Someone told me the Warlord Army Packs were just proxies for GW, but looking at the themes it doesn't seem right. Is this it's own game? Where can the rules be found? Is it popular?
From the Reaper website store, here's the second edition of the rules:
http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/Books/sku-down/25101
"Features the following factions:
Crusaders
Dwarves
Elves
Nefsokar
Reven
Reptus
Mercenaries
Darkspawn
Necropolis
Overlords"
I don't know how popular but there you go. And they certainly make better miniatures...
Thanks, I couldn't find that for some reason.
Somehow I think even if the rules were terrible I would still have more fun playing that just because the armies would look so cool.
Would get expensive pretty quickly though I suspect.
Here is a brief description of the game
Here are some quick start rules
Although frustratingly, unless I'm blind, I don't see any advice for how many points should be in a typical army for a game or how to set up the table, so I assume the "quick start" rules are less a "start" and more of a "quick reference" for people who already play the game and own the rulebook.
Looks a little smaller scale to me than Warhammer. More like on the scale of Warmachine--can go from a skirmish to a moderately sized army. That's just my impression though.
I've never met anyone who plays Warlord mind, but I've bought loads of the minis for use for RPGs.
If I remember correctly, it's 1000 pts for a standard army battle
Here is a really useful army creator that will tell you point values of the models and there is also a link there that you can search out the stat cards of each model.
Ah! Found a different quick reference that confirms a good sized game is about 1000 pts and takes about 90 minutes
I really want to try this! Also some of the armies make great mobs for RPG.
I love Reaper minis, and Warlord is a pretty fun game. It is far smaller in scale than Warhammer, fairly akin to a skirmish game like Warmachine or Necromunda/Mordheim. Since the game is smaller, the units are more complex with lots of special rules. I haven't played in years, however, due to the fact that Warhammer/40K and Warmachine/Hordes dominate the landscape in my area (as it does in many).
Since quite a few Warlord troops are coming out as Bones minis thanks to Reaper's recent Kickstarter, the game should become quite a bit cheaper to get into soon.