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Im so happy with this release! I have been sculpting my own fell-giant bats and this box just fits my current projects like a glove! Its one of those occasions when all planets align

Game appeared to have the same initiative track as BSF.

Danny76 wrote:
Zombies are an exact build of 5 no options.
But with the skeletons and options, that could easily be a little set.

There are some options on the zombies.

It was probably more efficient to cut the moulds with a mix of models, rather than trying to separate them. And Skellies are coming to AoS anyway, so no big loss here.

I do hope the heroes and villains will be available separately though. I dread buying four boxes of this to get my hands on everything I need in sufficient quantities.

The bodies of the last two skeletons are the same.
With a unique front piece, and arms for banner on one


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 ImAGeek wrote:

Danny76 wrote:
Zombies are an exact build of 5 no options.
But with the skeletons and options, that could easily be a little set.

There are some options on the zombies.

They looked exactly the same to me.
To the tombstone tops each as well. But I didn’t look super carefully

Danny76 wrote:
The bodies of the last two skeletons are the same.
With a unique front piece, and arms for banner on one


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 ImAGeek wrote:

Danny76 wrote:
Zombies are an exact build of 5 no options.
But with the skeletons and options, that could easily be a little set.

There are some options on the zombies.

They looked exactly the same to me.
To the tombstone tops each as well. But I didn’t look super carefully

A couple have the same body but different tombstones/heads.

 RedFox wrote:
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)

They said it's based on BSF and the fighter cards we saw looked pretty similar. BSF has rules for a gamemaster of sorts who controls the baddies instead of using their behavior tables, I wouldn't expect that to go away.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 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.

The banner and the guy on the right with his sword out to his right are unique that's why I think it's 4 skeletons doubled with head options.

 DaveC wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 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.

The banner and the guy on the right with his sword out to his right are unique that's why I think it's 4 skeletons dubled with head options.

They’re the same body with different fronts.

Just noticed that now banner swaps for sword

 ImAGeek wrote:

 DaveC wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 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.

The banner and the guy on the right with his sword out to his right are unique that's why I think it's 4 skeletons dubled with head options.

They’re the same body with different fronts.

Bottom left and top right match here.

Looks like we get the command half of a unit box of skeletons twice, and a non-command half of zombies, if they even have a champion. The two zombie females can swap bottom and top halves, the other three look like they can only be built one way.

 DaveC wrote:
Just noticed that now banner swaps for sword

The right leg and tattered cloth is part of that piece too it seems.

If only the heroes got "options".

GW still hasn't evolve to that state yet.

Very exciting - but I hope the Underworlds vampire set will get statted out as potential adversaries - they would be a perfect fit. Also that new Nighthaunt character. I can see the potential for exapnsion sets right off the bat, but would like to see that warband front and centre.

 ImAGeek wrote:

Danny76 wrote:
The bodies of the last two skeletons are the same.
With a unique front piece, and arms for banner on one


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 ImAGeek wrote:

Danny76 wrote:
Zombies are an exact build of 5 no options.
But with the skeletons and options, that could easily be a little set.

There are some options on the zombies.

They looked exactly the same to me.
To the tombstone tops each as well. But I didn’t look super carefully

A couple have the same body but different tombstones/heads.

Yeah I saw.
Just 10 bottoms and 10 tops though. Not alternate choices, which is a shame..

I saw someone said only the female legs are swapped.
But you can see two of the fellas have swapped legs too (they’re facing different directions to make it harder to tell..)

Next topic: the featureless, plain text cards that look like someone accidentally sent their playtest draft made in MS Word to print.

But the skeletons have sword and spear options, right?


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Next topic: the featureless, plain text cards that look like someone accidentally sent their playtest draft made in MS Word to print.

Whats that at the back, directly under the bat swarm? Looks like individual rats, or something. Maybe some sort of "kill the king" rat for a mission?

Clockpunk wrote:
Very exciting - but I hope the Underworlds vampire set will get statted out as potential adversaries - they would be a perfect fit. Also that new Nighthaunt character. I can see the potential for exapnsion sets right off the bat, but would like to see that warband front and centre.

I can see Underworld warbands getting a shiny new repackage with quest cards etc.

 GaroRobe wrote:
But the skeletons have sword and spear options, right?


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 lord_blackfang wrote:


Next topic: the featureless, plain text cards that look like someone accidentally sent their playtest draft made in MS Word to print.

Whats that at the back, directly under the bat swarm? Looks like individual rats, or something. Maybe some sort of "kill the king" rat for a mission?

Yeah so they have the same body then a choice of weapon. Great if it is all on one sprue..

Yeah, it's a real travesty they don't do something with those cards. More flavor text, some spot illustrations... something.

They could make them look like they're written on tattered parchment, evocative borders... there's a lack of pizzazz to them for a game that wants to really ooze out theme.

They're almost certainly click-build, like Blackstone was, so zero options would be my guess. Just ten semi-unique sculpts.

 GaroRobe wrote:
Whats that at the back, directly under the bat swarm? Looks like individual rats, or something. Maybe some sort of "kill the king" rat for a mission?

Not rats - their tails(?) aren't the right colour, dark with a light tip. The figure between the skeletons and big bat swarm has something similar going on. Several yet-unseen smaller critters around there.

Cronch wrote:
They're almost certainly click-build, like Blackstone was, so zero options would be my guess. Just ten semi-unique sculpts.

For what?
We know the skeletons have alternate pieces to build with.
It’s in the pictures

Welp! This is gunna get expensive for me. Another whole boardgame of minis I can throw into my "to do" pile.

Guess I better hurry up and finish all these other projects.

 Coenus Scaldingus wrote:

 GaroRobe wrote:
Whats that at the back, directly under the bat swarm? Looks like individual rats, or something. Maybe some sort of "kill the king" rat for a mission?

Not rats - their tails(?) aren't the right colour, dark with a light tip. The figure between the skeletons and big bat swarm has something similar going on. Several yet-unseen smaller critters around there.

It’s probably one of the 10 objectives..

Snap fit plastics are the best for this type of box sets if you ask me. Its a contained box set with plenty of unique sculpts no need for 20 head options for each mini.

Imagine if GW decided to do a modular plastic dungeon like dwarven forge resins... it would be a killer!

How well did the "AI" work in Blackstone? I seem to remember people weren't all that impressed but this game would be more interesting if you and all your friends could play co-op rather than have a GM of sorts IMO. If it squanders the experience however then it's probably better that someone just takes the plunge and plays the bad boys.

Danny76 wrote:

 Coenus Scaldingus wrote:

 GaroRobe wrote:
Whats that at the back, directly under the bat swarm? Looks like individual rats, or something. Maybe some sort of "kill the king" rat for a mission?

Not rats - their tails(?) aren't the right colour, dark with a light tip. The figure between the skeletons and big bat swarm has something similar going on. Several yet-unseen smaller critters around there.

It’s probably one of the 10 objectives..

I think you're right. Since you can see five on the board, and two off to the side. Looks like two are zombie cats

 NAVARRO wrote:
Snap fit plastics are the best for this type of box sets if you ask me. Its a contained box set with plenty of unique sculpts no need for 20 head options for each mini.

Imagine if GW decided to do a modular plastic dungeon like dwarven forge resins... it would be a killer!

And has no bearing on whether it will get releases as a kit separate.
The ghost boys kit was just that wasn’t it. From soul wars. Released separately..

But yeah I’d say it’s, a sprue Of 5, with let’s say 15 pieces, where 5 front/back pieces are alternates to go with 5 others.
So each model has three pieces, and you use two.
(Some you can see it’s the from duplicated, some it’s the back.)

Obviously banner guy or whoever might be more than 3 pieces. But for simplicity, you know what I mean..


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 GaroRobe wrote:

Danny76 wrote:

 Coenus Scaldingus wrote:

 GaroRobe wrote:
Whats that at the back, directly under the bat swarm? Looks like individual rats, or something. Maybe some sort of "kill the king" rat for a mission?

Not rats - their tails(?) aren't the right colour, dark with a light tip. The figure between the skeletons and big bat swarm has something similar going on. Several yet-unseen smaller critters around there.

It’s probably one of the 10 objectives..

I think you're right. Since you can see five on the board, and two off to the side. Looks like two are zombie cats

Yeah thats my thinking.
And those yeah perhaps are the cats.

I’m not convinced the wolf on animal mans base is a cat, like people keep saying.
Mainly as it’s clearly a wolf