Glenn
United States
Clifton
Illinois
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What exactly is the difference between the deluxe expansions and the individual battle packs. It appears that the deluxe simply has 2 decks vs one and it includes 2 kingdom boards. Am I right ?
Thanks
Also, which expansions / battle packs are recommended?
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Brad Miller
United States
Seattle
Washington
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Assault on Uluthan contained the High Elf and ark Elf capital boards and lots of cards for those factions, (basically making them playable).
March of the Damned contains the Lizardmen and the Undead, (Order only/Destruction only neutrals), but no capital boards.
The Corruption cycle battlepacks contained a lot of Skaven.
The current Enemy cycle battlepacks are a mix of all the factions, and are in the current x3 distribution, while the Corruption cycle were not. They will be in the future. So I'd wait on those until they are reprinted with the newer format.
I'd get Uluthan, then March, then the enemy cycle battle packs.
EDIT: Can't recall the distribution on Uluthan, but the March of the Damned is actually all x3, so there are three duplicate decks in the box.
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László K.
United States
Hopatcong
New Jersey
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glenn69 wrote: What exactly is the difference between the deluxe expansions and the individual battle packs. It appears that the deluxe simply has 2 decks vs one and it includes 2 kingdom boards. Am I right ?
Thanks
Also, which expansions / battle packs are recommended?
There are two different deluxe expansions for Warhammer: Invasion (W:I) to date. They are Assault on Ulthuan and March of the Damned. These two deluxe expansions are quite different from each other.
Assault on Ulthuan (AoU) contains two core starter (i.e., pre-constructed) decks for the High Elf and the Dark Elf races along with the two capital boards necessary to play each of them. These two decks are playable "out of the box" just like the four starter decks found in the W:I core set—although it should be noted that the AoU expansion does not contain the extra bits & chits necessary to play the game, like the core set itself.
The March of the Damned (MotD) deluxe expansion contains many cards, but no pre-constructed decks. In a way, MotD is similar to a battle pack, but with many more cards (165) than the usual 60 cards available in the more recent battle packs. MotD differs from the usual battle packs in that the deluxe expansion has a bias towards Lizardmen and Undead neutral cards. (To be clear, MotD does contain some racial cards for all six core races: Chaos, Dark Elf, Dwarf, Empire, High Elf, & Orc.)
If you're looking to expand your W:I experience but only want to sit down and play, then the AoU deluxe expansion is probably the best way to go; if you're looking to actively build/modify your W:I decks, then the MotD deluxe expansion and/or the myriad of published battle packs are the way to go.
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Ron D
United States
Davis
California
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glenn69 wrote: What exactly is the difference between the deluxe expansions and the individual battle packs. It appears that the deluxe simply has 2 decks vs one and it includes 2 kingdom boards. Am I right ?
Thanks
Also, which expansions / battle packs are recommended?
I don't think anyone has really answered your primary question about the individual battle packs. They aren't decks at all. Each battle pack is just a collection of cards for adding to and modifying your existing decks. They are not playable in and of themselves. Each pack contains 40 (for the first cycle of packs) or 60 (for the second cycle) cards, drawing from all six factions, along with new neutral cards.
As to which packs are recommended it depends what types of decks and which factions you want to focus on.
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