Warhammer Quest Blackstone Fortress has a new expansion this week called Ascension. Inside is a new maze with the new Guardian Drones.
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A New Maze
Rather than using combat cards to create your route, Ascension instead uses fragment cards. You set up the board as shown on the card and then randomly determine which of the three entrances your explorers enter through.
Instead of summoning the maglev transport as you would in other quests, your explorers must make their way to one of the other entrances. As you proceed, you draw another fragment card and assemble that fragment so that its entrance joins the existing fragment at its access point. This causes the original fragment to become unstable – at the start of each event phase, you have to remove a tile from the unstable fragment. If any explorers are on a tile when it is removed, they are taken out of action. So don’t dawdle – make sure that you keep moving forward.
This “rolling road” method of exploration means that it’s almost impossible ever to experience the same layout twice. It also means that you could be going in circles in the Blackstone Fortress, without the opportunity to return to Precipice to recuperate, as you desperately search for the exit.*
Guardian Drones
As if the ground disappearing beneath your explorers’ feet wasn’t bad enough, there is another new threat to your explorers – the Guardian Drones. We’ve already seen the awesome new models, but what can they do in the game? Well, they are armed with a selection of weapons that make them deadly at every range.
They also have a special rule that makes any Spindle Drones even more dangerous for the duration of the combat. And these aren’t your common or garden Spindle Drones that you’ll be facing – they’re Awakened Spindle Drones.
The Guardian Drones have a unique action, taken when they are hidden from explorers, which allows them to release Hover Drones. While they may look small and cute, they make the job of defeating the Guardian Drones much harder.
Usually, we’d just suggest going and killing the Guardian Drone before it has an opportunity to spawn any Hover Drones, but with 18 wounds, that’s not going to be straightforward!
Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress – Ascension is available to pre-order from Saturday.
