9th age full beta books online

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**jouso**

From:

http://www.the-ninth-age.com/news/index.php?news/100-the-9th-age-full-beta-release-v0-9/

Finally, as promised, on the 2nd of November, here are 16 new armybooks.

Are they are completely finished? No

First, they are BETA version. Please remember this word: “beta”. This means everything and anything can be changed, and lots of changes will happen. But from now on, most changes will be a lot more feedback driven, especially play testing feedback. Even with these changes we expect the books to be fairly stable in the grand scheme of things for the upcoming months - the Army Book Committees did a fantastic job setting the cornerstones of this project.

Secondly, as you will soon see, some books have a new sexy design, while others kept a design more similar to the alpha beast herds book. All books will get the new layout within the next few days (we just didn't have enough time to complete them all, and didn't want to hold back the release of the books for this reason).

As for balance, the rules team has used the nerf bat extensively the last few days (armybook committees are not happy with us). Have we over-nerfed something? Did we miss something? Of course we have. We have both had to work on very limited time, and we lack needed play testing. Without play testing, true balance can and will never be achieved. And here we count on your help. Play some games and report back. What is underpowered? What is overpowered? Which armies are the best?

If you are doing a tournament, please, please, report final results back. Basing our balance decisions on actual statistics is very important for us.

Surely there are lots of minor mistakes in the current books. For this reason we plan on the first update already within a week. Some major balance issues can be implemented here as well if needed.

Please hold on feedback until army support have had a chance to put up proper feedback threads.

Planned Updates on(roughly):
8th Nov
21st Nov
End December
March
August

So finally here's the spiritual successor to WHFB, after the promising but a bit lacking temporary lists.

Our club has gone all on board this, and there are events planned all over the country. With the biggest league in Madrid switching to 9th age from December onwards and Renacer de los héroes (one of the biggest tournaments) changing over to 9th age too.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Best of luck to them!

**Generalian**

9th age has really brought fresh air to the game. LOVE IT

**NewTruthNeomaxim**

Played my first 9th game this weekend, and I am sincerely impressed. I would give almost anything for this to have become a legitimate new GW release, with AoS being relegated to specialist game.

It also, surprisingly shows me how little 8th needed to become a really excellent product.

I still prefer Kings of War 2nd, immensely, for organized play/tournament play, but 9th feels like something I will definitely play often, for fun.

**MadMarkMagee**

9th Age... Very interesting... Thumbs up

**Wolflord Patrick**

I just finished reading the rules and my main army book (Dwarfs) and I like what I've seen. You can see the amount of time and effort that went into making this a solid game with balance in mind.

I love the idea of a living rules set that can be downloaded and updated as changes are made, however I truly believe that if a finalized version where ever available to be published in a hard-bound format and sold in stores that it would sell fairly well. (I relate it to the way Pathfinder progressed the 3.5 D&D rules and sold better than 4th edition D&D did.)

**DanielBeaver**

Thank you very much, we'll give these a whirl. Good to see armylists for some of the factions who never got 8e army books.