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Oof I hope it's not like a Choose Your Own Adventure thing with page flipping where youeventually memorize the right moves.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Oof I hope it's not like a Choose Your Own Adventure thing with page flipping where youeventually memorize the right moves.

I wonder if there is a "right" move. This is Warhammer, after all.

"You eat the egg, and two turns later, you suffer food poisoning."

"You decide to not eat the egg, and in five turns, you become weak from hunger and can only make half as many attacks as usual."

It could be Warhammer quest:

"You eat the egg, then between adventures get run over by a cart and die."

 GaroRobe wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Oof I hope it's not like a Choose Your Own Adventure thing with page flipping where youeventually memorize the right moves.

I wonder if there is a "right" move. This is Warhammer, after all.

"You eat the egg, and two turns later, you suffer food poisoning."

"You decide to not eat the egg, and in five turns, you become weak from hunger and can only make half as many attacks as usual."

Yeah exactly. And even if that's how it's written there's nothing to stop you adding some house rules. I'm no game designer but tweaking some rules that are cool in concept but don't quite hit the mark is well within my wheelhouse.

Yeah, just trying to guess what the arbitrary "right" choice of the two of three sounds lame, like a choose your own adventure book. Didn't choose what the author wanted? You take wounds!

There were some in Silver Tower where the decision was mostly ignore it an nothing happens or do it, and roll randomly to see if something good or something bad happens. There's not much narrative too it, unfortunately. It's mostly just if the players are curious enough about it to take the risk and see what happens.

 Albino Squirrel wrote:
There were some in Silver Tower where the decision was mostly ignore it an nothing happens or do it, and roll randomly to see if something good or something bad happens. There's not much narrative too it, unfortunately. It's mostly just if the players are curious enough about it to take the risk and see what happens.

Yeah, that's what I would expect for most of these. And it would be very Warhammer Quest, too - take a risk and roll a dice, or leave it be. Much like the various and random events tables in original Warhammer Quest.

Then it's just random stuff happening and not very deep, but at least there is no defined 'right' or 'wrong' decision that only needs to be repeated in future games.

Edit:
Slightly more interesting would be an event that you cannot simply ignore and where you have to roll a dice either way, but your decision will influence the effect (eg you save the vendor from the stormcast which might have a good or a bad outcome, or you don't save them which will also affect you in some good/bad way).

 GaroRobe wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Oof I hope it's not like a Choose Your Own Adventure thing with page flipping where youeventually memorize the right moves.

I wonder if there is a "right" move. This is Warhammer, after all.

"You eat the egg, and two turns later, you suffer food poisoning."

"You decide to not eat the egg, and in five turns, you become weak from hunger and can only make half as many attacks as usual."

Sounds like Gloomhaven travel events.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
It could be Warhammer quest:

"You eat the egg, then between adventures get run over by a cart and die."

Or Gloomhaven travel events. Those almost always suck.

Blackstone pretty much had stat tests (sometimes with the option to just not interact and skip the risk/reward), I hope that's what it boils down to.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
It could be Warhammer quest:

"You eat the egg, then between adventures get run over by a cart and die."

I would hope so. It's not Quest if it's fair.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
It could be Warhammer quest:

"You eat the egg, then between adventures get run over by a cart and die."

I would hope so. It's not Quest if it's fair.

Ah yes, the ol’ “whoops, you seem to have accidentally stumbled into Bloodthirster Fight Club and they’re not happy” random monster roll at level 1…

Man, I loved how epic Warhammer Quest was with its original giant tome of profiles for virtually all things WHFB. I know this new game won't be that (tragically) but hopefully it captures at least some of that essence.

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:
Man, I loved how epic Warhammer Quest was with its original giant tome of profiles for virtually all things WHFB. I know this new game won't be that (tragically) but hopefully it captures at least some of that essence.

I've been waiting for a game of that quality and depth from GW for a while now...I'm starting to feel like it's just not gonna happen which is a real shame. Though I will admit at least on the surface this seems a bit more complex than the previous specialist games (Blackstone, Kill Team, etc.)

Granted others probably have much more experience with those games and maybe they have changed and gotten better and I just needed to be more patient.

 Mr_Rose wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
It could be Warhammer quest:

"You eat the egg, then between adventures get run over by a cart and die."

I would hope so. It's not Quest if it's fair.

Ah yes, the ol’ “whoops, you seem to have accidentally stumbled into Bloodthirster Fight Club and they’re not happy” random monster roll at level 1…

It’s more the surviving said Bloodthirster Fight Club, receiving a signed note from Khorne himself certifying you’re a bad ass, and then getting shanked off a street urchin when you went for a wee.

Webstore preorders get a useless key ornament freebie. Would've preferred dice or something!

I mean, it's pretty cool imo. And I'm sure it'll be put up on ebay for half the price of the game :/

Can't wait for pre orders to pop up in NZ later. I really want to 360 all the models

Still gonna be gunning for a copy from Element I think. Freebies are nice, but are also up against a £40 discount.

Should I miss out, I’ll grab it from my local store instead, as that way I can start catching up on the coins.

man, this thing is as cheap looking as any video game pre-order bonus. Good to know they get them from the same Wishdotcom vendor.

It's on the New Zealand store

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/Warhammer-Quest-Cursed-City-EN-2021

Cream/beige sprue for the heroes

Radukar the Wolf is a single mini sprue

This ones packed

That key isn't worth 20% of the box price.


AoS points be doing the rounds, heroes are all individual Order Leaders but the baddies are just 3 entries with everything bar the skellies and zombies bundled into one 680 pts blob like Death isn't a real faction that can have individual personalities, it's just an NPC mook faction that the cool Sigmarine kid forces the lesser kids to play.

Looking at the 360 degree pics - my favourite thing: The duelist hero's silly walk, and he even brought a little hand mirror to check his hair in mid combat! Or maybe to check enemy positions from behind cover, but that seems far to practical.

Well that's disappointing!

There was no reason to lump them all together for 680 pts.

Heroes between 100 to 120 points each.

Yeah, heaven forbid they make it easy to split up the models and sell them on eBay. Well, they are part of the new army, but they aren't going to be sold in smaller push-fit boxes like Nighthaunt models were.

Anyone who expected them to "make it easy to split up the models and sell them on eBay" hasn't been paying attention.

Ooh, I'm super happy that the heroes are in beige plastic. I hate priming and painting that red stuff with a passion so this seems less annoying. It all looks like really great stuff IMO.

Have they explained what the objective marker minis are actually used for in-game? Are they supposed to represent generic objectives or is it actually a specific objective that calls for that ugly/cute little daemon with a treasure chest etc?

 Kanluwen wrote:
Anyone who expected them to "make it easy to split up the models and sell them on eBay" hasn't been paying attention.

They could have made them easy to split up in the rules so they'd actually be useful in AoS tho.

From the outset, they've been making it abundantly clear that the Order heroes are 'plug and play' while the Death stuff was basically a small army in one go.

Not sure why this concept is so alienating but whatevs. On to the next manufactured drama for a release!

So we do get skeleton cats. Groovy.

Also, although I hate when GW needs to cram faction symbols all over a model, they pull it off pretty well with the undead guys. The parkour vampire's chestplate has a wolf on it, the ogor shoulder pads, etc.

Anyone got good suggestions for flagstones/cobblestones for the bases? The studio set was so consistent that I thought the heroes might have come with sculpted bases like Underworlds warbands...

 Prometheum5 wrote:
Anyone got good suggestions for flagstones/cobblestones for the bases? The studio set was so consistent that I thought the heroes might have come with sculpted bases like Underworlds warbands...

I've looked into this for my SoB. There are some really cool rollers that you can use with greenstuff. It's like a rolling pin, but one with designs on it. You can put a blob of green stuff down, roll over it, and it makes the designs. Seems pretty cool