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It's about 45 minutes, maybe an hour at the most? It plays really quickly. I would have set it up again (takes literally about one minute) and played another round but my friends were cowardly and had to leave since it was "late". I called it "The Parting of the Cowards".
Here's how it works to give you a better idea. The arena is a pretty small hex grid. You start anywhere more than two spaces away from the other fighters. You have a card that has your specials and a wound tracker on it. Everybody has a rage chip that goes on a chart. This rating determines how many initiative cards you put in the deck, which randomly determines who gets to go when. The more rage-filled you are, the more you get to do. Doing cowardly, lame stuff like running away reduces your rage, but so does making mighty attacks. Rage goes up based on things like critical hits (when YOU get hit) and so forth. So the more beat the hell up you get, the more ragey you get. And thus, the guy that is the whipping boy for all three other fighters might get to just whip 'em all on the next round with more turns than them.
Each fighter has a killzone that matches their weapon. So the dude with the flaming chain hammer has a wide arc that does more damage if you are at range 2. The guy with two axes is a total BEAST if you are in front of him, but he has no reach at all. And so on.
Everything is run with action cards, you get five per round. These have three choices on them, which are usually a move, a variety of attack types, and either a dodge/block/parry or "trick" move. On your turn, play one and do one thing. The end! It really is that simple.
One thing that REALLY separates this game from other fighting games is that MOVING is super freakin' important. Usually these kinds of games wind up with players dicing it off and nobody maneuvering. In this, there are a lot of ways that other players can move you (like kicking you into a pit, which kills you instantly) so you might find yourself staggered and turned the wrong way round and you need to play a card that lets you change facing or you might get backstabbed.
The attacks are typical GW. You roll X dice, with a Y+ hit. These do wounds, but the victim has to play a card to dodge/block/parry and all of those are different. If you get hit, you take wounds and that moves your marker down the track. If you go down to zero, you draw a critical injury card and place a wound marker on the top most space, effectively reducing your wounds every time you hit zero. Once you are completely wounded out, you're dead. Thing is, attacks can do a bunch of damage, so it doesn't take long. There are also markers on your attacks that shift from healthy to wounded, reducing your effectiveness.
Oh, and special abilities...on most, you have to discard two cards to use them. They do great things. Heldrax's is awesome, you target another player anywhere on the board and both roll a die. You add that player's wrath (up to four) and do damage equal to the difference of the sum and the other player's roll. Nasty business.
That's pretty much it, there's more fluff than rules in the book. Illustrations are GREAT.
There is one complaint, otherwise this game is perfect. I mean it. I kind of wish that they saw the potential in this game as something MORE than a Khorne thing. They could make this an Age of Sigmar pit fighting game, do stat cards for all the models (like Silver Tower) and I would be on the hook for like a thousand dollars. Then they could sell me different arenas too. Or different sets, like a four-pack of Seraphon fighters and maybe a board with their setting on it. It would be freaking awesome. But it's just a Khorne thing, and that's fine because it suits it well.
I kind of hope they will do a four-pack like they did for Silver Tower of those other fighters...but then again, three of them are in that starter set...
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Man, has gw done a turnaround this year or what...
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I believe they grabbed some mantic guys a while back. could be wrong though.
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Goret Ouched.
I guess that is a piglet who was given a boo-boo?
This is a silly game that gw made.
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ETA: OK I ordered Mr Whippy for $6 on ebay. That giant Pog carrying guy is only up on auctions by the same seller for something like $15 BIN. Maybe five is enough figures for now.
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