Don’t miss the latest rumors and previews for Warhammer 40k’s newest Campaign Expansion Urban Conquest, that goes on pre-order this week!
Games Workshop isn’t changing it’s release cycle too much in 2019. Hot off the press is Urban Conquest for Warhammer 40k, but what the heck is it exactly?
According to GW, Urban Conquest appears to be more geared towards narrative campaign tracking, but let’s take a look at the latest teasers, rumors, and a neat little retro find inside the box.
Urban Conquest
Urban Conquest makes it simpler than ever to set up and play campaigns of street-to-street warfare. This boxed set is designed to let any player build an epic campaign. By interlinking your games, you’ll be able to keep your gaming group busy for weeks, with each battle seeing players gain territory and resources. You’ll be able to create rich narratives, as well as testing your strategy skills as you plan your next move.
You’ll find rules for playing Urban Conquest in the Urban Conquest rulebook – your guide to street combat in the 41st Millennium. This rulebook has Cities of Death rules for adding extra depth to your battlefields, Urban Battlezones, new missions, Stratagems, lore and more, making it an invaluable resource for any would-be campaign master.
The Streets of Death Cityscape Map, meanwhile, lets you create sprawling campaign maps in moments just by slotting cards into a plastic wallet, allowing you huge creative freedom when you play your campaigns as well as giving you a meaningful sense of progression when you play, as your holdings increase. Between games, you’ll be able to pin your map to the wall between games, or simply fold it away.
CaptainBetts was on hand back in November 2018 for the big reveal of Urban Conquest at the Vigilus Open and has more clues as to what exactly Urban Conquest actually is:
CITY FIGHT:
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City fight is a thing. It has special detachments, special rules and stratagems in the new campaign book.
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Urban Combat is a box. There’s a plastic wallet inside with cards to make a map (for building your own hive city). The overall map is “A1 A2 ish”. You slot the cards together to make the city. There are apparently reusable stickers you can peel on and off to show control of a given area. The box also contains more content, which wasn’t touched upon further.
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Vigilus will be around for a while.
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No Necrons and Tau on Vigilus. They may appear in later settings if they suit it. They don’t want to make an unrealistic setting where every faction is present.
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The setting isn’t just one environment (e.g. everything being a frozen tundra). There are different biomes and a load of variety. Paul Denton is the artist who does the environmental pictures for it.
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Water is super precious on vigilus if you didn’t know this already, admech use a space elevator to fetch water.
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Some armies won’t be appearing in campaign books (if they don’t fit with any of the planned campaigns).
So overall, from the looks of it, this is the Cities of Death expansion we have always wanted, complete with the terrain/ objectives, Strategem cards, missions and more.
We also noticed something interesting from the recent previews. If the map above looks semi-familiar, it may be because it appears to be the same Vogen Campaign map from Codex Cityfight back in 2001!
Urban Conquest- Campaign Map 2019
Vogen Campaign Map- Codex Cityfight 2001
You heard it here first, the map appears to have been mirror imaged flipped, and rotated clockwise, as the similarities are noticeable even at a glance. This map has graduated content high school and 18 years later has gone off to Vigilus college!
We will be comparing the old Cityfight codex (and the Cities of Death Supplements since then) to the new expansion when we get our hot little paws on it to see what other tidbits have been recycled as well.
Are you planning on a late winter campaign for your 40k group? Do you like the look of this new Urban Conquest Expansion? Let us know in the comments of our Facebook Hobby Group.
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