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Added the official teaser trailer to the OP and updated the title. Looks like we'll know everything about the new-warhammer-world-order soon enough!

 Kosake wrote:
I'm pretty sure the Dawn of war-quote was:
"An open mind is like a frotress with it's gates unbarred and unguarded"

That quote is WAY older than Dawn of War!

Cautiously optimistic for WFB 9E, if that is indeed what this is!

 Tamereth wrote:
"An open mind is like a fortress with the drawbridge down and the gates unbarred."

I read that in a book some time. I wonder who published that book?

"A mind is like a parachute: it doesn't work if it's not open".

I really hope there are 0 survivors of the old world. That way there is no one that would remember rules like "steadfast".

Today's "What's new" has a link to the teaser vid...

and the following hidden text ;

Well... almost hidden text lol. The 2nd part of that text is visible lol.

Grr just been on GW website and whoever thought it would be good idea to add sound to the banner image for the new ed needs a slap

Smuttbudgie wrote:
Grr just been on GW website and whoever thought it would be good idea to add sound to the banner image for the new ed needs a slap

Yes. Yes they do.

I've had a long, hard think about this (about 5 mins ) and I've came to the conclusion that maybe the Age of Sigmar really is the age of Sigmar.

In other words, we should take GW at their word.

It's a possibility that they've went back to the beginning, and decided to set 9th in pre-Empire days.

Most of the races were around back then...

Or

The AOS is some stand alone, space hulk style game, and we're all setting ourselves up for a massive disappointment.

Let's face it, the only time GW announce something more than a week in advance is for an edition change of one of their flagship games. Add to the fact that all rules based products for WHFB has been stripped from the shelves, Age of Sigmar is the followup to 8th Ed WHFB. Whether it's recognisable as 9th edition, or a completely different game, that's to be determined. But no way in hell is it a Space Hulk/Execution force style board game.

MaxT wrote:
Let's face it, the only time GW announce something more than a week in advance is for an edition change of one of their flagship games. Add to the fact that all rules based products for WHFB has been stripped from the shelves, Age of Sigmar is the followup to 8th Ed WHFB. Whether it's recognisable as 9th edition, or a completely different game, that's to be determined. But no way in hell is it a Space Hulk/Execution force style board game.

Let me give you an introductory, 101 course on GW business logic.

Advertising is bad. The less people know of your new product, the more people will buy it.

If high prices are restricting sales, then the solution is even higher prices.

If a popular product is selling well, stop selling that product

If your customers are asking for X, give them Y



Point is, nobody has a clue what GW are ever thinking. We could either see a brand new 9th edition, or we're just as likely to see a snotling codex!!

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:


Point is, nobody has a clue what GW are ever thinking. We could either see a brand new 9th edition, or we're just as likely to see a snotling codex!!

The scary part is, I'm certain there plenty of people who would buy into Warhammer Armies: Snotlings.

Age of Reboot!

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Age-of-Sigmar

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:


Point is, nobody has a clue what GW are ever thinking. We could either see a brand new 9th edition, or we're just as likely to see a snotling codex!!

The scary part is, I'm certain there plenty of people who would buy into Warhammer Armies: Snotlings.

I'd flip through that book.

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:


Point is, nobody has a clue what GW are ever thinking. We could either see a brand new 9th edition, or we're just as likely to see a snotling codex!!

The scary part is, I'm certain there plenty of people who would buy into Warhammer Armies: Snotlings.

I would be tempted by a snotling codex - they're funny little things

If memory serves, was there not a snotling gun in the early versions of epic 40k?

I'm pretty sure that you fired this gun at a Titan, the snotlings would chew through the cables or something like that?

 obleeke wrote:
Age of Reboot!

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Age-of-Sigmar

'These were the End Times. The world is no more, torn apart by treachery and Chaos. And yet... endings beget beginnings.

Listen carefully. Can you hear it? The cruel laughter of dark gods? It dances on the winds between worlds, striving to be heard, for the ruinous powers bore easily, and they seek tirelessly for new realities to conquer. Where there is life, Chaos will find it, and misery and bloodshed will soon follow.

The world is gone, but all may not be lost.

The descendants of the Old Ones left before the Chaos moon destroyed their homelands, that much is certain. But where did they go?

And if they escaped, did anyone else?

Can what is dead ever truly die?

Who remains lost in the void?

To what does he cling?

And when a world dies…

…what happens next'

Am I the only one to think there is something wrong with the colors used for this new "Age of Sigmar"? I mean, yellow on blue...it doesn't feel like a grim and dark universe to me. It feels like something...blank, a new useless product made by some marketing team.

We'll see what's this all about in a month, I guess. But that really starts on the wrong foot, to me...

It makes me think of a Dwarven shield or something like that. It'll probably be the colour of the flagship UltraSigmarines.

But Warhammer isn't Grim and Dark. Well, wasn't. When it existed. If you see what I mean.

One of the things that I liked about Warhammer was that there was a chance that the "good guys" would win, and that it wasn't all just doomed (like in 40k). The Empire is on the brink of technological revolution, for example. The High Elves, for all their 5000 year civil war, seemed to be doing OK. The Dwarfs were in trouble, but a large ex-pat community in the Empire seemed to be fairly stable. And anywhere south of the Empire, Tilea for example, seemed to be doing generally OK. There was a lot of corruption within, chaos cults and so forth, which is way more interesting than just "bad guys from the north coming to burn everything" but doesn't translate onto a wargames table.

And then they blew it all up. Cretins.

Anyway, if there is a new background, which involves a new world, how is that going to be anything except "good guys triumphing against not existing anymore" rather than GRIMDARK?

some new art from my local GW on facebook



(less blue, more spooky skulls)

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
(less blue, more spooky skulls)

Honestly, much prefer. Not really aesthetically - the not-retro vibe of the not-steampunk / not-space pulp gold hammer on blue is better executed, if obnoxiously colored - but ye old composite of Ghal Maraz + comet + shkullsh at least feels like Warhammer.

- Salvage

In regards to this possibly being a board game rather than a whole new game or edition, how early did they unveil the assassin game? I can't remember.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
In regards to this possibly being a board game rather than a whole new game or edition, how early did they unveil the assassin game? I can't remember.

Week before, like every other GW release since the last edition of 40K.

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Point is, nobody has a clue what GW are ever thinking. We could either see a brand new 9th edition, or we're just as likely to see a snotling codex!!

Yeah.... but it'a pretty bloody unlikely they've stripped the shelves of all current army books and rulebooks (even ones they've only released in the past 6 months for End Times) and are giving us a 1 month warning (more than anything since 7th edition 40k) only to release Warhammer Armies: Snotlings.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Point is, nobody has a clue what GW are ever thinking. We could either see a brand new 9th edition, or we're just as likely to see a snotling codex!!

Yeah.... but it'a pretty bloody unlikely they've stripped the shelves of all current army books and rulebooks (even ones they've only released in the past 6 months for End Times) and are giving us a 1 month warning (more than anything since 7th edition 40k) only to release Warhammer Armies: Snotlings.

Can you actually verify that more than just the one shop, if it indeed was, has "stripped the shelves of all current army books and rulebooks"?

My own GW has said nothing of this, and the post from that specific shop(Liverpool NSW) is either hidden, in a group that the manager joined, or some other weirdness--because the photo(which SHOULD appear in the store's photo collection) does not exist nor does any post about it.

 Sarouan wrote:
Am I the only one to think there is something wrong with the colors used for this new "Age of Sigmar"? I mean, yellow on blue...it doesn't feel like a grim and dark universe to me. It feels like something...blank, a new useless product made by some marketing team.

We'll see what's this all about in a month, I guess. But that really starts on the wrong foot, to me...

In the grim darkness of the past, there is only Sweden!

 Kanluwen wrote:

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Point is, nobody has a clue what GW are ever thinking. We could either see a brand new 9th edition, or we're just as likely to see a snotling codex!!

Yeah.... but it'a pretty bloody unlikely they've stripped the shelves of all current army books and rulebooks (even ones they've only released in the past 6 months for End Times) and are giving us a 1 month warning (more than anything since 7th edition 40k) only to release Warhammer Armies: Snotlings.

Can you actually verify that more than just the one shop, if it indeed was, has "stripped the shelves of all current army books and rulebooks"?

My own GW has said nothing of this, and the post from that specific shop(Liverpool NSW) is either hidden, in a group that the manager joined, or some other weirdness--because the photo(which SHOULD appear in the store's photo collection) does not exist nor does any post about it.

I can confirm it, having gone into my local GW yesterday. No army books, no End Times books on the shelves; the movement trays are still there though, for those keeping track. The spots just have the Age of Sigmar poster up, and they have a little cardboard flier with the poster on it to take away. I took it away. Then put it in the bin, as I didn't know what else to do with it. True story.

Edit to add: no rulebooks either. I didn't look for Island of Blood, but I also don't remember seeing it, and it is a pretty big box.

 Kanluwen wrote:

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Point is, nobody has a clue what GW are ever thinking. We could either see a brand new 9th edition, or we're just as likely to see a snotling codex!!

Yeah.... but it'a pretty bloody unlikely they've stripped the shelves of all current army books and rulebooks (even ones they've only released in the past 6 months for End Times) and are giving us a 1 month warning (more than anything since 7th edition 40k) only to release Warhammer Armies: Snotlings.

Can you actually verify that more than just the one shop, if it indeed was, has "stripped the shelves of all current army books and rulebooks"?

My own GW has said nothing of this, and the post from that specific shop(Liverpool NSW) is either hidden, in a group that the manager joined, or some other weirdness--because the photo(which SHOULD appear in the store's photo collection) does not exist nor does any post about it.

I believe Mikhaila has posted he's been told he can send stuff back off the shelf, and I know another owner who personally told me he was informed to send stuff back. So yes, store owners are being given a heads up.

 Kanluwen wrote:

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Point is, nobody has a clue what GW are ever thinking. We could either see a brand new 9th edition, or we're just as likely to see a snotling codex!!

Yeah.... but it'a pretty bloody unlikely they've stripped the shelves of all current army books and rulebooks (even ones they've only released in the past 6 months for End Times) and are giving us a 1 month warning (more than anything since 7th edition 40k) only to release Warhammer Armies: Snotlings.

Can you actually verify that more than just the one shop, if it indeed was, has "stripped the shelves of all current army books and rulebooks"?

My own GW has said nothing of this, and the post from that specific shop(Liverpool NSW) is either hidden, in a group that the manager joined, or some other weirdness--because the photo(which SHOULD appear in the store's photo collection) does not exist nor does any post about it.

Said photo was up and was removed.


My local Gw store and, AFAIK, all the Uk ones have removed the previously listed WFB products, all replaced with a "placeholder" consisting of a card printout of the Age of Sigmar text and/or logo.

Red, thanks for that. It's strange that the photo was removed if this was going to be a big company-wide thing.