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Two local shops haven't had a single game in more than a month. They say people occasionally come in to buy, but they play at home amongst themselves. And without play in the stores visible, interest it can generate for more purchases and players diminishes.

It just seems to be doing very little here. A few guys occasionally play it, but that happens rarely enough it becomes almost noteworthy when it does

Dead. I don't know if it can become more dead than on release... but people don't talk about it anymore. So AOS is deader.

Dead on arrival here.

Never made it off the shelves here. So dead from the beginning

Seems kinda slow. Currently a campaign/buy-in event going on at my LGS, but a couple of the guys are store employees so who knows?

Actual games played? Don't believe I've seen one outside the event.

I've seen fewer and fewer AoS games but people seem to be buying the sigmarines. That said the rest of fantasy seems dead currently. Dunno why they would do that. It's like they made AoS to make the game less popular than it already was. Wouldn't be surprised if it got canned honestly.

Dead as disco.

WFB was dying here before AoS honestly. I don't notice a difference.

I saw a single 4 way battle at my local GW shortly after release and speaking to guys there at least 2 of them like it, but interest there certainly dropped off since release.

Outside of the GW most people laugh at it then get a bit sad when they remember fantasy is gone.

It's doing fine. We have an AoS league starting soon and a big event on the store birthday.

Deader than my posting activity in past few months.

Last man standing for AoS here, and I am hardly a fan.

Not unexpected that it's doing poorly when they have only released Stormcast and Khorne. I expect it to slowly pick up steam as more factions are released. My group is still playing though.

I recruited potentially our 5th fantasy player a couple days ago. Now that I finally got some of the 40k players to actually try it, they have been enjoying it. A few house rules, but it's mostly open to what you can do.

I think the biggest seller is it's different. Are 40k league has gotten kinda stale over the last few months. The competitive players get bored because they don't want to change up their army comp. The casuals are tired of losing every game as well. I think AoS is providing a good medium as it's so new it kinda gives everybody a fresh start on the meta.

There seemed to have been a huge interest in Lisbon but the only official AoS event (I know of) so far had one attendant.

There will be a big "traditional/national" event in the 17-18th weekend which will provide additional insight to this.

I suppose it's going stronger in my area now that I'm trying it out. That's 3 semi active players!

It's hard to judge when the local store is 100 miles away, and I don't drive that much.

Its one the main games played at our club at the moment:

AOS
Malifaux
Bolt Action
40k

Most of us play at least two of the above. WFB is not played at all anymore but had been rare before AOS.

Totally dead.

Actually the proper word should be stillborn, because other than selling a few intro boxes no actual games were played. Everyone just kept playing 8th edition or jumped to other systems.

It seems to require proper events. In areas where no one wants to do events with it, it has died.

In our area we have events with it and we have a pretty healthy population playing it.

The biggest influx of AoS players by me are people who played 40k and were interested in a fantasy setting, but did not want to deal with the hassle of WHFB (e.g., starting an army that required such a huge time and monetary investment, trouble finding games because the community was so much smaller).

Our growth cycle started pretty consistently: someone would be interested, others would make fun of AoS, I would talk to the interested party and we'd play a game, they would realize it is actually pretty fun and a solid ruleset, they would want to play more, someone else would be interested, and so on.

Our pool of people who play AoS is actually larger now than the pool of people who played WHFB, so I am definitely not complaining, especially when some folks just switched their 40k GT registration to the AoS event at Da Boyz GT.

auticus wrote:
It seems to require proper events. In areas where no one wants to do events with it, it has died.

At this point I can only justify turning out for AOS events, as it pulls people together and means I can get a handful of dice-filled games in one day. Otherwise the time spent arranging, setting up and taking down a single AOS meet and play seems to overshadow the time actually spent pushing stuff around

More and more of my Fantasy club has bought into Malifaux, which we've adopted for regular gaming. Maybe two of the more competitive players in the club are focusing on KOW for tournament purposes, although the NE USA Fantasy scene is investing pretty heavily in Malifaux in general.

- Salvage

I'm not super familiar with Malifaux but thats a skirmish system with a small number of models right?

The game is growing slow were im at and its actually bringing back some players that have long ago given up on whfb or other miniature games.

We plan to run weekly sessions in the area at various games stores.I think in time it will continue to gather up more players getting frustrated with the 40k competitive scene along with prior fantasy players wanting to throw down their models that are collecting dust.

The biggest issue is that in the miniature gaming hobby,its "cool" to hate on GW especially since they made such a huge change in their game system with AoS.Its going to take a while for players to get past this big change and move on to what it has become.

auticus wrote:
I'm not super familiar with Malifaux but thats a skirmish system with a small number of models right?

Yes Malifaux is a skirmish game with "gangs" of about 6-10 individual figures each. Its very good and lots to think about during the game.

Perhaps the only real similarity is the importance of synchronisation between units in AOS and figures in Malifaux.

Our club still plays 8th or moved to KoW. People are however using the chaos dudes for 40k and 8th

 Mr Morden wrote:
Yes Malifaux is a skirmish game with "gangs" of about 6-10 individual figures each. Its very good and lots to think about during the game.

Lots to think about is an understatement! I've played just three games of MF so far, and have never been so exhausted after a mini game then after each of those matches.

The weird upside? MF is so complicated that I find myself craving the simplicity of AOS afterwards, where I just have to know what my stuff does and roll dice for about an hour. Kind of a strange selling point for AOS, but sometimes ultra complex skirmish isn't what I want all the time!

Perhaps the only real similarity is the importance of synchronisation between units in AOS and figures in Malifaux.

I find force selection is also quite similar between AOS and Malifaux, as - going by generic Four Page Age of Sigmar - both favor having depth in your faction's model pool in order to tailor for the game at hand. Of course, without scenarios, this just means providing counters in AOS, while MF is utterly geared towards strats & schemes at all times.

- Salvage

We get 1 or 2 short games half the time my club meets, but a couple of people are getting kind of interested in starting it up sometime.

Our club still plays 8th or moved to KoW. People are however using the chaos dudes for 40k and 8th

It caused a brief stir of interest at my store, but it seems to have died back down, shame too, i had just picked up the box set.