Godtear’s Champions Hit The Tabletop From Steamforged Games
November 26, 2019 by brennon
Godtear from Steamforged Games is now up on their webstore for you to pre-order ahead of the release on 6th December. It's now time for mighty heroes and their followers to duke it out on the tabletop with two Starter Sets and a bunch of additional packs.
Leading the way we have the two different Starter Sets for you to check out which come with a pair of heroes and their followers plus all of the gubbins you need to play the game. In this one, the Eternal Glade, you get access to Nia, The Crystalmancer and Morrigan, Lich Queen of the Frozen Wastes.
You can also go for a different flavour of Starter Set with The Borderlands.
In this set, you can instead pick up Finvarr, Lord of Mirages and Titus, The Disgraced. This also means you get a different looking battlefield for you to play out your games and of course all of the additional gubbins we mentioned above like tokens, dice, and cards.
One of the cool things about Godtear is that you get to mix and match a lot of the different characters and bring in Champions from different walks of life to expand upon your allied forces on the tabletop. So, that's where some of the extra packs they have up for pre-order come in!
Expand Your Warband
There are four of them for you to pick up currently...
Blackjaw, The Sweeping Flame
Halftusk, Warden Of The Stonekin Isle
Lorsann, The Autumnal Wind
Rhodri, Thane Of The Forsaken Holds
Each of these sets come with their associated champion plus their loyal followers that you'll also get to draft into service for your games. Crafted from the same material that Steamforged has been using for their Guild Ball teams, these models should be pretty nicely detailed and are more or less ready to play with out of the box if you so wish!
Whilst I'd mostly have been drawn to Rhodri in the past I think that whilst he looks very cool alongside his Dwarf adventurers, Halftusk is catching my eye! I love the idea of playing a big ol' monster in Godtear surrounded by some of his strange minions, the Froglodytes.
It's good to see Godtear smashing down onto the tabletop and hopefully, we'll be seeing it expanding at a pace over the next few months.
What do you make of the release kit for Godtear?
"It's good to see Godtear smashing down onto the tabletop..."
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Nice. I didn’t back the Kickstarter but Godtear looks a good fit for my group.
It seems reasonably priced and comes with a lot of depth from watching a few videos. I like that everything is a single piece and comes coloured so you can use it right away too. Could well be a good contender for the crowd that likes playing games like Warhammer Underworlds and such.
I’m watching the demo game now. I’d like a good look at the scenarios but I really like the look of this. The starter set looks terrific value too.
Yes the price really seems reasonable.
I’ve just pre-ordered the blue/yellow one (I forget the names but that one).
I’m also thinking about preordering. The difference is just the heroes in the sets, right?
Yes. You get different artwork, board and minis but the gameplay seems to be exactly the same. There’s a bit in the unboxing from Steamforged https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDDH1IuwGEw
and the play style for each faction (red / yellow / green / blue), which means you not just have different abilities and followers but also different things to do when trying to win.
The yellow (maelstrom) onl has 3 teams to pick from, but everyone else has 4 (or will have).
There’s bound to be more teams in the future (definitely expect one for maelstrom).
@limburger
thanks for the information.
But I only see one green, 2 yellow, 2 red and 3 blue teams. Are the other teams from the kickstarter?
And how different are teams of the same colour, I thought about buying the Borderlands starter and Rhodri but that would be 2 blue teams, would it be better to buy the Borderlands set and Lorsan?n
The team colours are based on the type of role the model plays.
There are 4 different types.
Hope this helps
The kickstarter gave us 4 teams for red, blue and green. And 3 yellow teams. I haven’t played it (yet) to comment on the different teams in practice. You have to discover what type of style you like and then pick a hero/team within that faction that you like. I suspect that you want to combine two different factions (so not two blue teams), because it allows you to score in multiple ways. Combine red + yellow team and you score points for killing both champions and followers, which makes it very aggressive type of game. However that may not… Read more »
So in a standard game you play with two champions, so the starter sets are only half of what a standard game is?
I must admit it is odd to see them demo a 2 v 2 game, when the starter set is 1 v 1
I have not checked if the rules say anything about what the ‘standard’ size is.
There was a 16th Champion that did not get unlocked in the kickstarter. She never appeared as a stretch goal but we did get to see her concept art. She was called “The Shieldbreaker” (work in progress name) and was a large dwarven woman similar to Rhodri with appear. She appeared to be accompanied by two dwarven warrior women. My guess would be that she’d be the 4th Maelstrom champion which would have then lead to there being 4 champions in each category. As for asking about the scenarios – the way they differ is in how the objective hexes… Read more »
Any comments on how SFG handled this KS? I’ve been hearing negative comments about Dark Souls. Thanks!
I have no first-hand experience but the comments section of a KS usually gives you a good idea https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/steamforged/godtear/comments
people love to complain … With this one there was an issue with the kickstarter specific dice (smoke coloured dice) that weren’t up to scratch. As a result they had to delay shipments. Although based on mine it looks like they started sending out the games and shipped the ‘missing’ dice pack as a separate package (which is how I got mine). And as with anything that causes a delay there’s a lot of complaints because it wasn’t perfect. One thing (which was mentioned by SF) is how the actual prices at retail have been reduced from initial estimates. So… Read more »
I ordered the Borderlands one for now. If I like the game I will go ahead and buy several of the supplements at the end of January when the postal service comes back to normal.
the team boxes look great.
Great. Still waiting for the Kickstarter to deliver to me in the UK.
The rule book is downloadable from the SF site. The book says the “standard” size is 3 champions per side. I played a demo at Gencon that pitted 1 starter set vs the other. 2 champions felt good for learning the game. I liked it a lot, but most of my group is enamored with Marvel Crisis Protocol right now.