WestRider Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 Didn't think to post this here until just now. Looks to be a good time. Sign up here. Sparkle Party Deathmatch in the City of Mirrors A Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire Tournament and Painting Competition Date: March 31, 2018 11 a.m.–8 p.m. Location: Mox Boarding House 5105 Leary Ave NW Seattle, WA 98107 (206) 523-2273 Cost: $5 Warband Selection Players must bring at least one or two unique warbands, each of which must have a fixed deck for the entirety of the event. Decks must follow the deck-building guidelines (pg. 13) of the core rule book. At the beginning of each tournament round, players choose which warband they will use for the entirety of that tournament round. Game Boards and Tokens All players must bring at least one game board and enough tokens to play the game. Tournament Play Swiss-format tournament bracket will be used. Players will play three tournament rounds. The winner of each tournament round will be determined by best of three games. Painting Competition Paint will be scored by a combination of an objective rubric and fellow player votes. Painting and Models You may play with unpainted models but, if you do so, you are not eligible to win Best Painted or Best Overall. Proxy models are not allowed. Conversions are allowed if the models remain clearly identifiable. Props and Phat Lewts Prizes will be awarded for first, second, and third place for the following: In-store credit will be awarded to the first-place winner in each category. • Best Painted Warband. If tied, the player with the highest number of player’s-choice votes wins. • Best Warlord. If tied, the player with the highest glory points wins. (Sum of highest two scores per tournament round.) • Best Overall. Based on ranking of Paint and Warlord combined. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Hanaur Posted March 29, 2018 Report Share Posted March 29, 2018 How is 5he balance on this game? Ive gotten conflicting reports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted March 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2018 As far as I can tell, pretty good. We've mostly been playing multi-player up here, tho, which kind of skews things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadwing34 Posted March 29, 2018 Report Share Posted March 29, 2018 There have been several international tournaments and the warband spread has been very good so far. Also as each expansion comes out you get 30 generic cards that can make older warbands better. So the meta keeps changing with each expansion that comes out which is really cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Hanaur Posted March 29, 2018 Report Share Posted March 29, 2018 Ah. So the game relies on expansion cards, like Star Wars: X-Wing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted March 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Each Warband pack comes with a set selection of new cards. Some of them are specifically for that Warband, and some of them are generic and usable by anyone. At least as of now, you can't get the cards by themselves, but on the flipside, they're not randomly packed. Not sure if that's how SW:XW works. Right now, with the latest releases (Fyreslayers and Skaven), the initial set of cards has been completely released, which could fill in some gaps that were around when it was only two or four Warbands, if the balance issues you'd heard about were from earlier in the game's cycle. From what I've heard, the Orruks seem to be a bit ahead of the pack, but nothing even close to the kind of power spread 40K has between Factions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Hanaur Posted April 1, 2018 Report Share Posted April 1, 2018 On 3/29/2018 at 5:37 PM, WestRider said: Each Warband pack comes with a set selection of new cards. Some of them are specifically for that Warband, and some of them are generic and usable by anyone. At least as of now, you can't get the cards by themselves, but on the flipside, they're not randomly packed. Not sure if that's how SW:XW works. Right now, with the latest releases (Fyreslayers and Skaven), the initial set of cards has been completely released, which could fill in some gaps that were around when it was only two or four Warbands, if the balance issues you'd heard about were from earlier in the game's cycle. From what I've heard, the Orruks seem to be a bit ahead of the pack, but nothing even close to the kind of power spread 40K has between Factions. Comparisons between the two are impossible anyways but I was trying to liken it to something I know. X-wing has you buy a ship, and with it come cards meant for that ship but that can be applied on other units as well. So it sounds similar in that way. So if you buy a warband, you will still want to get others in order to compete because the cards you get can be used elsewhere, yeah? And yes, the balance issue was mentioned to me early on. Like all games you go in having to show a little faith on it. But it helps me think about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadwing34 Posted April 2, 2018 Report Share Posted April 2, 2018 Another important thing to keep in mind, that you are never allowed to use more that 1 copy of each card in your decks. So there is never a reason to buy more than 1 expansion ever. Unlike X-Wing where you can have up to 3 cards in your deck forcing you to potentially purchase 3 expansions just to get 1 card. Plus with each expansion you get a fully usable Warband. Overall its a really good system. I would still love to see GW make a season one card pack that comes with all of the generic cards from the set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted April 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2018 1 hour ago, deadwing34 said: Another important thing to keep in mind, that you are never allowed to use more that 1 copy of each card in your decks. So there is never a reason to buy more than 1 expansion ever. Unlike X-Wing where you can have up to 3 cards in your deck forcing you to potentially purchase 3 expansions just to get 1 card. Plus with each expansion you get a fully usable Warband. Overall its a really good system. I would still love to see GW make a season one card pack that comes with all of the generic cards from the set. Well, it can get kind of frustrating trying to maintain multiple Warbands with only one copy of each card. I really wouldn't mind having another Cunning Duelist and Earthquake or three. What I really want as a standalone is a board pack, tho, so I can play multi-player with my brother and his wife without needing to buy another core box. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadwing34 Posted April 2, 2018 Report Share Posted April 2, 2018 1 hour ago, WestRider said: Well, it can get kind of frustrating trying to maintain multiple Warbands with only one copy of each card. I really wouldn't mind having another Cunning Duelist and Earthquake or three. What I really want as a standalone is a board pack, tho, so I can play multi-player with my brother and his wife without needing to buy another core box. Oh yah I forgot about that reason, I think you are right. Ideally they would have a generic card pack expansion that would come out with each expansion. Rumors are they will come out with board only releases as well. I really wish they would explain in detail the plans for Warhammer Underworlds after these next two expansions that come out on the 14th of this month. I do play with more than 1 Warband at a time with my son but have not felt the need to buy more than I expansion. I just make due with all of the generic cards that I have in my expansions (I own 1 copy of all of the expansions released so far). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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