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I really like the army but it is a bit limited in terms of unit options. Personally I think there is room to build on the faction. They’re one of the more popular factions, they’re depicted as being one of the main factions because Alarielle leads them and really they had a fairly limited release of revenants, Kurnoth and the characters.

As for stuff they could do:

- Revenants with bows
- Beetle cavalry
- Something between a Kurnoth and a Dryad. IMO the Dryad kit is a little dated compared to some of the newer armies and is one of the more lacklustre parts of the list since Revenant don’t work well as Battleline and Treelords are prohibitively expensive. But then big blocks of dryads only seemed to work by sitting them in cover and tanking.
- Sylvaneth Terrain

Or do you think the focus will continue to be new factions with the occasional new Chamber?

I would say that I highly doubt sylvaneth will be getting anything else. They still need to expound on the wood elf portion of that army, among about a dozen other factions that need looked at.

If they’re popular enough I wouldn’t be surprised if they got a second edition Battletome with some additional kits. Would love a new Dryad kit that doesn’t change their look too much, but just kind of cleans them up a bit and blends them into the updated style some more.

I expect every army with a battletome to be expanded eventually, but not in the near future. We still have one god without a mortal army (Slaanesh), Skaven are likely to see an AoSification (other than Pestilens), Grots and Darkoath barbarians have been in the rumor mill for a while now, and we have at least one more Aelf faction (Tyrion's) and probably two (Malerion) coming sooner rather than later. Until all those are out, I doubt any existing AoS lines will see much (other than Stormcast Eternals). Afterwards, I feel like we'll start seeing the ranges expanded.

 EnTyme wrote:
I expect every army with a battletome to be expanded eventually, but not in the near future. We still have one god without a mortal army (Slaanesh), Skaven are likely to see an AoSification (other than Pestilens), Grots and Darkoath barbarians have been in the rumor mill for a while now, and we have at least one more Aelf faction (Tyrion's) and probably two (Malerion) coming sooner rather than later. Until all those are out, I doubt any existing AoS lines will see much (other than Stormcast Eternals). Afterwards, I feel like we'll start seeing the ranges expanded.

Yeah that sounds about right although we have had some curveballs like Idoneth Deepkin and both Dwarves factions.

- Slannesh: Seems increasingly obvious there’s going to be some kind of Shawshank Redemption plot. They’re not going to do all the Cult Legions and Sigmar armies but not Slannesh.

- I don’t know about Grots and Darkoath. I heard some talk from Kitetsu that they could get a release but it’s been quite silent since then. I do think we will see another, even more wacky, Destruction army but I think they should vere away from Destruction equals Greenskins. Darkoath problem is that I don’t see what would distinguish them from a Khorne army?

- I actually think we could see an “Imperial Guard” style reimagining of the Free People’s because they seem to be a lot more prevalent in the lore now to still be using Empire or Dwarf or Elf miniatures. They seem to be moving closer to the notion of Sigmar ruling over an Empire in the lore.

- Yes the Angelic Light and Shadow elves. No idea how they will work.

 Totalwar1402 wrote:


- I don’t know about Grots and Darkoath. I heard some talk from Kitetsu that they could get a release but it’s been quite silent since then. I do think we will see another, even more wacky, Destruction army but I think they should vere away from Destruction equals Greenskins. Darkoath problem is that I don’t see what would distinguish them from a Khorne army?

The Darkoath Warqueen and Chieftain share a lot of aesthetic similarities to the Norsca faction for Total War: Warhammer 2, so I could see them sharing a lot of units with them, so they could have ranged units in the form of javelins and throwing axes, maybe even giving them some monstrous infantry, too. They would also not shy away from magic. From the lore we've seen from them, we know they don't devote themselves to any single god, and the Dark Powers are notoriously greedy for devotion so they could have a mechanic about proving themselves worthy of their blessings. I'd say they could be significantly different from Khorne.

Marauder Horsemen(a much more modern kit than the Marauders themselves) already have javelins and throwing axes so I think that's a fair assumption...

Also wouldn't be surprised to see a kind of 'huntsman' unit and an updated Marauder kit that can double build an almost 'huskarl' style of unit. Could see Skin Wolves making the jump over or some kind of 'Bearzerker'(no that's not misspelled!) unit given the Stormcast using bears as a totem animal and many hailing from the tribes that the Darkoath likely represent.
Could see a shaman of some kind.

I don't know Sylvaneth but Ironjawz sure need it.

I think the decision to make Stormcast Eternals the "poster boys" of Age of Sigmar will mean stuff like Sylvaneth will just fade away and likely wait for years and years for updates, as xenos races do in 40K. I would expect Chaos and Stormcast to continue to be the main focus.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Marauder Horsemen(a much more modern kit than the Marauders themselves) already have javelins and throwing axes so I think that's a fair assumption...

Also wouldn't be surprised to see a kind of 'huntsman' unit and an updated Marauder kit that can double build an almost 'huskarl' style of unit. Could see Skin Wolves making the jump over or some kind of 'Bearzerker'(no that's not misspelled!) unit given the Stormcast using bears as a totem animal and many hailing from the tribes that the Darkoath likely represent.
Could see a shaman of some kind.

A return of Beorg Bearstruck from back in WHFB 5th edition? Bearzerker is a real thing for GW lore in the past. I could see him coming back.

 timetowaste85 wrote:

A return of Beorg Bearstruck from back in WHFB 5th edition? Bearzerker is a real thing for GW lore in the past. I could see him coming back.

I know it was a thing, and it actually kinda would be an interesting thing to add for the Free Peoples as a Realm of Beast 'flavored' character as well as a Chaos worshiper styled deal.

Hell, that was the whole fluff behind the Wood Elf "Alter-Kindreds"! They weren't shapeshifters but rather they were able to channel their 'totem'.


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 Da Boss wrote:
I think the decision to make Stormcast Eternals the "poster boys" of Age of Sigmar will mean stuff like Sylvaneth will just fade away and likely wait for years and years for updates, as xenos races do in 40K. I would expect Chaos and Stormcast to continue to be the main focus.

Disagree.

The decision to make Stormcast a 'super faction' rather than the obviously intended mini-factions has had a negative impact on things. Vanguard, Extremis, and Sacrosanct all seemed to be headed towards being a 'subfaction', with their own heroes and characters and rules.

They rolled it back though when the first GHB hit and we got the silliness that is a single massive faction in a game with many subfactions. It seems to have had a really negative effect in that it means many of these subfactions are having to wait for releases to constitute them as a 'full' faction.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:

A return of Beorg Bearstruck from back in WHFB 5th edition? Bearzerker is a real thing for GW lore in the past. I could see him coming back.

I know it was a thing, and it actually kinda would be an interesting thing to add for the Free Peoples as a Realm of Beast 'flavored' character as well as a Chaos worshiper styled deal.

Hell, that was the whole fluff behind the Wood Elf "Alter-Kindreds"! They weren't shapeshifters but rather they were able to channel their 'totem'.


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 Da Boss wrote:
I think the decision to make Stormcast Eternals the "poster boys" of Age of Sigmar will mean stuff like Sylvaneth will just fade away and likely wait for years and years for updates, as xenos races do in 40K. I would expect Chaos and Stormcast to continue to be the main focus.

Disagree.

The decision to make Stormcast a 'super faction' rather than the obviously intended mini-factions has had a negative impact on things. Vanguard, Extremis, and Sacrosanct all seemed to be headed towards being a 'subfaction', with their own heroes and characters and rules.

They rolled it back though when the first GHB hit and we got the silliness that is a single massive faction in a game with many subfactions. It seems to have had a really negative effect in that it means many of these subfactions are having to wait for releases to constitute them as a 'full' faction.

Sounds like space marines to me imo.

In the near future I do not think so. But anyone could get something 6, 8, 10 years down the line. You never know.

 EnTyme wrote:
I expect every army with a battletome to be expanded eventually, but not in the near future. We still have one god without a mortal army (Slaanesh), Skaven are likely to see an AoSification (other than Pestilens), Grots and Darkoath barbarians have been in the rumor mill for a while now, and we have at least one more Aelf faction (Tyrion's) and probably two (Malerion) coming sooner rather than later. Until all those are out, I doubt any existing AoS lines will see much (other than Stormcast Eternals). Afterwards, I feel like we'll start seeing the ranges expanded.

I also think we'll see Dispossessed get something. They did get a faction focus on Warhammer Community before 2.0 release.

1 in 3 releases must be Stormcast. Not all the factions have been fleshed out yet, and I expect that most new releases will be factions we've never heard of. The text in the rulebook pertaining to the remnants of oldhammer factions indicate that the intent is to provide interesting allies for Stormcast to use.

No chance of an update. They are leftovers from the most hated GW game of all time.

I could see them getting a new wyldwood kit that doubles as some sort of 40k deathworld terrain. And they’ll probably get their own Endless Spell eventually, GW seems to want to give everyone their own.