New Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower In Stores May 21st! [Updated]
May 8, 2016 by brennon
It looks like all of the rumours were true! We're going to be seeing a new version of Warhammer Quest set in Age of Sigmar in stores from May 21st this very year! You can see the teaser trailer from Games Workshop above...
The game will see you taking on the role of mighty heroes and fighting your way through Tzeentch's ever-changing tower.
UPDATE: You can find some additional leaked images of Silver Tower HERE and HERE thanks to War Of Sigmar.
Here you can see a main image of what you get inside the game box as well as a closer look at the hero miniatures. I like all of them although its a shame that the Barbarian doesn't actually stand in a fighting stance.
Additionally you can see some of the enemies you'll be facing including some great looking bird daemons and even a Skaven!
Contents Of The Box...
Additionally we've got another link HERE which seems to divulge the full contents of the game starting with the heroes...
- Knight Questor – The Paladin (Stormcast Eternal)
- Darkoath Chieftan – The Barbarian (Free People)
- Fyreslayer Doomseeker - The Dwarf (Dwarf)
- Excelsior War priest & Gryph Hound – War Priest (Free People)
- Mistweaver Saith – Female Wizard (Aelf)
- Tenebrand Shard – The Assassin (Aelf)
...and the foes
- Gaunt Summoner
- Ogroid Traumaturge
- 2x Skaven Deathrunners
- 8x Familiars
- 6x Tzaangors (Beastmen)
- 8x Kairic Acolytes
- 2x Pink Horrors
- 4x Blue Horrors
- 4x pairs of Brimstone Horrors
- 8x Grot Scuttlings
The additional game components include...
- A guide book
- An adventure quest book
- 13x Reversible board tiles with different landscapes
- 6x Hero character cards
- 36x Skill and treasure cards
- 40x Exploration (event) cards, to offer even more variation to the game so that each game will be different.
- A booklet with assembly instructions
- Gaming accessories such as assorted gaming counters and dice sets
The game will be playable by between 2-4 players and will have a variable game length based on the locations/scenarios and players involved. Additionally the heroes and enemies will have rules present in White Dwarf after launch to get them into your regular games.
Original Story
Massive beasts will be standing against you and a big daemon from the looks of it.
Additionally it also looks like we get some neat heroes like the...
- Fyreslayer
- Stormcast Eternal
- Human Barbarian
- ...and a Human Warrior Priest
It's an interesting mix of characters with the Barbarian being the revamped version of the one you would have seen on the original cover.
I can't wait for this and we hope to hear some more news about this soon. Warhammer Fest next week is going to be very exciting!
What do you think?
"It's an interesting mix of characters with the Barbarian being the revamped version of the one you would have seen on the original cover..."
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I like the look of this!
Certainly interested. Gameplay will be important for me on this one. Back in the day, the original game was awesome.
Really looking forward to this! Obviously I want to play the game but I’m really looking forward to seeing the game pieces and most importantly, seeing how Games Workshop explore the new Age of Sigmar setting in a different way.
This looks really good.
I’m glad to see non-chaos barbarians back and those monsters are Pans Labyrinth/Oldhammer good 🙂
Lots of bright colours 🙂
If the game is good I will get it despite my dislike of AoS, might just replace the storm cast eternal with another model. Might be the game that gets my Mrs into gaming!
Couldn’t have put it better myself. I’ll be doing the very same thing, though probably with a diminished chance of getting my wife involved.
Just hope it’s as good as the original! 🙂
And I hope it has a properly supported expansion line as well – was disappointed that the original’s expansions dropped off so quickly
I am looking for a good game that I can play solo, for those times when I’ve nobody to play with 🙁 This might be it, assuming it has solo play. If not, I may well wait for CMON’s Massive Darkness to hit Kickstarter.
Devil will be in the details, but the AoS setting holds no interest for me so probably not for me.
I hope they explore some of the weirder aspects of Tzeentch with the creatures and board design. Actually quite tempted by this if the rules are any good.
I think GW is really learning how to use the community to its advantage now, they used to hide this sort of stuff but now they actively *spoil* it, rather than keeping away from the people who love the rumour site.
I am going to reserve judgement til I see more currently all we have is a picture really. Nothing solid.
I think “tease” is a better word! I don’t think they’ve given too much away with that video but it’s definitely creating a buzz
Tease, is properly a good word in this instance 🙂 but I was trying to say how they are different from even just a few years ago, using the term ‘spoil’ to try and show the difference between then and now.
Tbh this is looking pretty nice, tzeentch is a firm favourite of mine as well
I’m not sure if the characters they’ve picked are as iconic as the ones the old one had.
It feels like you need to grok AoS before you get what the chosen set of characters can do.
However the big question is : do we finally get to see what Fyre Slayers are hiding ? 😉
And are they bigger than the barbarians’ ?
Great! The only worry I have is content. With the likes of Descent, Dwarf Kings Hold and the like, dungeon crawler have really been packing in the miniatures. Can GW do the same and still supply a great game without killing the bank balance? We can only hope. Original quest was an absolute blast
I think they can, their recent board games have been doing so. I guess you’ll get a similar miniature count to Dungeon Saga but will pay more.
Its nice to see some normal humans in the mix. Now when are we going to learn about the rest of the Dwarves and Elves?
That’ll be in the expansion book … next year 😉
(at least at the rate the AoS stuff is coming )
I’ve been avoiding AoS like the plague, wasn’t a fantasy player at the time of the switch over and AoS models/fluff doesn’t interest me but holy hell, I’m seriously up for this!
Going to pop in the shop and get a demo game, so hope it lives up to expectation!
I hope this game isn’t as simplistic as the latest games from GW, really loved the earlier version
Um soo a big guy who hits things with an axe, a big guy who hits things with a sword, a big guy who hits things with whatever-the-hell-he-wants aaaannd abig guy who hits things with a hammer…
Well. We certainly have the character diversity taken care of.
I loved the original edition. It had flaws but it was comfortable like old pyjamas. I have low expectations on the new edition.
Stormcast eternal
Barbarian
Dwarf
Priest
The priest is probably similar to a wizard so all they’ve really swapped out is the Elf for a Stormcast Eternal.
except the elf had a ranged attack.
This set doesn’t appear to offer something similar as the characters sound like they’d be almost identical to each other.
– tank : Stormcast eternal
– naked human fighter : barbarian
– naked dwarven fighter : fyre slayer
– Healer : Priest
If there’s ranged weapons for every one then there might be a bit more diversity than the original set, but it doesn’t sound like there is at the moment.
Yeah, kind of my point. There was a diversity of characters that when they worked together covered each other and could manage most threats. I don’t see a ranged attacker in the line-up, unless maybe the Stormcast guy can throw lightning bolts. The Warrior-Priest then has to be the healer/support (the original version had some party-healing functionality) or there are other characters we haven’t seen yet, the earlier rumours did suggest between 4-6 heroes, yes?
Things I’d like to see with this game. Downloadable character sheets that allow you to use some of the many clam-pack Age of Sigmar characters as either heroes or villains as well as rules for all the different races and monsters in Age of Sigmar. Also, rules for making your Warhammer Quest characters into Age of Sigmar characters.
Also, I just spotted something interesting in that picture. The priest looks like he might be black. Well, either way I can see that mine will definitely be black and I’m totally excited for this game.
This would be great, and probably the sort of thing we would be likely to see in some future issues of White Dwarf.
Well I am intrigued, proof will be in the pudding n all. Let’s see what the pricing is, thus far GW have done a decent job with their boardgame / miniatures hybrids, decent minis at a good price point. Let’s hope the trend continues.
Is that a tzeentch beast man in the artwork? Mm that’s so cool
I’ll be getting this. Looking forward to starting Tzeentch for AoS. I really want to paint the those beast bird guys in the way that Romain has in his new skin tutorial. Also looking forward to see what other miniatures will be released in the set. I hope a dwarf from the realm of metal will be part of the set as well.
Hopefully there will be lots of classic 80s style fantasy elements –
Yeah, I hope the Warrior Priest is African – Conan Films
and a 2000 AD Slaine type Barbarian
and Hooked Horror style beastmen
and Beholder D&D type multi-eyed freakish monsters
I think the style of dress of the priest in the picture, with the exception of the warhammer perhaps, is very Conan the Barbarian
Why would there be D&D type stuff when its not a D&D game? Stuff included will have to fit with AoS as its set in the AoS setting…
Looks interesting…
The trailer doesn’t give much away apart from the game name and the fact there is a barbarian and Stormcast Eternal and Tzeentch involved.
Have to say while it looks good, I am doubtful we will get something that was on the same level as the original Warhammer Quest. Part of me is hopeful, but I think this is more likely to have simpler mechanics, and be a one off in the similar vein as GW’s recent board games, maybe with occasional expansion via White Dwarf.
Saying that though, I’ll probably buy it anyway.
Fantastic! Although it’s a shame the dwarf is not facing the viewer. It didn’t realise he was there (my attention was caught by the big daemon) until I read he was in the game.
There appears to be a negging troll on here who has been and down-voted almost every post.
I’ve been and upvoted posts that had been voted down
You didn’t break the cardinal rule of being positive about a GW product did you? 😉
The funny thing is when someone comes round doing a -1 on everyone and its pointed out, everyone else spam the +1’s so just about every comment has plenty of +’s. So most comments end up with more +1’s than if there was no -1 to start with. Guess this makes those negging trolls a vital part of the + eco-system 😛
It’s true that potentially there has been a reaction to the negging but let’s face it, it makes a refreshing change to see a largely positive discussion about a Games Workshop product. I think it also plays into a theory I have but can’t prove, that the scores on posts on any discussion can (and do) affect the tone of the discussion. If there’s lots of down votes, things get ugly and people withdraw, if there’s lots of upvotes, people get excited and get involved. If a few false upvotes it what it needs to chase away a few anti-GW… Read more »
Unless the negger did it knowing that there would be an overwhelming + reaction to counter them and so up the excitement? Any Troll Psychology experts in the house? 😉
It’s possible I suppose but I’ve never seen that kind of reaction before so I suspect it’s unlikely that was the intention