Warhammer Underworlds

[Grave Tacticus]

Since I'm going to start playing Crimson Court, I figured we should have an official thread about Underworlds. There's a few Death themed Warbands, representing each faction of our allegiance. I know a number of AoS players have picked up the warbands to use in their armies, but does anyone actively play Underworlds itself?

 

[Unas the slayer]

Sorry, i cannot help you with this as I don't play UW.

 

[Grave Tacticus]

Have you played with any of the models in your AoS games?

 

[Unas the slayer]

Have you played with any of the models in your AoS games?

Nope, but sooner or later i plan to add them to my roster

 

[Oppenheimer]

I don't play Underworlds as I don't like the idea of deck building, as it is very unbalanced. It just doesn't seem like a fun experience. If I want to play a board game of AoS I'll play Wsrhammer Quest.

But, I have a bunch of underworlds models in the armies my husband and I collect. But, we generally don't use them with their underworld's scrolls and instead use them as counts as.

Crimson Court: Use them as Vampire Lords. I'm considering using Duvalle's scroll anyway even without the add ons and lowering the points a bit, only in friendly games of course.

Hrothgorn's Trappers: Use as a hunter and a Sabre tusk

Morgweath's Coven: Use as a Hag Queen, Witch elf champion and Sisters of slaughter champion.

Briar Queen: Actually use the Briar Queen and Thorns AoS warscroll for this one. Nighthaunt is so low on Wizards I think it's worth it.

 

[Oppenheimer]

I alsmost forgot! I also picked up The GrymWatch to make into 3 new Ghoul Kings and 2 crypt ghoul champions.

 

[Hissk Deadtail]

I've got the Briar Queen and her Thorns as part of the Mortal Realms magazines.

She was one of the first Nighthaunt I painted. Really like her model as well as the chainrasps with her. Originally she was going to be in my 1k list but I ended up chucking her out for Reikenor. Her warscroll spell is fun though.

Doubtless I will get the Crimson Court at some point.

 

[Oppenheimer]

So I did breakdown and get Underworlds. I have to say it's pretty good. It's very different than AoS but it's a breezy little boardgame that can be played 2-4 player. You can rebase the various warbands and still use them, even my ogor on 50mm and sabretusk on calvary base still fit in the hexes. The best part is the fluff written on the cards and the variety in objective cards. It gives it a lot of variety.
Although I'm getting to it so late that must of the warbands are now being sold without cards, I found a repository online and just printed what I needed on card stock and then sleeved them. Seems to work pretty well.

 

[Grave Tacticus]

Got a game in last Tuesday, my Reapers vs the Hedonite warband. I was concerned at first that I would lose a large portion of my Morteks, but was able to stall out his attacks in the second round with a few well played cards and ended up tabling him in the third round and only losing Binar Khenta in trade. It was a great showing for my first run with the warband, and second game of Underworlds.