Shadespire

[The Other Dave]

That won't break the crazy double turret Cursebreakers deck but it'll bring it back under control - so I'm OK to play it more often right?

[Passive-aggressive Obi-Wan] You must do what you feel is right, of course... [/PAOW]

(Boldly prediciting new warbands announced for preorder between War of the Spider and Pariah!)

I hope so! I'm wondering how much, or whether, the break in production will effect the release of season 4 - on the one hand, everything does seem to be delayed, but on the other, I'm sure they have quarterly releases all planned out years in advance. But then also, having only like three months with the "full" Beastgrave release before S4 drops would feel pretty rushed. (But on the other other hand, you hear a lot about how stale Nightvault started to feel in the last little bit before Beastgrave was released, so faster turnaround to S4 night not be a bad thing? *shrug*) Lockdown GW kremlinology is a whole thing, heh.

[The Other Dave]

Huh, actually I had to change my Mournflight deck very little. Swapped out Scrum for Swift Capture (which, TBH, why hadn't I done that in the first place?) and Survival Instincts for... well, this was harder, but I went with Soul Leech (50% chance to do damage after moving through someone) just for shenanigans' sake.

[me_in_japan]

its been so long, I can barely remember how to play Shadespire these days.

Still, folks seem happy overall about the changes, and it did seem like some of the top decks were a bit samey, so that's all good, I guess. I'll need to dust off my decks and see what kind of state theyre in now, I suppose...

[The Other Dave]

its been so long, I can barely remember how to play Shadespire these days.

Yeah, it felt pretty creaky the other week breaking the game out the other week - but then just in general moving minis around and rolling dice felt like a novel experience, heh.

All the usual podcasts and YouTube channels are starting to weigh in on the discussion of the latest FAR list / FAQ. Nothing too controversial, but as usual listening has got me itching to get playing again.

[me_in_japan]

Out of interest, I see that WUO is on sale again on steam just now. Does anybody else have it, and do you reckon I should pick it up? I’m spending pretty much all my free time just now playing MtGA anyway, but if folks were available for direct matches that might be an incentive to dip my toes in different digital waters.

[The Other Dave]

I do hear good things, and TBH the release of the Thorns is a good sign, as it makes me think they want to push the game into the (more fun than Shadespire) Nightvault meta, but fundamentally I don't have a Windows box any more so I'm SOL.

[Jye Nicolson]

Still no new Underworlds teams. I guess at this point the best hope is they'll preorder the same week as 9th edition and ship the week before, but that seems iffy

[The Other Dave]

Yeah, it feels like we'd usually get the card preview articles at least a couple weeks before preorder. I mean, no hurry - Wurmspat and Hrothgorn still have got essentially no non-virtual play after all: TBH I'm a bit surprised we even got an update on the FAR list and FAQ with things as they stand.

[Jye Nicolson]

I might just stick with Condemnors for another month, I'd sorta like to try Hrothgar or Skaeth but I can't be bothered painting them

[The Other Dave]

The corona-modified "roadmap" for the next little bit in Underworlds has been shared with us:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/202 ... BCemRGz2GY

Most notably, the two new warbands will drop in August, and season 4 has been pushed back to December - a totally reasonable move, IMO.

There's also a solo gameplay mode, against a Fomoroid Crusher (or other large model in your collection, but any excuse to buy a Fomoroid Crusher, really) that follows some simple "AI" scripts. I'll probably give it a shot.

In September there'll be a multiplayer expansion, which could be interesting - multiplayer games have always been a (surprisingly, when you think about it, for a game designed primarily around two-player play) fun way to play, but more game modes and a "balance pass" couldn't hurt.