The Alliance Distribution booth had some samples of the upcoming WoW miniatures game. These are my observations.

The game is played on a hex grid (which you can see in the photos). The goal is the acquisition of victory points. The points you need are based on the Honor Point total of the force that you bring to the table. The larger, more powerful the force, the more points you need to win. You gain victory points by laying the smack down on your opponents (victory points are equal to their honor points) or by occupying specific locations on the board.

The game system is "tick" based. If you've ever played Exalted or Scion from White Wolf games then you have an idea of what I'm talking about. When you activate a character each of the actions that you might take have a time-cost (or tick) associated with it. So, if you activate on tick 1 and your action takes 4 ticks then you won't be able to activate that character again until tick 5. Any special ability cards that you use during your turn will tap. They remain tapped until tick 10, at which time everything resets.

It's possible to customize your characters using cards. I don't know anything about how this works. I assume that the addition of cards adds to the honor point total of the figure, but that's just a guess.

If anybody has any other questions I'll answer what I can. It was a short demo and not everything was done or explained.