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Chopstick wrote:
Yeah, I feel like as more expansion come out, the Hold objective card will become more irrelevant and be replaced with more reliable objectives card.

Depends. Inspired Khorne models move 5, which is huge and can easily snag you that one objective you need to win, and also protect you from charges since most opponents can't match that speed. I'm also expecting Skaven and Fyreslayers to be more on the fast side, and maybe Vanguard Stormcast as well. Khorne Blood Warriors will probably be slow though.

Check this out. A card database is coming for Shadespire. On the Facebook page they said an app is also on the way.

I've been curious about just taking 2-3 of the generic objective cards instead of all 5. I find them very useful overall, but during a game I usually end up pitching 2-3 of them and only scoring the opportune ones. The objective switching card seems very capable of facilitating this.

 LunarSol wrote:
I've been curious about just taking 2-3 of the generic objective cards instead of all 5. I find them very useful overall, but during a game I usually end up pitching 2-3 of them and only scoring the opportune ones. The objective switching card seems very capable of facilitating this.

The problem is which would you take? The objectives are randomized at the beginning of the game, so if you just take 2-3 card, you risk all the objectives you have cards for being in your opponents zone. I would think an all-or-nothing approach would be better. Either take all 5 objective cards or none. Just my $.02 on the matter.

With Shardcaller you can swap objectives every phase, pretty much a must-take if you're including a lot of objective cards imo!

Can't wait for that deck building app

Picked up the Skellies today, lovely models, nice sturdy plastic even for such thin figures and the assembly looks dead easy. What really struck me though was how nicely presented they are; it's great to have artwork back on the boxes after the last few years of just product pics on there.

My local game store has not received a shipment yet... pretty bummed honestly. Im told probably not until this weekend.

I've never really been an Ork/Orc/Orruk fan, but man Ironskull's Boyz seem pretty cool.

Played our first game last night. Seemed to flow quite well. I played the Reavers and my opponent the Stormcast.

I killed off one of his Stormcast every turn, and it seemed like I had a huge advantage in terms of being able to attack first and do damage, but in the end I only won 6 glory to 5, thanks to some clever scoring by my opponent.

I think we got some bits wrong, but we were playing just after our "main" game to end the night. Playing again next week, so will lock it down then.

Overall though I thought it was a very good game. I need to play more to give it a real score, but I'm on a cautious 9/10

 Pete Melvin wrote:
Played our first game last night. Seemed to flow quite well. I played the Reavers and my opponent the Stormcast.

I killed off one of his Stormcast every turn, and it seemed like I had a huge advantage in terms of being able to attack first and do damage, but in the end I only won 6 glory to 5, thanks to some clever scoring by my opponent.

I think we got some bits wrong, but we were playing just after our "main" game to end the night. Playing again next week, so will lock it down then.

Overall though I thought it was a very good game. I need to play more to give it a real score, but I'm on a cautious 9/10

He must have had bad dice luck and or you good luck.

Since stormcast always finishes set up first, they get the +1crit to decide who goes first. Id always make khorne go first to come to me. and 2 of the 3 stormcast 1 shots any khorne guy but the leader, and the femalecast one shots the 2 weak dudes.

It is a lot of fun though and the speed of it is what impresses me. 12 moves a game and that's it.

is there any hint of whats to come?
the game is caught up with all of the rumored releases isnt it?

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
is there any hint of whats to come?
the game is caught up with all of the rumored releases isnt it?

No.

We know there are 4 more warbands, no idea when they come out exactly:
-Skaven(we got a video of them from Warhammer Community on Sunday)
-Fyreslayers(no clue on contents)
-Stormcast Eternals Vanguard(no clue on contents)
-Khorne Bloodbound Blood Warrior(no clue on contents)

I haven't really been following this much but hearing good things, I might pick it up after all. Are there any good but brief infos out there on how to play? Or intro videos?

And, do you have to use their boxed warbands, or can you use your regular WFB/AOS models to make your own?

 Necros wrote:
I haven't really been following this much but hearing good things, I might pick it up after all. Are there any good but brief infos out there on how to play? Or intro videos?

And, do you have to use their boxed warbands, or can you use your regular WFB/AOS models to make your own?

The boxed warbands include the cards for the individual models, upgrade cards for those models, and then more generic cards to use alongside the main box's cards. I highly suggest at least nabbing them, but be aware that you're supposed to have a board half for playing.

Well I meant I would be picking up the main boxed game at least. I thought it would be cool if there were some generic rules where you could use any models. I'd like to be able to play with my lizardmen if I can, but there doesn't seem to be a lizardmen warband yet. Or maybe add some of my Stormcast models to the ones that come in the box for more variety?

Or are you supposed to just use exactly what comes in a warband box set because of the cards they come with and all?

 Necros wrote:
I haven't really been following this much but hearing good things, I might pick it up after all. Are there any good but brief infos out there on how to play? Or intro videos?

And, do you have to use their boxed warbands, or can you use your regular WFB/AOS models to make your own?

Realistically, you need to purchase a core box for the boards, cards, rules and dice. The models don't matter all that much. If you want to play one of the expansion teams, you'll still need the core box, but will also need the expansion box for the faction specific cards.

In other words, you need to purchase the boxed war bands even though the models themselves don't matter much. You're really buying the game components.


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 Necros wrote:
Well I meant I would be picking up the main boxed game at least. I thought it would be cool if there were some generic rules where you could use any models. I'd like to be able to play with my lizardmen if I can, but there doesn't seem to be a lizardmen warband yet. Or maybe add some of my Stormcast models to the ones that come in the box for more variety?

Or are you supposed to just use exactly what comes in a warband box set because of the cards they come with and all?

You use exactly what comes in the box. The teams have a fixed number of models with fixed equipment. They are essentially all named characters. You can replace one of the models with one of your own, but you can't add to the team.

 Necros wrote:
Well I meant I would be picking up the main boxed game at least. I thought it would be cool if there were some generic rules where you could use any models. I'd like to be able to play with my lizardmen if I can, but there doesn't seem to be a lizardmen warband yet. Or maybe add some of my Stormcast models to the ones that come in the box for more variety?

Or are you supposed to just use exactly what comes in a warband box set because of the cards they come with and all?

Basically, yes.

There are not really any ways to make "custom warbands" because of the cards that they come with are specific to each individual model.
Example of the Sepulchral Guard:

The skeleton with the Spear, Shield, and Cloak is the Sepulchral Warden. He has his own stats and abilities.
The skeleton with the Scythe is the Harvester. He has his own stats and abilities.
The skeleton with the Mace and Shield is the Prince. Own stats and abilities.
The skeleton with the two handed sword and shield is the Champion. Own stats and abilities.

Sepulchral Guard are unique though in that there are three more models in the form of the skeletons with swords and shields. They are called the "Petitioners" and can, theoretically, be represented by any Skeletons with "Ancient Weapons".

To make things even easier though, each card has a picture of the unpainted model in the upper left corner:

str00dles1 wrote:

 Pete Melvin wrote:
Played our first game last night. Seemed to flow quite well. I played the Reavers and my opponent the Stormcast.

I killed off one of his Stormcast every turn, and it seemed like I had a huge advantage in terms of being able to attack first and do damage, but in the end I only won 6 glory to 5, thanks to some clever scoring by my opponent.

I think we got some bits wrong, but we were playing just after our "main" game to end the night. Playing again next week, so will lock it down then.

Overall though I thought it was a very good game. I need to play more to give it a real score, but I'm on a cautious 9/10

He must have had bad dice luck and or you good luck.

Since stormcast always finishes set up first, they get the +1crit to decide who goes first. Id always make khorne go first to come to me. and 2 of the 3 stormcast 1 shots any khorne guy but the leader, and the femalecast one shots the 2 weak dudes.

It is a lot of fun though and the speed of it is what impresses me. 12 moves a game and that's it.

yeah I did have some crazy good rolls and he had some poor ones. I killed the Femcast without her doing any damage at all in turn 1, that said, my juiced up boss who was inspired and had two nasty upgrades failed to do any damage to his boss and then got creamed in return, so it wasnt all one sided.

Yeah the speed was great, we fitted it after a game of Cyclades and we're looking forward to getting a good few games in next week as well.

Oh, OK. Not a big deal, but would have been cool. Hopefully they will do a Lizardman team eventually. I held off from this because I was worried it was gonna be a 1 and done kind of release but it looks like it's building up a good following and they have a bunch of new packs coming. The add ons like themed sleeves and dice is a nice touch too.

Would it be worth picking up other teams you might not really play, like do they come with extra cards any team can use?

 Necros wrote:
Oh, OK. Not a big deal, but would have been cool. Hopefully they will do a Lizardman team eventually. I held off from this because I was worried it was gonna be a 1 and done kind of release but it looks like it's building up a good following and they have a bunch of new packs coming. The add ons like themed sleeves and dice is a nice touch too.

Would it be worth picking up other teams you might not really play, like do they come with extra cards any team can use?

They do in fact come with extra cards any team can use. Some of them are actually even showing previews of upcoming teams, in terms of names for the models at least.

 Necros wrote:
I haven't really been following this much but hearing good things, I might pick it up after all. Are there any good but brief infos out there on how to play? Or intro videos?

And, do you have to use their boxed warbands, or can you use your regular WFB/AOS models to make your own?

https://warhammerunderworlds.com/

Tons of great info

Guess i'll have to collect them all then If it's only a handful of models for each team it shouldn't be too bad. Kinda cool in a way since you get build and paint minis from other factions you might never touch before since you'd have to start a whole army. But I'll start with the main box set first and see how much we like it.

 Pete Melvin wrote:

str00dles1 wrote:

 Pete Melvin wrote:
Played our first game last night. Seemed to flow quite well. I played the Reavers and my opponent the Stormcast.

I killed off one of his Stormcast every turn, and it seemed like I had a huge advantage in terms of being able to attack first and do damage, but in the end I only won 6 glory to 5, thanks to some clever scoring by my opponent.

I think we got some bits wrong, but we were playing just after our "main" game to end the night. Playing again next week, so will lock it down then.

Overall though I thought it was a very good game. I need to play more to give it a real score, but I'm on a cautious 9/10

He must have had bad dice luck and or you good luck.

Since stormcast always finishes set up first, they get the +1crit to decide who goes first. Id always make khorne go first to come to me. and 2 of the 3 stormcast 1 shots any khorne guy but the leader, and the femalecast one shots the 2 weak dudes.

It is a lot of fun though and the speed of it is what impresses me. 12 moves a game and that's it.

yeah I did have some crazy good rolls and he had some poor ones. I killed the Femcast without her doing any damage at all in turn 1, that said, my juiced up boss who was inspired and had two nasty upgrades failed to do any damage to his boss and then got creamed in return, so it wasnt all one sided.

Yeah the speed was great, we fitted it after a game of Cyclades and we're looking forward to getting a good few games in next week as well.

In my experience, if the Stormcast are dying easily, it's because of poor positioning. They should be standing shoulder-to-shoulder next to impassable hexes as often as possible. Make your opponent move through a bottleneck.

Stormcast also need some good target prioritization. They are probably the least afflicted as they have some pretty good characters overall but against the Khornate Warband they really, really want to bash in Saek and Garrek.

Those two are unquestionably the face and power behind the band and the other are the pawns to be sacrificed to inspire the rest.

 Necros wrote:
Guess i'll have to collect them all then If it's only a handful of models for each team it shouldn't be too bad. Kinda cool in a way since you get build and paint minis from other factions you might never touch before since you'd have to start a whole army. But I'll start with the main box set first and see how much we like it.

This has been my approach so far....though I paint the war bands I have before I buy the next one....just bought the orcs.

 Necros wrote:
Guess i'll have to collect them all then If it's only a handful of models for each team it shouldn't be too bad. Kinda cool in a way since you get build and paint minis from other factions you might never touch before since you'd have to start a whole army. But I'll start with the main box set first and see how much we like it.

Yeah. One of my great disappointments with Sigmar is just that its size is such that I can't and don't want playable armies of the stuff as much as I just want some of the models. When it came out I really wanted some Stormcast/Ironjawz/Sylvaneh, but making all that playable is a painting project that's not going to happen. With this, I got to paint up those Stormcast models I always wanted and I'm already on to painting some Orks. I normally wouldn't even fathom Khorne or Skeletons; beautiful models but so far down the pecking order I'd never actually paint them. With this, I get to have some fun actually painting them. All about the Age of Sigmar sampler platter.

I agree - I got absolutely thrashed last night because my opponent managed to set up the board in such a way that I could only get one model at a time against him.

Thus far, the Stormcast are my favorite playstyle. I get a real "Last Stand of the Glorious 300" vibe from them.

My video for assembling the Skeletons.

https://youtu.be/_xeQF68c9dk

Does this have limited edition cards that you only get from certain things or if I buy the core plus each faction box will I have everything?