Okay, there's been some rumblings about the Warmachine talk taking over the Warhammer thread, time to spawn it off into its own thread.
Someone wanna gather together all the recent MkIII spoiler links into one post to follow this?
Edit: Tried adding the big Table Top tag, but it's only coming through as a regular tag. Guess a mod has to do that. Or I can't remember the special way to do it.
Edited by Dvandom, 02 June 2016 - 04:30 PM.
This is an on-going summary of all the (official) details as they are revealed.
Here's the details for the models in the new wave of Battle Boxes, as revealed via No Quarter #66.
No word yet if there will be card packs like they did for the MkII revision, or if they just expect everyone to use War Room to continue using older models...?
There's update decks for everyone, yeah.
I'm thrilled that Cygnar's own models will be a lot more viable in 3e, it wasn't as fun to play Mercnar or play against the high ARM/high wound skew lists.
I've done a bit of faction dabbling, so I'm not sure how many of the decks I want to get. I'll probably start with Legion since that's what I own the most of, but then I have the annoying decision of whether to get Cygnar's (my next biggest faction) or to get the Minions deck for my Gatormen and Feralgeist.
Probably going to get a bunch of the decks eventually since they'd be nice for some proxy experimenting, but not sure how much I want to spend or how quickly. I imagine the decks won't be around forever, but I probably have quite awhile before I need to worry about them going out of print.
Edited by Waspinator, 22 May 2016 - 01:27 AM.
I wouldn't worry too much. I still see the MK1->MK2 decks around in decent numbers.
There's some rumblings that it is Grayle's character beast.
Edited by HomelessOne, 22 May 2016 - 01:36 AM.
Edited by HomelessOne, 22 May 2016 - 08:30 AM.
While I cannot officially advocate this in any way, I suspect scans of the new cards will be around as well, and if you only have a handful of some faction it might be easier to just print out those scans and stick 'em in sleeves.
The "you can mix and match" is a little disingenuous, though. Looks like pretty much every Warlock will be limited to taking one kind of Warbeast (Gorax/Farrow or Gator, or even a specific one like the Iosian example), with the mix and match coming from solos and units.
The battlegroups are limited, but everything else is fair game. Minions can at long last use some Minions Solos that couldn't be taken by gators or pigs. It's much like Mercenaries removing the Contract boundaries (...aside from Cephalyx) but human/rhulic jacks are still segregated.
Also, I can't believe that one guy had the balls to post the Legion playtest deck on the faction forum.
Edited by HomelessOne, 23 May 2016 - 05:32 PM.
Kind of interesting. With the increased focus on terrain in 3e, having standardized mats could be helpful for a lot of players.
Edited by HomelessOne, 24 May 2016 - 02:10 PM.
It also means that Minions gained some cool stuff like the Boomhowlers and Nyss Hunters.
and i finnaly have a reason to buy a farrow razor back. missle launcher pigs are go.
One side note: am I the only one who thinks that the price control policy seems to be a horrible failure so far? I still see plenty of cheap figures on Amazon and eBay stores. So good job PP, you succeeded in driving sales from dedicated online game stores to Amazon. I'm sure Amazon appreciates the help.
Actually, the goal was to get stores willing to sign on to carry product. A couple hundred stores did sign on. Goal met. What's happening now is more a function of flushing inventory at cost from people either panicking about MkIII or realizing they've been blackballed and getting out of selling PP stuff entirely.
It was certainly amusing to watch Miniature Market flip-flop.