Warcry

Apparently, Games Workshop has been busy. They've unleashed a huge wave of new pre-orders over in their webshop. It's a whole bunch of new kits for Necromunda and the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game. There's card packs for Warcry. There's dice. There's sci-fi terrain. And there's still some Sisters of Battle in there. It was 5 pages worth of stuff, so if you haven't checked out their shop in the last couple days, now's the time to do it.

This book is an absolute must-have for players who enjoy Matched Play games of the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game, as well as for event organisers who run Matched Play events.

This 48-page supplement includes:

- Recommended Tournament Style: Guidance for running events, aimed at delivering the best possible tournament experience.

- Scenario Pool System: Introduces a scenario pooling system for the game, designed to ensure that your tournament will be balanced by the type of scenarios being played.

- Matched Play Scenarios: Scenario rules for 24 Matched Play scenarios – 12 of which are new and exclusive to this book, including...​

- Doubles Event Scenarios: Advice and rules for running a Matched Play Doubles event, along with six new scenarios specifically designed for use in Doubles games.

- Campaign Events: Contains rules and advice for running Campaign events, where players are grouped by faction, and can participate as a team against the other factions at the event for control of Middle-earth!

- Additional Rules: Supplemental rules that event organisers can introduce to add variety to their events, including using Major and Minor victories, escalation events, using secret objectives and more.

You will need a copy of Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game rules manual in order to use the contents of this expansion.

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Games Workshop is bringing M&Ms to your games of Warcry. No, not the tasty chocolate candies that melt in your mouth, not in your hand. I mean Monsters & Mercenaries. Want to add new vicious beasts to your force? This is where you can find them. There's even a new campaign to undertake. Along with the book, there's a host of new figures you can order as well.

From the website:

Harness savage beasts and powerful allies in Monsters & Mercenaries – an expansion for Warcry that gives you even more choice when building your warband. In this book, you'll find loads of new content for every warband. Fight deadly challenge battles in your campaigns to master the might of Chimeras, Ghorgons and other towering terrors, master new fated quests or recruit a number of mercenary champions to your warband, each with new abilities to give you the edge in your skirmish battles.

This 64-page softback book contains:

- Fated Quests – new campaign quests that can be undertaken by any warband offering powerful new rewards
- Challenge Battles – a new type of battle that pits your warband against particularly deadly foes in search of glory and allies
- Thralls and Monsters – rules for adding 11 new monsters to your warband including Chaotic Beasts (Razorgor, Chaos Spawn, Chaos Warhound), the Chaos Gargant, Ghorgons, Cygors, Skitterstrand Arachnaroks, War Hydras, Kharibdysses, Terrorgheists and even Zombie Dragons
- Allies – rules for a new type of fighter called an Ally plus tables letting you know which you can add to your warband, with fifty deadly new fighters drawn from a variety of Warhammer Age of Sigmar armies

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There's... just about everything in this announcement. It's a little hard to summarize, since it covers pretty much all of GW's game lines, from Age of Sigmar to 40k and their various spin-offs, as well as the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game. Suffice to say that if you play any GW games, there's something probably in here for you to check out.

From the post:

The time has come for all the news and jaw-dropping reveals from the NOVA Open Warhammer Preview. Seriously – if you’re interested in ANY of this…

…then you’re about to have your socks knocked off.

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A new skirmish game set in the Age of Sigmar universe is coming to you from Games Workshop. It's called Warcry and they're taking pre-orders for it now. Control your gang as you fight against others in a chaotic landscape, looking to curry the favor of Archaon the everchosen. To order, there's starter sets, just the rulebook if you want, and card decks so you can make your forces out of your existing collection of figures.
Also, does anyone else think the feature image there could be a heavy metal album cover?

From the website:

From across the Mortal Realms, disparate warbands make the dark pilgrimage to the Eightpoints, seeking the favour of Archaon the everchosen. Blades will clash, spears will fly, and the ground will be soaked with the blood of the slain – only the greatest warriors will triumph!

Enter the dark world of Warcry – a new skirmish game set in the world of Warhammer Age of Sigmar. Choose your warband, and fight thrilling, fast paced tactical skirmishes in one-off battles or across epic narrative campaigns where your warriors grow and develop. This Starter Set is a must-have to play Warcry, giving you everything you need to start gaming and providing hours of thrills out of the box. Inside, you'll find:

- 8 Iron Golems – an indomitable warband hailing from the Realm of Metal
- 9 Untamed Beasts – a savage warband hailing from the Realm of Beasts
- 6 Furies and 6 Raptoryx – vile Chaos beasts who can invade your games or be added to your warbands as Thralls
- 20 fighter cards and 4 ability cards with rules for all the above
- A vast array of modular terrain to represent the ruined battlescapes of the Eightpoints
- A double-sided 22”x30” folding gaming board to battle on
- Terrain, deployment, victory and twist decks for generating awesome battleplans in moments
- 18 D6, featuring the Warcry icon on the 6

What’s more, this Starter Set contains the full and unabridged Warcry Core Book – your complete introduction to the world and rules of this new game. The Core Book includes:
- The complete core rules for Warcry, allowing you to play the game
- Rules for open play, including two types of multiplayer battles for 3 or more players – Coalition of Death and Triumph & Treachery
- Rules for matched play, including guidelines to balancing your battleplans and advice on how to run a tournament
- Rules for narrative play that allow you to run thrilling campaigns and forge epic stories where your warband progresses in power and notoriety
- A campaign section, featuring campaign quests for a number of Warcry factions, plus name generation tables for creating your warbands

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Adepticon is happening up in Chicago. I hope everyone that's there and reading this will head to Portillo's for me at least once. Italian Beef (dipped), Polish sausage (Maxwell Street Style), and a Hot Tamale. If you're not there, then you've not had a chance to see all the previews that Games Workshop has going on. So, while I can't give you a good meal through this format, I can give you those previews.

From the post:

By the Emperor do we have some cool stuff to show you tonight! We’re at AdeptiCon, and the Warhammer Preview has just finished showing off loads of the hottest Warhammer reveals. We’re talking stuff like:

• Exactly what Forbidden Power means for you…
• A new (and awesome) way to battle bigger and better with your Warhammer 40,000 armies…
• One of your most-requested models, EVER, finally in plastic…
• Our first hints at a new weapon for the arsenal of every painter…

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