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 lord_blackfang wrote:
What is with people dressing up as boats in this city?

Vampirates confirmed?!?!

 lord_blackfang wrote:
What is with people dressing up as boats in this city?

Props to the folks who guessed that one of the factions will be an animal menagerie.

Boat Mormons, obviously. Maybe GW will also make a model to represent Denouncing Venice?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Not to challenge other opinions, but once again I’m wondering if we’re all looking at the same model.

It’s...not busy at all. The dude himself is pretty simplistic. Yes there’s a lot to see, but that doesn’t make him an overly busy model?

I'm with you. Between improbable/impractical posing and busyness I'm often quite critical of GW's releases, but I don't see anything particularly wrong with this guy. He'll make a grand necromancer. With the right paintjob he called also work as a lore of beasts wizard (for those still playing WFB, I've no idea if LoB is a thing in AoS).

I think he looks fine, except his hands, which look like the plastic casting/design hasn't advanced in the last decade.

*squees at an inaudible pitch*

Not sold on a couple of the heroes, but everything else looks boss.

So is the objective in Quest to kill enough bad guys and take their wood to build a boat? Or do they just voltron up into a boat and you have to fight the boat?

Take my money.

The game uses squares, not hexes. I know people were worried it would be the latter.

Edit: Also, the big boss is an ogor? Cool

The Wolf is a Vampire Ogre.

Buying the novel gives you rules for a ninth hero? Maybe the death wizard on the front of it? The mask guy doesn't have a scythe (and has mask on)

Gotrek in all likelihood.

Cursed city website is updated with all the reveals

Oh great, the die for illiterate people made a return.

Look like it's gonna be another "rolling for crit" adventure.

I love how this box expands our window into the realms with all these miniatures from different factions and cultures.

Looks like there's a sundial or some sort of mechanic. 12 slots, for 12 hours/turns? I'm guessing the stuff gets harder to kill when the sun goes down

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I love how this box expands our window into the realms with all these miniatures from different factions and cultures.

It does, but it underlines something that has always been a problem with GW/AoS...the stuff they keep mentioning/teasing is much more interesting than their main fare. Reading AoS lore, I'd MUCH rather play a game set in age of myth, with magical Aqshian lasers and mechanical golem races from chamon, or at least the floating city soldiers than stormcast and elves, but with funny helmets.In this case, I'd rather see a whole army of cossack-themed ogres over just the old ogres with "they worship gork, but he's hangry" lore.

https://ageofsigmar.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2021/02/CursedCity_AllVillans.png

All the baddies!

The zombies are so well done. Several (probably all of them) have the same marking that the Grave digger dude has (he also a totem on his belt in the style.)

One grave doesn't say "rip" or anything, at least not in English. The writing is the same that you see on ruins and stormcast robes.

Finally, the coolest detail imo is one guy has a grave that has his face on it, before his death. You can tell its him, even though he's missing his wig, since he has the same pointy beard

The tiles echo original Quest very well.

42 enemies..

10 skeletons, 10 zombies.
6 animals, 3 vampire, 2 ogres,
5 characters.
What 6 am I missing..?


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Or is it 6 rats 6 bats?
They might be doubled?


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It’s two sets of 5 for skeletons and zombies, as some poses match..
So likely that..

Shame they, to my surprise, missed the chance to just include new full unit sprues. We've got BSF style mixed sprues with a few head options for the duplicated models.

There's more bats/rats show in the picture of the full game laid out

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Shame they, to my surprise, missed the chance to just include new full unit sprues. We've got BSF style mixed sprues with a few head options for the duplicated models.

I thought for sure that skeleton sprue would be five on it, with the extra bits.
Perfect unit to sell there

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Shame they, to my surprise, missed the chance to just include new full unit sprues. We've got BSF style mixed sprues with a few head options for the duplicated models.

Are we not though? Zombies and skeletons look like units, even if we're getting half units doubled. Bats and rats are like the Chaos monsters that come in Warcry.

They also forgot to put the skelly banner in the group shot, didn't they?

 lord_blackfang wrote:
They also forgot to put the skelly banner in the group shot, didn't they?

Nope it's there bottom left 1 in

Looks like we will get 2 of the same sprue with 5 zombies and 4? skeletons (with alt heads) on it - the skeleton banner and skeleton with sword out in right hand (right side of picture) are unique. The other sprues will be unique.

did they talk about the gameplay in the stream?

the Warhammer Quest games are pretty shallow games and I'm hoping they can build on what they tried with Blackstone...

do we know if there's a 4vs1 mode? it's kind of a must have for dungeon crawlers and more competitive minded players (basically the Warhammer crowd duh)

Zombies are an exact build of 5 no options.
But with the skeletons and options, that could easily be a little set.

 DaveC wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
They also forgot to put the skelly banner in the group shot, didn't they?

Nope it's there bottom left 1 in

Looks like we will get 2 of the same sprue with 5 zombies and 4? skeletons on it and the other sprues will be unique.

5 Skeletons too, they’re all doubled poses.