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Rumors from Atia were there will be a release of snapfit-model boxes in addition to this Mini-Starter set. If you are interested in specific miniatures wait until pics of these sets arrive. Afaik they are next week but I could remember that wrong and they go into preorder this weekend as well.

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So hyped for this.

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Freebies

I hope Death takes at least one city or heavily contest's it. We need more Death fluff.

Warhams-77 wrote:
Rumors from Atia were there will be a release of snapfit-model boxes in addition to this Mini-Starter set. If you are interested in specific miniatures wait until pics of these sets arrive. Afaik they are next week but I could remember that wrong and they go into preorder this weekend as well.

Interesting. I'd really like a cheap source of Stormcast, because I'd like to try painting them the colors of various Stormhosts. I was considering doing the mini-starter pack, but I need another Bloodreaver like I need a hole in the head.

Just seen the prices on the Bonesplittas repacks. The clam packs are unchanged. It is now £30 for 20 savage orruks, or 10 boar Boyz. That is about a 15% per model discount.
As an aside I was curious so I checked some prices and discovered that you can get a 1000 point army for £100 for every faction except the ironjawz, fyreslayers and flesheaters. (the £130 flesh eater bundle gives almost 1500 points though). The fyreslayers are by far the most expensive faction to collect. 1000 points costs a minimum of £160.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Freebies

Freebies for players or for the store? That's a pretty hefty box to give away for free.

Requizen wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Freebies

Freebies for players or for the store? That's a pretty hefty box to give away for free.

Looks like a pack of cardboard, not a box. 1 board per player, maybe?

 Hanskrampf wrote:

Requizen wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Freebies

Freebies for players or for the store? That's a pretty hefty box to give away for free.

Looks like a pack of cardboard, not a box. 1 board per player, maybe?

Oh yeah, that makes more sense. I thought it was a box of that thickness, but a stack of boards is more likely.

 Hanskrampf wrote:

Requizen wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Freebies

Freebies for players or for the store? That's a pretty hefty box to give away for free.

Looks like a pack of cardboard, not a box. 1 board per player, maybe?

That is correct. It's something you get for participating in Season of War.

I got a couple of cards from my FLGS. Mostly because I generate most of his store's income lol.

Looking forward to picking up one or two tomorrow. Be getting my first games in soon as well!

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I don't think this has been shared. It is £10 for 2 retributors, 2 liberators and a prime, 2 blood warriors and a champion, or 4 bloodreavers and a chieften. The bloodreavers seem like a bad deal. The others are ok. That said £10 brings them into the range of an impulse buy.

Hm looks like a nice cheap way to fill out infantry ranks if you don't care about monopose.

How do unit sizes work with the General's Handbook? Can you add just two Liberators to a unit or do you need to add them in sets? Or can you have a unit of just three Liberators (5 is the minimum on the warscroll)? I plan to pick one of the mini sets for painting practice, but it seems like a horrible way to add to your army - monopose and you'll end up with way more champions than you need.

I think they are aimed at pure beginners, kids, painters or those who want to bulk out the Starter set a little. In narrative or open play it doesn't matter what size your units are so odd sizes is not a problem.
For matched play, the Starter set comes with 3 retributors so two more makes a legal matched play unit. I have a free liberator from Wd. The new magazine has one too. So three more makes a unit. I think this is the use case for experienced players.

 Sqorgar wrote:
How do unit sizes work with the General's Handbook? Can you add just two Liberators to a unit or do you need to add them in sets? Or can you have a unit of just three Liberators (5 is the minimum on the warscroll)? I plan to pick one of the mini sets for painting practice, but it seems like a horrible way to add to your army - monopose and you'll end up with way more champions than you need.

Sure you CAN add just 2 more. You just pay full price of 5.

Could be a good way to bring the starter box Retributors up to a squad of five depending on the models they use. Hopefully its not the same two in the Storm of Sigmar set as one of them is the prime.
*reads the text* Damn

tneva82 wrote:

 Sqorgar wrote:
How do unit sizes work with the General's Handbook? Can you add just two Liberators to a unit or do you need to add them in sets? Or can you have a unit of just three Liberators (5 is the minimum on the warscroll)? I plan to pick one of the mini sets for painting practice, but it seems like a horrible way to add to your army - monopose and you'll end up with way more champions than you need.

Sure you CAN add just 2 more. You just pay full price of 5.

Did you read the comment you replied to? They're saying that the box set comes with 3, matched play has them in minimum units of 5. This means that if you buy the box of 2 to add to the starter, and then you have a unit of 5

 Rygnan wrote:

tneva82 wrote:

 Sqorgar wrote:
How do unit sizes work with the General's Handbook? Can you add just two Liberators to a unit or do you need to add them in sets? Or can you have a unit of just three Liberators (5 is the minimum on the warscroll)? I plan to pick one of the mini sets for painting practice, but it seems like a horrible way to add to your army - monopose and you'll end up with way more champions than you need.

Sure you CAN add just 2 more. You just pay full price of 5.

Did you read the comment you replied to? They're saying that the box set comes with 3, matched play has them in minimum units of 5. This means that if you buy the box of 2 to add to the starter, and then you have a unit of 5

I think you might want to re-read the comment they replied to mate.

 Rygnan wrote:

tneva82 wrote:

 Sqorgar wrote:
How do unit sizes work with the General's Handbook? Can you add just two Liberators to a unit or do you need to add them in sets? Or can you have a unit of just three Liberators (5 is the minimum on the warscroll)? I plan to pick one of the mini sets for painting practice, but it seems like a horrible way to add to your army - monopose and you'll end up with way more champions than you need.

Sure you CAN add just 2 more. You just pay full price of 5.

Did you read the comment you replied to? They're saying that the box set comes with 3, matched play has them in minimum units of 5. This means that if you buy the box of 2 to add to the starter, and then you have a unit of 5

Oh I read it just fine. Did you?

Can you add just two Liberators to a unit or do you need to add them in sets?

Adding to a unit. Not starting new unit.

You can add 2 to unit of 5 yes. It just means you paid for 5 liberators for 2. What part of that is unclear to you?

It is interesting that these boxes have the 'easy to build'-logo and the Collect-Paint-etc slogan like the Battle for Vedros sets. So, Age of Sigmar now has a similiar intro product range. They could be available in model and toy stores as well.

I think I'll have to grab the mini-starter at least; I've no interest in building a Khorne force and don't want to add Stormcast to my Order army just yet, but I absolutely want to paint up some of each, and you've got the makings of two Warbands for a fantasy skirmish game of your choice there as well. At £20, so about £16 after online discount, it's a very tempting set. Not sure about the 2-3 model expansions just yet, add one of each and you might as well buy the whole starter, but it's good to have options.

Maybe the mini Starter has warscrolls with reduced counts. I think AoS would probably scale well to a smaller game with 3 man units. Then the mini Liberators box would be a full unit for mini-AoS.

I'll be honest, if they did that for more factions, I'd be really likely to dip my toes in for pretty much every one. A box of 3 dryads? A handful of slave to darkness? Sure, I'll get em, paint em up, and try them out in a small mini-AoS battle. If I liked it, then I'd invest in the 30+ models at $400 for a full army. It'd be even better if they worked with Silver Tower.

There are already semi official rules for mini units and skirmish play here http://warhammerworld.games-workshop.com/regiment-of-renown/ These mini sets would be perfect for this mode of play.

 Sqorgar wrote:
Maybe the mini Starter has warscrolls with reduced counts. I think AoS would probably scale well to a smaller game with 3 man units. Then the mini Liberators box would be a full unit for mini-AoS.

I'll be honest, if they did that for more factions, I'd be really likely to dip my toes in for pretty much every one. A box of 3 dryads? A handful of slave to darkness? Sure, I'll get em, paint em up, and try them out in a small mini-AoS battle. If I liked it, then I'd invest in the 30+ models at $400 for a full army. It'd be even better if they worked with Silver Tower.

Huh?

Highly doubt they will make "mini" warscrolls. The game already scales to however much you want to play. You can take whatever you want already in open or narrative play.

The whole purpose of this mini box set is to show you the AoS mechanics to see if you like it. It could cost them tooooons of $ to break apart sets and make custom boxes then ship em out for every faction. If you like this mini set, then it gets you to buy the starter OR invest in another army. You can try and proxy anything since the rules are free to see if you like it before buying.

The start collecting boxes are cheap as dirt to get in. Pick up 2 of them and a character and you probably have close to 1000 points if your doing points all for about 150$

In the starter set and the first campaign book (before the Realmgate Wars series) the warscrolls for Liberators, Retributors, Blood Warriors, and Bloodreavers all said a unit could be any number of models. I'd wager the mini starter may do something similar.

Obviously the warscrolls in the app and on the site supercede them, however. And the GHB is pretty clear on unit sizes. So smaller or 'any' sized units are purely for new players to get to grips on the game.