Feed on Fear (Uthuk Command Article)
These are absolutely horrifying....
Admittedly, most of the main ones that look pretty mean are double-edged (suffer the morale effect to cause them to suffer it twice for instance)
Biggest one that stands out to me as insane is Bannerscamp. Dude, seriously? he completely shuts down inspiration token get via rally outside of the first turn (which Ravos already shuts that one down). ewww...
Mutilated Grotesque is also pretty mean though since its not increasing the test severity its not that bad.
Yeah, these will be hella fun to fight. I enjoy how they address a lot of cheese stuff present (like turtling up and banking inspiration for a few rounds)
Loyalty to elves shaking...
7 minutes ago, Darthain said:Yeah, these will be hella fun to fight. I enjoy how they address a lot of cheese stuff present (like turtling up and banking inspiration for a few rounds)
Turtle? What's that? Does it have blood? CAN I SACRIFICE IT TO THE YNFERNAEL?!
9 minutes ago, Tvayumat said:Turtle? What's that? Does it have blood? CAN I SACRIFICE IT TO THE YNFERNAEL?!
Turtles are sacred to the infernal, sorry.
in all seriousness though, it looks like the Uthuk are all about momentum, and I like that being added to the game.
Well, Uthuk certainly have a theme of big morale tests don't they. Panic tokens all over the place!
Elves are world champs, we will cleanse Terrinoth of the Uthak
Oh wow - I love blood diviner ... the ability to have some sway over the morale deck is fantastic. I love the thematic refresh ability it has too...
I'm surprised that they got a Rallying musician, that just leaves Waiqar without one. I assumed it was going to be a 50:50 split with elves and humans getting it and the other two not.
Daqan seems super boring right now...
2 hours ago, Aurelus said:Daqan seems super boring right now...
I'm feeling a little bit of that, too. Compared to these Uthuk warriors, skeleton warriors just seem so... pedestrian.
It's probably just new shininess. I'll be back to loving Waiqar come Monday. ...Right? RIGHT?
1 hour ago, Parakitor said:I'm feeling a little bit of that, too. Compared to these Uthuk warriors, skeleton warriors just seem so... pedestrian.
It's probably just new shininess. I'll be back to loving Waiqar come Monday. ...Right? RIGHT?
It is shininess. There aren’t any ways to increase damage output. Just a lot of status effect stuff. Daqan are looking to be better at big infantry formations doing crazy damage
4 hours ago, Aurelus said:Daqan seems super boring right now...
I would say sturdy. They are the only faction who can reliably shake off all this nastiness.
13 hours ago, Aurelus said:Daqan seems super boring right now...
Which is kinda ok. They represent the vanilla baseline in most wargames.
Does anyone else start to feel like Uthuk might have a stupidly high learning curve compared to other factions?
Daqan: add armor, add damage, add inspiration
Waiqar: Add blight, keep coming back, come back even more, add some damage
Latari: use overgrow, shift a lot, tarpit a lot
Uthuk, attempt to leverage every bane and status effect in the game to make it feel like you running every blue magic card ever made. And EXPLOSIONS!
Uthuk are definitely shaping up to be a high skill army.
I'm loving the Warsprinter's cards so much!
8 hours ago, rowdyoctopus said:Uthuk are definitely shaping up to be a high skill army.
That's an interesting observation. If that's true, then playing as the Uthuk may cause some thematic dissonance for the player. Think about elves. You expect elves to use ample ranged attacks, perform hit-and-run attacks, and utilize nature (overgrowth, for example). The gameplay matches all of that.
With the Uthuk, you imagine a mindless horde of bloodthirsty half-demons falling upon their enemies and laying waste to all that stand in their way. It's looking like that may not be the experience you get with this faction. There seems to be a lot more choices to make as far as when to use which abilities on the cards and trying to utilize the bane tokens to the best of your ability. It's much more tactical, like something you'd expect of the Daqan Lords. However, it seems the Daqan Lords are more of the "charge and smash face!" army at the moment.
Doesn't bother me, though. I enjoy a good cerebral game. Even if I can't be as mindless as the Uthuk I'm commanding, I'll still enjoy watching their self-sacrifice and blood rites play out across my table. And you can't forget their awesome demon allies, either!
9 hours ago, rowdyoctopus said:Uthuk are definitely shaping up to be a high skill army.
Not sure I see that at all, or any difference, they appear to be a know when to push army, just another style.
Edited by DarthainOn 11/17/2017 at 9:43 PM, flightmaster101 said:Loyalty to elves shaking...
You and me both. I'm starting to wish I'd held off and waiting for the Uthuk starter...
On 11/18/2017 at 9:05 PM, Darthain said:Not sure I see that at all, or any difference, they appear to be a know when to push army, just another style.
It’s more that you are leaning on the morale deck heavily. It’s a craphazard weapon in and of itself. The upgrades look to maximize that by delaying morale tests to increase severity, drawing extra cards, doubling down on effects, etc.
Smash harder, take less damage, and keep getting back up are all easy concepts to play with. Even the Latari “shift 4 times in one turn” units are still easy to grasp - though hard to play against right away.
Finding the right balance for milling that morale deck seems trickier than other strategies.
3 hours ago, Church14 said:It’s more that you are leaning on the morale deck heavily. It’s a craphazard weapon in and of itself. The upgrades look to maximize that by delaying morale tests to increase severity, drawing extra cards, doubling down on effects, etc.
Smash harder, take less damage, and keep getting back up are all easy concepts to play with. Even the Latari “shift 4 times in one turn” units are still easy to grasp - though hard to play against right away.
Finding the right balance for milling that morale deck seems trickier than other strategies.
All of these are actually the same thing, reading the board state and acting accordingly, the difference is the uthuk get more randomness, doesn't make it any more or less difficult. Everything in the game this far is, imo, quite straightforward. I mean it's a light wargame, and it's fun, so I doubt that'll change much.
Edited by DarthainOn 11/17/2017 at 6:08 PM, Ywingscum said:Elves are world champs, we will cleanse Terrinoth of the Uthak
Elves are to blame for the Uthuk in the first place. The Uthuk will conquer their masters once and for all.
Edit: for in game reference, Uthuk will decimate Elves as they have little options to get rid of the many panic tokens that would go their way.
Edited by Curlycross1 hour ago, Curlycross said:Elves are to blame for the Uthuk in the first place. The Uthuk will conquer their masters once and for all.
Edit: for in game reference, Uthuk will decimate Elves as they have little options to get rid of the many panic tokens that would go their way.
Rallying Starling and Verdant Sorceress offer reasonable coverage. It's poor Waiqar that might have more morale woes than they're accustomed to.