Heroscape is again child! Properly okay, you already knew that should you learn my assessment of the Heroscape Grasp Set: Age of Annihilation just a few months again. It additionally received our 2024 Board Sport Quest Award for Finest Reprint. It’s on our tabletops once more, it’s totally appropriate with the unique recreation, and my son is hooked on enjoying it. So what extra does an excellent heroscaper want? Why expansions after all!
At present we’re going to try one of many latest units to come back out for Heroscape, the Revna’s Rebuke wave of expansions.
Enlargement Overview:
Renegade Video games despatched us two packing containers of Revna’s Rebuke characters to take a look at. The primary is the Kyrie Warriors Military Enlargement. The Kyrie have been in Heroscape for a very long time, and this growth provides 5 new heroes for this faction. The Kyrie are distinctive in that they’re all winged, to allow them to fly across the battlefields. Are they angels? Demons? Some form of combine? I did try the Heroscape Wiki for the lore on them, and it says:
Kyrie are a local species to the world of Valhalla, by which most of Heroscape’s canon takes place. They stand between seven and eight ft tall, with massive wings. Kyrie differ vastly in look, each within the shade of their pores and skin and the model of their wings. A kyrie that drinks often of a Wellspring could rework right into a Valkyrie, gaining psychic powers, enhancing their wings, and turning into immortal so long as they proceed to drink from the spring.
If Valkyrie aren’t your factor, then the opposite set could also be extra to your liking. The Iron Lich Viscerot and Necrotech Wraithriders Military Enlargement provides in a big warlord distinctive hero, and a squad of three Wraithriders. These two models are a part of the Eisenek faction. Which, leaping again to the wiki, describes them as
An odd and forgotten cybernetic folks left adrift within the distant previous or far way forward for the world Noxdorma.
In contrast to the Kyrie warriors, this faction seems to be wholly new to the Age of Annihilation lineup. However for my part, they give the impression of being actually cool.
Sport Expertise with the Enlargement:
So let’s speak concerning the Kyrie Warriors first. There are 5 distinctive heroes on this set, and they’re considerably comparable in base stats. They’re melee attackers with flying and have pretty common assault/protection/transfer stats. What makes them distinctive is their spatial skills.
Glinerva is extra of a stalker, with the flexibility to drop darkness for concealment of her and her allies. She can be immune to ranged assaults (what few there are…). Xiomara is a defender that enables different Ulnar Kyrie with in 6 areas of her to disregard all however one wound on a roll of 8-16, and all wounds on a 17+ She is an efficient one to pair with Mielki who has not solely a double assault, however can heal a close-by determine when she kills somebody. Kilkdrax has a telekinesis energy that may transfer figures across the battlefield. It’s high quality, however not likely earth-shattering
Lastly, there’s Queen Qhyrion. She has a Coronary heart Finder Spear, which is nice for taking out high-defense models. Whenever you assault, should you roll a 12+, the defender can solely roll 1 die when defending. Along with that, she has Stealth Flying, so she will get all the conventional advantages of flying, but additionally doesn’t take assaults when leaving an engagement. She and Mielki are positively my favorites of this group.
Hoping over to the Eisenek. First, you will have the Necrotic Wraithriders. These are a squad of two models, with 2 hp’s every. They’ve a strong 8 transfer, nevertheless, they transfer on an enormous ball, to allow them to solely transfer up 1 or 2 ranges of elevation at a time. I assume stairs are their arch nemesis. They’ll additionally seize and pull a close-by goal in with their chain seize.
After which comes Irom Lich Viscerot, my favourite unit of this wave. This one is notable because it’s the primary unit I’ve seen with a base ranged assault. In the event you’ll recall, that was considered one of my gripes with the core set was the shortage of ranged models. Having the ability to shoot from a distance makes the battle much more dynamic, so it was nice to see a unit that may lastly try this.
As an enormous unit, it has the Dismissive Strider energy that lets it depart engagements with out taking injury. Its principal energy is its Vile Injection. 3 times per recreation, it might spend a token to permit a pleasant Eisenek unit to achieve +2 to its transfer and assault for its activation. And if that weren’t sufficient, it has an Ironclad Puppeteer energy. After it takes its flip, it permits one other Eisenek unit to activate. This one appears to be made hand in hand to run with the Nercotech Squad, or maybe the Hellforge Mandukor should you’ve gotten your fingers on this actually cool determine.
Closing Ideas:
For followers of Heroscape, these two expansions are nice additions. The Kyrie warriors have been a staple in Heroscape for a very long time, they usually have plenty of synergies with one another. Having all your models capable of fly provides you a number of freedom on the battlefield, particularly you probably have an excellent quantity of elevated terrain.
And the Eisenek faction is simply actually cool. I like the cybernetic spin on them, and the Iron Lich Viscerot is definitely my favourite unit but. With some tremendous helpful particular skills and a primary ranged assault, this one typically makes its manner onto my workforce.
Hits:
• Good synergies inside their faction
• A unit with a base ranged assault!
• Cool-looking figures
Misses:
• None actually, apart from Kilkdrax being a bit meh
Disclosure: Somebody who works with Renegade Video games additionally writes for Board Sport Quest. He had no affect over the opinions expressed on this assessment.
