Warhammer Underworlds Online is a faithful recreation of the great board game

A new Warhammer video game dubbed Warhammer Underworlds: Online is in the works, as announced today by Steel Sky Productions.

The game, slated for early-access release this year, will be a faithful recreation of Games Workshop's Warhammer Underworlds series - an expanding board game of hex-based combat and deck building set in the Age of Sigmar universe (that's the fantasy one, not 40K).

In Underworlds, players field a small warband of characters from their chosen faction, then fight to score the most objectives (and earn the most glory points) over three short rounds. Objectives, interestingly, are kept secret until they are scored - players draw their own objectives from a deck they themselves have built. Players also have a hand of action cards, likewise drawn from a custom deck, making Underworlds as much a collectible card game as it is a strategic board game.

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