My FLGS had this on preorder for a little over $100 USD. Ridiculous. Looks like the sort of game you can get for $30 at Barnes and Noble and not even with the hard cardboard box or insert. Hopefully I can find this someplace else for cheap in the future.

At the $40-$50 Barnes & Noble price point, it'd be a must buy. As it stands, I get buyer's remorse just looking at it.

Your enthusiasm at the end is really cool. I think cooperative games can be easier to get people to play, and there is no risk of one person understanding the rules/strategy better causing an unfair game. I agree with others that it is somewhat expensive. It makes sense when GW sells boxes of 10 models for $50, but I was kind of expecting a discount because of it being a board game. That being said it looks like a fun experience. Cheers

Ive returned to the hobby recently after 32 years away (40k 1st ed and epic SM were my jam way back). Ive only been painting and swatting up on the lore, but ordered this today as a gateway, learning the ropes of getting back into gaming.

Saturday morning review!!! Looking forward to this. I hope its as interesting as it looks.

the fact this game doesn't come with any new models is ridiculous... $110.00 MSRP for this is WILD.

Oh man, a 40k version of Underworlds would be AMAZING. I think I’ll try Darktide, but the price and the laziness with the mixed-mold types/molds from existing sets really makes me pause first.

Love the video game, I have most of the models and have always wanted to make a custom/house rules game style. Cool that they mixed Underworlds and Killteam together, I'll probably go for a Necromunda style. Cheers for the review Ash 💪😊

I’m so glad you’re excited about it - I am too. I play the Space Marine Adventures Doomsday Countdown solo play game at home semi-regularly and over time have customised it a bunch. I’ve had great fun with it but it’s got a little old now due to the lack of variety in missions (outside of the randomised board) and no expansions… so I’m all in for this! A new casual solo play game in the 40k universe I can play of an evening? Yes please. As a Kill Team player as well it’s nice to see it being used as an on ramp for KT as well. Hopefully shows GW knows KT is a game that has staying power now. I really hope with this one like you said we get some expansion content. White Dwarf would be perfect!

Ty for the review!

I think I want this. I'm not sure I want it bad enough to pay the 100 bucks or so for it.

I was excited about this until the price tag. My personal expectation was it would be priced similarly to B&N space marine adventure games

Hype! Can't wait to see what the I28 and Blackstone Fortress comminites do with this. Even if GW doesn’t expand those amazing folks will.

Looking forward to seeing more of this on the channel

Thanks for the review!

I get my copy in a few days time, can't wait. I am planning on doing some custom rules for a Beast of Nurgle, Chaos Ogryn, and Daemonhost. Otherwise, I really hope that they expand on this game, because its not a Barnes and Noble exclusive.

This sounds like the style of game I actually wanted instead of kill team. Fast setup and tear down for a casual coop game night, sounds close enough to just steal kill team rules to expand it in places, etc.

Amanda Waller.

It would be great to introduce other playable characters that you could bring on missions. They could go the route of gloomhaven and make it really awesome

I remember your GMG review about the new Kill Team being great for the people who are already into Kill Team. This is that gateway to Kill Team for the casual player, which is then the way you get someone to combat patrol and a 1K army. Good leveling up in my opinion, because GW is missing a good dungeon crawl.

Totally agree about pulling in more players, my wife likes coop games that are rules light, I haven’t bought any 40k in years but have preordered this, great review Ash

Totally a B&N game. Can't believe they priced it this way.

Some of the GW boxed games are great fun! I doubt the pricepoint here though as a boardgamer. IF it was a faction I like (when that box comes out) might seem more useful to me personally.

I wonder if an operative from the Exaction Squad would look better than the Kasrkin? Next is trying to figure out a replacement for the Psycher?

This looks like gloomhaven ‘lite’ for 40k. It also seems like a game that is great for solo play. Despite the price, I’m pretty intrigued now.

I like the concept may pick it up. I do however think the price point is a bit too high to be a blockbuster bring people in box it wants to be. That being said I am a sucker for these adventure quest games and If they keep releasing expansions I am likely in.

I’m surprised they didn’t add a boss type enemy. Didn’t have to be a squad of Chaos Space Marines, but seems like that would spice the fights up a bit.

Easy to be excited for a game you get for free. US$110 is an insane price tag. Curious why you didn't mention that part.

Very interested to see how this plays, the price tag and lack of unique models is a bummer, but if the gameplay is interesting might consider picking up as I've had my eye on the traitor guard already

If the warband had unique models in the Darktide aesthetic, my pockets would have been looser.

The board game of the video game of the video game of the tabletop game? Interesting.

Totally agree this is a great way to have a starter,fun kitchen table game. Just keep it expanding and it'd be gangbusters. Proper old fashioned Warhammer quest, but 40k would be mental

40K Underworlds would sell so much it's not even funny

So basically this is Blackstone Fortress Lite?

Totally into this, i just want a premade programme to govern the movement of the enemies that i cant be bothered to do myself, give me that with tokens and cards and I'm in. Also thanks for pointing out, why the hell have they not done a 40k underworlds? It would NEVER be in stock. They would make so much damn money from that lol

I'm kind of surprised they didn't recycle the traitor guard models from BSF for this box. maybe they wanted to justify the price tag. I just think it would have been nice if all the models were push fit.

Amanda Waller, Ash!

Great review Ash. I think the game looks solid, but based on the way GW has been recently, i just dont see it hetting retail support. Hopefully at least something in White Dwarf. Also, yes. I've wanted a 40k "Underworlds" for years. Especially if they made some tweaks (like maybe ditch the universal cards?). As you said, unique "hero" models to the level of the underworlds sculpts, but in 40k? It would basically print money for them. Its also just a solid system that got a bit bloated for me past season 4.

I’ve pre ordered it as a good beer and pretzels game. Also as an into for my girlfriend’s 10yr old daughter. Are the 10 traitor guardsmen to be built as x3 Troopers, Commsman, Gunner, Grenade launcher, Flamer, Sharpshooter and a Chieftain? Also how is the gunner to be built? Plasma or Melta? Looking to get ahead of the game with existing models owned.

Amanda Waller?

It looks like fun. But that price point looks high for what you get!

I was tempted till I saw the price £65 IN UK !!! For at most a £35 game

Reminds me of the Darksouls boardgame call me interested

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Now, can ya proxy the minis?

Suicide Squad boss is Waller

I was very excited for this until I saw the price point. 85eur for a couple of sprues and cardboard. Nope, sorry, won't do it. It's about twice as much as I was willing to spend.

But.. Is it available? I mean not at target or some other store? I’m in Japan. Probably can’t even find it

Thats pricey. Like lost of their stuff lately. I’ll put up with it for real kill team, but this is just a bit much for models that aren’t new or interesting. 80 might have been fine. I’ll have to think about it more after I watch the lets play.

Shame GW is going to end up burning most of these like they're copies of Dreadfleet. It's going to fascinating to see GW's reaction to the next economic recession when they realize their pricing has just retroactively slashed their customer base in half. Also, Martha? WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?!?

I just hope they release it in shps we have in the uk. Its kinda annoying tons of these little games just arn't available in the uk because they don't stock em. Also wish they would releave a miniatures free version so we can add our own miniatures. I;m not keen on the ones they include. EDIT huh its up on the website and still available... thast never happened before for me...

Can it played solo?

Ash get some new ink?

You got me considering this but OMFG, $110??? GTFO. I dont think Im ever going back to GW. What 'new player' is gonna drop 110 on this Barnes & Noble $50 repack?

Recycled cash grab. Would be a tough purchase to justify even at half the price point GW is asking for. They're giving it Wargames pricing when it's a board game, competing against other board games which offer vastly more value for the price.

Black stone x kill team x Warhammer quest.

Amanda "The Wall" Waller.

I was actually excited about this, but once again GW makes a product so over priced for what you get that I can't, in good conscience, buy it. I have to agree with some other posts here that what you get in this box is not worth more than the Barnes & Nobles exclusive releases. I have purchased a few of those, and for what they contain, they are set at a good price point. The sad thing is, this type of game's target audience is casual board gamers who might be interested in 40k, but not the normal games, and gamers who love the video game. But at this price neither of them will buy it. Hell, it would be cheaper to just buy the actual video game. And for hardcore 40k fans? Many of them probably already own 50% - 80% of the miniatures included. So why pay $100+ to buy generic rules and some cardboard and cards? At least make all original, game inspired sculpts if you're going to charge such a ridiculous price and try to justify it as a collector's item. I agree with Ash that an expanding game like this, set in the 40k universe, would be great. But at the price GW is selling it at? It's not going to happen. Maybe... MAYBE... this gets one or two expansions. But I doubt it. This has "one shot" written all over it. I'll be waiting to see it discounted on Amzon before I even think about buying this. And that's a shame.

It looks really interesting to me but... it is a real shame that this "introductory" game it is so EXPENSIVE.

Seems like a dumbed-down version of Blackstone without all the cool models

Here's my issues with this game: 1) Extremely poor timing. I've been playing Darktide since beta, I have 195 hours in the game. I know it quite well, and I know its community. Darktide is on its last legs. It has lost a huge amount of market share to the phenomenon that is Helldivers 2, and a GW branded game will likely not gain that market share back until Space Marine 2 comes out. After that, Darktide is as good as dead. If you need details as to why, I'm happy to add those, but there are multiple factors coming together that support my statement. If GW had better timed this release for when the game released, or when their big skill tree update happened which made interest in the game explode and brought a bunch of people back, this tabletop/board game would have been far better received. 2) Little to no advertising. How, as a huge fan of the PC game, did I literally not know this was in the works or coming out until a week ago? What kind of pathetic excuse for hype and advertising was that? This should have been on the lips and minds of darktide players for months at this point. However, I think the reason why this was not the case was that GW either does not care, or there are literal detached morons in their marketing department. 3) No new models. I literally own all of the models that come in this game, why would I buy this? Who is this being marketed towards? I don't know, because they didn't do any advertising. Who the heck are they trying to sell this to? Doesn't seem to be me. 4) It's too little too late. For reasons stated in point 1, the Darktide PC game is dying, and FatShark nor GW care to save it because Space Marine 2 is on the way. If this was an effort to create hype around the "Darktide" trademark/property in general, its too late for that. Helldivers 2 already stole the vast majority of market share that would be playing the Darktide PC right now because Helldivers 2 is very simply a better game. Sure its not a Warhammer 40k game, but its a better game, and its close enough for enough people to not care. Ash, I get where your excitement is coming from, because you see something raw that you mold and make your own. You haven't put nearly 200 hours into the PC game to where your view of this release is colored the same bias I have, which is skepticism. The Darktide PC has been so poorly handled in the past 3-4 months that I've completely lost interest, and I'm not just skeptical that GW will support this game, I'm also skeptical that this products conception was really anything more than a convenient cash grab. This product is literally a bundle of recycled pieces, it uses a weird mix kill team and underworlds rules, recycled models (that look nothing like the game characters), and a recycled IP.

This is a garbage game and an even worse value. GW messed up by not providing models that LOOK like the characters in the game.

Aren't Silver Tower+, Blackstone Fortress+ & Cursed City co-operative GW games? I'm confused about your vision of this simple lil 'boxed game'. I can only think there's a conflation of your vision for a DT game from a few years back & the actuality of this game. & yes, that it's a better co-operative game than the Warhammer Quest series of games. & what this co-operative game has in common with the Versus games of Underworlds. Not meaning to be an asshat. Just generally not understanding the utmost allure this has on you.

Feels like a poor effort overall, and is horrendously overpriced. Hard pass.

That sounds really good. I like the sound of it a lot…but it’s ¥15,300🥲 I can get A Game Of Armoured Combat for ¥12,100.😔

Amanda Waller?