Warcaster: Neo-Mechanika (Sci-Fi)

[SBger]

Von Pivateer Press kommt ein neues Tabletop heraus, welches in der WM / Hordes Realität spielt - nur 5.000 Jahre in der Zukunft.

Das Spiel bekommt demnächst einen Kickstarter und soll schon im Juni 2020 an die Backer ausgeliefert werden.

Offizielle Homepage

Offizielles FAQ

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[Snoozer]

Ich freue mich schon sehr auf das Spiel! Besonders die unteren Minis finde ich sehr gelungen. Die Metall-dudes werden vielleicht mit weniger Metallfarbe besser ^^

Die Modelle sollen aus Resin und metall sein.

[Fomorian]

Danke fürs Mitteilen und da bin ich auch schon gepannt drauf, als ehemaliger WM/H Spieler! Die Modelle sehen sehr schick aus und erinnern stark an den Stil von Infinity.

Das Gameplay Overview liest sich sehr interessant, mit Alternierendem Aktivierungsystem und den Portalen, sowie das es man selbst der Warcaster ist und es nicht wie bei WM/H ein Modell auf dem Tisch gibt, was diesen repräsentiert  .

Heute Abend ab 19 Uhr soll es das erste Gameplay zu sehen geben, auf dem Twitch Kanal von Privateer Press: 

Das Material für die Modelle soll übrigens überwiegend Metall sein zzgl. Resin Teilen und die größeren Modelle sollen dann komplett aus Resin sein.
Der Kickstarter soll wohl im März schon kommen und wie erwähnt die erste Welle an Rewards schon im Juni versendet werden

Ich bin gespannt, ob PP damit wieder etwas Boden gut machen können, auch in Dtl.!?  

 

*Update* ... Laut einem der Game Designer wird es keine "Arcs" geben wie bei WM/H und jedes Modell hat einen 360° Sichtbereich   ...

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[Kodos der Henker]

Aus einem anderen Forum von jemandem der den Stream gesehen hat:

 

Zitat

-There are no points during army building; you get X number of units ("units" are everything in the game, including solos and warjacks) agreed upon by your opponents, and you can have a reserve that sounds unlimited, I guess? You pay some kind of summoning points for adding models during the game.

-It's I go you go, with kind of a weird system they call the Pulse Round. You activate a model and do your thing, then I activate a model and do my thing, and each round of activations you advance the Pulse Tracker towards a number determined by scenario. The Pulse Round is important to scenarios (it may be where you score objectives, etc.) and some in-game effects.

-When you activate a unit, that unit gets an activation flag and cannot activate again until that flag is cleared; you automatically clear all activation flags once every unit has one. Every time you activate, you get unit + solo - So you can go warjack + solo, unit of dudes + solo, or solo + solo. They do their thing and then your opponent gets to react. You can move or attack or attack and move, in any order you choose, but you cannot double up (no move-move or attack-attack).

-Your spells (called Cyphers) are played at the beginning of a round and again at the end. You have a hand of five; there are deckbuilding rules they didn't get into. There are buffs that affect dudes, jacks, etc. that are different kinds, global type buffs, and offensive spells called Furies. Furies have to be channeled through a Weaver, there's no range restriction on the other kind.

-You have a well of 7 ARC. You can allocate one ARC to anything you want at the beginning of a turn. Units can do cool things with it like get better at hurting stuff and have a rule called a Spike, which lets you spend the ARC once a trigger has been met to do some neat effect. I saw a Weaver able to burn an ARC to increase the range of a spell, but there's certainly other stuff they can do. Once an ARC is spent it goes back to your well. I have no idea what else the ARC does. Each unit has a Focus stat that tells you how much ARC you can allocate, I guess.

-Units of dudes move via the unit leader; you measure the move and then place the dudes in the unit in unit coherency with the unit leader, which specifically allows leapfrogging tactics.

-When you make an attack, you roll dice equal to your MAT or RAT score, and your target rolls dice equal to their Defense score. If you win they get hit, if they do you miss.

That's all I saw before I had to get back to work.

 

 

Unit is a squad of 3, a solo, or a warjack.

Starter box is a squad, 2 solos, and a jack.

Rules

30"x30" board is 8 units max per side
48"x48" board is 15 units max per side

Your "sideboard" is unlimited and costs are based on summoning
There is no kill, it is scenario and victory points
Scenario is called Recon. They mention having terrain with vertical elements being awesome and they back up the Rick and Morty idea of the 1000 worlds having all kinds of terrain.
The scenario points in Recon are permanent, others will have scenario objects that move or can/must be moved.
Pulse round is when scoring occurs and when most effects expire (every 3 game rounds is one Pulse round in Recon). Pulse rounds remove activation tokens but not Arc.
The Pulse round timer means that the games ends after a certain number of rounds.
Scenario points are equal to the Pulse round (1 for 1, 2 for 2, 3 for 3 the last round).

Deployment is done from your side of the table out to a certain distance and they both start with 2 units out and draw 5 cards.

4 kinds of cards:
Harmonics (they didn't mention the color) are global cards
Overdrives (blue) are jack cards
Geometrics (orange) are unit cards
Furies (red) are spells with ranges that come from weavers

Cypher (card), activate unit(s), Cypher, place summoning well/Summon is one turn. Can also discard a card and draw up to 5 at the end of each turn.

Arc
Arc not in play is your well, 7 total. A bigger well means more powerful spells. You can pull any Arc back at the start of your turn or place 1 Arc.
Arc on a model can be spent like fury/focus. Each unit also has charge and spike abilities. The example is a Spike ability for the Marcher World fire team, they can move 3" when spiked with Arc.

Summoning/Gates
Only 2 gates in play for each player
Summoning gates have Arc on them and it takes a turn to summon and the other player can damage the gate and delay/stop/mess with summoning.
Gates need to be placed within 5" of human model not just summoned or 5" from your table edge.
Can move through gates.
Gates you get a base and a token to put in the base.

Combat/Movement rules
Each unit moves and attacks but you can do it in whatever order you want, attack/move or move/attack.
Full pre-measure.
Cover exists and is probably similar to WMH rules.
Only white and red die, no blue.
(I have not used the Riot Quest or Mon Poc dice but it seems kinda annoying)
No facing and no arcs for models.
Jacks do not have systems or arms or anything, just HP.
LOS is volume to volume (matters for height) and RNG is base to base.
If you have the high ground you basically always have cover and cover is 2 red die.
Jacks can use all their weapons when they activate.
Can shoot into and out of melee, no freestrikes in this game, no engagement.
There is falling damage and if you get damaged when falling your activation ends.
Can climb ladders on terrain.
Can't move through models.
Blasts are measured from the hit model and sprays are just what is under your tape measure, no templates.
Slamming is a thing and adds a red die.

Units
Jacks are customized based on the cortex and the build-points (hard points). There are rules associated with building them (they play with 5 points in jack customization).

Iron Star Alliance is like the Empire
Marcher Worlds is like the Outer Rim

Iron Star Alliance squad range is 12".
Dusk Wolf has 3 HP.
Marcher World Hunter solo is SPD 7 and RNG 15 and RAT 6. Having an Arc on him added a red die to his attack. He also has an ability to move 3" after shooting.
Jacks can have up to 3 Arc and the Iron Star jack gets +1 to it's melee for each arc and the Dusk Wolf gets +1 SPD.
Iron Star Weaver has 2 HP and died in 1 shot from the Jack.
Gates have good defensive stats and when damaged Arc gets pushed off them.
Jacks are on 50mm bases (so maybe no heavy jacks?)
There are cards that can remove activation tokens meaning you can activate the same thing multiple times out of the normal order.

There are attachments in the game.

My Thoughts
Summoning is the big strategy here and how you think ahead.
The card deck is cool.
The Arc well is cool.
Stuff dies easily and in a 15 unit game I bet it gets pretty complicated.
Can't say I am a fan of the dice but I haven't used them before. Having to roll to hit, roll to defend, roll to damage seems kinda annoying.

The game basically ends at the start of Pulse round 3 because one player will win based on the positioning of the objectives and the increasing scenario point values. I think that is fine?

Skirmish seems like a good size to play, 8 units (2 starters is their example) on a 30"x30

 

[Fomorian]

vor 2 Minuten schrieb Fuchs:

Unit Design aus den 90ern, 35mm Maßstab, dazu Resin und Metall. Ich werds vermutlich mal mit Infinity Figuren proxen.

 

Come on PP, wann lernt ihr es endlich.

Wobei ja Resin per se nichts schlechtes ist und das Design ist schon nice bzw, erinnert stark an Infinity und deren Designs sind jetzt auch eher weniger aus den 90ern!?

Hier noch ein weiterer Blog Artikel, mit einer Zusammenfassung der Regeln aus dem Stream:

https://www.loswarmachine.com/news-theory-tactics/2020/2/25/warcaster-neo-mechanika-the-first-look?fbclid=IwAR350XWgHKVtbfheieybbFlKSfN2D1rKxP2ijXVC2CIUJXECd1h8HFIlNeM

[Snoozer]

Je länger ich die Minis sehe, desdo weniger sehen sie infinity artig aus. Ich hatte aber auch diesen ersten Eindruck (als nicht infinity Spieler). Inzwischen sehe icjh bei dem iron alliance jack vor allem die Füße als die vom squire, das ist ganz lustig.

Mit dem gameplay bin ich jetzt sehr gehyped! Ich werde den Kickstarter wohl nutzen, falls es eine brauchbare EU Versand Option gibt! 

[Fomorian]

vor 37 Minuten schrieb Snoozer:

Je länger ich die Minis sehe, desdo weniger sehen sie infinity artig aus. Ich hatte aber auch diesen ersten Eindruck (als nicht infinity Spieler). Inzwischen sehe icjh bei dem iron alliance jack vor allem die Füße als die vom squire, das ist ganz lustig.

Mit dem gameplay bin ich jetzt sehr gehyped! Ich werde den Kickstarter wohl nutzen, falls es eine brauchbare EU Versand Option gibt! 

Jo das geht mir mittlerweile auch so und das kürzliche Gameplay Vid hat mich auch überzeugt. Ich werde wohl auch beim KS mitmachen, die Modelle sind schon echt schick, auch wenn sie nicht an die von Infinity heran kommen  ...

Neuer Artikel von PP zum Warcaster Setting:

https://home.privateerpress.com/warcaster/warcaster-setting/

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[Fomorian]

Der 'Warcaster' Kickstarter beginnt Morgen Abend (unserer Zeit) am 4.3.20 !!!  

 

Weiterhin wurde die Warcaster Homepage erweitert: https://home.privateerpress.com/warcaster/

und eine dritte Fraktion vorgestellt (leider noch ohne Modelle), dass "Aeternus Continuum"  

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