Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower

After GW's Ultramarine "salesforce" visited me last night, I now realize what a heretical idea it is to easily proxy miniatures in their games. In addition to speaking out against this corrupt and wicked practice, I would encourage you all to buy the game at full price from your local Games Workshop store or authorized dealer.

Company man.

I keep side-eyeing those $30 no-minis sales but then I read that the character progression is just some skill cards, which sounds like the kind of thrown together thing Zombicide did with Ultimate Survivors, and I could get more Brimstone for the cost.

No real character progression, no locations to visit between expeditions, etc. Yeah, this thing is WHQ in name only...and like I said, that's pretty cynical as there is no more 'Warhammer'.

It's funny that people want to buy this game without the minis...on the flip side, I'm looking to drop about $80 for minis only (BB Team) with no game...

Blood Bowl is all about the team. I miss my old 2nd ed skavens I left in England. These games are like Nethack to me, and I was fine being chased by "&" symbols in that game. I would probably just use Zombicide figures.

Just played the first adventure. It's fucking GREAT.

Deets!

Mine arrived last night but I'm heading out of town tomorrow morning for a week, damn. I will just have to read about Barnes declaring it game of the year, raving about it for a few days, and then selling it to Pete all before I get back home.

Prepare your side cutters...there is a lot to put together. It took me maybe 2.5 hours. Having not assembled miniatures in 10 years, GW plastics are amazing.

It's more likely that I will sell other dungeoncrawlers off. Especially since I'm now invested in building and painting these things. And also because if it holds out over a few games it might be pretty damn close to perfect as far as what I want out of these kinds of games.

Plus I love that it is cosmic and psychedelic. Quasi-Egyptian bird dudes, spider/goblin hybrids, monsters that divide into smaller monsters...

The activation system is similar to Claustrophobia but it is cleaner. It does the "roll to see if you can do this" but of RPGs up front on your turn and then hands you decisions.

The format is really different than other DCs. Rooms are random and each has story and effects all one card and it may reference a paragraph in the adventure book. It is an almost perfect mix of old school, old fashioned hobby game ideas and new school, streamlined modernity.

Sounds like hybrid of Claustrophobia and Super Fantasy dice system.

Assembling is no problem, I've already spent 10ish hours on Kingdom Death: Monster (and still have many to go).

Michael Barnes wrote: It's more likely that I will sell other dungeoncrawlers off. Especially since I'm now invested in building and painting these things.

Looking forward to seeing the finished paint jobs.

Oh, I'm painting some other stuff first. These figures are NUTS.

Test run with that 40k assassin game? Sounds like you've been out of practice for a while. It'll be nice to see others posted some painted minis though.

Yeah, for some reason I'm getting more and more intrigued by the Age of Sigmar setting and a lot of it has to do because of the Silver Tower. i can understand the nerd rage of killing the Old World, it was my favorite fantasy setting, but maybe we should give this new psychedelic fantasy setting a chance? I dig the vibrant colors. Nice change of pace.

EDIT: They're really shooting themselves in the foot not calling this Age of Sigmar Adventures: Silver Tower or something. They should have tied the name more strongly to the new setting. Near as I can tell, this game has great word of mouth and sounds like the setting could use the positive press.

Nah, I'm going to start on some Reaper Bones first! I've got their little "learn to paint" kit so my kids can do some too.

Even though it is WHQ (despite the jackasses saying things like "it is a mockery of a once great game"), they really should have called AoS Adventures or something like that. But they knew the brand still has much currency.

OW WHFB has been on life support for YEARS. Despite a handful of Internet complainers who want things to be the same today as they were when they were 20 years younger, the OW setting really needed a refresh. I was resistant too because that stuff is classic gaming, but after reading the fluff and seeing more of it I think it's pretty cool and I can see clear, logical thinking about what they are doing. It fits more with the far more successful 40k setting. It's better business and branding. And it's more unique.

Michael Barnes wrote: The format is really different than other DCs. Rooms are random and each has story and effects all one card and it may reference a paragraph in the adventure book.

Sounds like Shadows of Brimstone with the random rooms + encounter cards.

Also, do not use spray undercoat on Reaper bones minis, just like they tell you not to.