Fight With The Heroes Of The Latari Elves In RuneWars
July 12, 2017 by dracs
Fantasy Flight will soon be releasing the Infantry Command set for the Latari Elves of RuneWars, and have published a preview detailing the sort of heroes we can expect to find within.
The set includes four infantry command figures to lead these woodland elves, namely the Champion, the Starling musician, the Herald, and the Storm Sorceress.
Of these the Storm Sorceress would probably be my favourite. I mean Storm Sorceress, come on that is a cool name.
However, the Starling musician steals the show for me simply because I can't see her without picturing this.
Do you collect this faction of RuneWars? Which figure is your favourite?
"Storm Sorceress, come on that is a cool name..."
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Those are very nice.
I like GW’s take on wood elves better, at least the older ones.
i found my wood elves for Kings of War it seems
I’m struggling to see the appeal of Runewars. The miniatures aren’t bad (which is a pleasant surprise) but because of the way the game works they’re too expensive. Here in the UK boxes generally weigh in at around the same price as GW “elite” units (between £20 and £25) but typically contain slightly less models (8 opposed to GW’s 10) and, IMO, lower quality models. In this specific case the command figures are included in the GW boxes so for a unit with a command squad, you’re looking at double the cost of a unit if GW models for a unit with only two models more. For me the models just aren’t good enough to make me want to jump into the game at the price being asked.
I think this is probably to do with all the extra stuff that comes in the boxes like the jigsaw movement trays and cards and tokens etc. Which is fine but it makes for a fairly expensive experience. X-wing gets away with it because you only need a few models to play a game. Runewars might need to rethink it’s strategy long term if they want to grow it into a true Mass Battle game – and I really hope they do and are successful because that might spur them on to make a Star Wars game too.
Of course cards and trays are part of the cost and if I’m not mistaken the armies of the core set are about half the size of a “full” game so this is not a mass battle game the size of Warhammer Fantasy.
It’s still a dear do isn’t it? Compare them kit for kit or compare them by size of army they’re in the Games Workshop prize zone only you get less miniatures and they’re not of the same quality. It’s one of my pet hates about FFG – I’m really into Imperial Assault but the miniatures are ridiculously expensive. You might pay between £8 and £18 for a model and you will get between 1 and 3 models for that. Generally speaking for £8 you get 1, for £12-£15 you will get 2 or 3 and for £15 upwards you will get one large model. The models are very average so there seems to be a real premium added to them for the card components. Again Imperial Assault kind of gets away with it because you don’t really need that many (or even any) of the Ally/Villain packs and it’s a boardgame so many people aren’t expecting top quality miniatures. But when you weigh FFG models against companies like GW they really don’t compare and they definitely don’t justify their asking price.
That’s true, I never said they are cheap just that the cards do factor in the price (although their price for FFG is probably next to nothing compared to the minis) and that Runewars armies are probably smaller then WHF ones.
But you are right the quality isn’t the best compared to other manufacteres and I’m not that big a fan of PVC.
Some PVC is very good and although it can be prone to bending it’s really easy to fix using hot and cold water.
But I just find this a weird approach, it’s like Mantic quality miniatures but for GW prices with the difference made up in bits of paper/card. Speaking purely from my own point of view, if I am buying unpainted models that I have to paint, then I don’t want painting them to seem like a chore, I want it to a pleasant experience (which is my Mantic are so hit and miss for me). Imperial Assault kind of gets away with it because it’s Star Wars and although the miniatures aren’t great I can sort of forgive it because it’s Star Wars lol. But they’re an exception not the rule. Rune Wars seems to be asking me to paint lower quality miniatures while charging me prices for a much higher quality product. And I think that games that require you to collect and paint miniatures will live and die by the quality of those miniatures in the long term.