Apparently there will be a Warmaster (10mm) version of Battle of the five armies...
From what I heard at EuroGT (Rick Priestly was there) it will be a boxed version containing the rules (Warmaster revised) and plastic miniatures...
They had some samples with them...
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I for one cannot wait for the release of Bo5A. The minis look pretty good. More importantly it will publicise Warmaster, one of the finest gaming systems ever produced. Hopefully it will lead to more Warmaster players.
If it is successful perhaps GW will produce box sets for other battles, such as Pelennor Fields or Last Alliance based games. Then one would truely be able to re-create some of the most interesting battles in fantasy literature.
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Damn, this sort of renews my interest in Warmaster. When are the Warmaster Revised rules going to be available? How different are they from the current rules?
Apparently Warmaster 2.0 will not be very different from the present Warmaster. It will really be an opportunity to tweak some rules based on 4 years or so of use, correct typos, re-jig the odd diagram/explanation to make them more understandable and introduce some new army lists.
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My understanding is that there will be multiple different box sets for the LOTR 10mm scale, much the way they currently have the 25mm line broken up approximately by movie. I don't remember where I saw, but for some reason it seems to come to my head that there are supposed to be a total of 5 different sets, recreating the biggest and most important of the battles of Middle Earth.
As to the ruleset, this is another thing which has now devolved into 'I think I heard from someone who heard', but the Warmaster "2.0" rules are basically going to be 1.1, which is to say Warmaster, plus the various clarifications that have appeared in Warmag and the two annuals, possibly with a few other very small tweaks. I imagine for the Bot5A they'll also add a few more types of army specific rules, in the same way that they've done for the various Warmaster armies that have come out since the main book. Which is fine, because, really, Warmaster is by far the best single ruleset that GW has ever done, by a reasonably substantial margin.
-DaR, who has been playing around with using some of the concepts in WM for straight WFB and Mordheim.
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Originally posted by Theo Axner Out of curiosity: what other wargame rules, apart from those by GW, are you comparing it to? (That is, which non-GW rulesets are you familiar with?)
From a Fantasy point of view I have played Warhammer (all editions), Hordes of Things, Celtos, D&D miniature battles (all variation), Necromancer's Bane, Reaper and one or two others I can't remember. Historical rule sets include Spearhead, Rapid Fire, Armarti, DBA, DBM and Crossfire. And I consider Warmaster to be the best rules set of all of these. Of course many people would disagree but I don't care - I've played many games and know what I like.
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