Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress - Expedition 04 - The Null Gravity Abyss

[@standzwpistols]

I bought the game cause of your batreps, and I enjoy watching them , keep them coming brother

[@archon458]

A couple of rules things. A character can't overwatch until after they activated. Also, inspired Janis gets to make a free gambit roll Every turn. Lasty, I think that stronghold has alterated rules for the drones. I believe they start at threat level 3 and always onslaught actions if there are explores in the room, otherwise they just hold.

[@silvarknite7]

Keep up the Blackstone Fortress videos, I love em!

[@jeremywitt3330]

Just finished my first solo campaign. Rein and Raus surprisingly were my MVPs

[@itcamefromthedeep]

Rein and Raus are bosses. They're amazing on The Descent to pop in and out.

[@ozstrider]

This batrep was just the video I needed to push me into finishing painting enough to start playing Blackstone!! That game was to make up for all the cruisy runs you had at the start!

[@AceMathias]

Wow, what a thrilling episode! This game looks great fun and seems to frequently keep you on your toes.

[@Nortic111]

Amazing, I just finished watching the previous Expedition and then see this was uploaded!

[@valdur1234567890]

First time I've seen the angry toaster fail so many save rolls. Maybe he needs the guiding hand of Ash to be an unmovable bulwark again.

[@fl00fydragon]

"Μυ frιeηd ις ηοt wιth me, Ι αm ςαd"

[@AdamViklund]

My goodness, that was nuts! I was stressed watching it!

[@amedeus40k]

Talk about brutal! lol. Thanks for doing this series Ash! Awesome!

[@Spekd]

I have to agree on painting the models you need for the mission to help you get started ASAP. Those fortress runs are so tough. *4 combats in a row* on my first run. >.< - Nice work Ash! HNY 2019!

[@misomiso8228]

Fantastic Game. Really good content. Really like that you don't fudg anything either! It's brutul but so tense. Have no idea how you're going to do another one though; the game is so hard!

[@itcamefromthedeep]

Remember the saving throw for Negavolts.

[@drewmcbride6802]

When Janus was out of action he should have returned to the mag lav with Vore, just with his wounds still on him. The vitality roll was passed, so he was still in the fight.

[@raedkhalil6937]

Dear God that first challenge was brutal. Vorne almost died and ended the expedition right then and there. A few other comments already mentioned the pink lines being impassable terrain, but you also still do charge and advance wrong. For Charge, it does not matter if the model has line of sight and can shoot. All that matters is getting in melee range. If it can't do that after its first move it has to move again. For Advance, this is where line of sight matters. If after the first move the model has line of sight to an explorer, they then shoot. (EDIT: You caught it later in the video!) You also did overwatch out of order. You can only go on overwatch during your turn, not during enemy models turn. But I kinda get why you would kind of twist the rule there, those ur-ghuls were about to murderize poor Vorne. You don't remove encounter cards if you kill all the models. They will always have a chance to come back. You are never safe inside the Blackstone Fortress!

[@Spekd]

I had the rogue psykers respawn 3 times in a go.... *Never safe!* 😰

[@andytaylor160]

56:14 🤣

[@saffon69]

love the video's , just a few things , red lines are walls so no going through them , you can have explorers walk through another explorers hex as long as it's not full , think 1 stronghold at least is 6 encounter cards , drones start at level 3 and 6 wounds , apart from that good

[@mantradox]

1:11:13 they don’t see those chaos space marines, there is a wall.

[@TheGasUnit]

Hey Ash, long time watcher first time commenter..I got attacked by ghouls on my fist stronghold access route, took a hammering also. Couple of things I notice, I believe you where forgetting to do vitality rolls at the end of each turn/sequence, apart from the comments already made about obstructed hexes, I’m pretty sure you draw line of sight wrong too, basically you can only really draw line of sight to an enemy where the flat faces of a hex join unless you’re in an open room of course. Excellent examples of this are from 1:12:00. You cannot see the marines with shadow guard Vorne or UR as from centre to centre the line of sight tool touched a hex side. Content is always amazing btw. Actually bought this game from your vids.

[@mantradox]

Spindle drones have 6 wounds in this stronghold! Cmon....

[@pt_boat_265]

Enjoying these, warts & all. The BSF minis being added to Kill Team moved me to buy it.

[@kahadin]

The Ur Ghouls make only 1 attack on the ambush.

[@lijo03]

I thought the red lines couldn't be passed through?

[@laveston149]

lijo03 they can’t

[@manusatra6344]

Yep, he got that wrong. neither passed through, nor drawn line of sight through

[@MACC858]

only the eldar can pass through purple lines still blocks los and red are bridges

[@SpannSr1970]

Andy! Ash quit rolling, let Andy roll.

[@Perturabo1981]

You need to pick the random stronghold first as not every access-route is 4 encounters long - there's also one that is 6 encounters long and the hidden vault has even 8. Bring Taddeus and try to get the reinmeints of the Technomantyr and the Hospitalis Servoskull and you'll never have problems with healing again ;) We're nearly done with the game at this point. Took us less than 4 hours to finish our 3rd fortress on sylvester evening and we'll be doing #4 this saturday and depending on how fast we play we may even breach the vault aswell.

[@laveston149]

You wait just outside the mag lev and heal if you want. The only issue is enemy reinforcements

[@manusatra6344]

also you can't spend more than 2 destiny dice on the same character per turn! :D

[@manusatra6344]

but i still love your vides, keep it up man !!!

[@Gadgets2059]

Where is that rule?

[@manusatra6344]

@@Gadgets2059 Combat, page 9 "Destiny Dice", last sentence

[@BlasterCA2000]

It was also stated in Decembers White Dwarf WQ:BF playthrough.

[@johnmiddleton4291]

You can't use Inspiration points to re-roll Defense saves. They only allow action dice re-rolls. (Plus the gambit, Search, and Inspiration abilities)

[@johnmiddleton4291]

Yeah, you never mind......my bad. It's any action dice, which is the name of the colored dice.

[@eba554]

Ashe, do you know what the ships do? Cause they can give you some pretty nice things and you pretty much never use them

[@LaigledeMeaux]

My body is ready.

[@chrisstevens2944]

You pick stronghold then build exploration deck, one of them is 6 cards access

[@esturk]

Combat Book pg 13 - Reinforcement Rolls heading second paragraph under the chart. “If there are no hostiles from their on the battlefield (because they have all been slain), deploy the hostile adjacent to a portal as close as possible to an explorer.” I can’t find anything that says they come off the track.

[@GuerrillaMiniatureGames]

They don’t. It was an error in the official video.

[@Gadgets2059]

And sorry for the second commit. Baddie reinforcement rules. Combat book page 13 talks about reinforcing if any have been slain or if the whole group is gone.

[@Moseth7606]

😄🤣😄🤣🤣😄 56:13.........f**k 😅... A man knows his fate 😄👍

[@patberon5081]

So seeing those rolls all I have to ask is which of the four chaos gods did you piss off Ash?

[@fboylan16]

Thanks Ash. :)

[@paulyoung5966]

No luck with the dice in this game at all!

[@misomiso8228]

Is there any way to heal Grevious wounds 'in mission'? Does the Robot get a special ability, or cna everyone?

[@nedeleavitt]

My current understanding of the rules, is UR-025 can specifically heal grievous wounds during combat. There may be resource cards that heal grievous wounds. Otherwise, during the Recovery phase, grievous wounds can be healed. All wounds are removed when returning to Precipice. Grievous wounds cannot be healed unless the rule explicitly states that they can.

[@misomiso8228]

@@nedeleavitt Ah ty. Are there any Resource cards or do we not know?

[@jeremywitt3330]

There are two ways that I've found you can heal grievous wounds during an expedition. The robutt has it built in and there is a resource card on the Long Hauler you buy for 5 credits that in each recovery / event phase you can heal a wound or a grievous wound. The only caveat is that you roll the d20 and if it was a normal wound healed you have to roll a 2+ or you discard the card. For a grievous wound healed you have to roll 6+. Its called Rainments of the Technomartyr

[@eba554]

I had a discussion, with Ned there specifically I think that left me more confused about wether or not you can heal a grievous wound in the elevator tween encounters

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

Honestly it almost feels like the fortresses are a bit TOO tough. Not only will they still allow enemy respawns, but they also tend to have some BS elements to them in general as well, like the grinder tunnel on Maze of Death that keeps you from progressing to the final chamber half the time. Combo with the need to do 4 encounter cards before you even reach them, and yeesh.

[@sashaobslete8663]

You can only use 2 destiny dice per character; great video nevertheless, thanks!

[@maxpower3990]

How do have homing flamers? And can I have one?

[@robertmoss5360]

Love the videos and might play the game. Feel bad for your friend though. Maybe let him make his own decision in the game instead of telling him ever move to make

[@michelledrake91]

You can’t move thought red lines unless you use shadowguides ability

[@Bassmunchkin1]

Ash, those pink lines that you keep crossing are walls, you cannot cross them

[@chriskoster114]

so i don't think you quite read the rules for that final stronghold. i recently played that mission and the spindle drones in the last mission all have 6 wounds each, all start at lvl 3 and always roll hold if knowone is in the room and onslaught if people are in the room. Shadowgave would have gotten wrecked.

[@eba554]

Chris Koster to be fair he made the ur ghul ambush literally three times as deadly as it should be, so messing up the difficulty later sort of balances 5e insane spike early that really hurt them

[@misomiso8228]

@@eba554 what was wrong about the ur-ghul ambush?

[@raedkhalil6937]

@@misomiso8228 From what I understand, the triple attack rule from the Ur-ghuls doesn't apply during this event and they only do a single attack instead of their usual three. In addition, the explorers can attack any of the other Ur-ghuls as of they were adjacent to them if they kill their own. They don't actually have to be physically next to the explorer being attacked. So he let the Ur-ghuls hit him way more than they should have been able to, and he hit back way less than he could. Personally I'm not sure if either way is the right way, haven't gone through that event yet myself, but from what I understand that is how he made it harder on himself.

[@misomiso8228]

@@raedkhalil6937 in th FAQ the clarify that the ur-ghuls DO attack three times

[@jamesjacobsen6673]

Anyone else have bad rolls with the purple dice? They are weighted wrong...

[@mantradox]

1:18:35 Amellyn Shadowguide can’t go like that! Those are red walls, you have to go around...

[@Gazman8485]

Hey, great fan of the vids, really enjoying watching. Got a question about the set up. Each stronghold says in its rules how many exploration cards make up the route. I dont have the book with me now so i dont know if 4 cards is right but dont you pick or randomly choose where your going before you start the expedition? Also i wondered if you could answer a question that so far i have not found an answer to. Say my first encounter card is 4 ur-ghuls. Then another encounter card asks me to place more ur ghuls. What do you do? Draw a new card? Have a free pass on that number? If you or anyone knows the answer to this then please let me know. The rulebook says put as many as possible which i get if theres a t least 1, but if theres none??? Cheers!!

[@bigpash6701]

Gary Dennis in answer to your last question say you flipped all four encounter cards as urghuls, then basically you'll get 3 freebies. You don't keep flipping for something new. Sometimes, very rarely, this game is actually nice to you!!

[@mantradox]

38:35 Janus Drake goes through a wall...

[@eternalwar1428]

Can you make overwatch action before you activate?

[@Tre3dog]

Love your batreps, these blackstone ones seem a little bit rushed as your getting alot of rules wrong/ forget to use abilities etc, the stronghold spindle drones were meant to have 6 wounds each and start on lvl 3 threat. If you Janus is inspired you should be using your free gambit!

[@BlasterCA2000]

Yeah, I felt this one was especially rushed. The Ur Ghul attack [improperly played, too] Event rattled them, I think. Jangled nerves from the start led to more than a few lapses. Most of which were in favor of the Heroes. Each game ya gotta slow down, not take things for granted so much. Back to the basics at each new game session. Too much thinking they'd gotten the rules down pat. I don't know how an experienced gamer wouldn't at least question, wonder at the appearance of the Red Lines on the map tiles tho...

[@LaigledeMeaux]

My body was not ready for those last few turns. Butt clenching.

[@eRocSmo]

you remove them from the track once you search the encounter token with a 4+, e.g pick up the 2, the ur-ghul go away. Also the purple lines are impassable, so you cant attack through them or move through them. Came up a few times in the first combat.

[@raedkhalil6937]

Unfortunately you don't remove enemies from the track when you remove the purple token. I know they did it in the Warhammer Let's Play video but that was a mistake from them. And you're right, purple lines are impassable.

[@BlasterCA2000]

*Vindictor* not *Vindicator*

[@earlgrey2130]

I just finished the entire campaign and.. meh.. it's just soooo easy once you know how to play the game. Am i the only one who was massively underwhelmed by the difficulty? Next playthrough (with friends) we'll use a few houserules to make things more interesting: 1 - Whenever you make a discovery you roll a D6. On a 4+ you get to keep it, otherwise the thing you found turns to dust and goes back into the stack of cards. 2 - You play with 3, not 4 Heroes. 3 - You roll an additional time to see if enemy reinforcements happen. 4 - Enemy reinforcements are put on the board and can immediately act. No waiting a turn until they're able to attack you. 5 - When rolling for enemy behaviour you always add +4 to the D20 roll. 6 - You get to choose from 4, not 3 Items in the Abyss per Spaceship. But everything costs +1 Archaeotech. Looking forward to seeing those rules in action. Maybe i'll finally end an expedition with a dead or at least gravely wounded hero.

[@Michael.Virtus]

Terrible butchering of the rules in this cool Stronghold. In Null-Gravity Abyss each drone have 6 wounds. They are starting with and always stay at alert 3 (d12 attacks). And they always do onslaught (no behavior rolls for them).

[@philjackson1422]

Very rushed and lots of mistakes

[@keanueraine]

The dice gods absolutely hate your friend. It's annoying how much he fails his roles...it's not even fun. I mean statistically speaking you will sooner or later have some shitty roles, but his roles were absolutely shit. Painful to watch, probably painful to play. At least you both were good sports about it. I probably would have flipped the table.

[@mantradox]

I feel pretty broken hearted... this channel is about board games and they managed to ignore each and every rule for that stronghold... why people on KZbin are so lazy? It’s ok to lose in this game and I feel that they just wanted to create content and get views. It is the first time when I’m going to dislike this channels video, but making this one is just showing so much disrespect to the subscribers. We need an apology.

[@horhevamp8890]

You need an apology for the free content you get? I think you need to rethink why you feel so entitled to things you didnt earn.

[@ghostwood9174]

I’m going to give you the benefit of doubt that this is a troll post, because if you’re being honest about this Karen level entitlement... Please piss off and stay gone.