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So basically there are 4 roles (that are just renamed normal MMO roles) with two heroes in each role and each role has a little, fixed level up track. It's more than BSF got. It does leave room for easy expansion with just adding new level up cards.

Also allows for custom characters as a home brew addition.

Would’ve preferred proper character creation/selection like, but at least there’s something to work from now.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Would’ve preferred proper character creation/selection like, but at least there’s something to work from now.

GW doesn't want us making our own characters. They want us buying their set optionless miniatures tied to pre-made characters.

With the rules assuming a new major ability at every level it does leave lots of room for easy homebrew stuff, including leveling tracks with choices, maybe something like Kill Team.

Power level also seems pretty high with the elf getting a free move or shoot for each melee kill.

Size: Large

is an outrageously bizarre line of text for an elf girl stat card tho.

The rats and bat'll be small.

I picked the size issue on the novel bonus character yesterday as he is quite slight. Would appear that regular humanoids are Large rather than the Medium I would have expected.

Good to see damage stat return, and elven blade have puny 1 damage even when crit.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

Danny76 wrote:
For some reason April 10th was in my head. But maybe that’s because I’m hoping I can go physically get it on the 12th if so.

That’s.....perhaps not a bad call you know.

It could be a Big Ticket item to get people into stores when they’re allowed to re-open in the UK.

Certainly it’ll help folk qualify for the backlog of collectors coins, too. I’m hitting my local store regardless, as I’m pretty sure they’ve got Grey Seer spray in stock, and I don’t much fancy eBay prices!

Yeah well I was thinking I’ll pop in and get two coins worth of stuff (may just be this box alone), just not sure which ones it’d be yet.
I guess we shall see what April is, do we know yet?
I guess May or June will be that Ork one.
Would be nice for an April Vampire based one, but probably not.

What months have we had since Jan? Both free models and coins?

nevermind

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Would’ve preferred proper character creation/selection like, but at least there’s something to work from now.

GW doesn't want us making our own characters. They want us buying their set optionless miniatures tied to pre-made characters.

This is the reason why I won’t be buying this, or any of the Warhammer Quest Games, despite loving a good dungeon crawl. I mean, if you can’t make your own character then the immersion is just not there for me.

 jaredb wrote:
Looks like a great box! Probably coming out soon. I just hope that it's not a limited release!

It isn’t.
It’s the new Quest main box.

Nevermind

If there are manufacturing issues, then you'll probably see a small first wave, followed by a reprint wave later in the year. It won't be a print & dump release, though.

Indeed. That’s not limited release. It’s just stock issues.
It’ll be around a couple of years roughly.

But also, where did you hear this rumour
We don’t really know what their stock levels for anything is like.
We could make rumour about every upcoming release that there could be a shortage of it. If you know what I mean.

 jaredb wrote:

Danny76 wrote:

 jaredb wrote:
Looks like a great box! Probably coming out soon. I just hope that it's not a limited release!

It isn’t.
It’s the new Quest main box.

I hope that's true. I've been hearing rumors it'll be limited due to manufacturing issues.

Seems an unlikely option if they are planning to release expansions over the next few years as they've done with Blackstone Fortress. Limited initial stock though, sure, that's not uncommon now.

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:


This is the reason why I won’t be buying this, or any of the Warhammer Quest Games, despite loving a good dungeon crawl. I mean, if you can’t make your own character then the immersion is just not there for me.

If you didn't get bored already after a few play, it should be pretty easy easy to make your own hero and enemies for this game. There're also load of heroes from Silver Tower and Blackstone fortress that you can use as idea for the special rule.

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:
This is the reason why I won’t be buying this, or any of the Warhammer Quest Games, despite loving a good dungeon crawl. I mean, if you can’t make your own character then the immersion is just not there for me.

I'm the opposite. This box gives you so much stuff to use in actual Quest that it's hard to pass up.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:
This is the reason why I won’t be buying this, or any of the Warhammer Quest Games, despite loving a good dungeon crawl. I mean, if you can’t make your own character then the immersion is just not there for me.

I'm the opposite. This box gives you so much stuff to use in actual Quest that it's hard to pass up.

Yeah, I may well pick up a few of the minis on eBay for games of Advanced Heroquest, but I’m not bothered about the game itself.

Preorders next week.

* Please note, orders placed on games-workshop.com will be limited to one copy per order.

Preorder next Saturday

Now to wait on the price lists

Sounds like initial stock may be very limited, hopefully it won’t take too long for them to reprint. I can see this being in high demand.

Annoyingly, next Saturday is my first race for 4 months which makes it much trickier to preorder. Looks like I will be walking for a bit whilst frantically refreshing websites at mile 20...

 Kanluwen wrote:
Preorders next week.

* Please note, orders placed on games-workshop.com will be limited to one copy per order.

At least it will hinder a bit the scalpers. I have no doubt it will be "out of stock" pretty quickly still.

Will make sure I’m waiting and logged in. I needs this in my life!

Sarouan wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Preorders next week.

* Please note, orders placed on games-workshop.com will be limited to one copy per order.

At least it will hinder a bit the scalpers. I have no doubt it will be "out of stock" pretty quickly still.

From Facebook:

Warhsmmer 40,000 wrote:Unlike Piety and Pain, this is not a limited release so no need to rush!

And just as interesting...

Warhammer 40,000 wrote:It's possible we could see some Warcry rules in future.

It shouldn't be surprising that the set is not a limited release.

Blackstone Fortress is still available on the GW website right now. Aside from a "temporarily out of stock" listing at one point, it's always been available.

It's the expansions that eventually became hard to find, and subsequently outrageously overpriced in the secondary market. Even still, those expansions were available for quite along time before that.

I honestly don't think a single one of them was difficult to obtain at launch. I would expect this to be similar, especially when the exansions will likely be $60 for 1-2 models like BSF.

That said, I'm all in on this one. I started off getting everything for BSF, including the expansions but sold it all(prior to the massive price jump) when I couldn't get anyone interested and still regret it. Also looking forward to using this set to finally dip my toes into WarCry.

Part of BSF’s issue was nobody knew how short term the expansions were until the first disappeared.

I’m lucky, I only missed one set of cards. Others? Not so much.

What Mad Doc Grotsnik said.

Besides, I have no doubt that the pre-order on next saturday will still have a limited stock that should go away quite fast until the next one. Sure, they will put the box back online later - and then one day it will disappear like Black Fortress.

It's not a core game to GW. It is fated to go away at some point. Like all Warhammer Quest boxes before.

Scalpers will still buy more boxes so that they can sell the separate parts later. And some boxes for when it will cease to be sold by GW.

Hopefully getting mine from Element Games. You can’t whack a discount!

 Starfarer wrote:
It shouldn't be surprising that the set is not a limited release.

Blackstone Fortress is still available on the GW website right now. Aside from a "temporarily out of stock" listing at one point, it's always been available.

It's the expansions that eventually became hard to find, and subsequently outrageously overpriced in the secondary market. Even still, those expansions were available for quite along time before that.

I honestly don't think a single one of them was difficult to obtain at launch.

They weren't. But they were outrageously overpriced to begin with (the core game wasn't, particularly). The main reason the expansions lasted so long and didn't sell out because $60 for 1-2 models that didn't really fit into armies didn't strike people as appealing.

Hopefully expansions for Cursed City will be more reasonable both in price and content (but I'm dubious about price). But I do expect different expansions, just based on the map- I expect the 'Gheistgale' to have a ghost boss and spirit minions, and 'the Clot' to have some sort of ghoul expansion. Something from the 'Shadowed Crypt-Halls' as well.

Dread Master wrote:
Jeez GW, release the game.. It’s anticlimactic already.

Hey, It's pretty fast for GW standards. They can tease or preview something, and not relase it for over a year