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Shadespire demo at Tabletop Minions Expo 2018

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:22 pm
by timlillig
The following is an excerpt of a blog article.  Read Full Article

Our friends at the South East Wisconsin Battle Badgers put on demos of Shadespire at TMX this year. Josh and I got to play in a four player game with two others who had never tried it. Josh chose the heavily armored chaos forces of Magore’s Fiends. I was using the skaven warband, Spiteclaw's Swarm. The others were using Orcs called Ironskull’s Boyz and unarmored chaos guys- Garrek’s Reavers. The boards and decks were pre-set, so we were ready to play immediately. In the first turn, everyone more or less rushed into battle. Garrek’s Reavers got the first strike, injuring one ...

Shadespire demo at Tabletop Minions Expo 2018

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 9:31 pm
by gattz
Thanks for the writeup! I really wanted to try a demo of this but got held up at the event.
I was afraid about it's simplicity limiting it, which is mentioned in a lot of reviews, but it's popularity is high and the models are nice with a relatively low buy-in.
Probably a skip for me right now, as it appears to be more of a full minis game teaser...after all, why not just actually play small scale AoS skirmish?
I am curious what AoS 2.0 and the General's Handbook will bring about for the game. The use of models for spellcasting is intriguing.

Re: Shadespire demo at Tabletop Minions Expo 2018

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 2:44 pm
by timlillig
I'm interested to see what the new Age of Sigmar is like too. I have not really gotten around to trying the first edition, but I still want to try the game. From what I can tell, the edition change it is mostly tweaks.

I'm intrigued by the spell effect models too. I usually like that sort of gimmick and might pick them up for fun.

Shadespire demo at Tabletop Minions Expo 2018

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 3:15 pm
by Eilif
Nice report.
I was speaking to Pat the other day and his group plays this occasionally, but they seem to use it as filler when they're not up for a full game of 40k 8th.

Re: Shadespire demo at Tabletop Minions Expo 2018

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 3:30 pm
by timlillig
It is definitely quicker to set up than a game of 40k and probably does not take as long to play.