Enter The Wilds With Warhammer Underworlds: Beastgrave
August 2, 2019 by brennon
A new chapter has been opened in the ongoing Warhammer Underworlds saga from Games Workshop which charts the adventures of warbands in Age Of Sigmar. Your warriors will now find themselves fighting for survival in the dark and dangerous Beastgrave.
Beastgrave moves the story on and has you fighting in the savage realm of Ghur. The Mirrored City has been utterly rocked by the events of the Necroquake and parts of it are starting to bleed into different realms, and this is where the adventures of Beastgrave begin. Your existing warbands face new foes, more savage and deadly than before.
This new version of Warhammer Underworlds develops the rules and tweaks mechanics here and there to make it a more streamlined competitive experience. New cards for the coming warbands can, of course, be mixed in with your collection to come up with new tactics.
New Warbands
Talking of new warbands, take a look at these Beastmen, Draknar’s Ravagers.
It is great to see some new Beastmen which have been properly tailored to the Mortal Realms. This set offers up a chance to paint new Bestigor, Ungors and Great Bray-Shaman.
No doubt this pack of killers are going to have plenty of savage rules for you to get your head around. I would imagine that a fair few of them, at least the Bestigors, have access to attacks which benefit from charging your opponent. There seems to be a good mix of ranged and close combat weapon options too, giving you a nicely balanced force. Also, this would be very cool for use in Warcry too I bet.
As well as Beastmen we get to see a first look at the Kurnothi. Here we have Skaeth’s Wild Hunt.
These Aelf like creatures are akin to the Wood Elves of the Old World, defending their woodland from the ravaging forces of the Beastmen. I like that they have tweaked the aesthetics of them to include more bestial qualities like the fawn/satyr legs and of course, a centaur! The lion also reminds me of the creatures you used to see roaming amongst the forces of the High Elves back in the day.
Hopefully, we get to see the Kurnothi expanded upon for use in the wider world of Age Of Sigmar.
Could you see yourself getting drawn into Warhammer Underworlds with Beastgrave and if so, which warband would you pick?
Let us know in the comments!
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Ever since watching the main battle in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (which is amazing and very violent for a PG movie), I have had an itch to try and replicate that or do something similar… well apart from Aslan being pretty small, these sets wouldn’t be a bad starting point to do something similar!
The naming of current miniature games start to confuse me… A LOT….
In what way?
Beastgrave, frostgrave and all the other two word titles (and subtitles) just mess with my head at the moment… but I’m not feeling very well today and I think we reached a point where “outstanding and easy to remember” names like Warhammer, Warmachine, Legion are at an end. there are only so many word combinations that make sense and still sound good.
It’s the old Tradmark/Copyright/Intellectual Property crap. GW built its empire on generic fantasy (at least at the beginning). Orcs were orcs, vampires were vampires, Wizards were wizards and knights were knights. Nobody does that anymore because they can’t “trademark” it.
Frankly, for me, it’s the biggest flaw of AoS. I want to like the game, I want to like the high fantasy setting. But it would be a lot flipping easier if I didn’t keep confusing Liberators with Judicators, Blood Warriors with Blood Reavers.
I wondered if it was a hat tip to Joe McCulloch….
@evilstu It would be nice to think so 🙂
Those look really good. So this is next boxed set for Underworld and it doesn’t have any Sigmarines in it. I am more than fine with that.
These aren’t doing it for me. I think the existing beastmen are better.
The new beastmen look fabulous and the others are great also.
Always had a soft spot for the aesthetics of the beastmen. Love the look of these, those elves though not a fan at all.
Ah, a Satyrical look at elves
I’d tell you how funny I think you are, but I don’t want others to think I’m Fawning all over you
That’s unBEARable
awesome models. I loved the old wood elf models (talking war dancers, way watchers etc) but although i wouldn’t call these wood elfs, these are great. Beastmen looks menacing.
In a word No. I can’t speak for the gameplay but to my mind the the minis look dreadful and do nothing to grab my interest. Normally I’d not pass comment on something I’m not interested in but I’m in a bit of a strange mood.
The name Beastgrave however reminds me of Frostgrave a game I very much do like
I love how dynamic are the poses of the Skaeth’s Wild Hunt models.
Beastmen are OK but those Kurnothi are an embarrassment imo. So that’s the fate of the Wardancers eh? Sad times.
Beast men vs Wooodelves… call it by their name and its great!
i love the beast man hate the man beast elves… perfect match! cant expect to have them all.