New Lost Patrol Board Game Appears On Games Workshop’s Webstore
March 26, 2016 by brennon
Following the announcement of Lost Patrol last week Games Workshop have added the game to their webstore with a notice that they will notify you when the game becomes available to pre-order. It's not out until 11th June 2016 so they're getting the word out there early which is kind of new!
"A fun and compelling two-player challenge, Lost Patrol is a boxed game set on a hostile jungle world full of sinister hidden danger! Players assume the roles of a Space Marines Scout squad and a fierce swarm of cunning Genestealers eager to end their lives. The Genestealers of Moraz III have every advantage on their home turf and will make every attempt to quickly despatch the human intruders.
The Scouts will almost certainly all die. But how far can you get? Will you ever see the drop pod tile? And each game becomes a challenge to try and get further – and because you can turn games around in 10 minutes when you get into it, you can play loads of it, and swap sides and make it a competition with your mate."
I'm genuinely interested to see how this game plays and I think it could have a lot of promise when it hits the tabletop. The desperate nature of the Scouts rush towards the drop pod and the deadly jungle around them teeming with Tyranids makes for an interesting dynamic.
It appears as if we're going to be seeing full kits here as part of the release; basically taking off the shelf sprues and sticking them into the pack with some bold colours on them if you don't fancy painting.
Hopefully Games Workshop will do another of their demo game videos where they show off the mechanics and get stuck into a run through of the game. They have been really good watching so far and it would be nice to see them continue the theme.
Will you be snapping this up?
"The desperate nature of the Scouts rush towards the drop pod and the deadly jungle around them teeming with Tyranids makes for an interesting dynamic..."
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Its good to see them trying with boardgames again, but im looking at those tiles and they are looking cheap. Are they trying to say they cant both emboss components and keep the price at a mortal level? Would be nice if they could just ACE a product on all levels, which they could with their budget ..
This is GW you’re talking about – if they embossed the tiles, they’d mark the price up by a hundred quid
;P
Although no new miniatures I am indeed strangely tempted..
Could make a nice little Summer weekend project to paint and add a little bit of jungle scenery.
And for once it’s gonna be a GW game under £100.00!
I have to say I am super disappointed that there aren’t new sculpts in the game. The main reason is that in Deathwatch Overkill the Genestealers in this are new sculpts they are not like the standard genestealer, and they have the ability to be sloted in with other arms so I was certain that they were going to be there. Also I figured that the scouts are kind of due with an update. But that is a such is life. On the positive side and there is a lot of positive, I think that is great that it is… Read more »
Checked at 12:45 and it was already sold out. Ia that a fault or was this hugely popular?!
Hard to say as we don’t know how many copies there are. I just checked on the UK website and doesn’t say out of stock.
As it says above, its not actually available till 11th June. At the mo GW just want you to sign up to be emailed when it does come up for pre-order, perhaps they are testing the waters with giving more notice before a release…
My bad, I should have read all the details.
Over all this is welcome re-release but quality of tiles could be better.
When you take a step back though and think, I mean, compared to other miniature board games, and lets leave all the bum hurt out the window with regard our feelings to GW here, the quality of the miniatures with material and customisability is better than say, Dungeon Saga, D&D Board Games, Arcadia Quest or Suepr Dungeon Explore. I mean, just because its the old Scouts and Genestealers we are looking at here and are all famliiar with, if an indy company did sprues like this they could not afford to sell the game for that price. The tiles do… Read more »
Excellent. Looks like it could be fun. Price is fine, so I’ll be picking this up.
“It’s not out until 11th June 2016 so they’re getting the word out there early which is kind of new!”
Too right it is. They usually just give a week’s notice. This could be another big change in their approach.
Looks like they are using the pre-orders to see how many sets to produce. Should be simple enough as the minis are existing ones and will just need a coloured batch knocking through the moulds. The card stuff is complete designwise and just needs a print run of X many doing. With the super secret one week pre-order methodology, they have to set the production run with no consumer input first. This leads to underestimating demand (Space Hulk) or overestimating it (Dreadfleet, Execution Force). This way they can produce just enough sets without having a pile they can’t shift. If… Read more »
Given that a pre-order period is exactly for that then I don’t think it’s cynical or a conspiracy, just acceptable business practice. If this is the shape of things to come for GW, however, then it is a big shift in policy for them. For a long time now, at least since the buyout, they’ve tried to limit future release knowledge so that people don’t save money for coming products instead of buying the one that’s just about to be released. Not even AoS got much lead in. This is over two months notice, in addition to showing it off… Read more »
“Rountree’s GW is becoming unrecognisable from Kirby’s GW”
A good thing too, in my book.
This. A thousand times this! 🙂
looks great!
– quick to set-up and play
– no fiddly measuring
– price is competitive
they have X-wing in the Student’s Union Book Shop near me. I can see Lost Patrol on the shelf beside. Who wants to pay £40 for an academic course book when you could get this?
and if it works they could box blue-sprue scouts for an Ultramarines remake:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/8728/ultra-marines
I find all I see here very uninspired. Maybe the game has something to it but judging this book by its cover it pales in comparison to most miniature boardgames out there.
Seems like a reasonable enough jump off point for the uninitiated, for vets however I agree. It ain’t no Calth!
They could have made an effort to make it flash some more, its a lower price tag than what theyve ran before but it also clearly shows on the contents.
Seems okay to me. Hopefully the game will feature in shops such as Argos and be discounted a bit. It’ll be bound to catch someone’s eye then. 🙂
Seems “ok” to me as well :p
Okay, seems ‘good’ then.
may be a good game to start new players or just a quick battle.
I am intrigued.
Never played the original, it came out during an off-spell (I think I was still reeling from 3rd ed 40k). I wonder how different this version is, I believe the rep from GAMMA said it was a whole new game…though those are clearly the same tiles from before.
Not my cup of tea.
Nice job GW, I won’t get it as I already have all the miniatures, but it seems indeed that there is a wind of change going through GW, and this can only be applauded! Well done indeed!
The game sounds interesting, but the scouts are the same crappy one’s that are already out, with their cloned faces. It’s a wasted opportunity to make brand new and exciting scout models; although I suspect if they did the game would cost more.
Even so, if there was something interesting about the models, or the scouts at least (even better poses at least) then I might want to get the game. The price itself is tempting, but not the models. It just doesn’t look very exciting. Hopefully a gameplay video by GW will address that.
This looks like good value for money at £35 and I don’t have any issue with them re-using existing model ranges. In fact if re-using existing models allows them to quickly release little games like this I think I could become very good friends with my local Games Workshop.
Looks good. Will pick it up.