Warhammer Age Of Sigmar Storm Ground Review (Steam)

by Jim Smale · Published June 1, 2021 · Updated December 9, 2021

This Warhammer Age Of Sigmar Storm Ground Review has us trying to conquer the Mortal Realms! The first strategy videogame adaptation of Age of Sigmar’s dark-fantasy universe. Lead your highly-customizable force in challenging roguelike campaigns, unlocking new units, equipment, and skills in dynamic, turn-based warfare.

Warhammer Age Of Sigmar Storm Ground Pros:

Beautiful graphics.
4.87GB Download size.
Steam achievements.
Action strategy gameplay.
Graphics-Resolution, screen mode, resolution scale slider, brightness, frame rate cap, v-sync, graphics quality preset (very low, low, medium, high, Max and custom)
Cross play-on/off.
Can rebind controls.
Three factions- Stormcast Eternals, Nighthaunt, and Maggotkin Of Nurgle.
Excellent voice work.
Multiplayer modes- auto-match, play with friends, or co-op against Ai.
Decent hand-drawn storyboards.
Opening tutorial level with ongoing pop-ups.
EXP pops up as you kill enemies.
The game plays out on a hex-based battlefield.
Clear easy to read Hud that is very accessible for new players.
Each of the faction’s game styles is unique.
Warband-this is your team you take into battle. The first slot is always a hero character.
Fast loading times.
Turn-based combat.
Power resources are accumulated over the course of a level and used to spawn in more units or reinforcements.
Earn EXP for each unit type used in a battle.
Can play how you want.
Break down an unwanted gear into tribute EXP.
Earn loot from battles and chests in the world.
Tooltip shows any terrain change like better range with the high ground or harder to hit behind cover.
Can skip/fast forward conversations.
Keyboard shortcuts.
Special terrain hexes can be found on the battlefield and occupying one gives an advantage of some sort.
You can knock enemies off the map.
Each faction has 3 campaigns and you unlock them one by one.
The difficulty is determined on a battle-by-battle basis.
Gear has rarity levels.
Tribute-spend this on any character to add that amount of EXP to them.
Army painter- create your own color scheme.
Camera- free movement with zoom in and out.
You still get EXP and rewards even if you fail.
Battles take place on a small battlefield.
Lore is collected as you play and you can have it read to you.
Control points- a game type whereby you need to control as many of the control point hexes as you can to score.
The level select is a map that opens up allowing you to choose where to go.
Take control of iconic characters in the Warhammer Sigma world.
Before actioning a command you can see if and how much damage it does to people around you including yourself.
Run based in that a game over resets the game world but you keep all loot and levels/EXP.
Kill the target- a game type that involves killing one particular enemy for a victory.
Nurgle- they manipulate the battlefield by infesting it via growing sowing and harvesting the corruption. You have four corruption hex types (poison/corrosion/debilitating/disease) and it is random as to which one manifests.
Has an air of into the breach about it as you can see where enemies will spawn, you must defend key characters and the battlefield can be twisted and turned.
Actions and reactions work on a behind-the-scenes dice roll to see how effective/ineffective your actions are.
Nighthaunts summon by placing Skull pyres or wisps on the battlefield. Wisps heal and then get/can be destroyed whereas Skull Pyres stay active all the time and need Wisps to live.