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Hello all, been a while since I posted. Fighting with depression, and given some great advice of taking time away from Dakka and basically internet discussion. (thank you Dakka member who suggested that, sorry I forgot your name, but I am very thankful for that advice. You have helped me.) I have gotten a better now, so I bought Warcy to start a new modelling project since my other stuff I just had no motivation to do.

So I am thinking once I get the minis assembled and painted, how can I use these minis to play Age of Sigmar if it doesn't cost me too much to get back into? What Battletomb (sorry forget the name, the codex version if that is the wrong name) would I need for them? Last thing I bought was a big box set that had Stormcasts and ghosts in the game with a big hard book. Is that the second edition? So would that mean I am up to date with the rules besides FAQs, or do I need anything else to buy to be up to date rules wise?

If I use "counts as" what would be a good "codex" to get to represent like a tribal race/villiage/ kinda of army that is not really into Chaos but just don't like Sigmar. If that is not the case what book would be similar to Norsca then? I liked playing them in Total War Warhammer 1 and 2.

I don't want to pay to much to get back into but if I don't need to buy to much, I am willing to try AoS again.

Davor

They are part of Slaves to Darkness. I would hold off getting the battletomb for now as Slaves to Darkness should be getting a new battletomb next month. In mean time, you can get the warcrolls online. I think both Battlescribe and the GW AoS army builder program have points. It is what I am doing until then. Not Ideal, but workable.

As a new AoS player myself, I wouldn't get too excited about using Warcry units in AoS. My impression so far is they seem a lot like Chaos Marauders with a couple of special rules. At a single box of models they mostly don't seem very impressive and only seem like something you use your last 70-80 points on. They might be better in better groups, but they cost far too much money for me to find out.

I think it is best to treat Warcry units as something you CAN use in AoS and not as something that works well in AoS. Again, they might get better in the new book, but I don't know.

As for something like what you are asking as tribals that are not Chaos. I don't anything beyond S2D. It is my impression that most lands fought over are controlled my Chaos with Order being the ones invading.

As Saturmorn Carvilli said - they're available to download. Go to the GW store page for the Warband, then click on the Download tab. They're also in GW's Warscroll Builder, as part of Slaves to Darkness.

The Battletome that will give them actual life in AoS is due for pre-order in two weeks. I’d say hold on, play a couple weeks of Warcry, pre-order it and ride the hype train once it starts revving up. You’ll be having a shiny new setup shortly!!

Thank you so much guys. I didn't know a new battletome is coming out. I will do as you guys suggested, glad I asked, saved me from buying books to be obsolete soon.

So if I get the new battletome, do I still need the General's Handbook 2019?

I picked of the Gaming version of the rule book. It was a bit more expensive than I liked for what I got, but I wasn't sure how much the league I was playing in would be about having the rules.

The Gaming rule book apparently has the important General's Handbook stuff, but looking it over I can't see anything looks all that needed. It is mostly missions or battleplans as the book likes to call it. Almost all battleplans seems to be some variation of objective and deployment zone number and/or placement. Nothing strikes me a couple of players couldn't make up themselves. There might be some changes to how allies or force organization, but nothing I think would be fairly easy to learn.

I am still too new to AoS to completely know, but my impression right now is I don't see anything absolutely required unless you gaming group requires it. I believe the core rules are free, using any sort of army builder seems to cover any potential force organization changes and the only thing else is battleplans which anyone that has played good number of miniatures war games could also generate too.

Book is coming

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/12/01/coming-soon-chaos-cults-ogre-teams-war-in-rohan-and-more/