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Painting the faces like masks could work for some of the ones wearing helmets. But the majority of the heads are just bald heads, and there's no point in which the faces could conceivably be painted like it was intended to be a mask imo. Especially since some are actually shouting, not just grinning.

I will get helmets for my OBR deathlings. Hate those heads tbh!

Vampires on pre-order next week - and a new starter set?

Well, a cheap starter for places like Barnes and Noble, I imagine.. similar to Dreadfane.

While I have no interest in the Stormcast, getting the cards and models for a Nightgaunt warband would be nice.. does the board look like the Dreadfane one rereleased again?

I am curious.. "The Essential Cards Pack, a selection of 60 universal cards to customise your decks with. "

would that be new cards, older cards that fell out of rotation, or cards that have been rebalanced, I wonder.

 Dysartes wrote:
Vampires on pre-order next week - and a new starter set?

It was previewed a while ago. I don’t see the point in it seeing as every season gets its own starter.

The wording used sounds like the essential pack will be reprints - "If you began your journey into the Underworlds after Shadespire, there’s sure to be something for you in the pack."
You'd think they'd throw in a some new cards too though, just to get a few more sales.

Hoping for a good price on the starter. And no, please do not let it be one of those sodding Barnes&Noble only products....

Pretty sure they said the new starter is going to be for general sale and not planned to be rotating out, no interest in the warbands but it is nice to have the Nightvault boards legal again.

Thank goodness for that. Been waiting to jump on the Underworlds band wagon for a while now!

Glad to finally have a chance to pick up those vampires.

I just wish there was a bigger market for single figures online. I was able to pick up the axe guy from the Nurgle warband, but I don't think I'll be lucky enough to find the bald mace vamp.

 GaroRobe wrote:

I just wish there was a bigger market for single figures online. I was able to pick up the axe guy from the Nurgle warband, but I don't think I'll be lucky enough to find the bald mace vamp.

Can't you be the supplier yourself?

If you buy a warband and sell off the cards and the models you don't want separately, I'd imagine you wouldn't have paid too much for the model(s) you did want.

The video confirms the essentials deck has some brand new cards.

SamusDrake wrote:
Hoping for a good price on the starter. And no, please do not let it be one of those sodding Barnes&Noble only products....

It is indeed just the new starter so will be constant stock, and available everywhere.
The point being it won’t need to be tied by seasons, as it has no universals, so can stick around as seasons go on (assuming we get 5 and onwards of course)

 DaveC wrote:
The video confirms the essentials deck has some brand new cards.

I heard this too. However, Can U Roll A ! said this was an error and no new cards will be in the pack.

SamusDrake wrote:
Hoping for a good price on the starter. And no, please do not let it be one of those sodding Barnes&Noble only products....

It's nice to see a region exclusive that isn't uk specific.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

SamusDrake wrote:
Hoping for a good price on the starter. And no, please do not let it be one of those sodding Barnes&Noble only products....

It's nice to see a region exclusive that isn't uk specific.

Why?
Given the choice between the existence of region-exclusive products of which I could access some and miss out on others, or the complete absence of any region-exclusive products, I'd rather see the latter.
If you don't like missing out on products that are UK-exclusive, surely you wouldn't want others to miss out on USA-exclusives either?

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

SamusDrake wrote:
Hoping for a good price on the starter. And no, please do not let it be one of those sodding Barnes&Noble only products....

It's nice to see a region exclusive that isn't uk specific.

As if 90% of them weren't USA only for some reason

Still waiting for that Balkans and East Erurope region exculsive if you're talking about fairness.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

SamusDrake wrote:
Hoping for a good price on the starter. And no, please do not let it be one of those sodding Barnes&Noble only products....

It's nice to see a region exclusive that isn't uk specific.

Not sure what to say on this one as I live in the UK and no idea what the situation is like for other countries - save for our friends in Australia, who are hit by horrendous prices. For what its worth I'd like to think that fellow players, no matter their location, are enjoying the same content that we in the UK have access to, and for what is reasonable in their currency.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

SamusDrake wrote:
Hoping for a good price on the starter. And no, please do not let it be one of those sodding Barnes&Noble only products....

It's nice to see a region exclusive that isn't uk specific.

It really isn't. Exclusives are not "nice", no matter the place they're locked to.

That said, most exclusives I've seen so far have been US exclusives so... yeah. "Nice". Very "nice".

it makes sense, the US has the most consoomer base.

 Zywus wrote:

 GaroRobe wrote:

I just wish there was a bigger market for single figures online. I was able to pick up the axe guy from the Nurgle warband, but I don't think I'll be lucky enough to find the bald mace vamp.

Can't you be the supplier yourself?

If you buy a warband and sell off the cards and the models you don't want separately, I'd imagine you wouldn't have paid too much for the model(s) you did want.

I've thought about it. Same with the Barnes and Noble exclusive games that have the exclusive Blackstone fortress models (Crusader, primaris psyker, etc.) Though those models are sold online, I think it'd be hard to break even. As for the underworld one, one or two members from a warband will be popular, but you'll be left with a surplus of less popular models (like the majority of the bonereapers, some of the normal skinks, etc.) But its worth considering lol

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

SamusDrake wrote:
Hoping for a good price on the starter. And no, please do not let it be one of those sodding Barnes&Noble only products....

It's nice to see a region exclusive that isn't uk specific.

As if 90% of them weren't USA only for some reason

Still waiting for that Balkans and East Erurope region exculsive if you're talking about fairness.

I'd be all for an Australia/ NZ exclusive Catachan Devil model. And Japan gets the initial run and some exclusives for the SM heroes series.

Just going over preorder prices in the Titanicus thread, but the Starter set looks like £35.

I can't say I'm too familiar with the Von Carnsteins from Fantasy, but I like that these cards show the AOS vampires can turn into mist and wolves, a la Dracula

 DaveC wrote:
new 2 player starter set

I've been looking, but I haven't been able to find a definitive answer - and I've completely lost track with all of these Stormcast warbands - Are these two gangs/warbands new to Underworlds, or repacked from earlier releases?

They are new to Underworlds yes.
They are old ETB kits from when AoS released 2.0

 Azazelx wrote:

 DaveC wrote:
new 2 player starter set

I've been looking, but I haven't been able to find a definitive answer - and I've completely lost track with all of these Stormcast warbands - Are these two gangs/warbands new to Underworlds, or repacked from earlier releases?

They should be brand new with only their models recycled from the AoS ETB sets. This will be my first introduction to the game but I've not seen them before in Underworlds.

Cool - thank you guys - I knew I was somewhat familiar with the models but where they came from was the question

The Vampires have the most fun and unique mechanic so far. Their base uninspired stat is probably the best in the game. With bloodthirst acting as a pseudo-inspire state for the fighters. Although both took a while to kick in.

Just confirming that the new starter is actually £40.