Let’s Play: Fantasy Battles – The 9th Age
December 10, 2018 by dignity
Gather round fans of Warhammer Fantasy Battle as Artur from Tabletop Miniatures Solutions shows Justin how to play their quick starter edition of The 9th Age.
After The End Times, The Ninth Age stepped in to develop competitive rulesets and a range of miniatures to support the continued enjoyment of this style of miniature wargame.
The rulebooks, cards, maps, army lists and supporting materials are all freely available to download from The Ninth Age.
Check out TMS' Kickstarter for 9th Age Quick Starter army sets.
Will you be dusting off your Skaven armies?
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Nice to see some rank and file gaming again on BoW
There is a nice group on Facebook called Minihammer for playing the game in 10mm
Nice looking figures and movement trays. This demo needs 20x more figures on the table to emulate a proper WHFB game…all of which could be removed after 10 seconds of play and months of painting. That “charge” around the corner of the ruin looked pretty cheesy to me…another reason I won’t be supporting it.
I was considering the potential of this game, because I think a game like WFB could still exist, until I read their sales pitch on kickstarter :
“The 9th Age is for experienced and veteran players … ”
As cool as mass battle games can be … the very idea that these ‘quickstart rules’ are strictly for n00bs who need to ‘git gud’ before they are allowed to play the ‘real’ thing is a huge turnoff.
I seriously hope the actual community is better than this.
All the rules and army lists are free to download so if you already have figures you don’t actually have to buy anything
The quickstart is just that.
For starting quickly.
Everything is free, and these were written specifically for people who are new to miniature wargaming or moving ranks/flanks with model removal.
Think of them as an exapanded version you’d get in a starter set. They also excel at being fast and easy rules for demo-ing the game at conventions etc…
a QS game run by a GM can easily only take 45-1.5 hours depending on GM adjustment/scenario.
Game has been created by former WFB players. It is volunteers project. As you may guess resources are a bit limited and primary goal has been to creating system for events like ETC. However with 2.0 being released and rules finally finished expect a shift towards making the game more user friendly. QS is such attempt… but I see why it might have opposite effect to intended. There is also a chance T9A will win a support of a publisher next year and you may be sure that a publisher will provide additional content aimed at new players.
Got into this last year and haven’t looked back. I’m hardly a tournament player or an expert player (I’ve played in 1 9th age tournament and 1 40k tournament over the last 20 years of gaming) – but the balance and design means fluffy armies are viable. We had a discussion on the 9th age facebook and it basically can be summed up as you cannot WAAC with 9th age – the game is hard to break and exploit. Even powerbuilds can fall apart by rolling a bad panic test and fleeing off the board. So while it is run… Read more »
a fab video guys.
My High Elves have a purpose again! I will have to give this a try.
I’ve been waiting for a Let’s Play on this. Many thanks, the game has piqued my interest.
Outstanding, thank you for this WHFB was the best thing GW ever did I am very happy to have found this.
I really enjoyed that. It really was like watching an old game of WFB. I might start pestering folk for a game. Just another 100 Empire lads to paint before I have a workable army 🙂
Me and the group of players I game with are having a great time with The 9th Age. After all those skirmish games it is very nice to finally play a rank and file game again. I hope the community it going to pick this one up and enjoy it as much as we do. We certainly had some great 9th age events in Europe the last months!
Keep up the good work!