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Grind Is Coming Back To Warmachine & Hordes With MK III!
November 4, 2016 by brennon
Privateer Press have announced that Grind, their Fantasy Sports Game, set within the world of Warmachine & Hordes, is coming back next year with its MK III edition!
Will Hungerford talked more about the upcoming edition...
"Get ready to return to the Destructodome as Grind MK III arrives this January! Grind is a massive rules supplement for WARMACHINE and HORDES that uses the core mechanics of those games but adds so much more. In fact, it adds far more than the original Grind ever provided—things I think we can all agree we wanted back with the original.
What are those things you ask? Oh, you know . . . stuff like warjack teams AND warbeast teams, cross-Faction team compositions, unique coach models that run up and down the sideline chucking spells into the arena, all new Grind arenas to battle in, freaking LEAGUE RULES to play entire seasons and championships, experience points, upgrades, injuries, earning money, hiring and firing team members, gaining sponsorships, new power attacks, and lots and LOTS of destruction."
Here's how the game looked before giving you a taster of what lies ahead for the game next year.
It all sounds very exciting and it makes sense to get stuck into the world of Fantasy sports while its popular at the moment. The Warmachine & Hordes take on it has passed me by however but maybe you folks can fill us in.
Let us know what you think!
"Get ready to return to the Destructodome as Grind MK III arrives this January!"
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I still have my Grinder for MkI…
Grind has always seemed to me like interesting little game so it being brought back is nice.
Wasn’t one of the weirdest things was the original Grind was a different scale with smaller minis than the regular Jacks? Makes a lot more sense to use existing figures (or at least allow rules for them) instead of trying to make people play a 20mm version of the game …
I have the old edition and I’m pretty sure the jacks were “normal” size. They were medium jacks I think so would look small compared to heavy jacks. I never got out a caliper to test that they were exact matches for the metal versions but they were at least close enough you’d not notice the difference on the table.
The odd thing was that they created a light Khadoran chasis (which doesn’t exist in Warmachine) so that they could have a Cygnar vs. Khador set that was symmetrical.
They were also the first of the plastic warjacks- both sides features some changes from previous versions of the chasis. The same sculpts were used to create the plastic ‘jack kits (although the molds and plastic mix were changed).
Given the recent reboot to Mark III, I would rather see something else than a reboot of another old product.
Don’t know the game but these board … it ma be only me but all recent PP biatdgames I’ve seen have aweful gameboard designs: boring and repetitive pattern.
I got a copy of grind at a half price book store last month for $23. Cool little set because apart from the weird weapon arms the jacks all come with normal “handy” arms too. No weapons on the hands though. Also you get three “hypothetical” Khador light jacks with three smoke stacks on the back.
These weapon arms were designed for the boxed game to be “ball playing arms” of some sort, quite some time before the boxed version came out there were rules for Grind in the No Quarter using normal Jacks and even Warcasters as coaches/trainers that had different abilities.
So the big question here to we only get a set of rules for already existing models or will it be a new boxed game?
This doesn’t sound like it is going to be a boxed game to me. The wording “rules supplement” suggests this will be a book release, with rules for using the existing range of models.
There is also news of No Quarter being relaunched with new ways to play using their models, and Grind was mentioned as January, alongside the new No Quarter launch. So it suggests that this could be bundled with the new mag.
Looks like it is an expanded version of the NQ Grind game. Same concept, just more.
Personally, I preferred the NQ version to the box set anyway, so I think this is the better way to do Grind.
Oh, those light ‘jacks are useful to RPG players.
surprising move by PP ; Grind is a good original take on fantasy sport but it lacked league rules to gain a wide audience. Hopefully third time is the charm.
From what I understand they are attempting to value add to their house organ, “No Quarter” magazine by adding a new division which produces games supplements and things you can do with existing PP minis. The first is Grind 3.0 in the January issue and it takes the form of a 32 page supplement with/in that magazine. They will add new games and extra material for Grind over the year(s) (or as long as they keep this particular iteration of NQ going). I note on their facebook page they are offering a free Gind “ball” to all who take out… Read more »
I’m afraid your paranoia is correct. The shop page for the No Quarter subscription does say “offer vaild in the US only”
DANG! I really wanted a free grind ball too.
Damn …… I hate fulfilled paranoia =(
There’s a good overlap in the Dreadball/Warmahordes Venn Diagram of my friends. I’d love to see us try this!