BobbyB Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 Not sure if this is the right place so mods feel free to move Had a demo of this game at Warhammer Fest today and thought it was worth giving a quick rundown for people that didn't have the opportunity as it's a great little game and doesn't seem to be much info out there as yet. I didn't have much interest in this game initially, I think because I was expecting a hearthstone clone and when I looked at the cards it looked a bit convulted and confusing on that basis. Well, it seems I was wrong! The game quickly becomes pretty intuitive as it revolves around a few key mechanics that, once you've grasped them, mean it all goes very smoothly. Apparently a game should take about 15 minutes, although mine probably was closer to half an hour, but sped up as we got the hang of it and I reckon after one game I could quite comfortably show someone else. You select four Champion cards, which all have a points value, and can have a total points value of up to 20. Each champion also has a positive or negative impact on your starting health. Two of mine gave +1 and two gave -1 meaning I started with the standard 30 health. It's worth noting you have a collective health pool, none of your cards have health as far as I could see and you don't specifically damage your opponents units or champions, the damage is done direct to the collective pool. You win by reducing the pool to 0. You also have four Blessings and a deck comprising Unit and Spell cards (not sure how many I'm afraid!) You have a play mat that has a health counter, little summary of some of the icons, and four lanes. Each lane has a space for a Champion, a Blessing and a Unit or Spell. These lanes come into play in the game as certain cards will effect units, spells or champions in other lanes relative to the champion playing the card. To start you shuffle your blessings and place them on the Champion spots face down so you don't know which is which, and the players then deploy the champions on top of them in turn. One of the key mechanics is that most cards have icons in each corner, and either rotate each turn, or under certain conditions , causing certain effects. Each turn you get two actions, which can be to play a Unit or Spell, Use an ability or draw a card. If you choose to draw a card you can't then make a different action after, so you either take the other action and then draw, or draw twice. Each lane only has one spot for a unit or spell and most champions can only either cast spells or summon units, not both, so you have to think about which lane you deploy your champions in and what units or spells you use with which champions. Once in play the units or spells usually rotate every turn, and will usually have a number or an X in each corner that has a different effect depending on the spell or unit that comes into play when it rotates on to it. For example some units will say' do X damage' (where X is a little rotate symbol I can't do on my phone) meaning the unit does an amount of damage equal to the number in the top left corner whenever it rotates. For an example arcane bolt does nothing for two turns and then does 7 damage on turn three. If the card has a symbol on every corner then it is discarded once it has fully rotated, if it has corners without symbols it will be discarded earlier. The symbols in the champions card corners relate to missions that they need to complete to rotate, for example deal damage, summon a unit, heal etc. Once they have fully rotated the blessing card underneath them is revealed and becomes active giving a powerful buff. That's the long and short of it but you have other text and abilities on the cards that allow certain synergies and other abilities, for example the orruks can stack on top of each other to allow support, as if in a waaaggh, meaning they can do more damage than unsupported in some cases. I played death and my opponent played and orruks destruction deck and they both felt like they played very thematically. I think it's probably not the easiest game to explain so I might have made a hash of it, and like I said it looks confusing at first glance, but honestly plays so smoothly once youce had a couple of turns. I did ask about the AR and digital angles but that all seemed a bit confused, I think it will be a while behind the physical release. I think the digital version is completely stand alone, but using the AR you can see your units by scanning the codes around each card and apparently you can level up the AR characters , both in the physical and digital versions. Was almost tempted by the founders pack but decided to play it safe as I'm on a budget and wait for release as I'm not sure I'll need all four campaign decks. It's a proper tcg which I can imagine might put some people off but I'll definitely try it out on release Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamie.white Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 Was the founders pack there to buy ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucio Posted May 12, 2018 Share Posted May 12, 2018 6 minutes ago, jamie.white said: Was the founders pack there to buy ? No, pre-order at a discounted £120 However they said due to popular feedback they'd put two play mats in instead of the 1 originally planned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyB Posted May 12, 2018 Author Share Posted May 12, 2018 You could preorder it and they said you would get it before general release and likely at a better price than if bought after whf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyB Posted May 12, 2018 Author Share Posted May 12, 2018 Agh I almost asked about this and would have bought if I'd known! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuneBrush Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Could be worth contacting them and seeing if they'd hold the offer open if you attended Fest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyB Posted May 16, 2018 Author Share Posted May 16, 2018 Tried it but they wouldn't go for it! I did manage to get someone to order for me though. Looking forward to the release. Think the literature they gave out at the event had old/unused/incorrect social media info on it, in case anyone's interested they are on twitter at https://twitter.com/AgeofSigmarTCG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyB Posted June 4, 2018 Author Share Posted June 4, 2018 https://www.warhammerchampions.com/ Website updated with loads of info, preorders for founder packs (quite a bit more expensive than at whf) and a forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayple Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 Do you know if there are any Skaven cards currently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyB Posted June 4, 2018 Author Share Posted June 4, 2018 Not that I've seen, all previewed chaos stuff has been tzeentch, khorne or archaon afaik. Looks like there's only c.60 cards per grand alliance at release so might be one for an expansion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanka Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 what is the price for the founders pack. I am in Australia and they wont do a deal for us aussies... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyB Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 £200, which seems pretty steep unless you want all the limited stuff for some reason. £120 made it a decent deal to split with a mate, but I would say at £200 you're better off waiting for retail, especially as this ships on the day it launches anyway. Even at £20/deck and £4/booster you're only looking at £120 so you're paying at least £80 for the two mats and ltd gubbins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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