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Not sure if this has been answered yet, if if I play this game with 2 players do we still have to control 4 characters like BSF? This is a major turn off for me if the case, it creates more work for both players and is less immersive.

56-page quest book, setting your heroes plenty of challenges as they seek to overthrow Radukar and save Ulfenkarn.

This new info?

Sounds a whole lot better than BFS's "random" deck repeating the same 6 fights over and over.

I think people are too optimistic concerning the motives of their favorite miniature company's practices. Those army box releases are limited edition because they want you buying without thinking, and if you miss it, buying it for twice the price in individual unit/tank boxes. They cause you to anchor stupidly expensive prices as being "a steal." Because once you've convinced a consumer to accept their super high prices once, because of FOMO or anything else, they've normalized the behavior and they'll keep doing it. It's not a manufacturing or logistics issue.

Though I wonder if Cursed City will sell quite as well as we're thinking. Yes everyone who would be interested seems REALLY interested, but it's still not 40K. Most GW fans will be passing on it.

What's the price on this?

 frankelee wrote:
I think people are too optimistic concerning the motives of their favorite miniature company's practices. Those army box releases are limited edition because they want you buying without thinking, and if you miss it, buying it for twice the price in individual unit/tank boxes. They cause you to anchor stupidly expensive prices as being "a steal." Because once you've convinced a consumer to accept their super high prices once, because of FOMO or anything else, they've normalized the behavior and they'll keep doing it. It's not a manufacturing or logistics issue.

Though I wonder if Cursed City will sell quite as well as we're thinking. Yes everyone who would be interested seems REALLY interested, but it's still not 40K. Most GW fans will be passing on it.

We have a pandemic and people can't spend much money on luxury items as they used to.

 frankelee wrote:


Though I wonder if Cursed City will sell quite as well as we're thinking. Yes everyone who would be interested seems REALLY interested, but it's still not 40K. Most GW fans will be passing on it.

This will probably be the most successful of the Quest games dues to its vampire hunting antics alone. Take D&D's Curse of Strahd module and Castle Ravenloft board game, both of which are very successful.




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 Daedalus81 wrote:
What's the price on this?

Which is a very good question
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Way GW has been pricing things of late...pffff...£115?

Some rumors the past week pointed at pre-order today and same price as Pain and piety.

Considering at least they got the pre-order right it's a matter of wait until tomorrow.

 Strg Alt wrote:

We have a pandemic and people can't spend much money on luxury items as they used to.

Yep, meaning they're desperate to do so again when they have the opportunity. Like, said, GW releasing finally something for them.

FOMO is sure disrupted by the pandemic, but it ain't going away anytime soon.

Expansions are coming for this. Basically it’ll be Blackstone for AoS so GW has zero interest in making this limited.

A solo play dungeon crawler with 100% new miniatures ? It’ll sell and I’m confused by those saying no one cares if it’s not 40K : pretty much every U.K. large FLGS has been gauging interest in this and saying they’ll be buying a high number if GW allows. For example , my closest store bought 6 Piety and Pain , they’re hoping to get 40 of this. Another I buy from is looking at 20-30 vs 5 Piety.

For GW it’s an ideal timing as customers can play it regardless of lockdowns etc

 Lord Perversor wrote:
Some rumors the past week pointed at pre-order today and same price as Pain and piety.

Considering at least they got the pre-order right it's a matter of wait until tomorrow.

I hope so. Not that it's a total steal at that price, but at about 3 bucks a mini with what appears to be an enhanced version of Blackstone Fortress packaged along (and a much better theme in my opinion) I don't think that's terrible value at all. I mean Gloomhaven is what 125 USD? And while that surely is a more comprehensive game with much more play value (despite me thinking mechanically it is boring as hell- but that's a different story), the miniatures in this are MUCH higher quality and more numerous.

 Strg Alt wrote:


We have a pandemic and people can't spend much money on luxury items as they used to.

The pandemic has really hit different groups/regions/industries harder then others. Some have barely felt the effect financially and some are actually doing better then pre-pandemic. While there clearly are lots of people that normally could afford this that cannot, or are being more cautious with their money, there's are people that have no qualms about spending money right now. I don't think they'll have an issue selling through the initial wave.

Pretty sure GW haven’t suffered from the pandemic, given their 6m to November 2020 showed a roughly £40,000,000 increase in takings compared to the same period in 2019.

And despite supply issues (Grey Seer Base, Grey Seer Base, my Kingdom for a Grey Seer Base) there’s no reason to believe the current 6m period will show a like for like drop.

Just wish we knew how much this will be.

I think expecting Piety & Pain pricing on this is super optimistic. They're asking $170US for a box that is mostly not even new sculpts in P&P. They asked $160 for Pariah Nexus, that wasn't even a complete game.

50+ new models and in the current pricing era, I would be surprised if it is less than $200. Hope for less, but expecting more.

Well BSF is $220. I can't imagine this going any higher than $250.

The annoying thing is that stores know what the price is, but can't tell us.

WQCC going for $170 sounds just about right. As I saw the official release trailer it felt like my guess was rising to $180-185 range, but it'll generally be somewhere around there. Price has been talked to death, but it's a standalone box, it won't be priced like a big box expansion.

Ooof, coming out the same week i have to pay my insurance.
Oh well, hopefully there will still be enough left by the end of april.

I'm thrilled for the models in this. I likely won't touch the game at all, just like how I never really played Blackstone Fortress. Instead, I'll pull out the models, slap them together, maybe convert a few for other game systems, and then take the vampires and skeletons and start a Soulblight force with them.

Can't wait! These two weeks are going to drag!

I think we are going to have to prepare for a bit of sticker shock with this one. It has more models than any of the other modern Warhammer Quests including 13 character style sculpts. I think it will be priced to match Indomitus but I wouldn't be terribly surprised if it is a little more.

The pandemic hasn't really impacted most people's luxury purchases negatively. For many in fact, it has had a positive impact because some of the normally quite big expenses (vacations, going out) are gone completely. That leaves quite a bit of money for purchases like games.

155 euros.

I haven’t seen the price list yet but Andy from Blackjack Legacy just posted that it’s £125 and he has early access to the price lists. So that would be €160 $210 (maybe $200?) I believe.

EDIT €155 as above then

Happy with that

So, £120?
Edit: should really read the thread shouldn’t I. £125 2 posts above.

So it IS the same price as Indomitus. Do I win a prize?

 Dolnikan wrote:
The pandemic hasn't really impacted most people's luxury purchases negatively. For many in fact, it has had a positive impact because some of the normally quite big expenses (vacations, going out) are gone completely. That leaves quite a bit of money for purchases like games.

It’ll be interesting to see if, or perhaps more accurately, how much of a reduction in sales GW might see.

From a purely person example? Come September, I’m unlikely to be spending much if anything with GW, because I’m off on a weekend away with my Lass. The other months, well who can say?

But on topic, £125 is more than I hoped, less than I feared. Importantly it’s well within this month’s budget. Even more so if I use my existing Element Crystals, which are their take on store credit. Got around £10 saved up. Between that and the assumed 25% discount I can bag it for £83.75, which is a pretty nice price to be playing with.

Yeah I mean my hope would be £100-110. But never expected it would be.
I worried for £130 or up.
So not too bad.

Well, as expected, it's an okay price if you're used to GW prices and ridiculous if you're not. It's tied with Gloomhaven, a game so good that its sequel got 13 million on Kickstarter, and so big some of my female friends don't want to try to lift it.

Yeah, £125 is only reasonable if you're an exclusive GW guy. It's competing with the very best the industry has to offer at that level, when in all likelihood it's going to be a collection of nice models accompanying a really poor board game.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Well, as expected, it's an okay price if you're used to GW prices and ridiculous if you're not. It's tied with Gloomhaven, a game so good that its sequel got 13 million on Kickstarter, and so big some of my female friends don't want to try to lift it.

Gloomhaven has a U.K. RRP of £139.99. It comes with a handful of models, and the enemies so far as I can see are cardboard standee.

So it’s a very different offering from Cursed City, which has a lower RRP, and comes with way more models.

If you’re not into models or not especially fussed? Gloomhaven is a good option. If you’re into your models, Cursed City is a good option.

Me? Cut my teeth on Hero Quest (which I’ll be getting later in the year), so Cursed City has greater appeal to me.