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angryboy2k wrote:
shadowsfm wrote:
angryboy2k wrote:
Look, the game's fun and generally well-done, but if you're not finding problems with the rules you're not looking hard enough

For example:
Does a basic success of the gambit force you to swap initiative places with the NEAREST hostile group to the left or the right (no choice of direction, you must swap with the nearest) or is it a swap with the nearest to either the left or the right (your choice)?


your choice. it wouldn't work as intended if otherwise


Well that kind of proves my point because I think a “gambit” should entail some risk, so my opinion is that you shouldn’t get a choice of direction. Why do you think the intent is the opposite?


It's a gambit because it costs you an activation dice to do, but only has a 2 in 6 chance of success, so a potentially wasted activation before the turn starts. Unless you're Janus Draik who gets to do it for free.

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The risk is that you waste an action dice. Those things don't grow on trees

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 AndrewGPaul wrote:
You use the smallest Size in the group to find out how many models potentially return, but that doesn't say only those models can return.


You're right. This reading does make the game harder, which is a good thing if you ask me.

Thanks for pointing it out.
   
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Well, I did but only got 'The interpenetration of two chain polymers in a good solvent'

I trust you, and somehow I won't check if I get different results, with being at work and all that .

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 endtransmission wrote:

I like the Legacy style modifications to the decks as you go further in. I think I've been quite lucky with the draws so far, in that I've done a few trips into the Fortress now and still havn't drawn any harder enemies to fight.


We have done two expeditions and a stronghold and have not pulled any higher level enemy Legacy cards. Do you draw a Legacy card after a Stronghold expedition?

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i think so
   
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First expansion?

The Dreaded Ambull!

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Looks like I’m gonna have to buy Blackstone Fortress after all.
   
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It’s worth it!

   
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Now that's a redesign. Compare it to the original:



I think it's great, and it looks like a real proper honest-to-Khorne expansion pack. Multiple card types, a rulebook, new tiles, even a new ship. That's the Quest I remember.

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Yup. Agree 100%. It’s also an expansion I dare say painters will pick up, simply because the Ambull is gorgeous.

Doubly chuffed at Geotsnik Towers that they continue to explore the fringes of 40k. Lovely.

   
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Just putting my Blackstone mini's together at the moment.. so happy to see there will be expansions for the game.. and awesome for such a throwback to the old RT days.

Can't wait.

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And if you’re not picking it up for Necromunda as well, are you even Hobbying, Bro?

   
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foreshadowing FTW eh ?

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So that is where the horrible little maggot earwig thing that were put into Chekov's and that redshirt's ears by Khan came from,

They are litterally dripping off the Umber Hulk there.

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So we are going down the Kingdom Death Monster route with since enemy expansions...
   
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I've only just been able to crack open my copy of the game and I'm not even halfway through building the base game models and they bring out an awesome new beastie. Dagnammit!

Also, hooray for what looks like an amazing bad guy to come across

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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Now that's a redesign. Compare it to the original:



I think it's great, and it looks like a real proper honest-to-Khorne expansion pack. Multiple card types, a rulebook, new tiles, even a new ship. That's the Quest I remember.


It's still clearly an Ambull, but now it's more than just a quick Umber Hulk knockoff.


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 reds8n wrote:

foreshadowing FTW eh ?

Spoiler:








More than that:
14 August 2018


7 August 2018


These appeared in the Rumour Engine last August; had they even announced Blackstone Fortress at that point?

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Bummer they didn't make an explorer as a nemesis to the ambull. Like a hunter and the beast. :(
   
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Chopstick wrote:
Bummer they didn't make an explorer as a nemesis to the ambull. Like a hunter and the beast. :(

They did say this is just the "first expansion"...I would be shocked if the second isn't new Explorers.
   
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 Kanluwen wrote:
Chopstick wrote:
Bummer they didn't make an explorer as a nemesis to the ambull. Like a hunter and the beast. :(

They did say this is just the "first expansion"...I would be shocked if the second isn't new Explorers.


New explorer is definitely likely, what i don't want to see is that the new explorer is related to the ambull expansion but not included in the very big ambull box.
   
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Definitely buying this.

Gorgeous stuff.
   
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 Kanluwen wrote:
They did say this is just the "first expansion"...I would be shocked if the second isn't new Explorers.


Like say, an Inquisitor and retinue...

In the meantime I'd love to see some existing models (Starstriders) get cards for BSF in a White Dwarf since that's now a thing.

Do we expect all now stuff or are we going to whine when Greyfax, a Calladius ... et al show up in a boxed expansion? Is the quality of the execution more important than just new stuff?
   
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Nice model (really nice model), but.. seems an overly limited 'expansion.' Price point should be fascinating.

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Here you go. Hot out of the oven. Its a pretty serious threat, so one of them will be enough. In space, no one can hear your wallet scream....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPDwq12LsNA

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The Ambull has its own ship? Seems odd that an adversary only expansion would come with one. But if there was a new explorer as well why would GW hold them back?

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GoatboyBeta wrote:
The Ambull has its own ship? Seems odd that an adversary only expansion would come with one. But if there was a new explorer as well why would GW hold them back?


OMG!?! You mean the Ambull is an explorer expansion and not an adversary... j/k
   
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Is there a new ship in the video?

One thing is it could be a variety of new ships coming that people can then buy/trade up for their characters.
For more modularity and narrative or something?
(Don’t know if that would practically work/be possible. Not played yet)
   
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 Chairman Aeon wrote:
GoatboyBeta wrote:
The Ambull has its own ship? Seems odd that an adversary only expansion would come with one. But if there was a new explorer as well why would GW hold them back?


OMG!?! You mean the Ambull is an explorer expansion and not an adversary... j/k



Not in grey plastic its not
   
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Now that is something realllllly special! Want one!

   
 
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