Sneak Preview of the updated Warpath Stats
October 14, 2011 by beerogre
We knew that Warpath was going to be updated in a similar fashion to Kings of War... but here's the evidence!
As you can see there have been some tweaks to the stat lines and units now have two Nerve levels. The first is the number your opponent needs to roll over to Suppress the unit, the second is the value at which they break!
From my experience, this makes large units a lot less robust that before, but give a much more fluid game.
These are the stats that come with the brand new Warpath Army bundle... what do you think guys?
Is this an improvement?
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The box art is nice and clean that’s what matters. Other wise newbies will bypass it for other bling that’s out and about.
Looks like vehicles are being given crushing strength for running people over and ramming- that’s good because certain units were practically invulnerable to being run over and ramming was pointless. The nerve scores seem to be about the same only the first stage of the math has been done for you, assuming the nerve works roughly the same way that should make it a good bit quicker to do the tests at the end of the turn. I think the biggest changes will be in the points values, going on the old points the Forgefathers run to about 440 points… Read more »
IMO simplifies a slightly cumbersome way to test for Nerve, Personally I really like it. Warpath ruleset is made for massive encounters, little things like this will help keep epic battles moving without getting bogged down! Can’t wait till the Starter set comes out!
For those of you interested, the Forge Father normal warriors DO use the fantasy legs from the Kings of War range. Which seems impossible if you own them, as they are surely far too fantasy. However Mantic, on their blog, have stated to “not worry” and that if you prefer forge-father sci-fi legs it is perfectly possible to have all your soldiers with sci-fi legs.I’m guessing there are sci-fi legs on the sprue that you can use if you dont’ like the fantasy legs. Sounds like they listened to everyone.
This is just a niggle, but does anyone else not like the name of the weapons: Heat Hammer and Heat Cannon? It should sound a bit more threatening or imposing. I doubt Mantic will change the name now, but my ideas for such heat named weapons are: Scorch Hammer / Scorch Cannon – not so good, but first thought- Thermal Hammer / Thermal Cannon Molten Hammer / Molten Cannon-not sure about Molten Cannon Incinerator Hammer / Incinerator Cannon Forge Hammer (makes sense, they’re Forge Fathers, they forge weapons, they hit you with a Forge Hammer 😉 although Forge Cannon, doesn’t… Read more »
Damn, I rambled again – apologies if anyone fell asleep while reading this 😀
I know that the vehicles are a first for mantic with their models but I wpould like to see plastic terrain bits as well. Maybe a bunker or rubble piles.