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Amazing

Chipping in with my own ranking system:

Hot Fuzz: Corvus Cabal and the Unmade

Shaun of the Dead: Splintered Fang, Iron Golems and Untamed Beasts

World's End: Cypher Lords

(This is a system based on the cornetto trilogy films, meaning internally some are better and more imaginative than the others but in the grand scheme of things they are all masterpieces in a league of their own)

That video is better than the “50 Shades” one!

TL DR

Preorder July 20th release 3rd August

First Wave

Starter Set (includes core rulebook)
Core Rulebook (separate)
Cypher Lords Warband - only other warband at release
Ravaged Lands Terrain set
Warband Cards for 9 non-Chaos Warbands
Battleplan Cards
Warcry Ruler
Carry Case

Mark your calendars – you’ll be able to pre-order everything next Saturday – that’s the 20th of July. The game will be available to pre-order for two weeks, before hitting shelves on the 3rd of August. To tide you over, we’ll have LOADS of Warcry Content right here, with in-depth looks at the warbands, tactics and more – check back tomorrow when we’ll be unboxing the Starter Set in detail.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/

This massive boxed set (seriously, it’s huge) gives you everything you need to start fighting in the Ravaged Lands. Two warbands – the Untamed Beasts and the Iron Golem – let you battle with a friend out of the box. A selection of Chaos Beasts add extra challenges to your games, and can even be added to your warband in longer campaigns. Meanwhile, a brand-new set of scenery and a folding gaming board brings the desecrated ruins of the Bloodwind Spoil to life, designed to provide a tactically varied and thematically rich backdrop to your skirmishes.

The Core Book is included in the Starter Set, as well as being available separately at launch – perfect if you’re splitting the set with a friend and don’t want to have to share a rulebook with your new arch-nemesis!

Ravaged Lands

The Eightpoints – the heart of Archaon’s dominion and the foremost stronghold of Chaos – is a vast place with its own nations, cultures and climates. Home to choking jungles, ice-capped mountains, sprawling cities and more, this tainted landscape will form a varied background to your games both in the lore and on the tabletop, thanks to the first of the Ravaged Lands sets

The Warbands

From day one, you’ll be able to expand Warcry with another warband outside of the Starter Set – the mad duellists of the Cypher Lords.This warband set contains models plus rules for using them in your games in the form of sets of cards. An abilities card allows you to master the underhanded tactics, dazzling ploys and special moves available to the Cypher Lords. Meanwhile, a set of fighter cards make checking the characteristics for your warriors simple. These are just one of a host of new warbands on the way – some of which we’ve already seen…

Warband Cards
If you’re looking to add an army from Order, Death or Destruction your games of Warcry, you’ll need some Warband Cards. At launch, you’ll be able to get these for the following factions:

Each set contains an abilities card, plus fighter cards for every model you can use in these warbands. The scale of Warcry means that a single box of miniatures will usually give you enough fighters for a full 1000-point Warband roster, with some leftover for reserves. If you’re looking to play Warcry with forces from one of the other Grand Alliances, these are a must-have.

Battleplan Cards
Generating a battleplan in Warcry is as simple as drawing four cards! In the Battleplan Cards set, you’ll find countless combinations of deployment set-ups, challenging victory conditions and game-changing twists. Combined with the terrain cards found in Ravaged Lands sets, the possibilities are nearly endless. Seriously, there are literally millions of possible combinations!

Odd that they're repackaging the mausoleum rather than any of the matching Azyrite terrain as the first "Warcry Zone."

It’s the most neutral of the terrain, to be fair.

Really hope they release the boxed set terrain separately. That’s really caught my interest.

Sadly the trickle down release of factions excludes me from playing this for the forseeable future. I don't have any of the existing AOS factions it supports, and while there are a couple of factions that they showed that look cool, having to wait months to be able to play puts an end to any enthusiasm I might have had.

So.. How MUCH for that Starter Set? The terrain.. oh my gawd the terrain!



Oh yeah.. how does the game play? How do you PLAY the game?

Well week 1 is going to be cheaper than I thought (in so far as not everything is released week 1). Hopefully the other warbands will follow quickly.

My main worry would be how much will they charge for the non-chaos warband card pack and with a lot of the parts also available separately that it doesn't end up like the Killteam starter of worse the Shadow War Armageddon set.

Pure guess at price but starter set around £105? Warbands at £30? The Ravaged Lands is easier to compare to a Killteam Killzone at £50 and the rule book at £25.

 auticus wrote:
Sadly the trickle down release of factions excludes me from playing this for the forseeable future. I don't have any of the existing AOS factions it supports, and while there are a couple of factions that they showed that look cool, having to wait months to be able to play puts an end to any enthusiasm I might have had.

What? 3 of 6 new factions will be available on day one. _Nine_ more from existing armies will also be available on day 1. That isn't even vaguely a 'trickle down' release- it kicks off with 12 of 15 factions ready to go!

ecurtz wrote:
Odd that they're repackaging the mausoleum rather than any of the matching Azyrite terrain as the first "Warcry Zone."

Yeah, thought that was a weird choice myself. I could see the Azyrite terrain being off theme, but so is the graveyard of Morr. Much more so given the style of the starter box scenery

 DaveC wrote:
Well week 1 is going to be cheaper than I thought (in so far as not everything is released week 1). Hopefully the other warbands will follow quickly.

My main worry would be how much will they charge for the non-chaos warband card pack and with a lot of the parts also available separately that it doesn't end up like the Killteam starter of worse the Shadow War Armageddon set.

Pure guess at price but starter set around £105? Warbands at £30? The Ravaged Lands is easier to compare to a Killteam Killzone at £50.

£105 sounds plausible. I could maybe see £95 (same price as the AoS and 40k starters) but seeing as we’ve recently had some price rises and there’s a lot of plastic in there, I could definitely see it being more than those starters.

That is one epic starter box! Though it kind of makes me worried at the price point it might have, but then again the Killteam sets had very extreme discounts on their terrain as well. I can foresee that set going out of stock VERY fast upon launch. I'd sell your spare organs/first born/car/significant other/whatever this week to get the funds together because I think pre-ordering is going to be a must for that set.

Also looking at the play board and the number of models and then realising that that is all the models which come in the box its going to be one chock full of fun table!


I'd figure the box will be a bit like the Adepticus Titanicus box - really popular and sells out but then most of the content comes split up later.



A bit of a surprise that they are launching with the core and one expansion army, one would have thought they'd have launched with all or more of the starter armies (at least all not in the boxed set) just because of the previews they've been doing over the last few weeks. That said I get the feeling it won't be a huge wait until we see more.




The video also talks about the campaign system and its a neat idea to make it a system which allows the player to complete a campaign/adventure on their own whilst playing random matches. I think that's seriously going to improve the pickup rate of the game and the idea of expanding battles an telling your own story with your warbands. One of the biggest issues something like Necromunda has is that you've got to have a fixed (or at least semi fixed )organised team and someone has to "DM" the game. Now don't get me wrong it works well, but at the same time it can mess up if you miss a few weeks etc... So a singleplayer campaign that ties into random matches is going to be very neat to have a look at.



I'm guessing at least £100 for the box and that's being really generous - I'm say £120 all the way to £150 is possible for that set.

I really dig this release.

Kill Team was £80, right? And this has a lot more plastic AND it's all brand new sculpts. £100ish sounds likely and reasonable.

I hope the other 3 warbands follow in just a week or two, but with 12 factions supported on launch day, there should be something for almost everyone in any case.

Mausoleum as the first Kill Zone also looks like a good sign to me - hoping they'll bring back some of the older fantasy pieces like the Witchfate Tor and Dreadstone Blight.

Well that looks like a amazing starter set that screams "I am expensive so buy me with a friend!"

Although interesting thing is that there is going option on taking other warbands from AoS (although I am shocked that there is no Fyreslayers!)

I checked back and Killteam was £80 with a lot of terrain as well. With recent price rises I could see it being up to £125, but £105 is what Shadowspear cost and were I'm guessing at.

I don't think it's actually more plastic than the Kill Team starter - that Sector Imperialis stuff is much taller than the Azyrite stuff, but I'm sure that won't stop them from increasing the price.

100% in. My one question is whether the battle plan card pack is the same as what’s in starter. Apparently, the kill zones include battle plan cards too - expandable open war cards is my jam.

I may try to get two starters. I wished I got two Kill Team starters, but it sold out so quickly. I’d hate to take a box from someone else too. I expect it to be about $160, but I could see it being $180.

I'm guessing this will be like Killteam, where the starter sets don't get reprinted. Hopefully, I can convince a friend to get this with me.

I am 100% scooping it all up. This is the kind of game I've been waiting for.

Been saving up for this release. The fact that I can cobble together a lot of the other factions out of models I already own is a plus.

They mentioned that a warband is going to consist of 1000 points. Seems like we'll get to have some really crunchy warband creation hopefully.

Makes me wonder how many points an average Underworlds warband will clock in at. I'm sure if it's close that'll help move even more inventory.

Oh my bank balance is not going to like this

One thing that did stand out for me in the article was this line

these are just one of a host of new warbands on the way – some of which we’ve already seen…

Maybe there will be more to see at the AoS open day?

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I am 100% scooping it all up. This is the kind of game I've been waiting for.

Been saving up for this release. The fact that I can cobble together a lot of the other factions out of models I already own is a plus.

They mentioned that a warband is going to consist of 1000 points. Seems like we'll get to have some really crunchy warband creation hopefully.

Makes me wonder how many points an average Underworlds warband will clock in at. I'm sure if it's close that'll help move even more inventory.

Agreed, if I can use my Underworlds gangs for this, even with just adding a couple more models, I’m sold.......

Dependent on gameplay.

Starting to worry me that we don’t have more info on that.

I mean we always knew we’d have 11 factions minimum on release, the starter and the nine, as they said playable from release.

What is most interesting.
3 bands on release.

3 more we know of from the ‘some of which you’ve seen’
This promises at least one more brand new warband factually, likely 2-4 more I’d say..
Obviously when they’d be is another question..

That is unless some of the "not yet seen" warbands are just new card sets to bring other existing armies into the game.

I thought that. But I’d argue they are ‘seen’ in the form of being existing stuff.

Also, looks like many new scenery box things like Killzones for KT.
So definitely long haul support.
So I’d say we would get more anyway based on that even without the comment..

 Theophony wrote:

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I am 100% scooping it all up. This is the kind of game I've been waiting for.

Been saving up for this release. The fact that I can cobble together a lot of the other factions out of models I already own is a plus.

They mentioned that a warband is going to consist of 1000 points. Seems like we'll get to have some really crunchy warband creation hopefully.

Makes me wonder how many points an average Underworlds warband will clock in at. I'm sure if it's close that'll help move even more inventory.

Agreed, if I can use my Underworlds gangs for this, even with just adding a couple more models, I’m sold.......

Dependent on gameplay.

Starting to worry me that we don’t have more info on that.

There’s still 3 weeks until it’s out. Plenty of time for more info on the rules.

Currently contemplating that each faction is defined by a single ability card, and squinting at the picture of a stat card looks like they're very icon driven.

I am late coming here. Haven't kept up to date. Just saw this Warcry. Do we know how it plays yet? If so, what page number should I be looking at. If not, they will be mentioning it soon?

So if we don't know how it plays yet, what do we think it is? Small skirmish game? Something like 40K Kill Teams, or something totally different?

Trying to fight my depression, at a loss what to do with my unpainted stuff, so wondering just if I should start something new here that would be easy for my family to play without much complexity.

Davor wrote:
I am late coming here. Haven't kept up to date. Just saw this Warcry. Do we know how it plays yet? If so, what page number should I be looking at. If not, they will be mentioning it soon?

So if we don't know how it plays yet, what do we think it is? Small skirmish game? Something like 40K Kill Teams, or something totally different?

Trying to fight my depression, at a loss what to do with my unpainted stuff, so wondering just if I should start something new here that would be easy for my family to play without much complexity.

The little video with the folks from the studio (https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/07/14/coming-soon-warcry/) mentioned it's akin to Kill Team. So skirmish with campaign rules.

Wait, so are there only 3 of the chaos Warbands available at release?

 Sasori wrote:
Wait, so are there only 3 of the chaos Warbands available at release?

Yes , the others will follow soon enough