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Let's Talk WARHAMMER QUEST ADVENTURE CARD GAME
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DukeofChutney wrote: I'm tempted by this, is it a better buy that Lord of the Rings LCG? I'm probably looking at Solo with periodic two player games.
Well, for me the biggest detractors of the LotR LCG are its distribution model & the deck construction. The first is pretty clear, you need to shell out pretty penny to fully enjoy it. THere's also the possibility of requiring to change your decks against some encounters. Except if you're playing the saga expansion, which is more $$.
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WHQAC really distills the essence of a dungeon crawl into a pretty simple package. It's got exploration, combat and character progression all the things you want in a dungeon crawl/adventure game.The rules are pretty simple, although the rulebooks have are a little lacking in a few areas, but it's not so bad you can't logically houserule any rules questions.
I really like how the character's actions work. On you can attack enemies, explore the location you are at (essential for advancing through the quest), aiding another player (rolling successes allows the other player to put success tokens on their own action cards/gear cards thus making them more effective on their turn) and resting (which allows you to heal). Each character has a unique version of these cards that allow them to do things like exhaust enemies so they can't attack, or engage enemies who are attacking other players, or moving them to the shadows etc. Once you've used an action it's tapped. And it stays tapped until you use the action you have with the "prepare" icon on it, this resets all your actions.
This is my favorite mechanic of the game because the prepare icon is on a different action card for each player and it happens to be the action that character is the worst at. This means all the players are rotating through their actions. The elf isn't just exploring every turn, the dwarf isn't fighting every turn, etc. It also means the players need to find some synergy between their characters and co-ordinate their actions in tricky situations.
This is also why it might be my favorite co-op game. It's certainly not the hardest co-op I've played. We never came close to losing. True on the first two quests we didn't get one or two rules right, so maybe it would have been harder, so you always have that in the back of your mind after a win. I wouldn't mind if it was a little harder. The reason why I enjoy it as a co-op is it feels pretty immune to the affects of an alpha player. There were hardly any clear-cut optimal choices to be made. Instead each turn there were 2-3 good actions I could take, and it came down to personal preference really on what to do. Maybe it's just because when my brother and I play a co-op we're pretty open to each other's input but also OK with letting each player make their own decisions.
My 6.5-year-old nephew was able to pick up a character and play along with us in a dungeon delve too, which was fun. He didn't always want to make the best decisions, but he was able to keep up with the mechanics of the game with a few reminders. Also his enthusiasm for the game, especially when the giant bats came out, was infectious.
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Mr. White wrote: Looks like this game is in stock to boot!
Huzzah!
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FFG's flavour text writing on the missions is terrible, as it is in most FFG games. Warhammer has always been a bit tongue in cheek 2000 AD comics influenced but this feels a bit too light. It would appear you cannot really 'kill' the goblin nemesis in the first quest which seems a bit bloodless to me. Warhammer should be a bit darker and of greater violence.
The characters are really well designed. IM surprised they can get so much flavour out of four action cards and a refresh action. Having the elf refresh on attack actions generates this quick fire legolas feel for example. Clever bit of design.
The variety in the locations, enemies and dungeon decks is really solid. I was expecting it to be pretty straight forward as a strategy game, relying mostly on the 'experience' to drive it, but you do have to adapt to the situation quite a bit.
in general thumbs up, good call by the fort.
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Will play it again soon and hopefully it will be more fun and less work this time. It definitely seems fun and I can especially see a campaing being a great experience.
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Everybody on the internet says you can engage enemies engaged with others but I don't see anywhere in the rules that says you can. It also doesn't say you can't. So, I dunno. We played you couldn't and didn't really have a problem with it.
As for not being able to kill the goblin, don't worry he's the only nemesis that does that. What it means is he gets shuffled into the enemies deck in subsequent adventures so you can be lucky enough to deal with two nemesis enemies at the same time.
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