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 Paradigm wrote:
What if the rumourmongers have got things (understandably) mixed up,

Almost guaranteed.

See Id think I would dislike that even more.

I see new game, new rule book, I fancy I'll try it, so I buy it.

Cool I can use skaven but this new game is on rounds.

I look at the shelf, see all my current models on squares, ok no biggie, play new game with square bases.

Now say new Skaven model comes out, it can be used in new game AND current game but I gotta decide if its going on round or square. This is what bothers me. If I start slowly converting to the new round based game, well im screwed come time to play the current game.

So till then all my stuff sits with out bases until we know hard facts..

I have to agree that my OCD won't let me finish my current stuff because I NEED TO KNOW. I prefer circles for look, but we'll see. My OCD will eventually be sated.
Not really, but here's hoping.

In GWs world, that means you buy twice the minis!

Back in reality, if Age of Sigmar a single-mini skirmish game, the base size/type really won't matter, so go with squares if you want the minis for WFB. If the base size does end up mattering, then you could always just make some circular mini-trays to place the minis on for AoS games.

 Paradigm wrote:
Here's a thought...

What if the rumourmongers have got things (understandably) mixed up, and:
- Warhammer Fantasy Battles doesn't actually change, and simply receives a new rulebook that consolidates the ET changes on top of 8th (in other words, 9th has already been here for months! Mind blown! )

- Age of Sigmar is a whole new game, rather than a subset of WFB. It has round bases and a low model count, and uses both new and old minis, and has its own rulebook and release. It basically exists like WotR and LotR; two entirely separate rulesets with minimal crossover that use the same minis.


This is all a shot in the dark, but I could see if happening. WFB doesn't go anywhere it's not already at, the new system comes along for those that want it, and we all hobby happily ever after.

Or perhaps that's just wishful thinking...

I hope with all of my being that you are right! That is what I have been thinking/hoping all along. New game, ties into the stuff going on with Araloth and his daughter that the ET books were alluding to...

Only a month to wait and see. And lots of new rumors to get me excited/depressed...

Deep down I think Im hoping rounds is official. I really think models like Boneripper and the Glotkin I have would look better on Rounds vs rectangle. I like the actual squares but damn, do I base it long ways or narrow? Thats my gripe with rectangle bases.

 pretre wrote:

 Paradigm wrote:
What if the rumourmongers have got things (understandably) mixed up,

Almost guaranteed.

Why is that?

 Vermis wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 Paradigm wrote:
What if the rumourmongers have got things (understandably) mixed up,

Almost guaranteed.

Why is that?

Have you seen the volume of crap we've seen trying to explain what's going to happen with 9th? There's no way it is all correct.

 Melcavuk wrote:
It wasnt in the OP so apologies if its been posted already

Can't believe its finally coming!!

So in 2 days we'll finally know what the "future" of the destroyed system will be?

RoninXiC wrote:
So in 2 days we'll finally know what the "future" of the destroyed system will be?

I'm no french speaker but I think Julliet means July :-p

I think it's July, not June.

oh .. snap ;(

A note to put out there per BoLS and Steve the Warboss:

Just when you think you know what's happening (before it's happening) another rumor comes along and changes your outlook.

VIA Steve the Warboss

Age of Sigmar is not the Starter Set of the 9th Edition. It will be a Board Game like Space Hulk or Execution Force and with this Set, the Releases of the 9th Edition will begin.

Looks like Fantasy 9th is still coming, except this will just be the precursor to it.

So, interested to see what it ends up being. Since pre-orders are going up on a major national holiday in the U.S., pretty sure it wouldn't be pre-orders for 9th Edition. GW wouldn't do that to their U.S. stores.

Anything Steve the Warboss says I take as idle speculation. Hoping someone with a solid reputation weighs in.

So more than 1 month to go and after that god knows how many more months left for the 9th?

If this is just another board game based on GW IP and not 9E proper, then I await the wild extrapolation of AoS mechanics to the always-looming-never-arriving Next Edition

- Salvage

 Paradigm wrote:
What if the rumourmongers have got things (understandably) mixed up, and:
- Warhammer Fantasy Battles doesn't actually change, and simply receives a new rulebook that consolidates the ET changes on top of 8th (in other words, 9th has already been here for months! Mind blown! )

- Age of Sigmar is a whole new game, rather than a subset of WFB. It has round bases and a low model count, and uses both new and old minis, and has its own rulebook and release. It basically exists like WotR and LotR; two entirely separate rulesets with minimal crossover that use the same minis.

Hush, you. All portents are that the sky is falling.

And for precedent, look at 40k. Just recently, 40k was converted into a board game, starter forces being combined Chaos and Inquisition. Everybody else got Squatted, but people can continue playing 7E for now...

Harry, Arthurius11 and Hastings have posted several hints that this game called Age of Sigmar is going to be a smaller affair than the mass-battle game WFB used to be in 8th. The rumor tracker has their posts.

It's basically more of a skirmish (low model count) game. The box contains a small rulebook with less pages than usual (at least that's what I understood reading Harry's latest posts regarding the rulebook) and two forces.

It is rumored to be 'human warriors' (a Sigmarite Knightly Order?) vs Chaos Warriors and Daemons of Khorne. Rules for the units are included in the box. And some scenarios. Calling it an introductory set (for new players but also to the new setting for us veterans) seems to be a fitting description of it.

The last posts from Hastings on WS mentioned new building kits to be released in the near future. The removal of several WFB buildings like the fortress seems to back this up. And Hastings can be trusted anyway.

The tracker has lots of good WFB rumors collected - if you focus mostly on these three.

There is no separate board game or mordheim-sized skirmish game.

Age of Sigmar replaces/follows WFB as the other big game next to 40K, though the rules are very different from WFB.

If you even mildly dislike the recent narrative direction of 40K, brace yourself.

Sad Panda wrote:
Age of Sigmar replaces/follows WFB as the other big game next to 40K

Having just re-branded all their stores to Warhammer, why would they then change the name of their 2nd biggest Warhammer game

Sad Panda wrote:

If you even mildly dislike the recent narrative direction of 40K, brace yourself.

Whats changed in the narrative direction of 40K recently? Or are you getting it confused with the recent narrative direction of WHFB?

Is it me or its bloody ridiculous the constant contradiction of each new rumour that is posted? Its almost like no one has a clue.

- "11 July"
yay
- " nope its not the new edition its a skirmish game"
what?
- " double negative its the real deal but just very different"
Confused!

 nels1031 wrote:

Sad Panda wrote:

If you even mildly dislike the recent narrative direction of 40K, brace yourself.

Whats changed in the narrative direction of 40K recently? Or are you getting it confused with the recent narrative direction of WHFB?

I suspect it's a reference to the "forging a narrative because we can't be arsed to write decent rules" direction rather than any sort of fluff narrative.

Sad Panda wrote:
There is no separate board game or mordheim-sized skirmish game.

Age of Sigmar replaces/follows WFB as the other big game next to 40K, though the rules are very different from WFB.

If you even mildly dislike the recent narrative direction of 40K, brace yourself.

Adding an entire planet's worth of salt to this "rumor".

In other words, until I see an image that proves this, I don't believe it one bit.

HobbyBox wrote:

Sad Panda wrote:
There is no separate board game or mordheim-sized skirmish game.

Age of Sigmar replaces/follows WFB as the other big game next to 40K, though the rules are very different from WFB.

If you even mildly dislike the recent narrative direction of 40K, brace yourself.

Adding an entire planet's worth of salt to this "rumor".

In other words, until I see an image that proves this, I don't believe it one bit.

Sad Panda - Total rumors: (18 TRUE) / (0 FALSE) / (0 PARTIALLY TRUE/VAGUE)

 pretre wrote:


Sad Panda - Total rumors: (18 TRUE) / (0 FALSE) / (0 PARTIALLY TRUE/VAGUE)

Perfect records are made to be broken

TBH, I doubt GW would release a new version of the game and set it up to pre-orders when all of it's hobby stores in the U.S. will be closed for a national holiday. For a company that is all about maximizing the amount of money they can make, that bit does not make any sense. Hence my skepticism.

 nels1031 wrote:

Sad Panda wrote:

If you even mildly dislike the recent narrative direction of 40K, brace yourself.

Whats changed in the narrative direction of 40K recently? Or are you getting it confused with the recent narrative direction of WHFB?

Maybe we're getting more fantasy superheavies, factions broken into to multiple army books and allies gone made.

Oh and a fantasy version of formations and dataslates.

Where is Sad Panda mentioning a preorder date? Edit: Okay it was related to the name, I see

Warhams-77 wrote:
Where is Sad Panda mentioning a preorder date? Edit: Okay it was related to the name, I see

He isn't. That guy is mixing up the leaked picture and Sad Panda,