Warhammer 40k Conquest

[linuxmaier]

@cranked

I’m actually considering picking it up as a secondary as I really dislike the direction AEG is taking with Doomtown

Could I persuade you to do Call of Cthulhu instead? I’d totally buy it if there was someone else at our store who played.

[cranked]

If the cardpool wasn’t so huge, I would. I can buy fully into Conquest for 80-100 dollars, wheres CoC would cost a lot more; additionally, I much prefer the 40k source material.

[linuxmaier]

@cranked

If the cardpool wasn’t so huge, I would. I can buy fully into Conquest for 80-100 dollars, wheres CoC would cost a lot more; additionally, I much prefer the 40k source material.

Not to get too far off topic (maybe we need a CoC thread?) but what I’ve been told is that you can buy 1/2 cores + a deluxe or two and have tons of deckbuilding options available. You don’t really need the datapacks for CoC, apparently.

[Kingsley]

@cranked

Is there a centralized hub for Conquest the way Netrunner has Stimhack, with articles and tourney winning decklists? I’ve tried to stay semi-up-to-date with the game, and I’m actually considering picking it up as a secondary as I really dislike the direction AEG is taking with Doomtown, but I want to make sure the game’s meta is in a healthy state before I take the plunge.

The most central place for Conquest is the Conquest CardGameDB forum, which is quite active and is integrated with the CardGameDB deckbuilder as well, so many people post tournament-winning decklists up there. Articles usually get posted to the CardGameDB frontpage or on TeamSandCrawla.net.

[cranked]

Ah, see, I’m a completist who has to have all the deckbuilding options available. Call it a character flaw.

I’m also going to be looking into Thrones 2nd Edition at GenCon, so I think it’s either that or Conquest for me.

[linuxmaier]

@cranked

Call it a character flaw.

Will do I don’t think I have all of any netrunner cycle, even. I don’t have whatever pack has BWBI and I don’t have the pack with GRNDL, or the one with Blue Sun… I’m sensing a pattern, here.

[Kingsley]

The Great Devourer, Conquest’s first deluxe expansion, released to the public some time ago. This expansion contains a new faction, the Tyranids, who play quite differently to the other factions in the game, eschewing the alliance wheel system in favor of their own unique mechanics and large in-faction cardpool.

One other interesting thing is that the release of this box makes Conquest by far the easiest LCG to get into financially - since the Tyranids didn’t have cards released for them in the first cycle and don’t use cards for other factions, you can get into Conquest and build a competitive Tyranids deck with only one copy of The Great Devourer and one copy of the core set (and honestly you might well be able to obtain a rulebook, tokens, and planet cards from local players for free).