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It's huge in my area. I'm a 40k player, but there's a bit of pressure to come to Age of Sigmar from the rest of the club - almost all of the 40k players also play AOS and it sounds pretty rockin'.

Our holiday game day had 3 tables of 40k (with 5 players per table) and 6 tables (!) of AOS, with the same rules. Admittedly we were playing 500 point armies and fighting for presents that rained from the sky, but still..

Deader then dead, it had a quick short revival but that was really only to act as a change of pace over 40k during the initial launch of 8th. Now no one touches it, and the armies just. Ollect dust.

It was dead here but me and 2 others are starting it. Malign portents is actually getting people interested. Not going to lie though it’s going to be tough. My 40k community don't use language like this on Dakka.

Reds8n

We have a group that plays the game of the month on Sundays. When there isn't a new awesome miniature game out that month, they fall back to AoS. Other stores don't get much play of it, although the mantic version of WFB has its adherents.

Its doing fine here. Multiple large tournaments. 10-20 players on our weekly meetups. Its a good game, balance is getting better. Armies are being updated. 8th edition 40k has overshadowed it, and 40k mains will still talk trash about it. Which is ironic, seeing how the game their playing is based off the game their hating on.

the local GW finally gave it up, its pretty much RIP. 40k is still struggling along but AoS and shadespire are dead as doornails. granted neither was popular to begin with. The rules are very off putting and the whole game is basically bashing mobs in the middle.

My area has a decent dedicated AoS tournament going on. I couldn’t make the last one but it’s been going on for a while now and they’re trying to meet up again in March. Shadespire is very popular in the local GW store too.

We are getting back on it again. Shadespire keeps on strong and healthy, with more adherents than AoS proper!

Lord Kragan wrote:
We are getting back on it again. Shadespire keeps on strong and healthy, with more adherents than AoS proper!

The shadespire does not surprise me, that game really has the best potential out of any of GW's current games (except lotr, its its own thing) I am hoping they make more boards and hurry up with warbands, we got into it and tried to push, but at the time having only 3 warbands made the game just tank hard. didnt help that it was "yay more stormcast and khorne" but they really did right by having warscrolls for them as well, makes the expansions IMO worth buying even if you hate shadespire.

No AoS in my area (Upper Austria, Europe).

Three "The 9th Age" players and most of my friends are playing still the old Warhammer Fantasy 8th edition.

Kahless

Doesn't even have shelf space at my local store. Just 40k, sadly.

We have about half a dozen folks who have armies and say they're interested in playing. We've just started a new miniatures group for the local area and people are showing up pretty regularly every time we have something scheduled.

Shadespire is literally dead, haven’t seen anyone playing it, despite someone constantly buying teams. Might need a push, because it’s quite fun game.

Had AOS tourney previous weekend with 8 people, but they are pretty much the same guys who play 40k regulary. Funny thing though: Tomb Kings took the first place

Still flat lined here.

Why'd you state that twice?

My area's mixed(40k, AoS, MtG, Warma). Though the hobby shops getting completely gutted by new management hasn't helped the tabletop scene. (Though it does probably help the GW stores though I haven't visited them due to the distance. Will have to soon.)

 CragHack wrote:
Shadespire is literally dead, haven’t seen anyone playing it, despite someone constantly buying teams. Might need a push, because it’s quite fun game.

Had AOS tourney previous weekend with 8 people, but they are pretty much the same guys who play 40k regulary. Funny thing though: Tomb Kings took the first place

I am one of the guys who likes buying teams but despises shadespire (not in your area of course) because the unique sculpts are awesome for skirmish and path of glory style games.

Was DOA here. Still dead.

Now have 4 different small factions painted up, gonna try giving it a go to get some skirmish AoS going. fingers crossed for some interest on tomorrows game day (Saturdays are major for the big FLGS)

A tiny handful of people play it, but mostly dead. My GW didn't even bother to advertise the malign portents painting thing, because not one person expressed any interest at all in it. Of course, my GW store basically does nothing to promote the hobby whatsoever.

Yep GW store managers are typically bad at promoting the hobby which is why they struggle.

Ours lets us promote the hobby and thats why he has a few top sales plaques in the store for north america.

We have a middle earth thing running now and the store in a nearby city told him that was a waste of time. We're still rocking 15 or so players for that system. Because we promote it.

 auticus wrote:
Yep GW store managers are typically bad at promoting the hobby which is why they struggle.

Ours lets us promote the hobby and thats why he has a few top sales plaques in the store for north america.

We have a middle earth thing running now and the store in a nearby city told him that was a waste of time. We're still rocking 15 or so players for that system. Because we promote it.

Players are pretty much the best at promoting anything, most of our FLGS are really good at supporting and making things available, but more or less if we want to get something going its on us. As for our GW, it sucks, badly. its barely big enough for 2 4x4s and that is crowded and its in a crap location. Nothing really happens there.

I’ll be going to an AoS tournament in March. It’s got like 20 participants. I don’t know if that’s good or not.

It's been dead for a while in my area, mostly because our primary FLGS changed owners, then changed locations. Things are pickup up again, and I'll be pitting my Slaves (complete with new herald) against some Ironjawz tomorrow night.

we are about to have a malign portents campaign at our local GW probably around 12 partisapants. half of the boxes generalluy sold per month is AOS. very good turnout if you want games. I do not know about our local gaming store as I don't go there.m

My city / area update:

AOS is still not a presence in any local gaming stores. Still a moderate amount of hostility toward it.

The GW store where I organize events has a solid 10-12 AOS players and we are doing a Malign Portents event in April that II am writing which will run two months.

I wish I could organize events at my GW store, but there is only 1 8x4 table for AOS (the other two tables are for 40k). I want to run the Coalescence malign portents event, but I'd have to figure out a way to get another table and table's worth of terrain (and kick out one of the 40k tables) to do it and that's not likely.

Our GW store only has two tables. I reserve a saturday for campaign day. And then we all meet and some of us go to another place to do our battle.

Things seems to have picked up quite a bit, and even more now that some of the more tournament-minded are preparing to participate in AoS at the ETC.

 auticus wrote:
Our GW store only has two tables. I reserve a saturday for campaign day. And then we all meet and some of us go to another place to do our battle.

This part confused me, so you have like a standing saturday for a campaign day at your GW, and then like your let's say 8 people meet up there, and then split up so some people stay at the GW store to play, and some people go somewhere else (another store, somebody's house, etc.)?

update from last post, took 4 painted factions (overlords, stormcast, bloodbound, and nighthaunt) and ran some AoS at FLGS, 1 person somewhat interested until they saw the price and went for guildball instead, otherwise the usual hostility towards gw games.