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hello and welcome to Peach's Ted Talk on
is warcry the best fantasy Skirmish game
out there now I'm not gonna say peachy
you always talk about Middle Earth
strategy battle game being the best
fantasy game and that's just hands down
the best Miniatures game available I'm
talking Skirmish I'm talking fantasy
granted if more time was put out there
it would like picking between your
favorite child don't have to worry about
that yet because that's not been
revamped I'm talking walk right so what
I'm going to do is sit and paint a spy
stalker from the corvus Kebab whilst I
wax lyrical about all the fun facts of
war cry but before we do that let's talk
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there's quite a few let's start painting
a corvus cabal Spire stalker so war cry
why is it the best fantasy Miniatures
game well there's many reasons firstly
it is so easy to learn I mean really
easy to learn I'm that's not a statement
I say lightly because I struggle
sometimes with rules it's intuitive well
designed
um and it's fast fun you can literate
games in an evening not even an evening
it's like a couple of an hour you can
play a game in an hour half an hour
that's how fast an action-packed is I
mean you could literally play through
several games in one evening with your
buds maybe even a full campaign in a day
it's it's so simple
and it might seem quite daunting at
first but once you play you're in your
first turn and you've been explaining
the rules it all falls into place pretty
quickly like many folks I get super
attached to my characters
um if you play necromonda or more time
you do love and you put a lot of effort
in there so it's when you're doing like
full narrative campaign stuff like that
I hate watching my heroes perish and I
just think it's just so well
put together that you can play simple
quick games if you've got half an hour
at lunch time or you can do like a whole
bunch of narrative hooks now another
thing to point out about warcry is
Workshop has done a very good job of
making a set of dedicated Miniatures
solely for this game system I mean they
can be used elsewhere in your chaos
warbands or like any of age a sigma game
but those War bands are on another level
I mean there's so many to pick from
you've got like in this video we're
currently painting the corva's Kebab
which are weird bird people they're
great I mean that's such a different
designer set it that you would never
have seen like in Old hammer and this is
another thing I know I'm going on but
here's another thing you could literally
take these traps when old Hammer comes
out so the old world
chaos in the old world in the northern
wastes have so many different tribes and
they all have cool names these were
fitting perfectly
um with with that system as well now let
me tell you a story about why my
experiences of war cry have brought me
to this conclusion that I think it's the
best game when it was released uh it's
probably like Autumn time of 2019 it was
announced in July uh it was I was very
excited to see it it was great packaging
um lots of like cool War bands that were
announced and this down the other didn't
really connect with its staff with it
came out the box set came out the box
it's huge it's got so much in there you
had the Untamed beasts the Iron Golem
and then all this cool scenery and still
wasn't interested in playing it did some
stuff for a warmer TV painted the
Untamed beasts Duncan did the iron golem
I enjoyed painting them they were cool
chaos warband guys buried kodanesque
like I've mentioned previously
um but I didn't play it so one day I was
asked to play a battle report on warmer
TV live no ever played the game at this
point so I was a bit sort of like oh I
got me in war band weirdly I built some
War bands for Warcraft I just never got
around to playing it
um and I had done some Daughters of Kane
I'd give them like these this red skin
thing which was based off a character
called Purgatory from Red Sonya's
Dynamite novels really cool looking
aesthetic I thought that would look cool
and doors came so I did a bespoke
warband for that really proud of him and
then I got to play a game with Ben Gala
on live and I was a bit nervous I was
like Ben out how do I play this game I
don't know what I'm doing he's like
don't worry we'll do a small game to
start off with and they'll ease you win
and I literally had four figures he had
four figures and within the very first
turn and like I've activated a couple of
characters I got the rule system not all
the big rules like running climbing and
all this any of it but most of the
basics nailed that's what I'm talking
about is an intuitive war game and at
first glance is quite good fun I'm
enjoying it you know there's a bit of
tune and throwing it's feeling it's
getting those Lord of the Rings Vibes
that I like where you have like the
skirmish games you've got priority you
take it in turns then there's that extra
Dynamic of the the ability dice that you
roll so depending if you get doubles or
triples or quads they give you abilities
in the game which is also pretty good
funny you save those up you can be super
tactical so a lot of folks out there go
warcraft's pretty flat it's not very
tactical disagree strongly disagree so
if you've never played it and this is
your first time experiencing it like
just me waffling on in my TED talk about
it there's so many little nuances so the
first thing you do before you play a
game if you're doing it properly in
match play you get a deployment card
this deployment card describes where
those groups come from and at what point
they come up from so sometimes they
could all be deployed at the same time
and as I've had a few times it could be
one starts on the battlefield and then
the rest come in round three then you
get your Victory conditions which give
you like what you need to do then you
get your twist The Twist is the thing
that I love because sometimes it's a
benefit most the time massive negative
and I think this is the thing where I've
heard a few people say it's not a very
good rule system tell you why it's
because they're not good at strategy you
have to think on your feet with this
game you don't there's no meta there's
no sort of like I know the numbers I've
got the best warband possible I can't
possibly lose because if I roll this
average of these Dice and I do this and
then deploy here I'm going to win war
cry gets that puts in a blender and
destroys it so you have to think on your
feet whilst you're playing it so anyone
that says it's not a good rule system
are terrible tacticians in my opinion
because they can't think on their feet
maths has been destroyed it is now just
like oh dear stress time how do I deal
with the situation and then that one
game or those three games in that night
literally changed my life when it came
to wargaming every single day night
after that I was being warbands from
different factions to the point where
I'm still doing it now and I'm dolls
housing scenery I started doing this hag
valkyr interior labyrinthine sort of
Temple for my daughter cane I went down
a right rabbit hole and this is the
problem I think with with me and like
skimmage games certainly walk right is
you the the mechanics of the game are
simple easy to learn but it's so
expansive from a narrative hook and
point of view so I decided I was going
to focus on a daughter cane Temple and I
started making bookcases I started
making temples pools of blood so I
started adding all these extra cool
things made myself my own little home
dollhouse it to the nines and then that
that wasn't it it was like oh I'm gonna
do another warband I want to do some
slash because slash and daughters again
they don't get all my age about I'll do
some slash the problem I found with age
of Sigma and it's not the game's gray
but
you have to invest so much time in
collecting the Army and I have put hours
and hours into my age of Sigma Army my
citizen Sigma and I've played one game
and that's two three years of building
up one game two three years of effort
and that's not like anyone's fault
that's my fault getting together with
friends but with war cry I've played
countless games but I've scratched so
many itches I've done this citizen Sigma
War band I've done that citizen Sigma
walk band I've done pretty much most the
war bands that were available at the
time so like the Iron Golem the Untamed
beasts the Spy tyrants I've got like
some new ones which are converted to be
more slash you've got the cipher Lords
again actually heads so so all these
things I was able to do and tweak that
catered to me but I'm painting like what
eight nine figures at a time even if
there's like a range out there you're
not interested in and you just think oh
everyone else has gone about it and I'll
just paint handful I mean I've done a
hob hob grot slitter warband it's like
what 10 figures and one cruel boy it's
just funny because he's a rubbish cool
boy and he's not very good but he's in
charge of like little tiny goblins
because that's that's all he can be in
charge of because everyone else beats
him up so you could like go down
narrative folks like that you've got a
really rubbish hook he's not very good
and the only way you can like get any
control and command is to bully the
little guys underneath him so there's so
many little things you can do and you
know what
if you're an underworlds fan and you got
a bunch of War bands they all work in
Warcraft There Are Rules available to
use those in Warcraft as well so don't
just sit there go well I've got these
things I can't do anything with and I
want to play Warcraft you can you
totally can you can just mix them
together
job done so to summarize
war cry why is it the best fantasy
skimmage game fast fun easy to learn but
then you know there's loads of extra
things you can develop from that easy to
learn mechanic the campaigns there's so
many campaigns there's so much extra
Nuance to each of your warbands you
collect
um and you can scratch so many itches
when it comes to playing and before you
know it you'll have several scenery sets
a whole bunch of War bands and you're
getting your mates over they're getting
into it because I've done that loads
with all the people at head office and
here getting Pat into it I play the game
with him I know he wants to play more I
know we've already got them doing things
for necomunder but there's more I'm just
going to take over the world on teaching
people how to play war cry but it is a
really simple rule system and if you're
into D and not age of Sigma there's so
many things in here that you can use I
mean get yourself some we print minis
Chuck them in there and play Warcraft
fight find the fight cards
um but yes it is in my humble opinion
the best rule system and when a rule
system is so easy to pick up in the
first turn and a five-year-old Malad can
pick up half the rules of that game that
tells you something about the rule
system there we are we've done our Spire
stalker it's finished ready to add to
the rest of Warriors of that warband and
get playing some games with those two
and I can just go
do that all the way through the game
because they're all bad people but war
cry great game best game ever why are
you telling me this PT well a simple
reason
that's so easy to get hung up on other
people's opinions I mean obviously this
is my opinion my humble opinion but I
heard so many people say oh Walker is
not very good this thing oh this game's
not very good oh don't play that it's
it's a rubbish game
try games give them a go because you'll
be pleasantly surprised I was the same
with this game when it came out I wasn't
interested until I played the game loved
it necomunder uh I I left that too long
I mean I love necromenon for the past
but the new rules I left it left and
left it I wish I hadn't and I need to
get off that high horse peachy and play
Blood Bowl there's just too many people
out there telling me it's a good game I
had one bad experience I need to get off
my high horse and play it and I intend
to do that so that is a learning for me
is I talk about the rules being oh I
don't like blood bowl no I just got one
negative experience and I need to get
off it so that is my learning here is
give a game a go try it play it and
you'll be pleasant and surprised by what
you can do with it so thank you for
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the best Fantasy skimmage game out there
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