The Chaos warbands are kits of brand new miniatures (all of them useable in the new Slaves to Darkness Age of Sigmar army). The warbands for non-chaos factions all use current miniatures from Age of Sigmar. This seems like the way it will continue to be. Warcry’s original 2019 starter set came with the Iron Golems – a tankier warband of well-armed, metal-armoured, martial fighters wearing ornate masks – and the Untamed Beasts – a bunch of deadly, low-tech wilderness barbarians obsessed with killing in the name of chaos. The Questor Soulsworn are amongst the most capable warriors of all Sigmar’s Stormcast Eternals, sent out on dangerous odysseys across the length and breadth of the Mortal Realms. Numbering six elite warriors, this heroic warband builds six Errant-Questors with loads of different two-handed weapons – two of these fighters can alternatively be built as a Questor-Prime, two as a Soulsworn Knight-Relictor, and two as an Errant Questor-Duellist with Twinblades. Warcry embraces the same “3-ways-to-play-concept” as Warhammer, giving you options for open, matched and narrative play. What this really means: you can play Warcry on a much smaller space than a normal Age of Sigmar or 40k battle and you will need a lot less terrain to make it interesting.

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The Reserve Phase:is quite simple. Sometimes the deployment card will indicate that a group will be in reserve. This just means that in a specific round, after the first, it will come onto the battlefield instead of being set up at the beginning of the game. Double means that it requires a “double pool” from the initiative roll to use. The same goes for triple and quad. This has never been a flavour of Warcry we’ve delved into, so we shan’t pass much judgment in this area. But there’s undeniably more choice, narrative development, and fluffy tables to roll on here than there used to be – so, if that’s what floats your Mortal Realms skirmishing boat, Warcry’s new core book is for you. Do remember, though: that book will be available on its own in due course. Red Harvest has only one problem, and that is its price. Any box heaving with this much stuff is going to be expensive, but Red Harvest’s price runs the risk of alienating part of its audience. Red Harvest is in part still supposed to be a starter set of sorts, just as it is also supposed to be an expansion. Whilst Red Harvest does both of these things phenomenally well, its price places it well out of the reach of many would-be Warcriers. We’ll start with Xandire’s Truthseekers. Rendered in blue plastic, these detailed miniatures are push-fit, meaning they require no glue to assemble (but we’d always recommend using glue anyway). They’re a good couple of figures to start out with, but do be aware of the bow (wielded by the figure in the bottom-right of the image below) as the strings on this are fragile and liable to breaking.

Warcry Monsters and Mercenaries Expansion Book

Writer, Editor, Texas Native, and Austinite for 15+ years, Adam covers all things Tabletop Gaming. Which includes Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, D&D, Board Games and everything else that involves dice, boards, cards and a table. The runemark of the fighter. They are bit like keywords in Age of Sigmar, deciding what special abilities the fighter can use and what buffs can be used on them. Movement, combat, you-go-I-go turn style and the fluidity of the game is just so good. After having played I game, I just feel like playing another. This, for me, is the best kind of game and not really something that Age of Sigmar (or any wargame) is gaming me on a consistent basis. The abilities and initiative dice are really sweet It uses a “you-go-I-go” style of play, where you alternate moving one miniature at a time. This means that there are no big pauses where you just sit and watch your opponent. The greatest innovation is certainly the reactions, a mechanic Games Workshop seems to be very fond of lately, inspired by the 3rd edition of Age of Sigmar and the 2nd edition of The Horus Heresy. On the opponent’s turn, you can execute one of three core reactions if you sacrifice an action for it, and each warband also brings its own specific reaction (which is why older warbands require the new Warcry Compendium).

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The “ending” of the campaign feels weird. Should you just play on with the warband that has completed his narrative? Did you win the campaign? The chaos warbands have 2 different quests to choose from and the non-chaos warbands have 1 they can select (there are more campaign quest to choose from in the expansions)

Games Workshop have been on a bit of a high with starter sets recently. Whilst we haven’t got our hands on any to review, the new Warhammer 40,000 Tenth Edition Starter Sets have been very well-received by the community. We also gave Warhammer Underworlds’ new 2023 Starter Set a five-star review for its ease-of-access and magnificent spread of models. Warcry is a skirmish based wargame released by Games Workshop. It uses miniatures and lore from the Warhammer: Age of Sigmar setting. If you are familiar with Kill Team for Warhammer 40k, you will see quite some similarities.