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Time to Play Sigmar Again? $65 AoS Firestorm Campaign

By Juan Lopez | October 1st, 2017 | Categories: Age of Sigmar, Product Review, Videos

Firestorm Campaign Post

The Firestorm Campaign is finally here, but will you want to grab your Age of Sigmar armies to conquer the Flamescar Plateau?

The Firestorm Campaign will have you waging battle across the Flamescar Plateau, seeking to unearth relics and priceless artifacts. There is also a weapon of supreme destructive power that is being sought after by every army in the Mortal Realms. Welcome to Firestorm, the Age of Sigmar campaign that is being hailed as extremely innovative. The Season of War: Firestorm Campaign Box retails for $65 and our very Rob Baer was able to unbox it and breakdown what’s inside and give a breakdown on how the campaign will work.

Here is a sample of our quick and dirty review to give you the lowdown on what you can expect to save with these bundles.

For our complete review, be sure to scroll down and press play on the full video below.

Firestorm Campaign Box

We know that Games Workshop often uses Age of Sigmar as a testing ground for stuff like this. It is possible that something similar to Firestorm could come out for 40k in the near future. While that is just a speculation, what you are getting in this campaign box is not. Rob was unsure at first whether this would be a good addition to Age of Sigmar and worth the purchase. After some playtesting, he was convinced that Firestorm is definitely a solid choice. Everything about this release screams quality. You will get map markers, cards, a campaign map that is a game board, and a rule book with Allegiance abilities and rules for every existing Age of Sigmar faction.

Firestorm Campaign Contents

The stickers included are reusable and contain all the factions emblems, realm gates, battle location indicators and more. The board itself is a large, folding game board that displays all 23 controllable regions in the Flamescar Plateau. The four corners are left open for you to place your Grand Alliance marker and claim that point as your starting area. The Domain Cards are essentially a ‘living card game’ deck and will help you define the size of your army and the resources you have. Every player will get a Secret Objective card at the beginning of the game. Strategic areas throughout the board can be captured which will grant you special abilities to use. The objectives and areas you take, victories achieved, and more will earn you Glory Points. One way to win the game is collect 30 Glory Points.

Rob goes into more detail as to how the campaign is structured and pours over all the rules and allegiance abilities in the complete review breakdown below.

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Firestorm: $65

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For millennia armies have battled for control of the region known as the Flamescar Plateau, seeking to unearth its priceless treasures and hidden relics. Here lies a weapon of supreme destructive power, sought by armies from across the Mortal Realms. Whoever can harness its might will be gifted the power to utterly destroy their enemies. Yet claiming dominion over this war-torn land will be no simple task…

In The Box

This box contains everything you need to run a multiplayer campaign of Warhammer Age of Sigmar in the war-torn lands of the Flamescar Plateau. Whether you want to play Skirmish games, or massive, epic battles with thousands of points, this set makes it easy to organise, set up and play. It includes a large map of the Flamescar Plateau, divided into 23 regions for your campaign players to fight over – there are 256 map markers in the box, which are reusable stickers that can be peeled off and attached elsewhere as needed. Emphasis has been placed on speed when designing this box – we want your admin to be as minimal and fast as possible, so you can get on with actually playing through your campaign!

In the included 64-page book, you’ll find a brief history of the Realmgate Wars, along with descriptions of important Sigmarite cities and the Flamescar Plateau itself – the expansive region of the Realm of Fire, once ruled over by a magocracy known as the Agloraxi, over which your campaigns will be fought. It also features an extensive, easy to follow guide to actually running your campaigns – challenging opponents, picking a Battleplan, using Time of War Rules, how to use the included campaign cards, building garrisons and mustering your armies in the regions you control, and some special rules. These special rules add secret objectives allowing players to use some initiative and cunning, rules for trade and negotiation, and possible sudden death victories – these rules can drastically change the flow and outcome of a campaign. There are also 9 sets of Allegiance Abilities for use in the campaign – 6 of these represent the major Sigmarite cities found on the map, with one each for the forces of Death, Destruction and Chaos. These include battle traits, command traits and artefacts of power for your armies to use.

There’s also a set of 131 campaign cards – some of these, the Domain cards, are used to define the size of the armies that are fighting, and provide players with resources to call upon, such as points to spend on re-rolls and Stratagems; the others are used for special rules, and for keeping track of your Glory points – acquire these in order to win! The cards players are using are stored in one of the 4 provided card envelopes, coloured to match the 4 Grand Alliances.

Component Breakdown

You get a lot of content inside Firestorm:

– a 64-page softback book;
– a huge campaign map, divided into 23 controllable regions of the Flamescar Plateau;
– 256 re-usable map markers: 2 Realmgate markers, 12 Grand Alliance markers, 128 Altar markers, 56 Control markers (split into 4 sets), 56 Garrison markers (split into 4 sets) and 4 army markers;
– 131 campaign cards: 20 core Domain cards, 36 optional Domain cards, 24 upgrade Domain cards, 4 Sceptre of Flame cards, 3 Strategic Domain cards, 12 Secret Object cards, 12 Build Point cards and 20 glory point cards;
– 4 card envelopes, each of which is coloured as either Order, Death Chaos or Destruction.

The Firestorm Campaign Box are available now online and in local Games Workshop stores. Be sure to press play on our quick and dirty unboxing and review video below for the full review.

For more on the Firestorm Campaign Box and all things Age of Sigmar, visit Games Workshop!

About the Author: Juan Lopez