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Just curious on how people are taking and if many are buying into the replacement for Warhammer Fantasy. Recently, my store ordered a ton of the AOS starter sets, and to put it bluntly, in the last 2x weeks, only 3x boxes out of 20x have been sold. Now obviously this could be due to the fact of a lack of rules, however from what I have seen, many are refusing to by into the AOS as they see it as GW being lazy and that it is no longer Warhammer Fantasy at all. Things could change, but as it stands, AOS is bombing hard in my area at this time, which has me feeling 50/50 on it.

How have things been for AOS in your area? Not wanting to turn this into a hate post, but the lack of interest in my area definitely is playing a part for me and many players to even get started, and I was just curious on how the AOS is being taken in other areas.

Many of my gaming group have dusted off their fantasy models to try it out, and even I admit I'm pleased with the rules for Tomb Kings and would like to play more. But, A lot of us aren't buying more models, and I know I won't be. I want to wait and see what direction AoS takes, and if my army will still matter in the months to come. That, and me and some friends of mine would just rather play 40k most of the time, as that at least has a balancing factor to it.

Well I bought 2 boxes, haven't played yet, still putting them together, also in doing so found out I was missing a hero sprue, the big guy on the horse for sigmar and one of the choas, thankfully GW customer support is amazing and is sending me one! My local store had 4 copies and 2 were bought, and next weekend when my sets are together ill be holding a game night to introduce it to people. Me and the girlfriend are huge into LOTR because of the easy to learn rules, both of us with 3 armies well over 3000 points each, so we are naturally gonna love this game.

I played 40k for my entire childhood, but with 2 little ones and a very busy life, AOS is perfect for us and all of our gaming group. I'd say we have about 4 others buying sets this week, so its looking good in my area!

There is no interest at all in my club, although a few of us are thinking about starting Kings of War.

There's decent interest in buying the starter at my FLGS. Haven't heard nearly as much interest about actually playing it, however. The general opinion is that the models look great and that they are worth owning even if the game they are actually for leaves something to be desired.

I have three FLGS in a 20 mile radius of where I live and 0 GW Stores. I went to all three to check it out.

Two of the stores decided to stock Age of Sigmar, one store didn't even stock it.

None of them had a demo box or any noticeable promotion for Age of Sigmar. It didn't seem like anyone really cared about Age of Sigmar, besides one guy who was playing Warhammer 40k who talked to me empathetically about "how much it sucks."

We are growing in my area - some players have been interested in Fantasy but didn't feel they had the time or money to invest so heavily. Now that its possible to start off cheaper and easier they are about to join in.

there must of been 30-40 box sets that ive seen sold in our flgs and ive seen about 12 people either buy whole new army's or just adding to there collection (usually things that no had before because they used to suck and now they don't)

Nothing here. Nobody wants to spend a few hundred dollars on rubbish.

I think one person wanted to try it but got no bites.

The day the rules leaked everyone had a laugh about it, but thats about as much interest as I have seen. All the old Fantasy players are back to Fantasy or KoW.

My local game shop sold 90 boxes on release day. Both my local gw's sold out over release weekend and since then its selling steadily for new and old players. Apart from some if the naysayers that think they know it all the game is full of possibilities, tactics, strategy. Unfortunately some people need their hand held to play games

My area no longer has a store of any kind, so it's... hard to tell.

I haven't bought the box set, and don't plan to. So I guess the answer is "poorly".

I've seen boxsets at the store I go to. There seems to be some interest over it...I mean, it's a shake-up of a product with 30 years of history, so that's obviously going to be the case.

I think people are still quite hesitant. Not knowing what was going on with WHFB was like the Great Recession in the U.S. in that everyone is really unsure what the future is going to look like, and investment is a risky venture.

 Accolade wrote:
I've seen boxsets at the store I go to. There seems to be some interest over it...I mean, it's a shake-up of a product with 30 years of history, so that's obviously going to be the case.

I think people are still quite hesitant. Not knowing what was going on with WHFB was like the Great Recession in the U.S. in that everyone is really unsure what the future is going to look like, and investment is a risky venture.

That's the mood I have been picking up on for the most part. Lots of people are interested in how they changed the game, however many people are hesitant to start it as there is no point system to speak of whatsoever and not many people are huge fans of the fact they basically turned Warhammer Fantasy into war machine in a lot of ways.

One store (smartly) has a box open for everyone to gawk at the contents. Incidentally, they have a single copy of the WD with the free mini that they are selling for $25 LOL.

Of the 3 stores that I frequent, I think they all sold about half their inventory, and all of them sold their copies of the book from this week pretty quickly (none brought many in).

As I don't game in the store, I have no idea what people are doing with those boxes. All I see at the indie stories right now are a zillion people buying Magic cards and playing MtG, as it was a release week.

 Motograter wrote:
Apart from some if the naysayers that think they know it all the game is full of possibilities, tactics, strategy. Unfortunately some people need their hand held to play games

Heh

Super popular with all the regulars either starting new armies or adding "allies" to their existing armies. Great fun!

 Motograter wrote:
.Apart from some if the naysayers that think they know it all the game is full of possibilities, tactics, strategy. Unfortunately some people need their hand held to play games

It's a GW game using d6. Tactics and strategy really don't enter it. Try 'list-building and luck'

It isnt......

 Soteks Prophet wrote:

 Motograter wrote:
.Apart from some if the naysayers that think they know it all the game is full of possibilities, tactics, strategy. Unfortunately some people need their hand held to play games

It's a GW game using d6. Tactics and strategy really don't enter it. Try 'list-building and luck'

Its actually collection building now, get with the times man

Tactics in this absolutely do not matter. Only what you bring to the table.

My store got 50, sold 5

I spoke with my FLGS who told me they had been talking to other stores and distributors in central and upper Wisconsin. They told me that sales have been steady regarding fantasy stuff. No increase and no decrease in sales or interest.

I never got into fantasy as I have been super invested in 40k for the past 16+ years. I had purchased one or two fantasy models as I thought they looked cool. AOS seems great for someone like me who is interested in playing some fantasy, had no major investment in a previous edition, and can play what I want to buy... no force charts, etc.

Oh and my very large 40k demon army with circular bases just became much more useful!!!

Not a whole lot fo the box sets sold at mine, but people are playing the rules and trying it out. Most people are open to it, but we had a small WHFB group before. I bought 2 boxes, becuase lets be honest, its a freaking deal. Espically with the price point of Liberators being $50 and the set comes with 2 boxes for $125. So you get all of the other models in the box for $25!!!!

These threads are always disappointing for me, no FLGS within a hundred miles and no wargaming except what I manage to get my RPG buddies to do...

That said, Age of Sigmar is going over well here, the ratio of AoS players to wargamers is amazing

Personally, I just picked up some Sigmarites and the starter book on Ebay, they're gonna get a Gunmetal and Crimson scheme to team up with my Hochlanders.

Looked like significant depletion in stock from last week to this week.

Hard to judge. Don't know if there were any new new people starting it, but the starter boxs were sold. People that played WFB before AoS don't play it. The fact that there are auto win armies that can't be beaten and that all games end in a mosh pit in the middle don't help the game much. Also the random is too strong for most people liking here. We always ignored the special terrain rules, because they were stupid, now they have to be rolled and even more terrain is used. It just drags the game to be longer, with fewer models. People don't like the turn activation either as sides with super melee characters can clear too much of an opposing army in a single turn.

I think my local GW store sold only a few copies, the local club seems to have ignored it entirely in favor of highly competitive 40k and bolt action, one FLGS has an open copy but little interest and the other doesn't stock GW at all.


More telling than any of that is that the largest FLGS in the entier southern hemisphere who posts pics of the pallets of stock any time they get new stock or a restock have AoS listed on their website as out of stock but made no mention of it anywhere on Facebook and don't seem to have actually stocked any to begin with. They posted a restock of Spartan Games a few days before, a PP restock too, and they were MASSIVE, but not one word about AoS. I legitimately do not know if they ever actually got any.

Local store sold 2 copies so far, no club I know is interested in it.

 Swastakowey wrote:

 Soteks Prophet wrote:

 Motograter wrote:
.Apart from some if the naysayers that think they know it all the game is full of possibilities, tactics, strategy. Unfortunately some people need their hand held to play games

It's a GW game using d6. Tactics and strategy really don't enter it. Try 'list-building and luck'

Its actually collection building now, get with the times man

Tactics in this absolutely do not matter. Only what you bring to the table.

Yes but then I'm not 3 years old and a complete tool. Shame some of the folks on here seem to be since AoS release

Well, I think there are quite a few players in our gaming group who are willing to get into AoS.
Some guys have reservations such as Oldhammer and WMH veterans.

My local GW store hasn't sold many, aside the one guy who will buy anything and everything from them I don't know anyone who has bought one.

There is an open copy on the front but not many people play it. Most of my friends were interested in seeing what it was about, but after hearing about from the one game I played, they didn't like it and don't have an interest.

Only reason I'll buy Fantasy models now is for 40k conversions but even then I'm put off 40k given how lazy GW were on this IMO.

My friend even showed the Skaven/Kairos T1 win list to the store manager and he wasn't happy and nearly barred my mate from the store.