I hope they release starter army boxes for the other factions instead of a second core set...

I mean that's how most miniature games work though. At least they are making you not have to buy other factions you will never use for a few upgrade cards. But also it is to early to see what will be competitive.

/excited

I'm going to assume though now that we are On The Boat there will be a large stream of reveals coming, especially with the escalation style organized play looming on the horizon!

Escalation league? Yes please!

I really hope this status means we will have Wave 0 revealed soon also!

Privateer started doing that with the new sets since MK3 but I believe those are also just they same plastic with dye added, though maybe they are using different sculpts now too, idk since I have not purchased anything new since before MK3, also the LGS i used to play warmachine at went out of business so I have no where to play. BUT the LGS I play destiny at is basically turning into a FFG store so that is exciting for IA and RW

Must be a low roof

WOOHOO! EVERYBODY PARTY!!!!!!!!!

Not sure if they will go the route of using different color plastics for the different factions or not...I would say uniform grey would be the best choice for the hobby community as it would be easily concealed even by lighters primers

I think we are going to see a lot of this with RuneWars though. Unfortunately people are going to be comparing this to the other miniature games FFG has which are painted without taking into account the paint on the x-wing and armada figures are $15-$50 for maybe $.50-$2 of materials. If they applied that model to a unit of say 4 cavalry with the paint job of the infantry soldier then these things would be like $100 a unit, or as I said before, look like crappy clix figs or similar minis.

Congrats on the new Job Muz. I haven't hit IA that hard since I have only ever played campaign though I think some people are about to force skirmishes on me... Pre-painted miniature games of this magnitude would either look like crap like mageknight, heroclix or they old Star wars game. Or be priced so astronomically ridiculous that they would not have a following. Also it would really affect the hobby side of the tabletop gaming community.

nothing wrong with that! I just use 3d terrain at stores I play at usually. Though with this I may model some terrain.

FFG has said runewars will not be on sprue but will be similar to imperial assault. Though it could be like Captain Terro and the different bodies to create the dewback riders. Until all the components are revealed and I see if there is any way to use the heroes as other things, maybe there will be generic version of Dari or whats his face skeleton guy =P, I'm not willing to commit to a second core box. My LGS owner is sad about that also lol...not really...

The unique heroes in the core sets are the biggest factor preventing me from committing to two core sets...which is why I want to wait and see what the estimated price of the individual units will be and how many come in a pack.

I was always of the mindset I would rather spend my money on the game not the terrain, the fact that this comes with terrain as templates is good enough for me.

With all the companies making 3d terrain I feel like they don't NEED to make their own terrain, once the game is out and the templates are out I'm willing to bet companies are going to jump on making matching 3d terrain corresponding to the released templates. and also this will work well since once you hit a piece of terrain you can just remove the 3d for the template for ease of movement. Just my opinion though since i remember getting annoyed at navigating building and forests in WHF.

Yeah X-wing and Imperial Assault (the only other games of FFG I keep up with) are regularly expanded to around 3-4 wave launch per year, with usually at least one new unit per faction within each game. Armada is a bit of a slower release but that is because of the scale more than anything, there are only so many capital type ships in the SWU and since FFG is now going only canon they are now limited from using SWEU now Legends. Then there is there LCG scene, and shut up about Conquest (great game btw) because there is nothing in FFG's power to continue that since GW pulled the license, which are regularly updated every month or two with a new pack or expansion. From how I see it compared to other companies, such as GW who only now seems to release resculpts or boxes of models that are like a quarter of an army, or PP who makes my still favorite miniature game but is notorious for teasing a model giving rules then not releasing them for two years (Khador man'o'war bombardiers or grolar jack) FFG is pretty respectable in the regards of new stuff they release for their games.

Yeah I'm hoping they do these giant monsters or siege weaponry would be awesome to scale. And this goes back to how streamlined the game is that they won't need to make little mini rules on the cards for things like slow or crew bonuses or anything like that because it will just be represented on the command dials. Everyday I get more and more excited for this game.

It would be pretty easy to appropriately scale things,they could just launch a dragon or something huge on a custom tray that would be the size of several standard trays then treat is like a unique character with no deployments other than 1 tray. Personally I think that would be awesome to see.

It would surprise me if they don't have more tactical or control style objective also. Or they handle this like most other mini games where you have a game type and these are just like bonus objectives. Regardless based on how many objectives came with Armada I'm sure you will not always have combat oriented objectives.

Yeah I'm hopping that it is a rather substantial amount of objectives for they handle it similar to how Imperial Assault adds skirmish missions each upgrade could add a new objective card.

Yeah I am excited to look into what kind of lists we can build to make objective vs. massacre armies...I WANT TO SEE EVERYTHING!!! Also I look forward to games that are more objective based, since most games I've played have objectives but they always just seem to fall to the wayside to massacre.

why would set a charge order if you are already engaged? or are you saying what happens if you were going to charge unit A but Unit A had a lower initiative and engaged you first?

Also the varying initiative is a key factor to this, if you want to do something make sure you are doing low initiative actions, of course you won't always be able to however most of the dials have two forms of move and combat where one is fast and doesn't have AS much of punch and one that is slow but has a slew of modifiers to make the attack truly crippling.