Warhammer Quest: Cursed City Review - DOA

Shellhead wrote: That oversight suggests that this game was rushed to publication, possibly with the idea that this game would do unusually well in a pandemic lockdown environment.

Interesting speculation for sure, but I'm not sure it explains the sudden end to what appeared to be a whole planned product line. Indeed you might hope, as others have suggested, that a good expansion could have "fixed" many of the issues with the game.

Sold mine on eBay for a tiny profit, even after the eBay fee.

Looks like I might be shelving my copy for a while. One of my friends who can paint miniatures well got his own Cursed City set and is starting to paint the miniatures. However, he is active duty military right now and won't be back home until next fall. The good news is that we will play the full campaign then, and he will have all the figures painted for us. Or I might keep playing for a while on my own, because I just found today that my copy of Sleeping Gods is on back order until June.

I finished the first decapitation mission before putting it away for company tomorrow. All the bats and rats seemed easy enough, but the bats got terribly lucky on their defense rolls, and I kept rolling reinforcements for both bats and rats. My aelf got bitten and infected twice by the rats, and my noble duellist was taken completely out of action for quite a while. Then he returned due to a lucky event roll, and we managed to take out our target and escape with the whole party intact.

Although I saved 63% off the retail price by buying a stripped copy, I did finally notice a minor drawback to my tokens. It's easier to pick up minis and move them without disturbing a map made up of modular sections and connecting pieces.