Sacrifice here means discard the card, so it's not like you're chanting anything or dancing around in your underwear in order to 'sacrifice' the Cultist. The Chaos Faction has Cultist token cards, and some of their stronger units require you to sacrifice Cultists in order to bring them onto the field.The Dark Eldar Faction also seems to be built around the idea of pain and torture, with cards such as 'Power From Pain,' 'Suffering,' and 'Alter of Torment.'.Rather than the fantastical idea of witches, with spells and magic and so forth, the term Wych here just seems to mean 'butt-kicking women.' The Dark Eldar Faction has troops called Wyches.There are a few thematic elements we feel we should bring to your attention. We do know that the different Factions actually feel different and play differently. Tau- The units here aren't as strong in their base stats, but they get stronger as you add some of their cool attachments.Īstra Militarum-These are military fighters: tanks, tactics, interrupts, and strong units.Īgain, since we're unfamiliar with Warhammer, we don't know how closely these tactics and play styles connect with the traditional Warhammer groups, but we imagine they're appropriately thematic. And sacrificing small units to make other units better. They might make you sacrifice a unit, exhaust a unit, or lower a unit's attack.Ĭhaos-The Faction is about hurting you with direct damage. Space Marines-These guys have strong soldiers and lots of Reactions.Įldar-These are masters of trickery, tactical movement, and exhausting and opponent's cards while unexhausting their own.ĭark Eldar-The Dark Eldar want to cause you pain for every decision you make. In fact, with many Ork units, the more you hurt them, the stronger they become. Let's go ahead and talk about the Factions that come in the box. But I totally understand why Fantasy Flight did that, and I appreciate that it gives us seven factions to goof around with.

(or maybe there are only seven factions in the Warhammer universe? I don't know, someone look that up!) but it was nice to have a bunch of choices to start with in the base game.įirestone-Well, not really a full seven decks, since you're poaching from decks in order to build other ones.

I'm sure there will be other factions introduced through battle packs etc. Jeremiah-I was a little surprised (pleasantly) that there were a full seven decks in the box, I thought for sure there would be 2 maybe 4 and if you wanted to get the others you'd have to get the battle packs.

Warhammer - chaos and conquest packs