This game will ruin your game collection. All your other games will gather dust because Chaos in the Old World (COW) will be the only game that 3-4 people will beg to play.
COW is a game that has beautiful parity with diverse options to victory. Each player plays an evil god bent on destroying the world. The rules are simple. You summon creatures, play chaos cards, fight by rolling dice, then calculate points. Whoever has the most points wins.
How’s that fun?
COW’s master stroke is that each god adds its own flavor for playing the game. For instance, if you play Khorne, you are the blood god and relish the chance to attack other players much as you can. You get chaos cards that aid your bloodlust. By killing figures, Khorne also gains upgraded abilities through the game. Other players tend to flee from his reign of terror. The three other gods, Tzeentch, Nurgle, and Slaanesh, are much more subtle. For instance, each respective god can teleport, overwhelm, or control other players’ figures. No god will ever play the same as the other 3. By playing as your god should, you stand an excellent chance to win.
Never does COW feel like playing solitaire. Each player is constantly watching the moves of the others and whispering to their fellow players in the hopes of creating fleeting alliances. The tension built during the game is astonishing as games are won typically by thin margins.
Chaos in the Old World’s tension, variation, art, theme, and balance will have you and your friends lusting for more plays than other games. I cannot recommend COW highly enough.
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This game will ruin your game collection. All your other games will gather dust because Chaos in the Old World (COW) will be the only game that 3-4 people will beg to play.
COW is a game that has beautiful parity with diverse options to victory. Each player plays an evil god bent on destroying the world. The rules are simple. You summon creatures, play chaos cards, fight by rolling dice, then calculate points. Whoever has the most points wins.
How’s that fun?
COW’s master stroke is that each god adds its own flavor for playing the game. For instance, if you play Khorne, you are the blood god and relish the chance to attack other players much as you can. You get chaos cards that aid your bloodlust. By killing figures, Khorne also gains upgraded abilities through the game. Other players tend to flee from his reign of terror. The three other gods, Tzeentch, Nurgle, and Slaanesh, are much more subtle. For instance, each respective god can teleport, overwhelm, or control other players’ figures. No god will ever play the same as the other 3. By playing as your god should, you stand an excellent chance to win.
Never does COW feel like playing solitaire. Each player is constantly watching the moves of the others and whispering to their fellow players in the hopes of creating fleeting alliances. The tension built during the game is astonishing as games are won typically by thin margins.
Chaos in the Old World’s tension, variation, art, theme, and balance will have you and your friends lusting for more plays than other games. I cannot recommend COW highly enough.
The MSRP for this item is 59.99. The first listed vendor on Amazon is selling it for 75.00+6.99 shipping? How do you justify charging $82 for a $60 game? What is with that price eSuperBooks?
I ordered it from Amazon for less than 40.00 with free shipping when it was released. The first print run sold out and the game is fantastic, especially if you are a fan of the Warhammer Fantasy universe.
Great game, buy it from someone other than eSuperBooks as their price is a rip off.
Our Games Workshop hobby development advisor (AKA guy in the warhammer shop) advised us (me and my eight year old son) to start our Warhammer hobby with this set. Our son attended a number of free hobby sessions in the shop, and started the process of painting the figures in the set.
While the kids can see the value in amassing their armies via this set, it has a number of advantages they perhaps don’t realise. Most importantly, it contains pieces that don’t require complex assembly. Secondly, the two armies have a standard set of colours for each of their troops, and therefore are relatively simple to paint. Thirdly, the armies can employ simpler strategies when it comes to finally putting them on the battlefield.
My role has been to cut out, clean up and glue the pieces together, followed by applying the black undercoat via a spray can application. This is an important additional requirement, as is the hobby starter set and a pot of metallic gold paint. My son then does the painting, providing him with a creative outlet. He gets a great sense of pride in completing the figures, and displays great patience in carefully painting each figure. He generally needs around half an hour for each one (accounting for distractions such as his younger brother).
Going back to the Games Workshop store has been very useful, especially in maintaining a relationship with the staff there, and seeing what the other hobbyists are up to – mostly teenage boys.
My eight year old hasn’t really developed much of an understanding of the rules yet, but he’s slowly getting there. He does enjoy learning about the game, and also about the fantasy world portrayed by Warhammer.
After nearly a month, he is in the home stretch for completing his painting and basing (that is adding terrain such as grass and rocks to the figure bases). From then on it will be interesting to see where his interest takes him.
Games Workshop produces many popular miniatures games WarHammer Fantasy “Battle of Skull Pass” is a good place to start for a gamer interested in conducting large battles in a fantasy setting; with modification could readily serve as guidlines for non-Games Workshop gamiing as well (ie D&D, etc).
The game is relatively complete and slowly introduces new players to its inherit mechanics. Included are two Armies, Dwarf and Goblin, dice, terrain, measuring sticks and a handy pocket-size rulebook. The figurines are reasonably detailed with robust features that make painting easy. Painting is additionally simplified by an included painting guide, that gives great tips to assemble and paint the armies rapidly.
The only things I can fault in this set are intentional faults; the game is point driven in that specific units have specific costs. There is no unit cost list provided; which means one must purchase the guidebook for each specific army to know the points value of a given army. Games Workshop miniatures are generally quite pricey, so additions to the included armies will be prohibitive. Games Workshop is often in the habit of completely revising rules and many items become obsolete in a year or two, requiring replacement of key items to stay current.
That being said at face value this is an excellent set, it may be cheaper to buy an additional copy of this game instead of trying to buy additional miniatures separately. The game includes many of the basic troops needed. The fanasy game undergoes fewer revisions and they are usually not as extreme as in other Games Workshop releases.
The main thing that makes this set a must have for the budding Warhammer Fantasy Battles enthusiast is that it contains all you’ll need to learn the game, with the added bonus of two starter armies: the Dwarfs and Greenskins.
Besides the various templates, measuring sticks and dice, you get a smaller, portable version of the rule book and a step-by-step guide that teached you the basics of the game via hands-on exercises. It’s a great value for all you get and, if you’re an Orcs and Goblins enthusiast like me, you’ll love all those great Goblin models to practice your painting on and add to your ever-growing army. Not sure if the hobby is for you? Stop by your local game or hobby store to watch a game, talk to some players or just get an issue of White Dwarf, the magazine by the makers of Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, LoTR and other great games.
If you are just getting started with Warhammer 40k or you’ve been with it for a while, there is no better deal to get yourself a ton of miniatures. You get all you need to play this game, rule book, small guide to collecting, game templates, and a whole mess of miniatures. It’s worth the price for the miniatures alone, but you get everything else you need to play. If you are at all interested in this game, buy this box set!
Love this product. Excellent intro army for the Warhammer world!!! Can’t wait to paint them and get more!!!
I have been a fan of role playing games for over 20 years now. This is my first venture into miniature table-top gaming. I believe the Black Reach starter set is a great way to get everything you need to get started playing in this fascinating genre. Some possible downsides are:
1) The shear amount of information provided can be daunting especially if you are the type who wants to know all of the rules before you start. I would recommend just learning the basics and play a few times before digging into the complete rule set.
2) The assembly and painting of the miniatures is time consuming (who wants to play with just gray models!?!).
3) Related to #2, there are no painting supplies provided with the starter kit so you are on your own for that.
4) No scenery elements are provided so again you are on your own for creating something interesting. I found plenty of excellent videos with a few YouTube searches.
If you are not really interested in miniature war gaming, I can see this as one of those purchases that would end up in the garage sale in a year’s time. On the other hand, if you think you might be interested this is a great way to get started if you aren’t sure what you need. If you are new to miniature wargaming, I would recommend doing a few quick searches for “warhammer battle report” on YouTube and get a sense for the type of game play involved. I would recommend the Black Reach Starter Set for anyone interested in getting started in miniature wargaming, but doesn’t really know where to start.
This is definitely a great set if you’re a beginner in the world of Warhammer 40k like me. This box set gets you up and running immediately. It comes with over fifty miniatures, templates, and a comprehensive rule book! The price is close to that of just the hardcover rule book itself, so if you want to just check out the world of Warhammer 40k without investing too much, then this is where you need to start. This way you can really tell if you enjoy playing through the game and see if building an army is a hobby you really want to invest in. And trust me; it IS an investment after a while.
The ridiculously minor drawback is that you can only get this set with Space Marines and Orks as the two opposing forces. While I’m not so driven to play either of these armies, I can’t deny the usefulness in getting acquainted with the game in this set. My friends and I have been using this set in order to learn how to play the game rather than using our main forces. The small 95 page rule book has all the rules of the game; in fact they are the same exact ones you’ll find in the hardcover three hundred page book. The only difference between the two is that the hardcover book gives you a lot more background information about the different armies and some good painting tips.
One of the other major benefits to this starter kit is how easy it is to put together. The models are designed to snap fit together, which is great for beginners. I’ve put together some decently complex models, like the tanks and the Forge-World miniatures, and by comparison the “Assault on Black Reach” set is a walk in the park. It put together very simply for me and I didn’t even have to do much touch up work. There was nothing I had to seal with epoxy due to gaps and so forth. You can put together the entire force in a few hours or if you’re in a rush to play you can probably put an entire unit together in less than an hour. The only touch ups I really took time to deal with was gluing on a few arms here and there, especially with the Ork army. I found their arms were a little loose a lot of times and tended to fall off.
If you’re very interested in painting your newly built army then I actually don’t recommend you pick up the “Assault on Black Reach” paint set. It’s now out of print, but I managed to track it down. It only gives you enough paint and the colors for the Space Marine units. It doesn’t give you anything for the Ork army and it only comes with instructions on how to paint the Space Marines, so if you want to paint that really cool Terminator figure, you’re on your own. The upside is the paint set does come with five more Space Marine’s so you can increase the size of your force a little more.
If you really want to delve into the world of painting then I recommend you look into the “Battle for MacCragge” hobby set. I don’t own this product yet, but it does appear to come with enough paint for the full force in that set. The only downside is it’s Space Marines versus the Tyranids, so if you really liked the Orks and wanted to learn how to paint them the same way, then you’re out of luck for these starter sets. It works a bit more for me because I want to play as the Tyranids.
Overall I think this is a great beginner product. The only way I think they can improve it is give it more of a story oriented background and involve the new players in the universe a little more. I was kind of half expecting that based on the title of this box set. Maybe I’m too used to other forms of boxed modules. Anyway, if you want to get into this incredibly engrossing hobby, then I highly recommend this set.
The purchase of this product reminded me of those times that my dad worked with my brothers building models. I am very happy to get the chance to repeat that with my boys. Be sure to get model glue as some of the pieces need help staying in place. Add paints with your purchase so that you are ready to complete your project. The pieces are small and it is very time consuming but I have found the experience to be worth it. Remember to bring plenty of patience as it can be difficult at times.