait and see if I can get it a little cheaper and also see what the reviews are like after it's been released and they start adding in more new releases so there will be more variety. They say you should buy 2 starter sets to get a full army for each, but I don't like doing that.. good for troops I guess but for some reason I always hate having more than 1 unique character mini. that's why I didn't buy 2 copies of AoS

As far as I understand what they've been showing is the contents of the core box.

Human Hero, Golem, 4 knights, 16 spearmen.

Undead Hero, Carrion Rider, 16 skeletons, 8 skeleton archers.

Which tallies with the product page:

Finally, with forty-eight beautifully sculpted, unpainted figures

 Sqorgar wrote:

 Kriswall wrote:
My experiences with FFG have been overwhelmingly positive.

Star Wars X-Wing - love it
Star Wars Armada - love it
Descent 2nd Edition - love it
Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition - love it
Arkham Horror - love it
Elder Sign - love it
Warhammer Quest Card Game - love it
Warhammer 40k Conquest - love it
Star Wars Imperial Assualt - love the Skirmish option, Campaign option gets boring after you've killed your hundredth Storm Trooper

In short, I have high expectations for RuneWars. FFG has demonstrated a capacity to write tight rule sets that lend themselves to both competitive and casual play. The rules are typically easy to learn and are FAQ'd as needed.

Well... eventually. I mean, of the games you've listed, many of them are second editions, fixed in an expansion, or are gameplay sequels to other games. Imperial Assault is great, but it's the fourth game in the series (DOOM, Descent, Descent 2E, IA). By now, it'd better be great. I like that FFG keep refining good ideas into great ideas, but their first editions games are noticeably inferior.

RWM builds off of X-Wing in many ways, but it is also FFG's first try at a hobbyist miniatures game. Their LCGs are a well oiled machine now, but it took a few years to get it right. It's going to have some hiccups and flaws. After a year or two though, it should be pretty great.

Only needing 2 editions to perfect the rules? That's a damn sight better than another company that we could all name

I thought we saw pictures of three or four human heroes. Are they not included?

They showed off wave 1 unit attachments (and maybe extra heroes) for both factions at Gencon, which is probably what you're thinking of.

They're going to come in separate boxes/blisters.

Has anyone put together a full list of the Wave 1 previews? I've seen random pictures, but no comprehensive list.

From the Gen Con Pictures we have seen, I guess Wave 1 will be:

-Starter Set

-Skeleton Warriors Set
-Skeleton Archer Set
-Skeleton Unit Foot Command Blister
-Skeleton Lich(?) Character Blister
-Skeleton Necromancer Character Blister

-Human Spearmen Set
-Human Knights Set
-Human Unit Foot Command Blister
-Human Knights Command Blister
-Human Lord Character Blister
-Human Wizard Character Blister

I love the look. Depending on price I will grab a lot of this.

 Thunderfrog wrote:
I love the look. Depending on price I will grab a lot of this.

The starter is $100 (before ubiquitous discount) for rules, templates, etc and 48 miniatures.

What if FFG produced all of the minis in HIPS (same hard plastic GW use)? That would be a real game changer. Most of the minis look like they could be multipart plastic with pegs.

Extremely unlikely, but a man can dream right?

That would be cool but I think they will probably want to make it more accessible to their usual board game customers too, so I'm expecting the minis to be all pre-built and ready to play right out of the box and you can just paint them if you want to.

FFG allready said there will be multipart models. I guess we will see single part models on sprues for units and multipart sprues for characters.

RazorEdge wrote:
FFG allready said there will be multipart models. I guess we will see single part models on sprues for units and multipart sprues for characters.

The gentlemen who ran the full demo for Team Covenant confirmed on the FFG Forums:

no sprues -- figures do require assembly but are more snap together with a bit of glue. The look of the minis thus far seems to confirm that.

the starter box armies weigh in at around 100 points. Standard size game will be 200 points (including all upgrade cards).

Play surface is 3' x 6'

The female Character from the Starter Set has a special rule which allow her Player to field one (non unique) Unit from the Elves faction.

RazorEdge wrote:
The female Character from the Starter Set has a special rule which allow her Player to field one (non unique) Unit from the Elves faction.

Yes, it is indeed nice to know what one of the upcoming factions will be. Now, if we can only spot a similar ability for the Undead.

I'm looking forward to seeing what races/factions will eventually be available. Since it's based on the same universe as Descent, I hope to see demons and a beastman faction.

I'm kinda hoping there will be a way to use your descent minis & heroes and stuff. I guess the descent minis won't be as detailed, but would be nice to have some crossover fun.

 Necros wrote:
I'm kinda hoping there will be a way to use your descent minis & heroes and stuff. I guess the descent minis won't be as detailed, but would be nice to have some crossover fun.

Somehow I doubt it but it'd be cool and a nice stop-gap while they fill-out the new line.

 Shrapnelsmile wrote:

RazorEdge wrote:
The female Character from the Starter Set has a special rule which allow her Player to field one (non unique) Unit from the Elves faction.

Yes, it is indeed nice to know what one of the upcoming factions will be. Now, if we can only spot a similar ability for the Undead.

Doubtful.

Elves and humans yea. Undead and Uthuk Y’llan I don't see being allies. But who knows. There are also tons of orcs so could be faction number 5.


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 Necros wrote:
I'm kinda hoping there will be a way to use your descent minis & heroes and stuff. I guess the descent minis won't be as detailed, but would be nice to have some crossover fun.

Well the undead hero in the starter is a boss in Descent. But I doubt they will have it so you can use either. They don't have holdes in the bases so you either snip the peg or leave it as it

Aren't the Descent minis slightly smaller than 28mm? Or am I misremembering this?

I have Battlelore 2.0, and those are smaller. Maybe I'm thinking of that game...?