"New Warhammer Quest up for pre-order" Topic

The continuing support for Warhammer Quest is getting a big boost with the release of a whole new set of quests next week.

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This looks like it is not so Tzeentch focused and has Nurgle and Khorne models in with it as well as a host of different heroes.

Looks like a pile of tiles come with it as well as a bunch of figures.

I'll probably hold off on this one until we get some more games in with the Silver Tower set but it looks like a good value.

I'm probably only going to buy the game board and books on this one. The heroes aren't particularly cool IMO and I have most of the baddies or can very easily proxy.

I'm in the same place. I wouldn't mind some more of each of the baddies, especially the Blight Kings but don't need them.

I bought the first one mostly for the figures but ended up really liking the game. This one I'll be buying mostly for the game.

It looks like it got ruined by needing an "overlord"

Can the new game be played full co-op?

I feel like GW has really "lost the bubble". All the minis have turned into Fetish dolls.

I agree Warlock. Im not a big fan of the new aesthetic for fantasy at all.

That is Age of Sigmar Quest.

This is Warhammer Quest

Pretty clearly says Warhammer Quest. I haven't seen Age of Sigmar Quest anywhere. That would probably be pretty good too though.

"Can the new game be played full co-op?"

Yes it certainly can, it is designed to be played that way actually.

As far as the "new aesthetic" goes four of the five heroes in this are from WHFB prior to the release of Age of Sigmar.

I like the new Chaos models. The Blight Kings are just excellent figures all around. They really bring out the disgusting rottenness of Nurgle. They are some of the most characterful figs I've ever seen. All of the new Nurgle stuff really is great. The Glottkin are probably in my top 10 GW figures ever.

The Kairic acolytes are great figs too. They paint up really nicely and quickly to boot. They look suitably easy to wade through, as you would expect from human followers of Tzeentch.

The Blood Reaver figures are nice. I actually prefer the single pose ones that came with the original AoS boxed set to the ones that were later released as multipose and come with this set but they are still pretty ferocious, stacked looking murder monsters.

Alas, I am not a fan of GW's "Chaos gods" (or whatever they're supposed to be), or their currently overdone miniature design. I understand the company's desire to push their own exclusive IP, but I'm not attracted to that stuff at all. I wished they had instead truly republished the original Warhammer Quest.

Out of curiosity, if you take away the figures, is the game itself generic enough to work with any fantasy figure set, or is it pretty much designed to stick closely to GW's specific IP elements? I've never had the opportunity to play the game. Is it card driven? Scenario driven? Randomized by dice rolls and charts?

I'm assuming that the new game will work the same way as the Silver Tower. If so the game has a rulebook and a scenario book. It has a bunch of tiles and some cards.

There are different quests to go on. Each quest has a set of cards and they are randomized in a specific way so that there is an end room somewhere in the last 3 cards or so.

The players start in the entry chamber and then move into the next room at which point you flip over the top card and put the tile down representing that room.

The Silver Tower game doesn't really follow the GW IP that closely. The Dwarf model is based on the fyreslayer and the Stormcast is a stormcast but the other models are not really GW specific or even anything in AoS. The Tenebrael Shard is, I guess, a dark aelf of some description but as far as I know doesn't appear in the AoS fluff yet.

The Saith Mistweaver is probably a wood aelf or something but again I don't know of any GW like figure but that might be because I don't know the wood elf stuff that well.

The Barbarian chieftain is just a barbarian chieftain.

The Simgarite priest is kind of a generic good guy priest with a dog.

If you subbed in a knight, a barbarian, a thief-assassin, a spell caster, a priest and and a suicidal dwarf you could play the game with any miniatures.

Some of the expansion character cards are more GW specific but the original grouping should get you by for a while.

The bad guys are a little more GW specific but I don't know why you couldn't just replace them with goblins, orcs for the tzaangors, cultists and generic daemons.

Although in the latter case the horrors do split.

It is, of course, GW IP focused but with almost, if any, effort could be played with Frostgrave or any other models you posses.

I cant wait to get the next installment of WARHAMMER Quest, we have been having a lot of fun playing Silver Tower!

Double check with your seller, but pre-orders get a free GM screen. I'll wait until prices drop and pick it up on eBay in a few years during a flash sale. I still haven't assembled my WQ:ST figures!

If anyone is chasing after this game, I did a rewview at: link

Short version: Get it. It is a Good Work.

I picked up my copy yesterday. I really like it. IDK if I like it or Silver Tower better though.