Don’t miss all the new releases on deck for GW’s Warcry game that are going on pre-order in just one week. Here they come!
According to Warhammer Community, Warcry is a new game of skirmish combat in the Mortal Realms and gives you a new setting, new battle system, new models, and new ways to play with the minis you have.
Next weekend, you’ll be able to pre-order the new game of skirmish combat in the Mortal Realms, offering you a dark new setting to explore, a fast-paced battle system to master, new models and new ways to play with your existing ones.
This massive boxed set (seriously, it’s huge) gives you everything you need to start fighting in the Ravaged Lands. Two warbands – the Untamed Beasts and the Iron Golem – let you battle with a friend out of the box.
If you’re looking to dive right into this new game, check out the Starter Set.
Meanwhile, a brand-new set of scenery and a folding gaming board brings the desecrated ruins of the Bloodwind Spoil to life, designed to provide a tactically varied and thematically rich backdrop to your skirmishes.
A selection of Chaos Beasts add extra challenges to your games, and can even be added to your warband in longer campaigns.
What’s more, the Starter Set is packed with handy extras for gaming. Fighter and Ability cards for both warbands help you to track your warriors at a glance, a sheet of tokens allows you to keep an eye on persistent effects and mark activations, while battleplan cards and terrain cards allow you to generate new games in moments.
The Core Book is your primer to the Warcry, giving you the rules to play alongside art and lore that sheds light on the shadowy reaches of the Eightpoints. You’ll have the chance to discover the world of Warhammer Age of Sigmar as you’ve never seen it before – a dark and wondrous realm of blood, magic, and monsters, where spires of cursed crystal and gheist-haunted ruins litter a broken land.
You’ll be able to recreate this world for yourself on the tabletop with rules for gaming, including expanded options for open, matched and narrative play. Perhaps you’ll fight sprawling, chaotic multiplayer battles – or fierce, tightly balanced tournament-tier games with like-minded friends. For narrative players, meanwhile, an in-depth campaign system brings incredible opportunities for storytelling.
Warcry campaigns are your chance to tell truly epic tales of conquest and bloodshed. Assembling your roster, you’ll embark on your choice of faction quests to search for relics, empower your fighters, and win glory for your leaders. As you triumph in battle, you’ll add more fighters to your warband, improve existing ones, and embark upon convergences – key narrative battles in the story of your warband that depict anything from bloodstained shamanic rituals to a madcap attempt by the Gloomspite Gitz to steal as many glass bottles as they can.* Even if you’re new to narrative play, generation tables for names, warband origins and warrior backgrounds allow you to forge compelling stories easily.
You can get the Core Book by itself as well.
If you want to go ahead and expand your army for Warcry, check out this other warband outside the starter set.
This warband set contains models plus rules for using them in your games in the form of sets of cards. An abilities card allows you to master the underhanded tactics, dazzling ploys and special moves available to the Cypher Lords. Meanwhile, a set of fighter cards make checking the characteristics for your warriors simple. These are just one of a host of new warbands on the way – some of which we’ve already seen…
Each set contains an abilities card, plus fighter cards for every model you can use in these warbands. The scale of Warcry means that a single box of miniatures will usually give you enough fighters for a full 1000-point Warband roster, with some leftover for reserves. If you’re looking to play Warcry with forces from one of the other Grand Alliances, these are a must-have.
Generating a battleplan in Warcry is as simple as drawing four cards! In the Battleplan Cards set, you’ll find countless combinations of deployment set-ups, challenging victory conditions and game-changing twists. Combined with the terrain cards found in Ravaged Lands sets, the possibilities are nearly endless. Seriously, there are literally millions of possible combinations!
Picture the scene. You rock up for a game of Warcry. It’s the final campaign quest, and you’re PUMPED UP. Your champion is ready to ascend to greatness, and you deliver a speech of such verve and fervor that several people in the Warhammer store that just came in to buy paint have gathered round to chant your name in solemn, terrifying tones.*** You prepare to remove your leader from your pocket – only to realize his mace has snapped off. What should be your moment of glory becomes a nightmare of plastic glue? To add insult to injury, the cool freehand you did has chipped off.
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