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Rank and flank is back, baby!

We still mostly have rumours and speculation so obviously things will change when we can look at actual rules. In the meantime...

What army (or armies) are you going to start out with? What units or build styles are you excited about trying out to see if they're viable and you can make work?

Personally - as primarily a High Elf player - I've found Lothern Seaguard to be underwhelming in any edition where I've fielded them, but I'm hoping that THIS time they'll be viable enough that I can build an army around them. I'm also going to try my hand at making Ellyrian Reavers useful for me.

What about you?

I’ve got my old WFB Vampire Counts ready to go, but I think I might add TK as a different spin on undead.

The only 2 armies I was interested in were dwarfs and Lizardmen. I never finished my lizard army, but still have my dwarfs.

If GW can undercut the price of ebay recasters, I might finally finish by Bretonnian army.

Sadly, I expect GW to set the price so high even the recasters say 'Hey, GW, now you're just being greedy...'

Dwarfs, as well.

I'll likely hold out for empire or kislev, most of my old WHFB are now AoS armies, though my chaos dwarves/legion of azgorh are looking for a home since being legendsed out of AoS, so if the whfb pdf list is any good I'll put the effort in there.

I might do bretonnians but if they put those old Pegasus Knights minis in the faction box I'm probably out. The old skellies in the Tomb kings box killed any chance if me buying that set.

I'm excited for Bretonnia after seeing the Royal Pegasus. I had a Bretonnian force decades ago but it was impatient me having built & painted.

I'm looking forward to what I can do now, even with some of the aged models.

Well nothing at 1st but once high elves come might try that. 1st gw army so kind of nostalgy army for me. The army box will decide largely

They went and put the old Pegasus knights kits in the bretonnian starter. Dunno how they could justify that next to the *new* Pegasus kit.

Royal Pegasus vs standard Pegasus?

Just a random guess.

Skaven and Lizardmen.

Dwarfs and TK.

If the get by rules are decent and not completely half assed, I might be finally inspired to finish building my ogres and converting up some maneaters. Also if the army box prices are actually competitively priced, I might grab one of them.

No idea yet.

I was thinking about picking up Asoiaf when I got back from my sick leave and can work again.

But now I'm not sure if I should invest my money and time on Asoiaf or Old World. :(

I'm excited to try some of my Wood Elf units I've been collecting since the announcement. I've played a few games of 8th that have gone terriby... but then I'm playing a hybrid shooting/fast cav/tree force instead of specializing into one. I've heard fast cav Woodies was the way to go in 8th but it sounds tremendously unfun to me.

So yeah, it's all pretty new to me. I'm excited to see what standard Wood Elf shooting and magic can do I guess. I wish I had some hawk riders but I haven't found any models I'm happy with so I hope they get a new kit when the Asrai get thei turn in the release spotlight.

I'm waiting to see how things pan out. Given that nearly half the armies are Legacy rules and GW has a poor history with those (or rules in general really) I'm not getting overly excited about it yet. I sold my Brets earlier this year to fund a new gaming PC so I might buy a starter for them to play them with 8th rules but so far nothing I've seen has convinced me to move to TOW.

Waiting until I have the rules in my hands to decide. Might probably just stick with me Empire army and just invest in larger movement trays as I sure as hell ain't rebasing anything.

The other alternative is I have several boxes of Wood Elf Glade Guard/Glade riders I bought off a friend getting out of the hobby. I could just make that my Old World army as I really not sure what to do with them yet.

If I decide to play it, I have a massive TK army stored away.

If I do it, it’ll be on the cheap and easy. Maybe an empire force built out of Wargames Atlantic conquistadors.

When GW cancels TOW for lack of sales, blame Polonius for buying 3rd party minis ;P

Lol. I’m sure I’m the only one. I just don’t see having the time to play, but I have some fantasy projects I wouldn’t mind exploring

I've got a decent Orcs & Goblins army, mostly painted, that I put together after WHFB was killed in hopes of playing 6th Edition or Renaissance.

I've also got the start of a Dwarf force that could easily be expanded.

I got too many armies for old WHFB, so will try to consolidate.

I think Skaven and WoC probably. Perhaps a bretonnia force as a painting project.

I started painting an Ogre Kingdoms army in october. I came to the realization that I played as a clown in 8th edition, so for the re-launch I should have an army that matches my playstyle. So I´m painting up a clown-themed army

Gonna have to get that Bretonnian starter kit, I reckon - just debating with myself as to how far I'm willing to go, heraldry-wise. On the one hand, a nice unified colour scheme is probably easier, but having a classic "everyone's got their own colours" Bretonnian army wouldn't be half bad!

I've also still got my old Ogre Kingdoms horde from way back when. I know they're legacy, but my hope is that - with two armies - I can introduce my mate who's just started 40K to the joys of complex regimental manoeuvres as well. A man can dream, eh?

 YeeeMako wrote:
Gonna have to get that Bretonnian starter kit, I reckon - just debating with myself as to how far I'm willing to go, heraldry-wise. On the one hand, a nice unified colour scheme is probably easier, but having a classic "everyone's got their own colours" Bretonnian army wouldn't be half bad!

I've also still got my old Ogre Kingdoms horde from way back when. I know they're legacy, but my hope is that - with two armies - I can introduce my mate who's just started 40K to the joys of complex regimental manoeuvres as well. A man can dream, eh?

My plan for Bretonnia is to do a hybrid scheme for the army. The peasant archers, men-at-arms, and the like will all have the scheme of the lord. My knights of the realm (both foot and mounted) will also either follow the lords scheme or have their personal heraldries quartered or marshaled to the lords scheme, so they will still be predominantly cohesive to the main scheme but still have some individualistic flair, to represent that they have taken vows and pledged fealty to the lord and are loyal retainers, etc.

The knights errant will have their own individual schemes, representing that they are wandering knights that are trying to be seen and make names for themselves and aren't thus pledged to service to anyone else.

The Questing Knights I haven't yet entirely figured out, GW has historically presented them as retaining their individual heraldry, but the fluff indicates that a Questing Knight has to surrender all their domains, titles, lands, and possessions, forsake all ties with family, kin, etc. Logically this would also mean surrendering ones coat of arms and heraldry. Part of me is tempted to have them "take the black" and paint them sans any heraldry at all, but in fluff such "black knights" are treated with suspicion and seen negatively so it doesn't feel appropriate to go that route - we'll see.

Grail Knights will all be back to their own distinct custom heraldry, but dialed up to 11. They are the individualistic living saint folk-heroes of the Bretonnia and are pledged to the Lady, not to a lord, so they get their own heradlry. Foot squires and mounted yeomen, my intent is to have them in schemes shared with the Grail Knights - each Grail Knight having a handful of squires/yeomen who share their heraldry and attend to them.

Those are some really sound ideas, actually - I may also do that, as it seems like a really happy compromise between my two options!

With your Questing Knights, I guess you could have them dress in sackcloth and some other primary colour (perhaps white?) rather than having them "take the black." Sackcloth would show a kind of disregard for worldly things as they carry out their quest, as well as a humility and penitence before the Lady which would hopefully win her favour and bring them closer to finding the Grail. A nice white, or something like it, is also symbolically a "pure" colour in religious terms (as I understand it), so it'd complement the cloth.

Of course, there's probably issues with this approach too, but I thought I'd suggest it just in case, eh!

I have High Elves I'm waiting to build until we get base rules for them. Well, that, and getting to play TOW to see if I like it enough to base specifically for it rather than figuring out movement trays/spacers or whatever.

My first games are going to be with my dwarf army, I think. I should probably see how much repairs it needs, a lot of Slayers were falling off their bases last time I brought it out.

I also want to do Chaos Dwarfs, sometime down the line. But normal Dwarfs will probably see the table first. I assume the army list will be based off of their Tamurkhan/Legion of Azgorh incarnation, since those were the most recent rules and models.

Yeah, that seems the safe bet, given the way they phrased it as "armies that had rules in 8th edition" or whatever. The only rules Chorfs had in 8th was Legion of Azgorh so its probably going to be built around that rather than whatever they might have had in older editions.