Yesterday's update to the Warmachine app saw a few changes. There was a strange and arcane change to the wording of disengagement which I'm still trying to figure out. But in my mind, the most significant change was to the much-maligned Invasion scenario. Let's dive in.
Previously, the first player had a 30mm objective, scorable by solos, and the second player had a 40mm objective, scorable by units. It's been changed, and now both players have a 40mm objective. The 30mm objectives are gone from Invasion.
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| Old Invasion Scenario |
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| New Invasion Scenario |
Aside from removing that bit of asymmetry, the flags are now four inches further back. Given that they move up to five inches at the beginning of the game, the scenario terrain might now be as little as nine inches from the rear board edge, well within player two's deployment zone.
They've also removed the incredibly awkward measurement which used the size of player two's 20mm flag as part of the measurement to player one's 30mm objective. That was always just a mess.
The last change in the scenario sees the 40mm objectives moving over, now only five inches from the board edge. This gives even more value to already-valuable ambush units. Units in range to score that objective are now easy prey to any unit that can appear at the board edge at any moment.
Next up, will they address issues with Payload?
