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I'm on Steam and can't link the direct rules photos...

ShaneTB wrote:
A wizard can cast one spell at beginning of each turn. Roll 2D6. If equal to or higher than the casting value it works. An enemy wizard within 18" of the caster can then 2D6; if it beats the score rolled by the caster it's dispelled.

That's the magic phase summed up.

In the world of many flavours of wargames WHFB is now the bucket you use to wash the ice cream scoops in.

"If he does it, Player B wins. If not, Player A wins. It's like adding weights to the winner to make his actual winning more difficult."

Da feth?


"I brought 39 Skaven Slaves led by an Ogre. What did you bring?"
"I brought 40 Star Dragons."
What in the actual feth?

RoninXiC wrote:
Wow the rules are Bad

BWAHAHAHAHAHA

I'm not sure why this is so funny, but holy gak dudes

- Salvage

There are two spells listsed here. Probably what comes in the core set (one per faction).

Edit: Wounds to a unit are allocated by controlling player (do not have to be closest or line of sight).

 Desubot wrote:
"I brought 39 Skaven Slaves led by an Ogre. What did you bring?"
"I brought 40 Star Dragons."
What in the actual feth?

If you read further, that characterization was wrong.

Not liking what I seeing with a skim of the rules can read, they going to have to pull a lot more out in the next few weeks.
Victory rules are bleh..

 pretre wrote:

 Desubot wrote:
"I brought 39 Skaven Slaves led by an Ogre. What did you bring?"
"I brought 40 Star Dragons."
What in the actual feth?

If you read further, that characterization was wrong.

How so?

It says the minimum unit size is what comes in the box (so 20 for slaves and 1 for the dragon), with no upper limit to the maximum.

If they'd agreed to bring 2 things then this still adds up.

Appears that a lot of unit detail is on the individual War Scrolls as we thought.


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Sudden Death: Outnumbered player can pick a condition. Something happens if they achieve it.

Some detail on this that I can't see but seems to be a "lets have it!" if a player is about to get tabled and wants to grab a victory.

But that's theory as the photo clips the last few sentences.

RoninXiC wrote:
Wow the rules are Bad

And army selection is confirmed as bring what you want.

Bye bye Warhammer

Units/weapons have Attacks, To Hit, Rend and Damage stats.

Attacks - number of dice you roll to hit
To Hit - what you need to roll to hit
Rend - to do with getting through armour (roll to beat Save somehow; missing text)
Damage - how many wounds each hit that lands causes


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 Flashman wrote:

RoninXiC wrote:
Wow the rules are Bad

And army selection is confirmed as bring what you want.

Bye bye Warhammer

That might be in the scenarios.

Again with obvious intentional GW leaked pictures. Nobody normal takes tiny pics of tiny portions of a page.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Again with obvious intentional GW leaked pictures. Nobody normal takes tiny pics of tiny portions of a page.

Why would they do this?

I think I'm going to get the fantasy kits I need for conversions then just drop it like a stone.

So a lot of years ago I started playing WHFB in 3E, but since we didn't have a lot of duplicate models and didn't totally get the % system or whatever used back then, our armies were just whatever we had. I got stomped pretty much continuously by my (spoiled) friend who had every big ridden monster and demanded he get to use them all, while all I had scrapped together with my allowance were a few Skaven and Chaos Things.

It is with a feeling the distinct opposite of joy that I look at this so-called army organization scheme. The saving grace - if I end up caring about it! - is that I can use whatever models I want to push around while having some AoS with my cider

- Salvage

This is sounding a lot like a mash up of KOW and LOTR

I have a feeling tournaments are going to stick to 8th. This doesn't even look like it will work well with pick-up games. At least it really is a 'bear and pretzels' game now, I guess?

Ahem

The Most Important Rule

In a game as wide ranging and detailed as Warhammer: Age of Sigmar there may be times when you are not sure exactly how to resolve a situation during play...

Wow. Even when they only have 4 pages of rules they can't write it without needing this

Also, "wide ranging and detailed"?

ShaneTB wrote:
Units/weapons have Attacks, To Hit, Rend and Damage stats.

Attacks - number of dice you roll to hit
To Hit - what you need to roll to hit
Rend - to do with getting through armour (roll to beat Save somehow; missing text)
Damage - how many wounds each hit that lands causes


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 Flashman wrote:

RoninXiC wrote:
Wow the rules are Bad

And army selection is confirmed as bring what you want.

Bye bye Warhammer

That might be in the scenarios.

That's actually more complicated than Iw as expecting...........but not put off yet.

Wanna hear a good joke?

One paragraph starts with

In a game as detailed and wide-ranging as Warhammer: Age of Sigmar...

Hah. Ninja'd.

 Jambles wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Again with obvious intentional GW leaked pictures. Nobody normal takes tiny pics of tiny portions of a page.

Why would they do this?

To make it more exciting



P.s. it is not

Just me that think this looks like 40k? But with no guns.
I would be really sad if it turns into 40k, fantasy edition. And I am usually not one to complain about gw stuff

All wizards get the two core spells + unique ones on their War Scroll.

The 'complexity' I expect to come from the War Scroll details.

For example, one unit of Troops could be 15 zombies but they have a rule which gives the enemy +1 to hit (Slow Undead: Opponent has +1 to hit in ranged and close combat against this unit).


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One of the two core spells does 1D3 Mortal Wounds (do not roll to hit/wound/save - auto wounds).
The second gives a unit +1 to their save.

Hint of healing abilities in the Wound section. Will be in War Scroll if applicable.

Edit: Summoning, Reincarnation and Reinforcement rules. Again, part of War Scrolls. So expect a lot of special rules outside of the core rule phamhlet.

5 pages ago, people were high fiving each other. Now, we're back to a cluster feth of epic proportions

Maybe everyone's panicking for no good reason.

For all we know, come Saturday, GW may well say, yeah, there is a points system. 1 unit = 1 warscroll.

So you want a 10 war scroll game, here's what 1 war scroll equals:

10 empire archers

20 skaven slaves

5 chaos warriors

Nagash costs 5 warscrolls

and so on.

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
5 pages ago, people were high fiving each other. Now, we're back to a cluster feth of epic proportions

Maybe everyone's panicking for no good reason.

For all we know, come Saturday, GW may well say, yeah, there is a points system. 1 unit = 1 warscroll.

So you want a 10 war scroll game, here's what 1 war scroll equals:

10 empire archers

20 skaven slaves

5 chaos warriors

Nagash costs 5 warscrolls

and so on.

Yeah, this release has been a rollercoaster, but I'm waiting till the end to figure out if I'm going to have any interest in the game. Definitely feels like I'm at a low spot on the ride though

ShaneTB wrote:
All wizards get the two core spells + unique ones on their War Scroll.

The 'complexity' I expect to come from the War Scroll details.

For example, one unit of Troops could be 15 zombies but they have a rule which gives the enemy +1 to hit (Slow Undead: Opponent has +1 to hit in ranged and close combat against this unit).


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One of the two core spells does 1D3 Mortal Wounds (do not roll to hit/wound/save - auto wounds).
The second gives a unit +1 to their save.

Hint of healing abilities in the Wound section. Will be in War Scroll if applicable.

hmm sounds ok - Like I said before played games like this and can be good - not sure baou tthis "last ditch win" idea - that does seem pretty crap

It just sounds weird? And really different to anything GW have done before.

Lol

Take what you want. Hundred miniatures recommended!

while I think it's quite probable that there may be some sort of balancing of forces (each player take the same number of boxes of stuff)

it would not surprise me if this game is even more targeted at groups of friends playing together who actually talk to each other and set goals/limits/scenarios beforehand

this is what GW designers play and what the games have mainly been intended for (with a brief flirtation with tournaments). It's not going to be good for random games in store, but it may well suit the home gamer more

(and yes I know tight competitive rule sets can work for home games too, but they're not what GW is all about)

Combat appears staggered.

If it's your turn you pick a unit and complete all attacks. Then opponent does the same. Repeat until all units in combat have attacked.

Wonder why - maybe to encourage multiple unit combat?


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Cover rules are a few sentences (can't see them though).