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 jojo_monkey_boy wrote:
That crossbow cannon is really unfortunate.

I think it's hilarious, LOL. I will buy a box of these guys, and make one of each

My favorite model configuration is definitely the longbow.

By the way, has anyone seen the "Hammers of Sigmar - Warrior Chamber on p. 10/11? I wonder who is going to paint a full Chamber first?

(well, at least it won't take as long as a Space marine chapter, hahaha)

The archers are kind of boring. Very static poses. I'm curious to see what we get for the Khorne lads; I'm assuming axes will be a significant theme, but a set with more Marauder options would be cool.

 Charles Rampant wrote:
The archers are kind of boring. Very static poses. I'm curious to see what we get for the Khorne lads; I'm assuming axes will be a significant theme, but a set with more Marauder options would be cool.

If you look in the big Age of Sigmar book, there's definitely some hints.

Blood Warriors have something that looks like a Klingon Bat'leth, some Blood Warriors with 2x big ol' axes, and mention of three likely character models we have yet to see.
Skullgrinder, Slaughterpriest, and Deathbringers.

 Charles Rampant wrote:
The archers are kind of boring. Very static poses. I'm curious to see what we get for the Khorne lads; I'm assuming axes will be a significant theme, but a set with more Marauder options would be cool.

The Archers are boring? Im pretty sure you could interchange any one set of the Sigmarines and just swap arms... Great models, I am loving painting the Chaos faction from the starter box, but man.. The sigmarines all look the same.

 Barzam wrote:
I'm someone who hasn't really ever cared about WHFB, I'll admit that the change in aesthetics has actually made me somewhat interested. But, I don't really care about the actual AOS rules either. I'm rather more interested in these for the hobby aspect and in that regard, I think GW actually did a good job here. I'd even be somewhat interested in buying the bolter guys. These are going to be sets of 10 or 5?

I think my interest may just come from the fact that the Sigmarines look like something I'd fight in a Castlevania game.

THIS. This is exactly it. I kinda had a passing interest in some fantasy things but the Sigmarines? I actually consider them for bits for 40k.

Castlevania not so much, but those archers and so many knights remind me of the Dark Souls' Black Knights or the ones the Dark Souls 2' Iron Fortress. And I like that a whole lot.

They are going to make some really cool guards for some any D&D campaign I run with a castle or something! I have magnets in the heads so I can swap between the default helm and the other heads I posted awhile back. I think the Blood Angle heads look the best on them.

The Boltstormers are the first Stormcast Eternal models I like. Cannon is ridiculous though and the bow guys are boring.

 Samurai_Eduh wrote:

 jmurph wrote:
bitethythumb is quite the cheerleader. Here less than 20 days and what 200+ posts pushing AoS? That is some serious enthusiasm!

Whats the problem? There are *gasp* some of us who are completely behind this game.

Not many others created an account on pre order day, inhabited AoS threads exclusively until it was mentioned that recent members who were posting exclusively in AoS threads in support of AoS was a bit suss and list their interests as "AoS" though.

But it absolutely could just be huge coincidence and massive enthusiasm, that's absolutely true.

 Samurai_Eduh wrote:

Whats the problem? There are *gasp* some of us who are completely behind this game.

No problem at all- I actually think the scale and simple mechanics are a smart move, even if it's not the game for me (FWIW, I didn't really like WHFB rules all that much either; I prefer SOBH or Two Hour Wargames for my skirmishing rules and DBA/HoTT for block troop wargaming). The setting changes I am not a fan of (the Old World had some really good stuff), but I certainly see GW's angle. I would note that your responses seem a bit more deliberate, though, than bitemythumb's responses cheering every GW move and deriding any critique as "haters."

The blending with 40k elements seems pretty blatant and definitely moving it into a more tecnofantasy aesthetic. Not sure how wise that is since 40k is pretty technofantasy as it is. I guess it will make it easier to collapse them together at some point if necessary. Somewhat ironic given how hard GW worked to distance the settings previously from early tie-ins.

bitethythumb wrote:


anyone who says its not similair to 40k is a fool at the same time, why not? 40k and space marine are pretty awesome and set a great standard, if AoS sigmarines are anything to go by the chaos warriors are going to be epic, aelfs are going to be epic, orruks are going to be epic... its all pretty good if you ask me

If everything is epic....nothing is epic.

The cannon guy is a bit crap the archers are ok though, even if static.

Slaughterpriest?

 jmurph wrote:

 Samurai_Eduh wrote:

Whats the problem? There are *gasp* some of us who are completely behind this game.

No problem at all- I actually think the scale and simple mechanics are a smart move, even if it's not the game for me (FWIW, I didn't really like WHFB rules all that much either; I prefer SOBH or Two Hour Wargames for my skirmishing rules and DBA/HoTT for block troop wargaming). The setting changes I am not a fan of (the Old World had some really good stuff), but I certainly see GW's angle. I would note that your responses seem a bit more deliberate, though, than bitemythumb's responses cheering every GW move and deriding any critique as "haters."

The blending with 40k elements seems pretty blatant and definitely moving it into a more tecnofantasy aesthetic. Not sure how wise that is since 40k is pretty technofantasy as it is. I guess it will make it easier to collapse them together at some point if necessary. Somewhat ironic given how hard GW worked to distance the settings previously from early tie-ins.

SoBH is a great game, I'm seriously considering going back to it instead of AoS, as it is essentially the same game but better.

migooo wrote:
Slaughterpriest?

Yup, literally all I can give you is the name and that the "Geysers of Boiling Blood" special rule for Time of War and the Brimstone Peninsula allows for a player with one or more PRIESTS of KHORNE to choose to add or subtract 1 from your dice roll to determine which geyser erupts.

 Kanluwen wrote:

migooo wrote:
Slaughterpriest?

Yup, literally all I can give you is the name and that the "Geysers of Boiling Blood" special rule for Time of War and the Brimstone Peninsula allows for a player with one or more PRIESTS of KHORNE to choose to add or subtract 1 from your dice roll to determine which geyser erupts.

They sound interesting. please dont have stomach with mouths or skulls in it and ill seriously look, otherwise great name, good idea but terrible model

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

bitethythumb wrote:
they are just haters leave them be

That's the spirit! Dismiss any and all criticism as 'haters'. Far far easier than actually acknowledging faults.

H.b.m.c I've always respected your opinions, because most of the time your reasonable and have well founded critiscms that have reasoning given for why you feel that way. But calling people who imply that a new person that likes age of Sigmar is either in gw's pocket or a troll hater's is in my opinion pretty legit. That's not really ignoring solid arguments and criticism that's ignoring the people that say: "I do not like this game, so no sane person could. Because it sucks. And can only ever be experienced by anyone as sucking." I am pretty sure that's what haters are. I have been here for a while now so I don't consider myself a newbie but I too like age of sigmar. I like getting to play a game in turn 1 instead of sitting around shoving my models in my opponents general direction for 2 turns while he casts magic and I'm just waiting to get into charge range. I like sequential unit activation making me consider and prioritize which of my models are worth more to me so who should strike first during my enemies turn to minimize casualties in my key units. I like the priority rolls that can turn the tide in a battle and stop me from planning my entire turn during my opponents turn. I like a lot of things that age of Sigmar does a LOT better then what 8th did.

I read gates of Azyr and couldn't put the book down until i finished, short and sweet definitely but it actually made me want more of this fluff. For all the things age of sigmar got wrong, it is also getting a lot of things RIGHT. It does take more work to find a balanced way to select armies, totally true, but once you figure something out that seems to work people you play with generally hop onto the bandwagon real quick and you get a locally accepted "comp ruleset" in a few weeks time that just keeps growing every time we play games and discover things that need tweaking. I'm having a blast playing a faster paced more dynamic game that's challenging my tactical insights and finally dragging me out of the slump that i know my army so well that i just mindlessly move my models pretty much the same way every game to try and win like I did in 8th. Not a single warscroll i have tried sucks so bad that I would never play a unit. Parts of my collection that never saw play because point wise they weren't worth it go on the table again. Age of sigmar HAS expanded my game play experience.

Ofcourse i think dumping all the fluff up to this point is a bleeding shame. Of course I miss aspects of 8th that age of Sigmar quite plainly does not offer. But all in all I AM actually enthusiastic about this game. Nothing changed for me really other then i have another game i can choose to play. I mean come on, you can even still come in and play games of 8th in the actual GW shop here. Are there flaws in the game, yeah a heaping pile of them but 8th had so many flaws in it that we completely changed comp rules for tournaments for that game too. So are we taking a step back with AOS? I prefer to see it as a step sideways, it's not really that much worse and when capable writers like Chris Wraight get their hands on it, this fluff is actually pretty damn awesome and engaging. So I'm still very much ready to see where this game goes. And a lot of people that never played 8th and just see the pretty damn cool new AOS models and get into the game now? Can't really blame them for being wholly enthusiastic. So in summary. We old vets like to grumble like old dwarfs do, but that doesn't really make anyone a hater.

Saying only gw lackeys and trolls can like AOS though? Yeah sorry if that is someone's opinion I don't really mind if someone calls them a hater.

 Azreal13 wrote:

 Samurai_Eduh wrote:

 jmurph wrote:
bitethythumb is quite the cheerleader. Here less than 20 days and what 200+ posts pushing AoS? That is some serious enthusiasm!

Whats the problem? There are *gasp* some of us who are completely behind this game.

Not many others created an account on pre order day, inhabited AoS threads exclusively until it was mentioned that recent members who were posting exclusively in AoS threads in support of AoS was a bit suss and list their interests as "AoS" though.

But it absolutely could just be huge coincidence and massive enthusiasm, that's absolutely true.

It sounds entirely plausible,

as Lego can no doubt confirm the forum has loads of lurkers, and something that they are actually really keen on coming out is just the sort of thing to push them to make an account and support/talk about the new 'wonderful thing'

it's not as if this is a small KS where convincing a few dozen people might actually make the difference between funding (and so more pledges) and not funding (and so nothing), GW is not going to bother seeding forums with fake posters (they just don't care enough to do so)

Just about rumours, Have we heard anything about stuff for some other factions then Khorne and Stormcast Eternals? From what I have understand we can expect new dwarf (sorry, Duardin) stuff witch will be different from the current range to represent the new duardin factions.

Ps: Lady Atias twitter has been shut down which is a shame since she had some pretty accurate rumours.

That Cross... Cannon... Crosscannon (you'll get caught up in the), would look not so bad on something larger. Like a Clan Moulder construct or some large Automaton of some sort.

Looks really silly on the Sigmarine though.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:

 Samurai_Eduh wrote:

 jmurph wrote:
bitethythumb is quite the cheerleader. Here less than 20 days and what 200+ posts pushing AoS? That is some serious enthusiasm!

Whats the problem? There are *gasp* some of us who are completely behind this game.

Not many others created an account on pre order day, inhabited AoS threads exclusively until it was mentioned that recent members who were posting exclusively in AoS threads in support of AoS was a bit suss and list their interests as "AoS" though.

But it absolutely could just be huge coincidence and massive enthusiasm, that's absolutely true.

It sounds entirely plausible,

as Lego can no doubt confirm the forum has loads of lurkers, and something that they are actually really keen on coming out is just the sort of thing to push them to make an account and support/talk about the new 'wonderful thing'

it's not as if this is a small KS where convincing a few dozen people might actually make the difference between funding (and so more pledges) and not funding (and so nothing), GW is not going to bother seeding forums with fake posters (they just don't care enough to do so)

I wouldn't say that. They have clearly taken a different approach to the AoS release and have been pushing it. They have even sent review copies of the boxsets to media outlets.

I've waited to see more models before saying anything about this game. I feel a little bad about it, but I really like the models. I'll never have an army (probably), but I can see myself buying a set or five. Cool models are cool models, rules be damned.

 Azreal13 wrote:

 Samurai_Eduh wrote:

 jmurph wrote:
bitethythumb is quite the cheerleader. Here less than 20 days and what 200+ posts pushing AoS? That is some serious enthusiasm!

Whats the problem? There are *gasp* some of us who are completely behind this game.

Not many others created an account on pre order day, inhabited AoS threads exclusively until it was mentioned that recent members who were posting exclusively in AoS threads in support of AoS was a bit suss and list their interests as "AoS" though.

But it absolutely could just be huge coincidence and massive enthusiasm, that's absolutely true.

so I am supposed to join the warmachine thread even though I am not interested in warmachine? I also participated in a few painting modelling threads to get started? got myself brushes etc... lets be clear, I have been a member on dakkadakka WAAAY before, but I have forgotten my account/password (my email most likely changed as well)... I like AoS, it rekindled my love for miniature modelling... why should I not participate in its discussions? oh... I could have joined warseer/bols but I much prefer dakka dakka...

anyways, if you think I am a GW lackey so be it I kinda like that... maybe I can start spreading rumours, by the way did anyone mention female sigmarines on the way yet?

Yeah that is also something I'm wondering about, unlike space marines we haven't heard the geneseed does not take on women type of excuse for why there could be no female stormcasts. I actually still need a picture of Valkia the bloody next to a Liberator or Prosecutor if anyone could swing that. Gonna convert me up a female stormcast if those dimensions work out a bit.

The longbows are nice. The cross bows are okay (quivers are stupid).

Whatever the hell that gaping maw of an arrow bolt storm bazooka panzershreckboltenstormenwerfer abomination is, it's stupid looking and fugly.

 Haight wrote:
The longbows are nice. The cross bows are okay (quivers are stupid).

Whatever the hell that gaping maw of an arrow bolt storm bazooka panzershreckboltenstormenwerfer abomination is, it's stupid looking and fugly.

"Thunderbolt Crossbow". 1 in 5 Judicators may take one. You pick an enemy unit within 18" and roll a dice, subtracting 1 from the roll if the target is a Monster. If the result is equal to or less than the number of models in the unit, the unit suffers D3 Mortal Wounds.

 Kanluwen wrote:

migooo wrote:
Slaughterpriest?

Yup, literally all I can give you is the name and that the "Geysers of Boiling Blood" special rule for Time of War and the Brimstone Peninsula allows for a player with one or more PRIESTS of KHORNE to choose to add or subtract 1 from your dice roll to determine which geyser erupts.

My source tells me he's armed with an Exalted Bloodaxeflailaxe in each hand! These are giant bloodaxes with bloodaxeflails attached to their bloodhafts (bloodaxeflails are bloodaxes on the ends of rageflails). This way at the same time he's bloodaxing you with the bloodaxe parts of the Exalted Bloodaxeflailaxes the bloodaxeflails are rageflailing around to bloodaxeflail you simultaneously!

 Abadabadoobaddon wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

migooo wrote:
Slaughterpriest?

Yup, literally all I can give you is the name and that the "Geysers of Boiling Blood" special rule for Time of War and the Brimstone Peninsula allows for a player with one or more PRIESTS of KHORNE to choose to add or subtract 1 from your dice roll to determine which geyser erupts.

My source tells me he's armed with an Exalted Bloodaxeflailaxe in each hand! These are giant bloodaxes with bloodaxeflails attached to their bloodhafts (bloodaxeflails are bloodaxes on the ends of rageflails). This way at the same time he's bloodaxing you with the bloodaxe parts of the Exalted Bloodaxeflailaxes the bloodaxeflails are rageflailing around to bloodaxeflail you simultaneously!

*pushes Abadabadoobaddon into the aforementioned geyser of boiling blood* Well, now that that's taken care of..
The judicators are prime pickings for 40k shenanigans. I expect to see crossbow wielding marines at some point. The big honkin cannon is anit ridiculous but I think I could have fun with it.

This game had to come at the worst time (I'm broke.) I would love to own the starter set + the archway/gate terrain though, and I'm not really interested in the chaos dudes even if they look pretty swell.

NickOnwezen wrote:
Yeah that is also something I'm wondering about, unlike space marines we haven't heard the geneseed does not take on women type of excuse for why there could be no female stormcasts. I actually still need a picture of Valkia the bloody next to a Liberator or Prosecutor if anyone could swing that. Gonna convert me up a female stormcast if those dimensions work out a bit.

Nothing in the fluff says a stormcast has to be male. All it says is a warrior of great fighting skill or strong of heart who has rejected/hates chaos, or something along those lines. So a stormcast could be an ork, elf or hell even the lord relictor is a tomb king. So if you can think of a great female warrior who has died or will have died due to the generation gap then fire away dude

Inb4 wall of text

Aren't Stomcasts just the souls of dead heroes in magic armour?