Age of Sigmar News & Rumors: Quest for Ghal Maraz pics pg60

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**-Shrike-**

Chopxsticks wrote:
I just opened my Age of Sigmar starter. So the book that comes with the starter box has the Liberators but only has the rules for the single Warhammer profile. Then you can go buy additional Liberators that make models with 4 separate weapon load outs and then that one comes with the rules for those weapons. I hope this doesn't become a trend of some kind..

What, only getting free rules for the models you've bought?

Won't the rules be on the website, anyway?

**Talys**

Chopxsticks wrote:
I just opened my Age of Sigmar starter. So the book that comes with the starter box has the Liberators but only has the rules for the single Warhammer profile. Then you can go buy additional Liberators that make models with 4 separate weapon load outs and then that one comes with the rules for those weapons. I hope this doesn't become a trend of some kind..

They are also in White Dwarf 76 with all weapon profiles, as well as the unmoubted Lord Celestant.

You don't have the models in the starter anyhow, so what does it matter if the starter has the warscrolls?

Since all the online warscrolls are 'compendiums' of the complete faction, I think GW will release the PDF once all the Sigmarites have been released. Considering how many languages AoS is translated to, I think it would be crazy to update all the Sigmarite compendiums each week.

**AncientSkarbrand**

Who gets the rulebook in their hands and only takes a picture of the table of contents? Surely the same person could have at least taken a battleplan or time of war picture?

Seems purposely leaked by gw... Doesnt it?

**edlowe**

Chopxsticks wrote:
I just opened my Age of Sigmar starter. So the book that comes with the starter box has the Liberators but only has the rules for the single Warhammer profile. Then you can go buy additional Liberators that make models with 4 separate weapon load outs and then that one comes with the rules for those weapons. I hope this doesn't become a trend of some kind..

You can download the new boxsets warscroll from the gw website.

I guess they're keeping it simple for the starter set

**fleegle23**

In regards to the Realmgates, the GW guy at the store I went to on Saturday hinted that you will be
able to teleport between them during battles.

**migooo**

Red Viper wrote:
Fire Dwarfs could be really cool.

I'm not very interested in the Sigmarines or Chaos. I'm really curious about the direction they go with Skaven/Elves/Dwarfs/Lizards.

I hope they release "battalion boxes" for new factions with armies roughly equal to the starter set.

Fire Dwarfs are cool especially Fire Slayers

(type guys)

**Onlinemph**

fleegle23 wrote:
In regards to the Realmgates, the GW guy at the store I went to on Saturday hinted that you will be
able to teleport between them during battles.

I can confirm this. My local GW opened the new terrain up and they come with their own battle scrolls. Any unit can teleport between the realmgates, but you have to roll a dice for every model. On a one it gets killed. Bringing a wizard with you lets you reroll it I believe.

**pities2004**

lord marcus wrote:
Agreed on that Scarletsquig. I think Kings of War is something to stick to for tourney gaming.

Or you know, 8th edition?

**mitch_rifle**

I reckon those sigmarites will look nice with space wolf bits to customise them up

**Mr.Church13**

mitch_rifle wrote:
I reckon those sigmarites will look nice with space wolf bits to customise them up

Terminators maybe. Sigmarites are way to big to be a normal marine.

**nudibranch**

Mr.Church13 wrote:
mitch_rifle wrote:
I reckon those sigmarites will look nice with space wolf bits to customise them up

Terminators maybe. Sigmarites are way to big to be a normal marine.

Unless you're going down the true-scale route...

**plastictrees**

I assumed that mitch was talking about nordic-ing up the sigmarites without making them marines. Ulric-ites I guess.

**Crimson Devil**

pities2004 wrote:
lord marcus wrote:
Agreed on that Scarletsquig. I think Kings of War is something to stick to for tourney gaming.

Or you know, 8th edition?

People shouldn't play with dead things.

**JohnHwangDD**

Mort wrote:
I think that's pretty much why. The models I prefer are from this company. For all the people saying 'Try KOW!', I have no problem trying out their rules, but their mini line is severely lacking.

The wierdest thing about KOW is that their rules don't even use miniatures. From what I see, KOW plays just fine with wooden blocks of the appropriate sizes. Paint them so you can distinguish the team, mark the front, and you'll be all set to play.

**Sarouan**

JohnHwangDD wrote:

The wierdest thing about KOW is that their rules don't even use miniatures. From what I see, KOW plays just fine with wooden blocks of the appropriate sizes. Paint them so you can distinguish the team, mark the front, and you'll be all set to play.

It's not weird, it's just a game system. The same can be done with all games, as long as you have enough accessories to "count as" the materials needed to play.

Even AoS can be played without miniatures and just using different sizes of circles you use as "count as miniatures with the volume equal to the circle". It's certainly cheaper but I guess you can see how pointless the rules are without your favorite GW models on the table. Now is that weird?

Moving around, I wonder how GW will handle this warscroll thing. They can quickly become a mess if they keep this fast schedule; after all, you can have a new box each week with a potential new warscroll each time. Putting the rules within the box is of course the easiest solution, but then I hope that rumor of boxes being removed from the shops faster is false...

And then I remember that's what GW would do anyway.

**Crimson Devil**

That pretty much applies to every wargame. Wood blocks, cardboard, plastic, or metal doesn't really matter.

**Nocturnus**

I guess GW really did remove Slaanesh, according to BOLS. He has disappeared and his throne is now empty, leaving his followers to fight over it. I'd like to say I'm surprised but at this point....

**jokerkd**

Nocturnus wrote:
I guess GW really did remove Slaanesh, according to BOLS. He has disappeared and his throne is now empty, leaving his followers to fight over it. I'd like to say I'm surprised but at this point....

good thing i still have warscrolls for all his Daemons then

**RoninXiC**

New rules give the chance of summoning a "unit of demons"
Since there are 0 limitations on it... that unit can be 19430594305435 man strong.

**Taaloc**

Nocturnus wrote:
I guess GW really did remove Slaanesh, according to BOLS. He has disappeared and his throne is now empty, leaving his followers to fight over it. I'd like to say I'm surprised but at this point....

There's something in the AoS starter set lorebook about Tyrion and his followers disobeying a command from Sigmar and capturing Slaanesh while he was bloated and sluggish from feasting on souls, or something along those lines. I don't have it to hand so can't quote right now.

**Wonderwolf**

RoninXiC wrote:
New rules give the chance of summoning a "unit of demons"
Since there are 0 limitations on it... that unit can be 19430594305435 man strong.

So what? Since units can be just as big when you deploy them, it wouldn't make "sense" to limit it during the summoning, I suppose.

Otherwise, why would you ever summon instead of simply deploy your million-strong unit?

**SJM**

RoninXiC wrote:
New rules give the chance of summoning a "unit of demons"
Since there are 0 limitations on it... that unit can be 19430594305435 man strong.

Don't be ridiculous, its clearly as many demons you can fit on your table! So we're only taking maybe a couple thousand..

**Laughing Man**

SJM wrote:
RoninXiC wrote:
New rules give the chance of summoning a "unit of demons"
Since there are 0 limitations on it... that unit can be 19430594305435 man strong.

Don't be ridiculous, its clearly as many demons you can fit on your table! So we're only taking maybe a couple thousand..

Don't forget that you can put models on top of each others bases! In fact, there doesn't seem to be a rule preventing you from stacking models into pyramids several feet high.

**Manchu**

There's no rule preventing you from sitting in the middle of the table while you play, either.

**Laughing Man**

I count as a Keeper of Secrets, obviously.

**notprop**

In preperation for such an eventuality my Dwarves will have an allied Orruk shaman who can cast Fist of Gorkamorka at my command, which is to say i'll have one of those big green Hulk fists in my bag ready for demon smushing.

I keeeeed, I keeeeed.

But if your going into AoS looking to place dozens of summoned demons then I suspect you might not get a game in then first place.

There was quite an interesting piece in corehammer regarding fair play and AoS. Not sure if it was posted up here but it seems like a good juncture.

www.corehammer.com/self-reflection-in-the-age-of-sigmar-brinton-williams/

**ShaneTB**

Regarding summoning, the unit warscroll tells you the unit size if they're summoned.

Will most likely pick this book up at the weekend for the scenarios. See how they play.

**Yodhrin**

notprop wrote:
In preperation for such an eventuality my Dwarves will have an allied Orruk shaman who can cast Fist of Gorkamorka at my command, which is to say i'll have one of those big green Hulk fists in my bag ready for demon smushing.

I keeeeed, I keeeeed.

But if your going into AoS looking to place dozens of summoned demons then I suspect you might not get a game in then first place.

There was quite an interesting piece in corehammer regarding fair play and AoS. Not sure if it was posted up here but it seems like a good juncture.

www.corehammer.com/self-reflection-in-the-age-of-sigmar-brinton-williams/

Wow. That's an impressive article, he should start a circus act; you have to be extremely flexible to disappear that far up your own backside.

He completely ignores the period beginning around 3rd Ed 40K where GW very much were at least trying to design "balanced" rules, and supported organised play, as it's inconvenient to his "GW always hated people playing competitively" narrative. Also, apparently anyone who favours a codified system for list construction and a game that actually functions as a game(ie, it has functional, rational rules for all aspects of play) is "anti-social"

It's hilarious how far some people are willing to reach to try and justify AoS as a concept, the final paragraph is particularly delicious in that respect. Apparently AoS isn't a ruleset or a game, no, it's a toolset generously provided to us, the anti-social gaming masses by GW, to allow us to elevate ourselves through unfettered storytelling to the level of zen-like narrativity possessed by the author.

Someone should try and penetrate the dense haze of smugness and self-satisfaction surrounding him to let him know that RPGs exist

**Slayer le boucher**

News regarding Slaanesh.

via anonymous readers on Faeit 212 Regarding Slaanesh
what i read so far:

before the age of sigmar, when all races of the different realms were still united and chaos began to corrupt the new worlds, the Aelf gods Malerion and Tyrion went out on a search for Slaanesh. Slaanesh , still fed up from the Souls he devourd during the end of the old world, left his throne to hide and digest.

there is no mention of the complete removal of slaanesh himself (yet), the book focuses on Stormcast vs. Khorne and Nurgle vs. Sylvaneth.Although it mentions briefly that the followers of Slaanesh are fighting for his throne and that the other chaos gods (especially Tzeentch) is using the absence of the two Aelf Gods not only to spread Chaos amongst the Realms and weaken the alliances that Sigmar formed but also to manipulate them to his favor.

Maybe one of em/both will form a new God that replaces Slaanesh?

via another anonymous source on Faeit 212
this is a direct quote from the book regarding Slaanesh

"Slaanesh is the Dark Prince, the God of Excess and Lord of Pleasure, and the most beautiful of all the Chaos Gods. Slaanesh's throne stands empty, however, for the god himself is lost. His minions wring their hands in anguish, while the remaining powers rejoice.

**notprop**

Yodhrin wrote:
notprop wrote:
In preperation for such an eventuality my Dwarves will have an allied Orruk shaman who can cast Fist of Gorkamorka at my command, which is to say i'll have one of those big green Hulk fists in my bag ready for demon smushing.

I keeeeed, I keeeeed.

But if your going into AoS looking to place dozens of summoned demons then I suspect you might not get a game in then first place.

There was quite an interesting piece in corehammer regarding fair play and AoS. Not sure if it was posted up here but it seems like a good juncture.

www.corehammer.com/self-reflection-in-the-age-of-sigmar-brinton-williams/

Wow. That's an impressive article, he should start a circus act; you have to be extremely flexible to disappear that far up your own backside.

He completely ignores the period beginning around 3rd Ed 40K where GW very much were at least trying to design "balanced" rules, and supported organised play, as it's inconvenient to his "GW always hated people playing competitively" narrative. Also, apparently anyone who favours a codified system for list construction and a game that actually functions as a game(ie, it has functional, rational rules for all aspects of play) is "anti-social"

It's hilarious how far some people are willing to reach to try and justify AoS as a concept, the final paragraph is particularly delicious in that respect. Apparently AoS isn't a ruleset or a game, no, it's a toolset generously provided to us, the anti-social gaming masses by GW, to allow us to elevate ourselves through unfettered storytelling to the level of zen-like narrativity possessed by the author.

Someone should try and penetrate the dense haze of smugness and self-satisfaction surrounding him to let him know that RPGs exist

I think your over thinking it.

Its a blog post not an in depth thesis in the history of all gaming.

What is hilarious that you feel the need to piss on everyones chips because AoS not your perfect game or apparently one that people should even like.

Thought police much?