AoS Next Week: Warcry
Warcry is coming–the call of Archaon has gone out, now these bands of brave and brutal warriors have come to answer it. And you can pre-order it next week.
Warcry is coming, and it’s bigger and badder than we expected. It’s not just the six different warbands we met earlier this week. Oh no, it’s a giant boxed starter set that adds in chaos ruins terrain, random monsters, and a ton of other stuff. Let’s take a look at everything coming with Warcry.
via Warhamer Community
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. A selection of Chaos Beasts add extra challenges to your games, and can even be added to your warband in longer campaigns. 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.
Take a look at the Ruins. These are fantastic.
You could definitely injure yourself putting these together. On top of that you get the two warbands, Untamed Beasts and Iron Golems, as well as some Chaos beasts that look hangry.
You’ve got Harpies and Raptors, above and below.
And it’s a GW release, which means you’ll have a lot of dice, cards, tokens, and so on. But the core of the game is the core book, speaking of which:
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 get a few previews of some of the different rulesets for the game. As you might expect, there’s narrative and open play alongside more competitive rules.
And naturally there’s an in-depth campaign system in place here so you can develop your force over the course of a few different games. And here’s just a taste of some of the other Warbands you can build with the Core book:
Then there’s the Eightpoints themselves, which come with their own Ravaged Lands set.
The Eightpoints – the heart of Archaon’s dominion and the foremost stronghold of Chaos – is a vast place with its own nations, cultures and climates. Home to choking jungles, ice-capped mountains, sprawling cities and more, this tainted landscape will form a varied background to your games both in the lore and on the tabletop, thanks to the first of the Ravaged Lands sets.
And if you’re looking to build a Warband out of one of the other factions, you’ll need a one of the Warcry card packs, also available at launch:
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.
All of this is coming next week, so be sure and stay tuned for more previews as we get closer. In the meantime, here’s a video to answer any lingering questions you have about Warcry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO2ik5KMG3o
Good luck Warriors!
