Warhammer 40,000 Conquest LCG has been officially announced
by Fantasy Flight Games. Although only a rumour last week, the nature of the
rumour meant that this was fairly likely to happen.
Warhammer 40,000 Conquest is a two player Living Card Game
and has players attempting to control planets in the Traxis Sector. The aim of
the game is to control three planets with the same symbol. Players control
planets by sending their troops into battle on each of the five planets in
play. Players will also be able to secretly attack with their high powered
Warlord card by using the servo skull dial (think the manoeuvre dials in Star
Wars X-Wing) to secretly select a planet.
It looks like this isn’t just a carbon copy of Warhammer
Invasion, as the planet cards are going to add a lot of variety to the game as
well as giving players a lot of tactical options to consider. According to the product
details only 10 planet cards are included in the core set but it’s safe to assume
that these will be expanded in future packs.
Some information about Deckbuilding has also been released. Every deck will be based around a Warlord, who will also be joined by their command squad. This dictates the faction that your deck is made from but you are also allowed to include cards from one of the two available allies. The allies you’re allowed to include are based around an alignment wheel; for example Space Marines can take allies from the Imperial Guard or Tau, Tau can take allies from either Space Marines or Eldar. There are seven factions included in the game and these cover the majority of factions in Warhammer 40,000. Notable exceptions are the Tyranids, Necron and Sisters of Battle, though you can imagine these being included in future big box expansions. The product details for the core set confirm that all seven factions will be included in the core set.
I’ll admit that I don’t tend to play LCGs beyond the core
set, but I’ve been a Warhammer 40,000 fan since I played Rogue Trader way back
in the early 90s. I can see me buying this, lots of this! Time to re-mortgage
the house I think.
Warhammer 40,000 Conquest will be released the 3rd
quarter of 2014, so that will be at Gen Con then.
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