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"The cost of victory is blood, the cost of defeat is everything." –The Empire at War
Set amid the constant warfare of the Old World, Warhammer: Diskwars is a game of ferocious, fast-paced tabletop battles for two to four players. At the heart of the game's conflicts are its disks, which represent heroes and units from across the Old World. During the game, you activate these disks, flipping them end over end to move them across the battlefield, position them to attack, and interact with terrain and other disks it overlaps. When one disk covers another disk, the disk on top is considered to be "pinning" the disk below it; this prevents the pinned disk from activating, and at the end of the round, overlapping disks must fight one another. By maneuvering carefully to pin your opponent's units, you can strike them down, seize control of the battlefield, and win the day!
Warhammer: Diskwars has been updated to its new setting within the Warhammer world and features flexible rules for hero-centric army-building. Additionally, whereas the original Diskwars was a collectible game, Warhammer: Diskwars has moved away from the blind buy model, and the Core Set includes everything you need to play the game: a host of terrain cards, objectives, command cards, and more than sixty disks for the game's four races.
- Portable disc-based miniatures-style combat
- Thematic and accessible Warhammer setting
- Four factions included
- Fantasy military conquest
- Warhammer Fantasy setting
- Skirmish-level combat described through a disc-based system
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Disc activation — Flat discs represent units and are flipped to activate actions
- Faction-based play — Four factions included in the box
- Portable battlefield — Compact rules for quick play and travel
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- If you're familiar with Arkham Horror, Eldritch Horror is a sister game to Arkham and Eldritch Horror takes your fight against the Ancient Ones to a global scale.
- The investigators now are going to travel around the globe and the mechanics are brand new.
- The point is not to close gates but to solve the mysteries that are unique to each ancient one.
- It's filled with narrative, it's filled with personality and story, and a desperate struggle that investigators continue to fight.
- Essentially a miniatures unit combat across a field of battle for two to four players, but instead of miniatures, we have flat discs and those discs are flipped on the board as you activate units.
- It's very portable and it's got four factions in the box.
- It's a spectacular new design based on the Battle system.
- You've got the left, center, right sections
- Brand new minis that are 28 millimeter.
- The GL gameplay has been refined.
- There's fog of war.
- There's a unique scenario system that has you playing different games every single time with different armies.