I've played a lot of Descent, and NO tabletop miniature games (like this). I really like the model for the Stone Golem, but prefer the Undying team. Will it be possible to mix the Golems into the undying team, or are they faction exclusive?
Mix Factions?
I doubt there will be a way to cross factions in a general way. The Daqan hero from the Core set includes the ability to add a unit of Latari Elves infantry but that's it.
Not likely to be an official way except for occasional exceptions like Kari. You can just go ahead and do it in casual play though if your group is fine with it.
For standard play, no.
I, however, plan on collecting the base 100-point army for each faction. I'll use them in 3x3 skirmish games, and also in 6x3 games where various alliances are formed and each army is composed of two factions. Latari Elves working with the Daqan Lords? Sure! Uthuk working for Waiqar? Absolutely! I hope it will be hectic and fun!
I don't appreciate any of your responses... they were not the answer I was looking for. Bummer.
It does make sense, but I was hoping it would be more like Heroscape than a true miniatures game. Thanks for the responses, although this makes it more difficult.
This feels like their stab at a real true miniatures game (after xwing/armada). So, yeah, you could put one in for looks and have it function as something else for friendly games, not in tournaments I'd bet. Paint it up all 'deady'.
Yeah, sorry man. It's definitely less heroscapey... The closest thing to Heroscape I've played is Mythic battles Pantheon (it just has no map building and a very different movement system) and that's a lot of fun!
Don't worry, Waiqar will get Barrow Wyrms and plenty of other cool units!
24 minutes ago, Willange said:Yeah, sorry man. It's definitely less heroscapey... The closest thing to Heroscape I've played is Mythic battles Pantheon (it just has no map building and a very different movement system) and that's a lot of fun!
Can't you just play what you have with Age of Sigmar, at least with the rules as first released?
28 minutes ago, backupsidekick said:I don't appreciate any of your responses... they were not the answer I was looking for. Bummer.
It does make sense, but I was hoping it would be more like Heroscape than a true miniatures game. Thanks for the responses, although this makes it more difficult.
26 minutes ago, Willange said:Yeah, sorry man. It's definitely less heroscapey... The closest thing to Heroscape I've played is Mythic battles Pantheon (it just has no map building and a very different movement system) and that's a lot of fun!
Hey Hey! Two other Heroscape fans!
You guys on Heroscapers as well?
Three Heroscape fans. We are legion!
I'm glad there's almost no faction mixing. I played Attack Wing (sorry for the heresy SW fans) and the faction mixing in OP led to exactly the kind of exploitative, munchkin play that kills theme and the games themselves.
Oh I don't want faction mixing for this game either really so I'm with you there. I used to browse heroscapers a while back but I was just a lurker.
That was where my plastic expansion addiction first started as a teenager...
I love me some Heroscape....but yeah, this is more minis wargame and no faction mixing as yet (with the exception of the aforementioned Kari from Daquan)
3 hours ago, Willange said:Yeah, sorry man. It's definitely less heroscapey... The closest thing to Heroscape I've played is Mythic battles Pantheon (it just has no map building and a very different movement system) and that's a lot of fun!
Magic The Gathering: Arena of the PlanesWalkers is probably as close as you can get to Heroscape without being Heroscape. Same dice, same terrain, almost the same rules. They've added in spells and colors to make it an MTG game but it wouldn't take too much conversion effort to use your old Heroscape stuff in MTG:AotPW game.
3 hours ago, keltheos said:This feels like their stab at a real true miniatures game (after xwing/armada). So, yeah, you could put one in for looks and have it function as something else for friendly games, not in tournaments I'd bet. Paint it up all 'deady'.
X-Wing is Wargame Light
Armada is Wargame Moderate
Runewars might be WHFantasy level of Wargame or near enough
1 hour ago, WWHSD said:Magic The Gathering: Arena of the PlanesWalkers is probably as close as you can get to Heroscape without being Heroscape. Same dice, same terrain, almost the same rules. They've added in spells and colors to make it an MTG game but it wouldn't take too much conversion effort to use your old Heroscape stuff in MTG:AotPW game.
Same designer too. Arena is a Craig VanNess joint.
1 hour ago, Lyraeus said:X-Wing is Wargame Light
Armada is Wargame Moderate
Runewars might be WHFantasy level of Wargame or near enough
Closeish. WHF has more going on still than RW, but RW has some great simple mechanics that have depth to them. Will see what the future brings.
4 hours ago, JasonGlass said:Three Heroscape fans. We are legion!
Make that four!
Five.
They're multiplying! Burn them with fire!
Crazy to hear MtG:AoP mentioned at the FFG forum. I bought doubles of all the boxes as somethign to play with my kids who are just about old enough to start gaming. Now I've been scouring for deals on Heroscape (that stuff is kind of expensive now...) terrain to improve my AoP games.
Of course at this I've only played Heroscape and AoP once each...
As relates to the OP's question, I'm glad that faction mixing isn't a thing. I much prefer to see unified armies in wargames.
I picked up MtG:AotP, but after playing it a few times, we were done. We would much rather play BattleLore. The only thing AotP does for us is let us play with more than 2 players. Even then, X-Wing is the preferred free-for-all game. It's a shame because I liked the origin stories of the Planeswalkers, but I just didn't enjoy the game as much as I hoped I would.
4 hours ago, WWHSD said:Magic The Gathering: Arena of the PlanesWalkers is probably as close as you can get to Heroscape without being Heroscape. Same dice, same terrain, almost the same rules.
Heresy.
1 hour ago, DrCthulhu said:They're multiplying! Burn them with fire!
Watch it, buddy, we're everywhere!
20 minutes ago, Budgernaut said:I picked up MtG:AotP, but after playing it a few times, we were done
This guy gets it.
23 minutes ago, Budgernaut said:I picked up MtG:AotP, but after playing it a few times, we were done. We would much rather play BattleLore. The only thing AotP does for us is let us play with more than 2 players. Even then, X-Wing is the preferred free-for-all game. It's a shame because I liked the origin stories of the Planeswalkers, but I just didn't enjoy the game as much as I hoped I would.
Yeah, the game's mediocre compared to Heroscape!
Heroscape was phenomenal because you not only mixed factions but you mixed entire genres! You want WWII soldiers fighting ninjas in snow cap regions, good to go. Want to fight elves against killer robots from the future on a lava planet, go for it! Then you can also get into the Marvel and/or homebrew stuff and that's even more options! It was a superior game and I despise MtG for even attempting to say "I can be even better than that game!"
