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Games => Table-Top Games => Topic started by: Mr_Pleasington on March 15, 2006, 03:07:55 AM
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Best. Mini. Game. Evar!
I dropped it only because of lack of time.
Book-wise, Warmachine: Prime is the basic rules. Has everything you need to know and then some. Escalation is the next book and has some new units and a big campaign. Apotheosis came out after I quit so I don't have much of an idea what's in that. I heard it's mostly (good) fluff though.
Buy yourself Prime and a starter box of any of the factions and you'll be good to go.
One of the best parts about the game is that it plays well whether its a 300 pt game or a 1000 pt game.
Just make sure to check the errata. There's a lot.
Plus, I wrote a review of it for TWG here: http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=895
Not my best review, but it should suffice.
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Roughly 300 points per starter box.
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I bought both Prime and Escalation. Escalation adds a LOT of new units, doubling the selection almost, along with a huge errata on Prime and a totally kick-ass campaign. You need 4 players with a 1,000 point army each though to play it.
The starter boxes come to 330 points each, or close enough as makes no real difference. I play Cygnar, Jeffe plays Cygnar and Khador. We could tell you what you want to know, I guess.
The starter boxes are generally a fairly good buy as they are designed to fight against each other, but i've been hugely unimpressed by the Cygnar battlebox - the jacks in it are totally crap. But then Cygnar didn't get good jacks until Escalation anyway. The other ones are fairly solid I think. Try to avoid the mercenaries - they are good but tend to require much more careful handling than the normal races.
I hear that, in order of ease to learn, the races go:
Khador
Cygnar
Menoth
Merc
Cryx