Warhammer Quest Returning To The Age Of Sigmar? [Updated]
April 6, 2016 by brennon
While it might seem like wishful thinking it appears as if Warhammer Quest may return to the tabletop through the Age of Sigmar. Warhammer Quest: The Silver Tower is rumoured to be coming in May of this year from Games Workshop.
The Silver Tower, seen here from Warhammer: Age of Reckoning, is a tower dedicated to Tzeentch, the Changer of Ways. Thanks to the powers of its patron God it is an ever-changing labyrinth of chambers and corridors which provides us with ample opportunity to go dungeon delving.
What Do The Whispers Say?
According to the rumours the game will feature a range of different heroes with the likes of a Human, Stormcast Eternal, Aelf, Duradin and even an Ogor finding their way onto the tabletop. You will be facing horrors of Tzeentch and other twisted creatures from this hive of madness.
Additional ideas including additional scenarios in White Dwarf as well as expansions on the way if it sells well.
Updated Contents Rumours
Updates: The rumours have spilling forth and there are rumoured miniatures beyond the walls of the Silver Tower and we could find ourselves with quite the neat array of Tzeentch daemons coming in this boxed game.
Here's a list of what could be on the cards...
- 12x Horrors
- 4x Screamers
- 2x Flamers
- 6x Cultists
- 1x Sorceror
- 1x Deamon Prince of Tzeentch
The Daemon Prince of Tzeentch is meant to take the role of the end boss for this dungeon delver, or tower traverser as it were.
We did say that you should expect something of an Age of Sigmar board game this year. This seems like a good fit if the rumours are true.
What do you think?
"The Silver Tower, seen here from Warhammer: Age of Reckoning, is a tower dedicated to Tzeentch, the Changer of Ways..."
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Good stuff. If true I look forward to this.
This looks very promising, and could be a good way to introduce more stuff into the setting, with models and background, without having to wait for full army releases.
I’m down with this. I do love Tzeentch stuff and have been wanting to get a Tzeentch army started for AoS. Looking forward to this.
This sounds good, I’m in. There was talk of an AoS board game this year, so this news if true, doesn’t surprise me. I think it was only a matter of time before we started seeing AoS board games as well as the 40k offerings. While called Warhammer Quest, I don’t think we will see the same level of ability to customise the game as in the classic WH:Q game. The ever changing labyrinth of rooms and corridors suggests the possibility of random board set ups or placement, possibly like Lost Patrol. This kind of makes sense given the nature… Read more »
Interesting if true. Even more interesting if its a true successor of Warhammer Quest, along with the random dungeons and leveling mechanics. On the other hand if it’s just a series of bland pre-made ‘quests’ in a book then no thanks, there are plenty of those on the market already.
It won’t be a true successor. It’ll be Warhammer Quest with all the character sucked away. Like the rest of Age of Sigmar
It won’t be Warhammer Quest as we remember it. There’s nothing to suggest it won’t have any character. Not liking something doesn’t mean it doesn’t have character it means it has a character you don’t like.
Jesus GW, if you have brought back WH : Quest im just going to have my wages paid into your account!
All i need you to resurrect now is necromunda, BFG and Gorkamorka and all is forgiven….
Just hope its a proper game not as @zethnar says a bunch of scenarios without a campaign mechanic
All they need to do for me is resurrect the Old World.
On the upside @ nakchak, we know Bloodbowl is coming back, and allegedly the next classic title getting resurrected after that is Epic/Adeptus Titanicus, with BFG and Necromunda apparently waiting in the wings as well. Fingers crossed that it all goes well.
I’d bet a pound to a penny Necromunda is on its way back. Probably BFG as well.
@vetruviangeek surprisingly im quite ambivalent about epic coming back as i suspect it will epic 40k/Armageddon rules not the good ones… But yeah i got very excited about the new bloodbowl box seen in the lost patrol leak pics, and well they have to bring necromunda back, just hope its as a 3d environment not a boardgame, although im unsure if i can see GW returning to card buildings, as i expect they would want you to invest in a zone mortallis style tile and pylon system…. As for BFG its only logical that they would want a title to… Read more »
You can always grab a bunch of Mantic’s snap together terrain.
@nakchak Do you miss Necromunda? I have a treasure trove of models I could sell you….
@mage i do miss it greatly although im currently lacking the funds to rebuild my old gang collection (with the exception of some muties, i had every mini they made for that game) sold the lot for £50 (same is true about a 2000 point legion of the damned army, with a RT era predator!!) i think back in the early 2000’s because i was an idiot and beer money was more important to me :-/
I’d be all over that!
I’ll take 3 please!
Set in Age of Sigmar? It’s a no from me.
LOL @ at the AoS fanboys negging you.
Thou shalt not be negative !!! Thou shalt not be negative !!!
one of us. one of us.
Considering the lack of “Fanboy” posts elsewhere in this thread, I’d imagine his collection of negative votes has more to do with the fact that in three comments he hasn’t discussed anything about the game itself or engaged with the varied ideas mentioned by anyone. Instead he’s simply offered us “AoS is bad” in slightly altered formats. Which, at this stage, is just tedious to both sides. And it’s pretty ironic to take a potshot at guys blindly supporting the game while giving your backing to someone blindly hating it. Doubly so when in your own comment below you call… Read more »
Well said
I couldn’t care less about the AoS setting, but if the models and gameplay are to my liking I’d certainly be tempted.
Sounds interesting, will wait to see it in the flesh, but I’m a massive fan of the original so they have a lot to live up to! Will put my Dungeon Saga purchase on hold I think….
That’s probably for the best anyway. Even if Warhammer Quest turns out not to be very good it might be worth waiting until Sword and Sorcery and Gloomhaven release before deciding where to put your money. There’s even that app coming out for Descent that turns it into a co-op dungeon crawl rather than a skirmish game. Not to mention CMON recently announced that they’ll be kickstarting some kind of dungeon crawler based on the Zombicide mechanics sometime in the near future. At the end of the day, Dungeon Saga isn’t that great, at least not if you want the… Read more »
Descent already is a co-op dungeon crawler.
It’s really neither of those things. One player has to play the bad guy, making it semi-co-op, and it plays more like a skirmish game than a traditional dungeon crawler.
The Road to Legend app should fix that with dungeon exploration and AI control of the monsters (maybe, it’s yet to be seen how good it is).
It’s definitely a Dungeon Crawler, like Heroquest or Dungeon Saga. Whether it’s a co-op is largely semantics.
I’m a sucker for all things Tzeentch. Will this overcome my aversion to AoS? We’ll see.
I’ve been trying to decide between Dungeon Saga and Zombicide: The Black Plague as the dungeon crawler/questing game I really invest in (and get around to painting…). This could make my decision a lot harder.
I’m only plucking ideas from the sky but Tzeentch seems like a perfect opponent if you wanted to have the game expandable like WQ was. The Changer of Ways could literally throw anything at you in a selection of rooms. Captured or conjured enemies from any faction you liked.
There are a LOT of rumours about this right now. I think it sounds very exciting and a great way to sell clam pack character miniatures!
There was a Weekender with a review of a planned Conan game set in a tower?
its brilliant – each level – new board – different creatures in a confined combat arena – no need for complex terrain £££ and dozens of figures
I loved Heroquest and Warhammer Quest – buying a figure just because it was cool and being able to play it in a fun ruleset 🙂
Hmm, interesting… I loved WHQ and played it loads with a good friend of mine – more than many of the other games back in the day. I’ll be looking for two things from this reboot: 1. Modern game mechanics. I want character progression from game to game and I want to feel like I have some choices to make in how my character develops. I’m not looking for RPG levels of complexity, but I’d like to be able to customise my character. And I want fun, fast rules that aren’t just simplified (or complexified) WFB or AoS. Something purpose… Read more »
Ignore the bile that is AoS’s “fluff” – the proof is in the pudding of the game itself, the rules etc and how it plays. GW may well pull this Quest game off depending on the people involved.
If this follows the same quality and quantity of minis as Deathwatch I’ll be all over this. It will probably make me want to start even more AoS armies (got too many on the go as it is).
I might get this, but if the horrors look like the current plastic ones ill probably pass.
is Tzeentch due a re-design with new releases?
I thought the models were relatively new
I wanted to buy some Tzeentch demons to play in Betrayal at Calth (WD rules)
Pretty sure all the greater are getting plastic re-releases its just khorne who has had the attention so far (which makes sense now given the khornate slant AoS has had for now), still as long as the rules are good nothing to stop you from broadening the setting, wouldnt mind a skaven tunnel system to explore/escape…
the old GW Dungeon Floorplans had a sewer tile for a Skaven nest – those things really caught my imagination as a youngster because I could imagine places like that under my home town
It occurs to me that they are making this Tzeench focused as the big bad that it would be logical that we get a Tzeench Deamonkin summer release as it bridges both universes which GW always like to do over the summer holidays, so would be very surprised if there isnt a plastic Lord of Change out by christmas
Not surprised by this update…
I’ve waited half of my life for another warhammer quest, and when it finally comes out, it’s set in the Age of Shitmar 🙁 .
The setting is irrelevant to be honest, its a dungeon and citadel mini’s, the original WH:Q was pretty much isolated fluff wise from the old world, in much the same way as Dungeon Saga and KoW are both set in Mantica but thats about as far as it goes. If anything being in the AoS universe makes it much more interesting, especially if you say the tower is built on the intersection of the realms so tzeench could effect all realms with minimal effort, and in terms of gameplay assuming random dungeon generation there is no reason you could be… Read more »
To be honest I was never that into the “Old World” setting, it was just a framework for sticking fantasy tropes onto. I like all the high fantasy geekery, so for me Warhammer Quest was a generic dwarf and a barbarian walk into a dungeon and start hitting orcs with swords – great stuff!
As a result I’m really not interested in a Celestial-whatever walking into a silver tower and smacking a WarBloodDoomHateMonger-something-or-other with a heavenly-hammer.
Just call the sigmarines a paladin, pretty much the same as what you did with a brettonian in WH:Q
Why does it matter if you’re smiting demons or orcs? Maybe rules for Orcs will be a future expansion.
It would have to be a heck of a game, at a heck of a value, to get the community to really buy into an Age of Sigmar game, especially if the characters are Stormcast Eternals, duardin, and ogors. This just won’t be the instant-success of an idea it once could have been.
they couldnt just admit they went wrong with Sigmar and make this take place in the old world .. and i agree, it would have to be a godly game
No, you’re right, thdy couldn’t. Games Workshop don’t think they got it wrong and judging by sales, neither do customers as the switch to AoS doesn’t appear to have affected them. By setting games in the old world they would potentially undermine their Age of Sigmar product.
Ooooh. A Psychic. If you get a chance while you’re busy predicting the success of Games Workshop products, any chance you could PM me this Saturday’s winning lottery numbers? I’ll give you a thumbs up if you do
there there
Seriously dude. Have a sip of cold water and wipe away that tear. AoS didn’t do that well, but you’ll live. I assume.
interesting times at GW.