Wednesday 12 February 2020

Review Warcry: Unmade

Unmade Warband - click to enlarge.

Warcry is, in my view, a much underrated fantasy skirmish wargame from The Evil Empire. It uses doubles and trebles, etc, from the roll of a set of dice to allow pieces to undertake actions of various complexity. The background is of small chaos warbands, not drawn from the usual factions, roaming the Eight Points realm trying to carry out great deeds to impress The Everchosen of Chaos. Mostly this involves beating up other small warbands.

The Unmade are one of those bands from the Realm of Shish (Realm of the Dead). They worship chaos in the form of pain and to be in an Unmade warband you have to cut your own face off and wear it as a belt buckle decoration - yes, even by GeeDubya standards this is really gruesome. Such a warrior is known as Awakened.

Yep, you really have to suffer for your wokeness in Age of Sigmar.

Moving up in status, a warrior is allowed to cut an arm off so as to permanently attach a weapon. These are the Ascended.

The second in command get to cut both arms off - an honour indeed - which is presumably why they are know as Joyous Ones.

But the leaders are the pièce de résistance. They are known as blissful ones because they get to cut off their legs as well as their arms - and become bladerunners.

The models are some of the best Citadel have made. Really, really beautiful .....in a sadomasochistic sort of way. My only criticism, and it applies to all the Warcry warbands, is that they are a bit delicate as playing pieces. Gorgeous models for a diorama set in an insane world, though.

Highly Recommended (the game ain't bad, either)







11 comments:

  1. You know I've been trying not to get caught up in this Warcry thing... you're not helping.

    (These look great!)

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    1. The boxed set is expensive but you can get into it with just a rule book and a warband.

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    2. I saw they were releasing packs of faction specific cards - how necessary are those? I have no shortage of minis that can probably be used!

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    3. You need the cards Tim and a rulebook. If you already have suitable minis them you are set. It uses standard dice and no special counters.

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  2. That level of Grimdarkian imaginitivness used to be preserve of the committed (in the other sense) hobbist.

    It looks now like GW are doing that but that the models have now become unconvertable.

    Whilst from an intellectual POV I applaud 'mixing it up', I can't help but think that the really out there shit (and conversions of the minis to match) should be coming from the hobbyists.

    I'm sooooooo old fashioned.

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    1. The trend is definitely towards complete, inflexible games in a box.

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  3. Yikes! I'm so glad I have a heavy metal fetish.

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  4. ... and for everything else, there is paracetamol! :-)

    Regards, Chris.

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    1. paracetamol, heretic....you have to enjoy the exquisite pain.....

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