Games Workshop - Warhammer Underworlds: Gnarlwood - Rivals Of Nethermaze

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The leader of this 4 model warband is Shroud Queen Slythael. She wears a faceless mask and seems to float on her cloak while it is turning to smoke, an impressive feat of miniatures design. Be careful with her staff though, this is one of the thinnest pieces of plastic I’ve ever seen. The other Shroudblades are armed with a mixture of blades and a crossbow pistol, which should make for plenty of gameplay options. The tokens are really good quality and come off the board with only a little push. There’s no real risk of little carboard tabs being left on the counters, not the finish snagging and ripping, so each one of these should come out without issue. Cards

Kixi-Taka the Diviner is blessed by his Slann masters, and makes use of esoteric Old One technology to lead the Starblood Stalkers into battle and usher along the Great Plan. Two skinks join forces with Otapatl the Chameleon Skink – and that taciturn mass of scale and muscle known as Klaq-Trok. Shroud Queen Slythael takes this power one step further – being in a cover hex bathes her in shadow, allowing her to teleport to edge hexes and other secluded spots. Each warband provides its own painting challenge, with a hatful of highly-detailed miniatures to get creative with. The Warhammer TV painting team has come up with a collection of paints for each warband to help you get them ready to enter the Gnarlwood.

Warhammer Underworlds Nethermaze cards

The fastest way to ensure you get what you want is to return the item you have, and once the return is accepted,a replacement will be sent to you. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but hopefully we’ll see some more horrible little rat-men like this in the future! Warhammer Underworlds: Nethermaze Review – Playtesting In terms of theme, atmosphere, and narrative, Nethermaze takes us almost no distance from Harrowdeep; indeed, it’s presented as a deeper level of the same setting.

Next, we have to place the various gloom and objective hexes onto the map. We did this in the layout below. Smoke and Mirrors– A ploy that lets two of your fighters swap places anywhere on the board, so long as one is in a Cover Hex Warhammer Quest: Lost Relics sees a band of heroic Stormcast Eternals battling to escape from a mysterious labyrinth as they are beset by traps and monsters. The Nethermaze rulebook is your one-stop port-of-call for all the latest rules for playing Warhammer Underworlds.

What is Warhammer Underworlds Nethermaze?

They really don’t scrimp on tokens in these Underworlds boxes. There are dozens of little cardboard circles, squares and hexes in the Nethermaze box, spread across two boards. Way of the Lashing Tail– Skaven never fight alone if they can help it; this two-glory objective card scores when you have three fighters adjacent to the same enemy fighter. Given that we’ve managed to do a playtest of every recent Underworlds release over the past year or so, it felt only natural that we continued the tradition within this review. So, my long-suffering partner and playtesting duo extraordinaire, Lizzie, took control of the Shadeborn whilst I took the Skaven (she’s giving up her Sunday afternoon for this; I wasn’t going to make her play with the rats). Each round (which consists of four alternating “activations” between each player) is begun with a roll off. In round 1, Lizzie won roll off and began aggressively, having her character with a ranged weapon shoot at Skittershank and deal him a single wound. In her part of the subsequent Power phase, she played a couple of Gambits to help keep her Aelves safe from the skittering Skaven.

The very first thing players need to do before they can begin playing Nethermaze is set up the battlefield. The battlefield is made up of the two double-sided boards that come with the box. Each side is covered with hexes which divide up the battlefield. Some of these hexes all have different rules applied to them. Beneath the rulebook and the assembly guide, safely sealed away in their own plastic shrink-wrap, are the two folding game boards that come with the set. We’ll look at these in more details in a few moments.

Nethermaze’s new Grand Alliance cards include three gambits, three upgrades, and three objectives for each of the four Alliances – here are a few of our early favourites: This is Underworlds’ biggest selling-point: the game has a very understandable rhythm to it that’s very easy to get into. The more rounds you play, the easier and easier players will find it to get into the game’s swing. Our final Round only took us about ten minutes, as we were well into the pattern of how the various turns progressed. It transpired that when Lizzie had discarded her entire Upgrade/Gambit hand at the end of round 2, she had drawn five Upgrade cards that she couldn’t use as she hadn’t scored a single Glory Point. She had also discarded her Objective had again and had drawn another selection of unfavourable Objectives – one of which required her to have all her surviving fighters – of which she had 3 at the start of Round 3 – sitting in Cover hexes – of which there was 1, which my Krowch’t was quite comfortable in. A few more points of damage were allocated across the board, but beyond each warband losing their leader, there were no further significant changes to the board. Nethermaze is another faithful – albeit perhaps a little predictable – entry into the annals of Warhammer Underworlds history. Whilst on paper the contents of this box are very similar to those that have arrived in other Underworlds boxes of a similar price, there’s enough fresh and new stuff in here to keep Underworlds fans happy.