Warlord CCG

Talk about nostalgia. ;-).

You are looking for more spoilers before they are all ready? Here you go.

If there is one faction to show The Chosen how war is waged, it’s the Nothrog!

Here are the prices for shipping mugs to the US:

• 1-4 mugs (no tracking, no insurance) - 15 EUR
• 1-10 mugs (tracking, insurance) - 40 EUR
• 11-20 mugs (tracking, insurance) - 50 EUR
• 21-44 mugs (tracking, insurance) - 75 EUR

Please note that I will only accept payments in EUR (but the USD has grown on the dollar recently, so it’s not that bad) and you will have to include this extra shipping amount instead of the one indicated “by hand”. I accept PayPal, unfortunately I am not equipped to accept credit cards (yet).

Unfortunately I cannot include the mugs in the shipment for the next cards, as they never cross paths - printed product for North America is sent to the US directly from the printer.

For a limited time only (something like two weeks) the KoHIT coffee mugs are available for order.

You have a choice of seven different factions (the seventh mug for Mercenaries is completely new). Each mug includes the following promo cards:

• Judge Aeacus
• Blinding Beauty
• Niobe’s Leaf (alt.)
• a set of Qor-Teth Overlords
• a set of seven different Treasure items (the “Niobe set”).

All mugs are made to order - there will be no surplus of mugs. You need to order now, if you want one.

For shipments overseas, please approach me directly, as extra shipping cost are due. Also I will only sell to players I have had contact with before and that I am confident to be of a suitable age.

One of the main prizes was for winners to decide on recurring characters.

Here are what they decided on:

Ancients (Choose a vintage non-Warlord card Siege era or older)

Marco Wellmann: Lady Ersané

Singles (Choose a non-Warlord of your faction to come back)

Deverenian - Vassilis Alhazidis: Mistress Edrea

Dwarf - Daniel Pilarski: Darkness

Elf - Paul St. Paul: Ciane

Free Kingdoms - Mattia Baroni: To be declared

Nothrog - Alexander Wycisk: Verusk

The Chosen (to help with a new one) - Marcel Evers

Mercenary - Dietmar Matthe: Fylgia

Doubles (Choose a non-Warlord Nothrog to make it back into the game)

Marco Wellmann: Dor of Clan Manaka

In 17 days the new set is supposed to be out. Here is the first pre-print preview (as in: Number and rarity wasn’t assigned at that point):

Here are a few photos I took during the Singles tournament on Saturday.

If you look closely, you’ll recognize Lead Designer Oliver Schaaf (right side, third from bottom).

In the middle: Manolis Trahiotis tending booth and laptop, to the right (left side) you see Jonas Gabriel the eventual champion (1st from below) and Florian Hüpper, PDT (above Jonas).

A look over the entire field with the booth in the background and more players close-up.

KoHIT Sunday traditionally is reserved for the Doubles tournament. It was pioneered at KoHIT I and has been a regular event ever since, leading to more smiles and laughs than the Singles tournament.

This year 34 teams went for the medals, but of course with the number of Warlords available it was not easy to build successful decks eligible for winning Best of Faction prizes.

And the winners are…

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KoHIT saw the first 4E booster draft, with 26 participants… Huh?

Yup, we had a booster draft for an edition that doesn’t even have boosters. So we improvised: Before KoHIT we opened 12 Adventure Path sets to get 24 decks, took out the Warlords und shuffled them up real good (laying them out on a table in random stacks, again, and again).

When at KoHIT players were really keen on playing in it, we shuffled two more decks in.

Then, placing everybody in draft pods of 6 or 7 player, each player was dealt one “booster” of 9 cards who were drafted, then 5 more boosters, yielding a 54 card stack. Then the players proceeded to build 40 card decks out of it with one modified rule: The loyalty penalty would be reduced to wrong faction characters coming in spent instead of stunned.

After four rounds of this  Vassilis Alhazidis turned out to be the winner with his unbeaten Brymin deck, but most important to me were the fun people had! It turns out, booster draft is a valid format for Warlord 4E, making it a very interesting option for stores and clubs alike.

Here are the final standings:

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