Will the Pot-Grot get the buff it deserves? Cursed forever? Our Warhammer Quest: Cursed City review. This one is more or less just about the tiny plastic people every single one of whom, we should say, were kindly provided to us by GW, free of charge, for review.
With that disclaimer out of the way, though, I confess myself something of an exception to that rule. Because these folks have, in fact, somewhat won me over to the Stormcast club. The stern, defensive poses and vicious-looking, long-hafted weapons of the new Praetors and Vindictors lend the Stormcast a new-found aesthetic of drilled military discipline and formation, which all at once makes them seem more interesting to me than mere faceless hosts of immortal, teleporting angels.
But top of the pile here has to be your Knight-Vexillor. My passionate love of flags in Warhammer is very deeply ingrained, and dates back to childhood hours re-reading ancient White Dwarf issues, ogling the scratch-made, freehand-painted warrior pennants streaming behind armies of High Elves, or the Empire, in Warhammer Fantasy Battle.
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Content We Liked: January 9, Warlord Wednesdays: Battlebling Accessories Review. Competitive Innovations in 9th: Advent Annihilation. Goonhammer Reader Survey. Goonhammer is Selling Out! Welcome to the New Goonhammer. This review was completed using a free copy of the Dominion Box sent to us by Games Workshop. The second edition of Age of Sigmar was a major turning point for the game; one where AoS went from being a somewhat maligned younger sibling to 40k struggling with the legacy of the Old World to a true flagship game for Games Workshop, with vastly improved rules, wonderful models, and a solid release strategy.
The broad arrangement of the book will be familiar to established Age of Sigmar players. The rules section is broken up like so:. The overall presentation is a bit daunting at first: The book is on the thicker side, and the most striking bit of the core rules format is that they have been broken up with numbering for each section and subsection with decimal points i.
This was probably a bit of a risky move as upon initial impression it might make the rules look more intimidating than they are — it gives the rules the look of a legal document, with lots of references to subsections and highlighted keywords. Once you get over the initial intimidating appearance however, it makes the book far easier to reference.
When we first got access to the book, the Age of Sigmar crew sat around discussing potential loopholes or lack of clarity within the text but almost immediately one of us was able to point to a specific rule that would answer that question or close a loophole. It was far easier to be able to cite rule This will also likely be a benefit for future FAQs. There have also been some concerns out in the wild about this edition being bloated and more rules heavy.
Welcome to the New Goonhammer. While I heard all the bad stories about the original, that all happened while I was essentially completely out of the hobby, and by when I dived back in the trajectory was vastly more positive. By all accounts things have gone from strength to strength since then, and the volume of lavish praise for the game emanating from some segments of the community including a growing chunk of our writing team has grown ever louder.
This plus the all-important addition of pointy elves to the game was sufficiently compelling that I even had a go at painting some miniatures for it late last year, but bounced off the complexity of the models for a faction where spamming basic infantry was at the time, anyway one of the key strategies.
Right now, it looks like the time has finally arrived. Stormcast Praetors. Credit: Wings. Alternatively, shout furiously at the screen whenever I say something blindingly obvious. Whichever you enjoy more. The heavy use of italicised comments to communicate intent in the sidebars is also a masterstroke, and feels like it resulted from some very rigorous focus testing. Adopting this style was a clear risk.
Rare Rules were a very valuable addition to 9th Edition, but building that kind of commentary in up-front really helps with picking things up on a first read. Combining that with the numbering system also provides a good way of applying any FAQs needed something else Rare Rules have helped with. I love the overall style here, and I think it takes a lot of the good decisions 9th Edition 40K made and iterates on them to be even better.
We do. Rule 2. Where this section gets interesting for me is when it tackles Unit Coherency and Abilities, both of which have some divergences from 40K, and both of which introduce some overall themes in how I think this book wants games to play out.
The other thing we get here are a couple of guardrails — things clearly applied to try and prevent stacked nonsense combos. The only surprising absence here, and one I think was a big miss — Engagement Range.
Ok here it is, the big one, the scary one, the thing I sort of knew was coming — the Priority Role. Rather than the same player going first in every Battle Round in Age of Sigmar, you roll off at the start of each one, and the winner gets to choose whether to go first or second.
This creates the possibility of the dreaded double turn — a player goes second in one battle round, then wins the roll off for the next one so gets to take two turns back to back. Cleona Zeitengale. Credit: SRM.
As well as rolling in the equivalent of the Psychic Phase Spells and Prayers the Hero Phase provides a window for activating many though not all Command Abilities, and also performing Heroic Actions. Heroic Actions are new, is my understanding, and basically let you choose one hero to do a cool thing each turn.
I like these a lot, and as well as ensuring you have something to do, there are some great safety valve mechanics here. One of your heroes can temporarily put on robes and a wizard had and take a swing at them. Opponent tried to alpha your hero off the board and failed?
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