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I was able to just recently get my hands on Tamukhan Throne of Chaos and it's just amazing. But it lead me to look back on the the Age of Sigmar models at Forgeworld. Most everything there is left overs of Warhammer Fantasy models. It's just older stuff and I was wondering what everyone thought of having a potential event for Age of Sigmar. Similar to Tamurkhan and Monstrous Arcanum (Unfortunately failed to get the Battle at Black Fire Pass). I'm just curious what everyone else might think or has heard of anything like that.
Also, I really wanna see more Age of Sigmar models for Forgeworld, I asked them on Facebook about anything moving forward and they responded with saying that they have a fresh new team for Age of Sigmar and that they mentioned making a load of new models for AoS. I'm just curious what you guys might be interested to see. I think the first thing is going to be Death related because of the positive output for the new Nighthaunt release.
Forge World was in full gear with Tamurkhan and that book. The second book was set near the badlands (Battle of Blackfire Pass) and featured orcs and goblins and humans. THey even demo'd the pre-run of the book at one of the last games days in 2011 or so.
And then FW closed it all down and put all their energy into the horus heresy.
Everything you see today is whats left of those days.
I don't have much faith that there will be much AOS coming from Forge World anytime soon.
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There's stuff in the pipeline (like the Khorne Dragon below) but FW are being spread thin by Specialist Games, and it'll take a while for their new staff to get up to speed.
Here's a question; why are so many Heroes with Command Abilities lacking the Leader role?
I'd like to be able to make my Exalted Keeper of Secrets my general for Matched Play games, but she's only a Behemoth and not a Leader, despite outranking every other Slaaneshi daemon on the board and having a Command Ability and the Hero keyword (which IIRC are the other requirements to be chosen as General).
It sucks to bring an Exalted Keeper and then be like "yeah, this crappy regular keeper is the General because the Exalted keeper couldn't be assed." Especially if I am running a Pretender to the Throne Slaanesh army, where the most powerful Daemon is so vain and confident that she wants Slaanesh's throne (but gets no Command Traits and can't be the General because reasons).
Unit1126PLL wrote: Here's a question; why are so many Heroes with Command Abilities lacking the Leader role?
I'd like to be able to make my Exalted Keeper of Secrets my general for Matched Play games, but she's only a Behemoth and not a Leader, despite outranking every other Slaaneshi daemon on the board and having a Command Ability and the Hero keyword (which IIRC are the other requirements to be chosen as General).
It sucks to bring an Exalted Keeper and then be like "yeah, this crappy regular keeper is the General because the Exalted keeper couldn't be assed." Especially if I am running a Pretender to the Throne Slaanesh army, where the most powerful Daemon is so vain and confident that she wants Slaanesh's throne (but gets no Command Traits and can't be the General because reasons).
Unit1126PLL wrote: Here's a question; why are so many Heroes with Command Abilities lacking the Leader role?
I'd like to be able to make my Exalted Keeper of Secrets my general for Matched Play games, but she's only a Behemoth and not a Leader, despite outranking every other Slaaneshi daemon on the board and having a Command Ability and the Hero keyword (which IIRC are the other requirements to be chosen as General).
It sucks to bring an Exalted Keeper and then be like "yeah, this crappy regular keeper is the General because the Exalted keeper couldn't be assed." Especially if I am running a Pretender to the Throne Slaanesh army, where the most powerful Daemon is so vain and confident that she wants Slaanesh's throne (but gets no Command Traits and can't be the General because reasons).
You can name any model your General.
In Matched Play, it has to be a HERO.
So while not filling a Leader role in your army list, it can still be your General.
Unit1126PLL wrote: Here's a question; why are so many Heroes with Command Abilities lacking the Leader role?
I'd like to be able to make my Exalted Keeper of Secrets my general for Matched Play games, but she's only a Behemoth and not a Leader, despite outranking every other Slaaneshi daemon on the board and having a Command Ability and the Hero keyword (which IIRC are the other requirements to be chosen as General).
It sucks to bring an Exalted Keeper and then be like "yeah, this crappy regular keeper is the General because the Exalted keeper couldn't be assed." Especially if I am running a Pretender to the Throne Slaanesh army, where the most powerful Daemon is so vain and confident that she wants Slaanesh's throne (but gets no Command Traits and can't be the General because reasons).
Unit1126PLL wrote: Here's a question; why are so many Heroes with Command Abilities lacking the Leader role?
I'd like to be able to make my Exalted Keeper of Secrets my general for Matched Play games, but she's only a Behemoth and not a Leader, despite outranking every other Slaaneshi daemon on the board and having a Command Ability and the Hero keyword (which IIRC are the other requirements to be chosen as General).
It sucks to bring an Exalted Keeper and then be like "yeah, this crappy regular keeper is the General because the Exalted keeper couldn't be assed." Especially if I am running a Pretender to the Throne Slaanesh army, where the most powerful Daemon is so vain and confident that she wants Slaanesh's throne (but gets no Command Traits and can't be the General because reasons).
You can name any model your General.
In Matched Play, it has to be a HERO.
So while not filling a Leader role in your army list, it can still be your General.
Unit1126PLL wrote: Here's a question; why are so many Heroes with Command Abilities lacking the Leader role?
I'd like to be able to make my Exalted Keeper of Secrets my general for Matched Play games, but she's only a Behemoth and not a Leader, despite outranking every other Slaaneshi daemon on the board and having a Command Ability and the Hero keyword (which IIRC are the other requirements to be chosen as General).
It sucks to bring an Exalted Keeper and then be like "yeah, this crappy regular keeper is the General because the Exalted keeper couldn't be assed." Especially if I am running a Pretender to the Throne Slaanesh army, where the most powerful Daemon is so vain and confident that she wants Slaanesh's throne (but gets no Command Traits and can't be the General because reasons).
I am still bitter that the absolute beauty of model that is Elspeth von Drakken, lacks rules.
I would have owned one if only I didn't have to frikking homerule stuff to put her on the table....just why not write some stuff for her?
I believe there are a few more snubbed models, which is a real shame.
A few months ago FW announced that they were putting together a dedicated Sigmar team within their setup to produce models specifically for Age of Sigmar. Of course it takes time to go from concept to model and to then get that ready for mass production and to fit it into their production structure and cycle.
So we might have to wait a year or more before they start cranking out the models, but I think that we will see FW pick up the slack. I think FW is going through a big culture change and one thing for the better might be that it no longer focuses on lots and lots of Imperial stuff alone (seriously Imperials typically got the best treatment and the most options).
Unit1126PLL wrote: Here's a question; why are so many Heroes with Command Abilities lacking the Leader role?
I'd like to be able to make my Exalted Keeper of Secrets my general for Matched Play games, but she's only a Behemoth and not a Leader, despite outranking every other Slaaneshi daemon on the board and having a Command Ability and the Hero keyword (which IIRC are the other requirements to be chosen as General).
It sucks to bring an Exalted Keeper and then be like "yeah, this crappy regular keeper is the General because the Exalted keeper couldn't be assed." Especially if I am running a Pretender to the Throne Slaanesh army, where the most powerful Daemon is so vain and confident that she wants Slaanesh's throne (but gets no Command Traits and can't be the General because reasons).
There's an update with FW. The Exalted Keeper got back her leader role.
Nearly 3k+ points of Slaanesh (AoS)
2500 points of Ironjawz
Too many points of Space Marines.
Unit1126PLL wrote: Here's a question; why are so many Heroes with Command Abilities lacking the Leader role?
I'd like to be able to make my Exalted Keeper of Secrets my general for Matched Play games, but she's only a Behemoth and not a Leader, despite outranking every other Slaaneshi daemon on the board and having a Command Ability and the Hero keyword (which IIRC are the other requirements to be chosen as General).
It sucks to bring an Exalted Keeper and then be like "yeah, this crappy regular keeper is the General because the Exalted keeper couldn't be assed." Especially if I am running a Pretender to the Throne Slaanesh army, where the most powerful Daemon is so vain and confident that she wants Slaanesh's throne (but gets no Command Traits and can't be the General because reasons).
There's an update with FW. The Exalted Keeper got back her leader role.
I noticed this, but thank you for bringing it up again.
This is bonkers, by the way. Does anyone else think it is a bit weird that she can immediately swing again (or make someone else do so) rather than having to wait her turn for the Exalted Excess of Violence?
Overread wrote: A few months ago FW announced that they were putting together a dedicated Sigmar team within their setup to produce models specifically for Age of Sigmar. Of course it takes time to go from concept to model and to then get that ready for mass production and to fit it into their production structure and cycle.
So we might have to wait a year or more before they start cranking out the models, but I think that we will see FW pick up the slack. I think FW is going through a big culture change and one thing for the better might be that it no longer focuses on lots and lots of Imperial stuff alone (seriously Imperials typically got the best treatment and the most options).
Good to know. It seems like Forgeworld has been in a major drought for over a year now. They were really focused on Horus Heresy before the lead designer died, and it seems like they've been struggling to find a direction since then.
2000 Khorne Bloodbound (Skullfiend Tribe- Aqshy)
1000 Tzeentch Arcanites (Pyrofane Cult - Hysh) in progress 2000 Slaves to Darkness (Ravagers)
Overread wrote: A few months ago FW announced that they were putting together a dedicated Sigmar team within their setup to produce models specifically for Age of Sigmar. Of course it takes time to go from concept to model and to then get that ready for mass production and to fit it into their production structure and cycle.
So we might have to wait a year or more before they start cranking out the models, but I think that we will see FW pick up the slack. I think FW is going through a big culture change and one thing for the better might be that it no longer focuses on lots and lots of Imperial stuff alone (seriously Imperials typically got the best treatment and the most options).
Good to know. It seems like Forgeworld has been in a major drought for over a year now. They were really focused on Horus Heresy before the lead designer died, and it seems like they've been struggling to find a direction since then.
They'd already started re-structuring to include Specialist Games, but Alan Bligh's death was an unexpected setback. FW (& GW) are trying to increase the number of systems they support - FW has been dependant on HH for a long time.
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I’d love to see one of those bigger than an ironclad Overlord ships make it to the table, if that’s possible.
GW has made a lot of noise about beasts and monster in Age of Sigmar and seeing as they are going full high epic fantasy with it I really hope we see them make some beasts up. A lot more neutral monsters than just faction aligned though some faction specific ones are good too.
Perhaps use it to flesh out the realms with some realm monsters (usable in any realm just themed around specific ones).
I would love to see a Roaming Monsters mechanic (like Ghur's realm rules) that worked kind of like endless spells. They aren't part of either army, but the players get to move the monster the same way they can a predatory spell. The monster will always charge the closest unit within 12" of it and will always pile in and attack the closest unit in the combat phase after both players have selected all of their units to pile in and attack. Forge World would be a perfect place for these monsters.
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2000 Khorne Bloodbound (Skullfiend Tribe- Aqshy)
1000 Tzeentch Arcanites (Pyrofane Cult - Hysh) in progress 2000 Slaves to Darkness (Ravagers)
I did not know the backstory behind the Tamurkhan stuff or about the Throne of Chaos book and now I am sad because that book appears to cost a million dollars secondhand.
As much as the separate factions by Forgeworld were awesome (LOVE my Legion of Azgorh!), I think the easiest path forward for them in AoS would be to do what they do for 40k, just make superb models for existing factions.
2000 Khorne Bloodbound (Skullfiend Tribe- Aqshy)
1000 Tzeentch Arcanites (Pyrofane Cult - Hysh) in progress
2000 Slaves to Darkness (Ravagers)
