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For those looking for a more traditional scheme

Yeah, that actually looks great. What is it with AoS armies and the default colour scheme being the most boring possible?

I was hoping it was the paint job - and it...kind of is?

Still there aren't as...exciting as I was hoping they'd be?

Anxiously awaiting the Lamassu - but sort of worried we aren't getting one?

 Alpharius wrote:
I was hoping it was the paint job - and it...kind of is?

Still there aren't as...exciting as I was hoping they'd be?

Anxiously awaiting the Lamassu - but sort of worried we aren't getting one?

I don't need my basic infantry to be exciting - heck I still use the Old World chaos warriors in AOS because I think they look better as wargaming pieces than the current warriors swinging all over the place.

To me the red works and it makes me think other bold colors will probably be fine too - a nice purple might be the way to go.

As far as more units I fully expect a wave 2 at some point.

 ScarletRose wrote:
As far as more units I fully expect a wave 2 at some point.

At the rate GW has been going... 6th edition?

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Yeah, that actually looks great. What is it with AoS armies and the default colour scheme being the most boring possible?

Boring is inoffensive and designed to have mass appeal?

I suspect GW is also getting into trouble by having so many factions. I got the same out of the default Squat color scheme. Also Cities of Sigmar, if I remember my sentiment at the time correctly. It looks like GW wants to have distinct visual identities for its armies, which includes the default color scheme they assign them. An army that comes late has the problem that a lot of color combinations are already taken. Maybe people prefer red and gold/brass for their Chaos Dwarfs, but there's another Chaos faction that already uses it. So they end up with a different and perhaps lesser choice that they somehow have to make work, because all the good ones are already taken.

You wouldn't necessarily think that AoS is old enough to already be there, but starting out with an undue amount of mini-factions speeds up the process.

AoS is 40 years old.

Sure 30 of those years the models were under another product brand and there was that couple of years at the start of AoS when everything was a total mess; but yeah its not a 10 year old game its a 40 year old game with a rebrand.

^ Hes out of line but hes right. I don't like it, I don't agree with it, but I accept it.

Rick Priestly made AoS 40 years ago, and just like Lukas could update his movies years later, now they finally can use the latest computer programs to get Chorfs right!

 Overread wrote:
AoS is 40 years old.

Sure 30 of those years the models were under another product brand and there was that couple of years at the start of AoS when everything was a total mess; but yeah its not a 10 year old game its a 40 year old game with a rebrand.

No.

Age of Sigmar is a very different - and, in my opinion, inferior - game than WHFB/Old World. If you want to go ahead and call Old World a 40-year-old game that took 10 years off then got a rebrand, I can accept that. Age of Sigmar may have some of the same characters, but it is fundamentally not the same game.

Thats kinda reductive. 40k 10th edition is about as different from 40k 3rd thru 7th edition (and even more radically different than 1st/2nd edition) as AoS is different from WHFB of yore. We have no issue seeing a 10 edition throughline and legacy there, but draw an arbitrary line in the sand with WHFB becoming AOS?

Fact of the matter is that AOS is a continuation of the narrative of WHFB and adopted and adapted WHFB concepts into its gameplay from the outset.