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Originally posted by Balduran I

My predictions: Warbands will not be "faction" based. It will not be uncommon for winning warbands to have all four aspects in them; no winning warband will have fewer than two aspects, and many if not most will have three. The idea of a given aspect being "more powerful" than another simply will not be part of the mix.

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Originally posted by Dagni


I think that there will be a few winning warbands that are willing to play all four aspects. Likewise, while I think that there will be some winning mono bands, more significantly, I think that there will be many bands *identified* by one aspect. - Dagni

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<br>Cost    # figs    Total Cost of Warband<br><br>3    1    3<br>4    3    15<br>5    3    30<br>6    1    36<br>7    0    36<br>8    3    60<br>9    1    69<br>10    0    69<br>11    1    80<br>12    2    104<br>13    1    117<br>

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Anyway, the game so far seems to be about combos. Individually, almost all the minis seem to be at a similar strength level. The bst bands will combine the 16 choices in a particularly effective way, I suspect, more than they will abuse the most broken figures. As such, it really depends on where the combos are to be found.

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Originally posted by Balduran I

To put blinders on, up front, and say “only ‘n’ aspects should be in a warband” will prevent one from discovering some of those combinations.

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A four aspect band can be built (easily!) that in all probability will result in only “wasting” 3 more spawn points than a single aspect band. And that’s over the entire game! (Note this doesn’t mean that one band wastes zero, and the other three. It’ll waste 3 spawn points MORE than the other – because inevitably both will waste spawn points, not have the exact total of figs to spawn for each spawn roll.)

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As for “splashing,” I find the word inappropriate for DB. Looking at Magic decks, a “splash” can be one card. It’s often two or three cards. And that makes sense, 2/60ths is a “splash” of something. In Dreamblade one will not have that fine a distinction: two figures is over 10% of the warband. Three is almost 20%. Is that a “splash?” Or is that a major part of the deck? One could have a warband made up of:

Valor x5
Madness x4
Passion x4
Fear x3

And it’d be misleading to call it anything but a four aspect band.

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Originally posted by Dagni
Secondly, while paying the extra aspect costs is more costly early on, you're almost always forced to do so, unless it's just a 'splash' of another aspect. On the second initiative roll, if you've only paid one aspect cost, out of three different ones in the warband, what are the chances that you'll get a roll that will allow you to use all your spawn points, but only spawn from the aspect you've already brought out? Really low. So by the second turn of the game, you're forced to waste a point, at a time in the game when it's still pretty costly to waste even one point. That's pretty normal. Where you're really hurt is if you have to bring out a third aspect early on. It's costly at this point in the game, I'd say.

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Originally posted by Amy

Passion was my least favorite aspect when I first started playing. Now I like to include some passion pieces when possible (especially in sealed where 3-aspect warbands will be more common). I would not like an all passion warband, but the really high power of the passion pieces drastically increases the likelihood of you rolling blades(unless its a loner). This is nice because a lot of minis with good blade abilities have lower powers.

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