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I've been sort of sitting around for a new human faction to surface and watching all these outrageous factions come out with beautiful models. While I think they're awesome and I'm glad people have a lot of unique variety, I'm still finding myself itching for good old humble humans. I'd get free people's but they feel so out of place in amongst all the cool new stuff. Where's the cool spartan style peeps or Tyreon's aelfs from the realm of heaven?!

Perhaps the barbarians coming soon could be what I'm looking for.

Anyway, that's my pointless post

Not been released yet, sadly.
Though they might be coming soon; in one of the more recent pieces of art there's what appears to be a human soldier fighting marauders. Its hard to make out as he's more in the background, but he's there.

I hope they keep a bit of the 16th century Holy Roman Empire look. I liked the Empire's aesthetic.

There is plenty of them in the fluff - but likely GW were wary of making models that either they already do or that someone else does which covers an awful lot of historical style figs.

So instead they have focussed on very unique ranges with the hope that people will buy them as no real alternative. Make sense.

However hopefully they will do something with the many very cool human units that are mentioned in the stories. - from Knightly orders serving Alarielle.

my take is they simply dont fit in AoS.

by the resent new tomes, it is very clear that GW want pure fantasy armys whos inspiration and design idea can only come from heavy use of exotic mushrooms.
traditional fantasy humans, dwarfs and elfs is something you wont see in aos, apart from the leftovers that once was the fantasy game.

They have had no way to fit them in yet. Humans are easily IP-ganked by 3rd party companies.

I have no doubt they'll show up.

One day.

They mostly come out at night.

Mostly.

 FrozenDwarf wrote:
my take is they simply dont fit in AoS.

by the resent new tomes, it is very clear that GW want pure fantasy armys whos inspiration and design idea can only come from heavy use of exotic mushrooms.
traditional fantasy humans, dwarfs and elfs is something you wont see in aos, apart from the leftovers that once was the fantasy game.

They are already in much of the linked fiction.

I can't see them doing new releases for a humble free people type faction, for the reasons others stated. I'm sure they'll get something sooner rather than later, but I would expect something as bizarre in aesthetic as the Overlords or Idoneth. I have no idea exactly what though!

I think they will do them eventually as well. They haven't been afraid of keeping Skellies and Zombies in AoS and they are pretty generic!

I think the Empire range is just so flexible and cool that they are in no rush to replace the kits.

Some Realm themed people would be cool.

Yeah I wouldn't mind if they suited the wacky unique styles, some Greek inspired dudes would be just as cool. I just want some new humans haha

A flagellant themed army would be pretty cool I think. You know how they took the slayers and grew that concept into Fyreslayers? Do that with Flagellants and you have a pretty unique army.

Yeah if they were to introduce new humans I'd imagine it'd be through updating Devoted of Sigmar like they did Daughters of Khaine. Free Peoples I feel are both a little too generic for what GW wants to do with its armies, and already have enough of a base where they don't necessarily NEED to do anything for them. Devoted already have s good base to expand upon and I think they could go pretty wild with the faction.

On Malign Portents stuff, I've seen a couple of Freeguild stories where they mentioned "cog forts", perhaps a hint for a future Freeguild/Ironweld unit?

 GuardStrider wrote:
On Malign Portents stuff, I've seen a couple of Freeguild stories where they mentioned "cog forts", perhaps a hint for a future Freeguild/Ironweld unit?

They would be cool but they are huge having batteries of cannons - they might do a mini one though or just make it small like they did with the Overlords ships.

 Mr Morden wrote:

 GuardStrider wrote:
On Malign Portents stuff, I've seen a couple of Freeguild stories where they mentioned "cog forts", perhaps a hint for a future Freeguild/Ironweld unit?

They would be cool but they are huge having batteries of cannons - they might do a mini one though or just make it small like they did with the Overlords ships.

Could also be hinting towards what sort of tech a new free peeps faction could have. Possibly too close to the Overlords though

 Tiberius501 wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:

 GuardStrider wrote:
On Malign Portents stuff, I've seen a couple of Freeguild stories where they mentioned "cog forts", perhaps a hint for a future Freeguild/Ironweld unit?

They would be cool but they are huge having batteries of cannons - they might do a mini one though or just make it small like they did with the Overlords ships.

Could also be hinting towards what sort of tech a new free peeps faction could have. Possibly too close to the Overlords though

If it worked in WHFB it can work in AoS. They just have to give the humans worse fire arms than the dwarfs

 Tiberius501 wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:

 GuardStrider wrote:
On Malign Portents stuff, I've seen a couple of Freeguild stories where they mentioned "cog forts", perhaps a hint for a future Freeguild/Ironweld unit?

They would be cool but they are huge having batteries of cannons - they might do a mini one though or just make it small like they did with the Overlords ships.

Could also be hinting towards what sort of tech a new free peeps faction could have. Possibly too close to the Overlords though

Its Ironwelds so plenty of dwarves involved in the building and firing and the canons also use special ammo like fire diamonds which both ignite and explode as shrapnel.

You could def do a whole new swathe of stuff in the same was as Daughters of Khaine and Deepkin are very different.

Well this is an exciting theory and I could totally get behind it. The idea of steam tanks and artillery and cool infantry; could be the guardsman army I've been waiting for in 40k, let alone Sigmar haha.

This could even keep similar aspects of their Holy Roman Empire aesthetics, even if it's just hints with feathers and breast plates or something.

A man can hope, anyway. Cool idea

Human factions are boring and overdone? That's my take.

 Galef wrote:
Human factions are boring and overdone? That's my take.

Please point me to actual humans in WHFB or AoS. The few I remember were the Empire or Brittonia. In AoS, we have the Free Peoples and the Wanderers (pretty underrepresented from what I've seen) or crazy super humans like the Bloodbound, Chaos Warriors, Stormcast, etc. Doesn't seem like there's been too many actual human factions.

The only humans in AOS are Ironweld humans and Free Peoples. Neither of which do much really.

 jreilly89 wrote:

 Galef wrote:
Human factions are boring and overdone? That's my take.

Please point me to actual humans in WHFB or AoS. The few I remember were the Empire or Brittonia. In AoS, we have the Free Peoples and the Wanderers (pretty underrepresented from what I've seen) or crazy super humans like the Bloodbound, Chaos Warriors, Stormcast, etc. Doesn't seem like there's been too many actual human factions.

WHFB also had Kislev (who did have rules) and marauders.

Empire, Bretonnia, Kislev, Tilean Dogs of War, Estalia Dogs of War, the Norse Marauders were all in whfb.

Well, I don’t think “regular” humans fit the rules very well either. I think the game plays better with a smaller number of miniatures, and hordes of humans with sticks/Spears/swords running around is not very fun. A big part of what eventually put me off when the game first came out was using my Empire infantry models in my games.

Managing hundreds of models on the table is not very enjoyable for either side. Between movement and piling in it’s just not cool. My other two big fantasy collections are skaven and orcs n gobbos... so our games just dragged on unmercifully for hours.

I shelved all my state troops and use almost entirely Knights, DGKs, and a smattering of artillery and characters now. I don’t think I’d consider any list with more than about 40 models.

Common complaint. And unfortunate as what drew me into the game was the spectacle of actual armies clashing on the table.

Moving the models in my army makes me miss movement trays.

Do you even have to use the models in lose formation?
Like, if I were to rank them up and move them as a block, would I be at a disadvantage?

pm713 wrote:
The only humans in AOS are Ironweld humans and Free Peoples. Neither of which do much really.

They do in the novels

I am the opposite, playing as regular humans (faith, steel and gunpowder) in a setting where everything is ridiculous op made me start a Free Peope's army as my first dedicated AoS army (the Imperial Guard logic) even if I have to move dozens and dozens of models (before I have been playing with my old High Elf stuff as generic order and then Tempest's eye)

Although I confess I do use a lot of artillery and that's a huge points sink

 Mr Morden wrote:

pm713 wrote:
The only humans in AOS are Ironweld humans and Free Peoples. Neither of which do much really.

They do in the novels

That's because the lore in AOS is nonsensical and awful. I write better and I'm not even that good at writing.