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Well, the Summer Campaign is a given, but what do we think of the Heresy and Betrayal hints?

I guess I'm in the 1% that doesn't like this stuff at all.

And yes, pubic vines

The Orks are great, and actually have me wanting to get the champion riding the lizard just to paint it.

Hoping for more cool chaos stuff that isn't so Khorne specific. I have always liked the old Chaos warriors.

Kind of silly that the FAQ about wizards casting stacking the same spell on a unit directly contradicts the new "three rules of one" where no spell may be cast more than once even from different wizards...

 cyberjonesy wrote:
Kind of silly that the FAQ about wizards casting stacking the same spell on a unit directly contradicts the new "three rules of one" where no spell may be cast more than once even from different wizards...

It's not silly, the core rules still allow spells to be cast multiple times by different wizards, and this FAQ is for the core rules. What you're talking about are the optional Pitched Battle rules.

 Mymearan wrote:

 cyberjonesy wrote:
Kind of silly that the FAQ about wizards casting stacking the same spell on a unit directly contradicts the new "three rules of one" where no spell may be cast more than once even from different wizards...

It's not silly, the core rules still allow spells to be cast multiple times by different wizards, and this FAQ is for the core rules. What you're talking about are the optional Pitched Battle rules.

Well, the FAQ is for freeplay, isnt it?

The FAQ is for the game in general.

Matched play has restrictive rules that apply only to matched play and whose rules would override the faq where applicable.

Its just that as expected most people only see matched play as the only way to play and forget that there are two other modes.

Are you talking about the rules where you get to bring 3 Nagash models with 2 Archaon and get to call sudden death on your opponent ?
Who would want to play in this kind of environement seriously ?
Was'nt this the exact reason why people have turned away from warhammer until all this General's handbook hype ?

I will point out just because you don't enjoy playing this way does not invalidate that they exist and that the faq is for the game in general, and matched play is just one of the three modes you can use.

And sudden death only applies to the default scenario. If you play scenarios from the books there is no sudden death.

And in a year of playing i've never played the game with 3 nagash models and 2 archaons.

So respectfully, no... its not silly that the faq addresses the whole game but matched play has its own more restrictive rules.

The Scenarios always tell you to not use sudden death. Events make them secondary and tertiary objectives often. So open, narrative via scenario or using a player made comp you got options. Skip rules you dislike.

Seven page FAQ for a game with only 4 pages of rules? And since the rules are free to download, why don't they just update the main rules to include this stuff?

Albino Squirrel wrote:
Seven page FAQ for a game with only 4 pages of rules? And since the rules are free to download, why don't they just update the main rules to include this stuff?

Because it's FAQs. They are clarifying their intentions of the rules, not re-writing the rules.

And a lot of those questions were IMO inane in the first place or clear from the get go.

 Gamgee wrote:
Age of Sigmar models have so much personality compared to the old fantasy models. I hope competitive play and the generals handbook tun out great for the game.

I'm so tempted to start a vampire counts army.

I've been giving some serious thought to starting up Warriors of Chaos myself. Trying to drum up some more local interest so I could actually play with them.


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Albino Squirrel wrote:
Seven page FAQ for a game with only 4 pages of rules? And since the rules are free to download, why don't they just update the main rules to include this stuff?

The core rules are only 4 pages, but each warscroll also has rules, and I would assume the battletome formations do as well.

All that other stuff has separate faqs. The seven pages is just for the core rules. And while some of those questions are fairly pointless, I think quite a few of them should really be incorporated into the downloadable core rules. Many could be included with just clarifications to how something is worded in the existing rules.

Albino Squirrel wrote:
All that other stuff has separate faqs. The seven pages is just for the core rules. And while some of those questions are fairly pointless, I think quite a few of them should really be incorporated into the downloadable core rules. Many could be included with just clarifications to how something is worded in the existing rules.

You never want to treat your player base oike they're stupid, but you also can't expect them to always know every legality on their own. Keeping the two seperate is great in my opinion, because it doesnt needlessly confuse players with rulings that may or may not affect.

Albino Squirrel wrote:
All that other stuff has separate faqs. The seven pages is just for the core rules.

No. The 'Warscrolls and Warscroll Battalions' section of the FAQ covers all the warscrolls in general, not the core rules.

 SickSix wrote:
I guess I'm in the 1% that doesn't like this stuff at all.

And yes, pubic vines

I would say they're more like pteruges.

Well, even if more than half of these questions are obvious to you(us) they obviously were not for the many who asked, making them frequently asked. I mean, you could shrink the font and make 3 columns of the main rules 4 pages, and maybe they'd be 4 pages, maybe a bit of overhand on 5...meaning, the number of pages in a FAQ doesn't really matter.

Fun to note that these are standard play and the Gen's HB gives you options to use other rules than the ones in the FAQ, like measuring from the base and a 1 always fails.

shinros wrote:Is this a sign spell lore's are returning in some form? Interesting. I do hope the older books get similar treatment or a online addon or something.

I never played Fantasy. What is a spell lore?

Davor wrote:

shinros wrote:Is this a sign spell lore's are returning in some form? Interesting. I do hope the older books get similar treatment or a online addon or something.

I never played Fantasy. What is a spell lore?

Different styles of magic, like how 40k has pyromancy, biomancy and specific for race etc.

Davor wrote:

shinros wrote:Is this a sign spell lore's are returning in some form? Interesting. I do hope the older books get similar treatment or a online addon or something.

I never played Fantasy. What is a spell lore?

How it worked in FB and how it works in 40k:

You have X number of spell lores(FB had 8 for 8 winds of magic + some races had race specific ones). Each had 6 spells + signature spell. At the start of game you picked lore(based on what you had available). You then rolled 1-4 dice depending on your master level(well some magic items also gave you more) rerolling duplicates. That told you what spells from lore you got. 1 could be switched to the signature. And reroll duplicates.

(don't recall were dices rolled one at a time or not)

So basically wizards had more spells they would be able to use but couldn't be sure which they had(barring special ability/magic item) vs AoS wizard knows some fixed spells.

Thank you very much Tnava82 for that explanation. Greatly appreciate it.

Re: the FAQ and errata stuff, there's an update for android and iOS that adds the 'Gaming Aids' section in the Books tab of the app. This has the FAQ and Errata stuff on it and I expect, will be where the General's Handbook will end up going, possibly?

Our flgs got the handbook in. With 20% discount 21 bucks for it is a great deal. Lots of fluff. Well laid out. Very excited

 cyberjonesy wrote:
Are you talking about the rules where you get to bring 3 Nagash models with 2 Archaon and get to call sudden death on your opponent ?
Who would want to play in this kind of environement seriously ?
Was'nt this the exact reason why people have turned away from warhammer until all this General's handbook hype ?

The problem is that you think people are going to play a game like that seriously. If that's what's going on the table, the game is gonna be anything BUT serious. That's just playing for the giggles.

That latest image of the Sylvaneths has a very Pan's Labyrinth vibe about it, which is a great new direction for them in my opinion.

Nerm86 wrote:
I'm getting a very Khogorath vibe off this picture. Not in the textures or colours sense but more in the pose and angles.

And that has exactly the same pose as the DV Hellbrute!

 Icarium wrote:
That latest image of the Sylvaneths has a very Pan's Labyrinth vibe about it, which is a great new direction for them in my opinion.

You know? When I take a look yeah there's a bit of that in there. I kind of like the look of them too.

 Gamgee wrote:

 Icarium wrote:
That latest image of the Sylvaneths has a very Pan's Labyrinth vibe about it, which is a great new direction for them in my opinion.

You know? When I take a look yeah there's a bit of that in there. I kind of like the look of them too.

They have a great look that I never expected them to have.

What a fantastic release. Does anybody know if the Kurnoth Hunters have a close combat weapon option? There seem to be two pictured holding swords, but I don't know if those are characters or something, I'm hoping for a dual kit.

I love the different textures on drycha. The honeycomb is such a fantastic idea, and a texture rarely seen on fantasy miniatures. The designers really knocked this out of the park.