It was an expensive day today... Games Workshop released both Warhammer Quest: Darkwater AND the new Path to Glory campaign book, Blighted Wilds...
Path to Glory: Blighted Wilds
I am VERY excited about this one... but I haven't even looked in the book yet. Because I'm already playing in TWO campaigns - the Ravaged Coast campaign with some of the folks from the AoS-YXE discord and the small Ascension Campaign I'm playing with Amanda... I know I won't be playing this right away. I'll be looking through it by the end of the weekend and plotting and planning for the new year...
Warhammer Quest: Darkwater!
I likewise won't be playing this any time soon as we're still finishing up the Cursed City Night Wars campaign... but I DO need to start assembling and painting miniatures for this if I want to start playing it as soon as we're done Cursed City!
It is a BIG box...
The box contains a whopping FOURTY NINE miniatures! That brings me to 466 x 28mm foot miniatures purchased... having finished off the Dryads last night, I'm at 411 painted... meaning I need to paint 56+ 28mm miniatures in the next two (and a bit) weeks to get back in the black... (painted more than I've purchased!) Which is a little more than three per day... I mean... it's POSSIBLE!? (I might have to pick easier miniatures to paint and NOT be painting these... the things that I WANT to paint... so... maybe not worth it... but I was feeling SO CLOSE to doing it!)
Checking over the sprues to see if anything was missing - a necessary part of opening any new box of Warhammer stuff these days, unfortunately...
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I did find this random bit in the bottom of the box... I couldn't initially find where it had come off the sprue and felt bad thinking it was a bit missing from some other box..
But I think I found where it came from. Lucky THIS one fell in the box!
Other stuff in the box... including a bunch of small boxes I had to assemble myself!? Also, rules so many cards, assembly instructions, and sheet of counters.
Oh, actually there are two sheets of counters...
And the BOOK o'MAPS.
I'm trying to roll with it and see how it goes... I really feel this fundamentally changes Warhammer Quest from an exploratory dungeon crawl to a series of dungeon skirmish scenarios... you might think; What's the DIFFERENCE!? and... I don't know.. I feel like there IS a bit of a difference there, subtle though it may be. Maybe it won't be that big of a deal...
There are some really interesting maps in the book... (the one above is not one of the most interesting ones... it's just the first one in the book.. and has been shown off in previews, so I took a picture of that one before really looking through the book!)
White Dwarf magazines often include fold out posters, so I think that's a way GW could do support for the game - adding scenarios by including new fold-out maps in the magazines...
Speaking of... I also picked up the latest White Dwarf, though it clearly didn't include any new CONTENT for the game... there was articles about the game, so...
Also I found this! I'd found out this existed a year and a half ago, but it was long out of print and the copies I could find on the internet were prohibitively expensive! I happened to be looking at Dragon's Den Games web catalogue - searching Warhammer Quest... and this popped up!? I thought it might be fun to read - might inspire me to finish up the last few miniatures for Silver Tower and maybe play through THAT next year as well!!
While I was at the Dragon's Den, I checked out their new play area... and found Orion and Matt playing a game of Age of Sigmar - for the Ravaged Coast campaign!
They were playing the same scenario Orion and I played yesterday (I'm still working on the game reports - hope to have them up by the end of the weekend!)
Do I go start assembling miniatures...?
Finish up Drycha Hamadreth...?
Work on Game Reports for yesterdays games - or the last two weeks Warhammer Quest games?!
Read the Darkwater rules...? Or Blighted Wilds...!? OR LABYRINTH OF THE LOST!?
So many things to do!
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Paint figures, no wait assemble figures, no wait paint easy figures, no wait.....!
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The struggle is real!
DeleteOoh, you made the plunge into Darkwater! Very interested in your thoughts about the miniatures when you get to them, some online have said they are "too big", so that is something I wonder about...
ReplyDeleteInteresting... I know when I assembled the heroes for Cursed City I though "oh, WOW... these guys are HUGE!?" I did not get that same feeling assembling the heroes from Darkwater... Maybe it's because I've gotten so used to the Cursed City minis - and all I've been building and painting and playing with have been Age of Sigmar models for the last year.
DeleteThey are for sure bigger than 1990s metal miniatures... but EVERYTHING these days are bigger!?
One thing I DID note was - all of the heroes for Cursed City - with the exception of Brutogg the Ogor - were all on 32mm bases (which maybe contributed to the feeling of BIG!! The Darkwater heroes are on a variety of different sized bases ranging from 25mm to 285mm to 32mm to 40mm and even a larger oval base for the Centaur!? I ended up, just for consistency putting most of them on 32mm bases (except for the Big 'Uns!)
I've assembled some of the Hostile Heroes as well, and they are big, yeah... but... they're MEANT to be. Haven't done any of the Hostile rank and file just yet.
I will try to remember to post some comparison pics as I finish them up...
That would be great! I have been eying some of the figures for various uses so it would be good to see how big they are (plus I like to see your paint work!) The rest of the Nurgle stuff and the book apparently release 1/17, so that is not a lot of time to paint this lot...
DeleteI just saw that release date on Reddit... while I am interested in the battletome, I'm not sure how much of the new Nurgle stuff I'm going to pick up...? With the Spearhead and the Great Unclean One I already have, and the Battleforce box I'm working on and all the stuff from Darkwater... I have well over 2000 points worth of miniatures... That feels like enough for now!
DeleteI might pick up the new spearhead at some point. Mostly because the entire force costs $10 more than the Nurglings and Beast of Nurgle that are in the box, if purchased separately - which I'd probably pick up at some point anyway - and I get a bonus Rotbringers Sorcerer and more Rotmier Creed...
All the new models are really nice and I might pick some of them up someday... but there aren't any that are, like, OMG I NEED THESE!? I'm pretty happy with the stuff I have.
If anything I'd like some Plague Drones or the Glotkin or one (or two!?) of the Maggoth riders...
The plague drones, Glotkin, and Maggoths are all great because they can be part of a Daemon, mortal, or mixed army without too much cognitive effort. (unlike some things where they are just daemon or just mortal)
DeleteI am pretty excited about the "normal guys" whose name I will surely forget, the Rot swords. I think they look cool, and they fold more easily back into WHFB. I like the look of the other new mortals, but I am less convinced about them for various reasons.
The Rotswords are very definitely the coolest of the bunch! I also like the pestigors. The Sloven Knights are... okay... and I have to admit, I don't love the new Putrid Blightkings! I really like the current ones!
DeleteI've seen a number of people on Reddit suggesting they are rebasing all their older Blightkings onto 32mm bases to use as Rotswords going forward and I'm like... WHY!?!? They're STILL Putrid Blightkings!? I haven't seen any comparison pics to show that the new rotswords are the same size as the older blightkings?! I expect the newer Blightkings will be bigger than the current Blightkings... but THAT much bigger!?
The current blightkings are pretty big too! The new ones do not appear to have all the options of the current kit, but maybe there will be more revealed later.
DeleteI like the Sloven knights, but not that they are a unit of 3 instead of 5, and of course not the price tag!
The other day I was standing in my FLGS and it occurred to me that the standard price for a standard infantry unit for most Warhammer games is $70CAD... for ONE unit... and that's the SAME PRICE they are selling Finspan for (by Stonemeir Games) - a complete game, that you need NOTHING ELSE for... and it all seemed a bit absurd... I know comparing a board game made of card board and a miniature game (which is a whole damned hobby unto itself) is kind of "comparing apples and oranges"... but it's like the apple is a dollar and the oranges only come in a crate of 15 for $50... some comparisons can be made!?
DeleteOh man, you can't compare GW prices to anything else, that way lies madness...
DeleteHa-ha! Indeed!
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