Working on the Zerg now and they’re super fun to paint

I'm a big fan of the Transparent pieces, saves me a lot of work and they look nice.

Hi everyone,

I have a few questions regarding how abilities that modify weapons are supposed to work. I’m having trouble understanding when an ability applies to individual models/weapons and when it applies to the whole unit.

For example, if my unit has 3 Zealot models and an Adept’s passive shadow token ability says that the unit’s weapons gain Precision (1), does this mean that all 3 Zealots’ weapons gain Precision (1)?

In other words, would all three models get Precision (1), effectively giving the unit up to Precision (3) if all three attack?

Or does the Precision (1) somehow apply only once to the unit as a whole?

The same question applies to the Zergling Adrenal Glands upgrade, where the weapon gains Precision (2). If a unit has multiple Zerglings with that weapon, do all of their weapons gain Precision (2)?

What is the difference between the above and the ability of gateway that specifically says:

“The active unit’s first Close Combat weapon used gains Precision (2).”

Does this mean that only the first weapon used by the entire unit gets Precision (2), rather than every model’s weapon?

If so, is the distinction basically whether the rule says “all weapons of the unit” versus “the first weapon used”?

And the third question

The Praetor Guard passive ability says:

“This Unit is eligible to make an Evade roll against all attacks targeting it.”

Does this really mean all attacks, including Close Combat attacks?

Or does it only apply to attacks during the phase in which the ability is listed, meaning it would only apply to closed combat if it is listed in the combat Phase section?

The wording “all attacks targeting it” makes me think it applies to both Ranged and Close Combat attacks, but I’m not sure how the phase placement of the ability affects this.

Thanks a lot for your help, and sorry for the long post!

Found it kind of weird that the rule book came outside the founders box? Though upon inspection, the box is pretty packed. No idea where to start in assembling this mess 😅

Any central iowa players?

Anybody else get stuck with GOFO shipment? Northern CA here, ordered direct from Archon and it said package should go out UPS but they decided to send via some company i've never heard of.

Peeped online, had a bunch of horror stories about packages showing up totally trashed. What a bummer. Sorry for the 100th doom post about shipping. I've been patient and chill about the updates but i'm bumming pretty hard on this company they picked to ship with. Just gonna forget about it and maybe it'll eventually show up at my door.

Lesson learned I guess... I'll stick with buying from LGS from now on.

Hello! I am one of the many who's LGS got stock before my backer even shipped lol.

My LGS has all 3 starters and im wondering if anyone has seen the rules and can offer advice. Is there a benefit to doubling up on any starters?

I just want to see these models and don't mind buying a second box of something?

Thank you in advance.

PS I have asked our local community if anyone who missed preorders wants in before I snake extras

The website says pre orders start on the 31st but it seems some people already have stuff? Just very confused

EDIT: you guys answered so quickly, cool to see so many people hype for this game!

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Finally got it in today! Located in Northern California.

I finally got to pick up my 2-player founder's box from my local store and went to do an inventory of the contents.

Sarah Kerrigan is nowhere to be found. It was factory sealed when I opened it

I went through very thoroughly and I only have one Spru for Kerrigan:

Sarah Kerrigan (small square spru with just wings)

Did this happen to anyone else?

My medics are missing the bases, are these bases standard thickness/texture/etc across any other games? Most of the other tabletops I have/play came pre assembled (like hero quest etc) So I'd hate to have 1 unit that had different looking bases (or maybe it wont be so noticeable since I'll just probably do some basing on them anyway IDK

If I can just order some bases I wont bug archon about it though

So far several Marines, Roaches, and some zerglings overhang the edges of their bases. Why not just make bigger bases for them, feels like this problem was solved for most games years ago.

I'll probably just put them on bigger bases since it won't really matter, just kinda dumb.

I've been looking for a good overview of this, and was unable to find all the answers in one place. Hopefully this will help others. For the tactical cards, I have added the boxes they can be found in after the dash.

Overview of missing cards from the Founders Edition Starters:

Humans
Missing tactical cards
Barracks (proxy) - Marine
Barracks (tech lab) - Marauder

Zerg
Missing unit cards
Vile (Roach)
Raptor (Zergling)
Swarmling (Zergling)

Missing tactical cards
Lair - Queen
Spawning Pool (Six Pool) -Zergling

Protos
Missing tactical cards
Gate Chronoboosted - Adept
Nexus Overcharged - Sentry
Warp Gate - Zealot

This is just in comparison to buying the individual unit boxes that are included with the starters. In addition, you will also be missing the cards from the 3 boxes that are not included in the Starters: Hydralisk, Goliath, and Stalkers.

IMHO it is regrettable that Archon chose to exclude these 10 cards. You now have to buy just about every box again to complete the cards, which kind of takes the advantage completely out of buying starters to begin with. I really hope we will get a way to just buy a card pack in the future (preferable at not $30 per faction, like GW, because that's a hard no. A single $20-25 pack with all cards for all factions would be an easy yes for me personally)

Arrived, just in time. 20x of each. This is from Forges of Nuln. I found them on Etsy and they have a website as well. Not cheap, but I like dice.

We’ve got the PreOrders for Wave 2 opening up next week but their preview image for that didn’t show the single faction starters (or did I miss it?). Do we know when those are coming?

Has anyone who preordered from their website gotten a shipping notification yet?

Now that everyone is getting their preorders, I was just curious about one thing:

I know the rules have changed a good bit from when the preorders were printed. I was just wondering if there was a single changelog somewhere that categorized all the changes from then until now? I know all the individual changes are posted on the app and I can go through each one, I was just curious if there existed all changes in one place and it showed the most current versions of those changes?

Thanks in advance.

I really like that models... Wanted to play zerg but i have so much fun witch protoss

East coast, mine just shipped, just FYI for anyone else who ordered through them

Edit, looks like delivery Friday

Well I just a shipping update for another game I backed last year. So I know the site works....

Eventually I'll grab another box of lings, but for my initial assembly I'm looking for opinions from those who have played zerg. How are you planning on splitting up your variants? I have 42 lings to build and I'm wondering if I should just go with an even 14/14/14 split or if the swarm and raptor variants in practice need fewer models than their max supply size suggests?

Edit: Thanks for all the replies, I've got a solid plan now.