D&D General Thoughts on Dungeons and Dragons: Onslaught

[Yenrak]

Has anyone played this skirmish game? It had somehow escaped my attention when it came out last year.

Physically, it looks impressive. I'm wondering if anyone on the boards has played it and what you thought.

 

[aco175]

The pre-painted figures look good, but the $125.00 price turns me off since my group would likely only play it a couple times a year if the normal games does not play.

 

[Von Corellon]

I dig the old DnD miniature skirmish game and collect minis so I was totally down for this. But, regrettably, the entry price is far too discouraging. Increasingly, WizKids’ miniature catalogue is beyond my interest-income. Thankfully, I have a couple thousand to get me through til the end of days.

 

[robus]

I continue to wonder who is painting these minis (and when they’ll be inevitably replaced by 3D printed color minis)?

 

[EthanSental]

I bought it, mainly for the minis. Haven’t played it yet and will break it out when the entire group can’t get together and we only have 2 or 3 people.

 

[Von Corellon]

I continue to wonder who is painting these minis (and when they’ll be inevitably replaced by 3D printed color minis)?

Ever see the Banksy intro (“couch gag”) for the Simpsons? Probably a lot like that.

 

[EthanSental]

I wonder how much the price per mini can drop for color prints..cause heroforge is $50 for 1 color printed mini…would it get down to $5 or less and if so, awesome for a batch print!

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I have it, it’s been fun and me and my friends might play it regularly,

 

[darjr]

The pre-painted figures look good, but the $125.00 price turns me off since my group would likely only play it a couple times a year if the normal games does not play.

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I heard at GaryCon that there will be a mini-less version for much less. So you can use your own. Dunno the price at the moment.

They had a demo room at GaryCon and folks were giving it a try.

 

[Von Corellon]

I heard at GaryCon that there will be a mini-less version for much less. So you can use your own. Dunno the price at the moment.

They had a demo room at GaryCon and folks were giving it a try.

sure! free demo, not 125 dollar investment.

 

[darjr]

sure! free demo, not 125 dollar investment.

No, I mean for purchase. They said it was for folks who had their own minis.

 

[aco175]

I heard at GaryCon that there will be a mini-less version for much less. So you can use your own. Dunno the price at the moment.

I might go for just the minis and not the game.

 

[Clint_L]

That’s a lot of money for not many factory painted minis! If the minis are all you want buying 6-8 icons of the realms booster packs will get you a lot more. Unless you really want these particular sculpts.

 

[Jahydin]

I picked this up in the hopes of getting more use out of the hundreds of Pathfinder miniatures I already own.

Although well designed, it wasn't nearly as fun as the skirmish games I already own, namely Frostgrave, Warcry, and X-Wing. With limited time to play, I can't imagine passing up on those to play this.

Component wise, I'm disappointed in the large spinner character/monster sheets. Takes up too much room, pain to adjust the dials, have to be careful not to bump it, and makes creating custom content with pre-existing miniatures harder (maybe why they designed it that way).

I'm hoping they find a good way to incorporate custom content, make the game play faster, and get the cost of expansions down.

 

[Jahydin]

My dream game with this system would be to have one or several player(s) assemble a custom party in order to tackle short dungeon scenarios of traps and monsters created and ran by another player. Both sides limited by points, of course.

I think that would have fit the D&D theme better than just "characters fight each other in an arena".