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WarHammer Fantasy Battle of Skull Pass |  | Brand: Warhammer
Category: Toy
Buy New: $129.95
as of 9/9/2010 06:58 MDT details
Seller: end zone hobby center
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 29994
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 17 x 11.3 x 2.5
MPN: 80-01-60
Model: 80-01-60
EAN: 5011921910229
ASIN: B000KQVK7G
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | all items are new and original packaged | | • | miniatures are sold unpainted and may require assembly |
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Product Description
Re-enact the infamous Battle for Skull Pass, where resolute Dwarfs and sneaky Night Goblins clash for the possiession of ancient mines. This boxed game Contains two complete armies - Goblins and Dwarfs - and several introductory scenarios, allowing you to start playing straight away. The starter booklet provides an excellent entry-point into the world of fantasy battles. New players will find easy to follow examples for all the main parts of the Warhammer game, as well as profiles for all the models in the box. The 144-page pocket-sized rulebook is a usefull resource for all hobbyists. All the information you need to play the game is right here.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Must Have Those Starting Out May 11, 2009
Mr.Pointless (Tampa, FL USA)
The main thing that makes this set a must have for the budding Warhammer Fantasy Battles enthusiast is that it contains all you'll need to learn the game, with the added bonus of two starter armies: the Dwarfs and Greenskins.
Besides the various templates, measuring sticks and dice, you get a smaller, portable version of the rule book and a step-by-step guide that teached you the basics of the game via hands-on exercises. It's a great value for all you get and, if you're an Orcs and Goblins enthusiast like me, you'll love all those great Goblin models to practice your painting on and add to your ever-growing army. Not sure if the hobby is for you? Stop by your local game or hobby store to watch a game, talk to some players or just get an issue of White Dwarf, the magazine by the makers of Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, LoTR and other great games.
Great way to start the hobby January 27, 2009
Richard Hayward (KENSINGTON, Victoria, Australia)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Our Games Workshop hobby development advisor (AKA guy in the warhammer shop) advised us (me and my eight year old son) to start our Warhammer hobby with this set. Our son attended a number of free hobby sessions in the shop, and started the process of painting the figures in the set.
While the kids can see the value in amassing their armies via this set, it has a number of advantages they perhaps don't realise. Most importantly, it contains pieces that don't require complex assembly. Secondly, the two armies have a standard set of colours for each of their troops, and therefore are relatively simple to paint. Thirdly, the armies can employ simpler strategies when it comes to finally putting them on the battlefield.
My role has been to cut out, clean up and glue the pieces together, followed by applying the black undercoat via a spray can application. This is an important additional requirement, as is the hobby starter set and a pot of metallic gold paint. My son then does the painting, providing him with a creative outlet. He gets a great sense of pride in completing the figures, and displays great patience in carefully painting each figure. He generally needs around half an hour for each one (accounting for distractions such as his younger brother).
Going back to the Games Workshop store has been very useful, especially in maintaining a relationship with the staff there, and seeing what the other hobbyists are up to - mostly teenage boys.
My eight year old hasn't really developed much of an understanding of the rules yet, but he's slowly getting there. He does enjoy learning about the game, and also about the fantasy world portrayed by Warhammer.
After nearly a month, he is in the home stretch for completing his painting and basing (that is adding terrain such as grass and rocks to the figure bases). From then on it will be interesting to see where his interest takes him.
 Good Introductory set to Miniature gaming. April 13, 2008
Derek A. Wagener (Reynoldsburg, Ohio)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Games Workshop produces many popular miniatures games WarHammer Fantasy "Battle of Skull Pass" is a good place to start for a gamer interested in conducting large battles in a fantasy setting; with modification could readily serve as guidlines for non-Games Workshop gamiing as well (ie D&D, etc).
The game is relatively complete and slowly introduces new players to its inherit mechanics. Included are two Armies, Dwarf and Goblin, dice, terrain, measuring sticks and a handy pocket-size rulebook. The figurines are reasonably detailed with robust features that make painting easy. Painting is additionally simplified by an included painting guide, that gives great tips to assemble and paint the armies rapidly.
The only things I can fault in this set are intentional faults; the game is point driven in that specific units have specific costs. There is no unit cost list provided; which means one must purchase the guidebook for each specific army to know the points value of a given army. Games Workshop miniatures are generally quite pricey, so additions to the included armies will be prohibitive. Games Workshop is often in the habit of completely revising rules and many items become obsolete in a year or two, requiring replacement of key items to stay current.
That being said at face value this is an excellent set, it may be cheaper to buy an additional copy of this game instead of trying to buy additional miniatures separately. The game includes many of the basic troops needed. The fanasy game undergoes fewer revisions and they are usually not as extreme as in other Games Workshop releases.
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