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 Kanluwen wrote:


It's basically just going to affect the PDFs, as the stuff that already has been in the books seems to be pretty solidified.

Also, because of the way AoS is structured, nothing will ever be invalidated. Ever. GW can take a set of moulds and jump up and down on them going cockadoodaloo, and it won't matter because you can still use the Warscrolls they first released. You will never get an outdated Codex in AoS.

via the GW derby FB page :

A simple head swap, works well IMO.

 reds8n wrote:
via the GW derby FB page :

A simple head swap, works well IMO.

Huh that's really cool

As someone who has been using his phone for the AoS app, I'll be all over that book with all the chaos warscrolls, fluff or no. Especially for including the battalions that are otherwise pay-blocked.

Also seconded on the revisions; the already released books won't be the ones with warscrolls getting changed. The initial wave is/was intended as a stopgap until the factions could be repacked anyways (see Seraphon).

 reds8n wrote:
via the GW derby FB page :

A simple head swap, works well IMO.

Now, that's nice - the model went suddenly from "meh" to "pretty cool". Finally, some character to the Sigmarines. If only they were supposed to be that way...

MongooseMatt wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:


It's basically just going to affect the PDFs, as the stuff that already has been in the books seems to be pretty solidified.

Also, because of the way AoS is structured, nothing will ever be invalidated. Ever. GW can take a set of moulds and jump up and down on them going cockadoodaloo, and it won't matter because you can still use the Warscrolls they first released. You will never get an outdated Codex in AoS.

Yes. This is something I LOVE about Age of Sigmar - although it's funny to think that as GW discontinues models there will be more and more (an ever growing) number of warscrolls with no miniatures available (Archaon on Horseback, for example), basically the opposite of what they have tried to do in 40k. :-p

Man, that headswap on the marine is just excellent. Shame you can't buy the heads separately for that use! Would cost an absolute fortune to do as-is, but look amazing.

Put the sigmarite heads on your naked dwarves?

 RiTides wrote:
Man, that headswap on the marine is just excellent. Shame you can't buy the heads separately for that use! Would cost an absolute fortune to do as-is, but look amazing.

I love that you think that's a head swap on a Marine!

I'm really not sure what to call them - I dislike the shorthand "Sigmarine", and they're not even described as "Stormcast Eternals" in their product pages:

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Warhammer?Nao=12&Nu=product.repositoryId&N=102351+4294965341&qty=12&sorting=rec&view=table&categoryId=cat440002a-flat

Not to mention that is just way too long - 5 syllables before you've even described the variant!

Do people really say "Liberator Stormcast Eternals"? That's 9 syllables! I know for 40K, some things like "Devastators" get used, but other entries are descriptive ("Assault Marines", "Assault Terminators", etc). I feel like GW hasn't presented a good way to refer to this army (unlike "Space Marines" or even just "Marines" in 40k), and most people wouldn't know what I was talking about if I said "I love that Dwarf head on Liberator conversion"

You could always just call them "Stormcast"? Not unlike how many players shorten "Space Marines" to "Marines" or "Imperial Guard" to "Guard".

 Alpharius wrote:
And now, BACK ON TOPIC, yes?

You modding these threads has made me give you so much respect. I swear half of the words you say are "on" and "topic"

 Kanluwen wrote:
You could always just call them "Stormcast"? Not unlike how many players shorten "Space Marines" to "Marines" or "Imperial Guard" to "Guard".

True, but people haven't adopted that... and it feels more like calling Space Marines "Space", or Imperial Guard "Imperial"

 RiTides wrote:
I'm really not sure what to call them - I dislike the shorthand "Sigmarine", and they're not even described as "Stormcast Eternals" in their product pages:

'Stormcast Eternals' covers the entire group, with the various types (Judicators, Liberators, etc.). Its like Space Marines with their various types (Assault Marines, Devastators, etc.).

I just call em stormcast.. Easier that way. And they're referred to as that in the fluff. Mannfred Von Carstein uses the term a lot.

Soo- sneak preview of the Fyreslayer paint schemes if anyone's interested... Some good. Some bad.



And other snippets

I really hate the paint scheme diagrams they use

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Soo- sneak preview of the Fyreslayer paint schemes if anyone's interested... Some good. Some bad.

So, we have the Fyreslayers not being tied to a single realm. Awesome!

Also, it looks like we've got an idea as to who "Malerion" leads--the "Shadowkin".
So far I see Fyreslayers from the Realm of Death(Shyish), Realm of Shadows(Ulgu), the Realm of Heavens(Azyr), and the Realm of Light(Hysh).

MacMuckles wrote:
I really hate the paint scheme diagrams they use

Me too, maybe they took the outlines home for their kids to colour in and pick the designs !

Not that it really matters, but fluffwise for those who have their fluff, are the crests their actual hair or not?

Really like the silver/white/red scheme.

The Mortal Realms are really starting to feel alive with this Fyreslayers release. I love all the tidbits of fluff we are getting - the Shadowkin sound very interesting, and I wonder if the "gloom tribes" from Shyish that were mentioned in this week's White Dwarf (and in one of the battleplans) will be expanded upon too? So many questions unfolding. I love it!

Shadowkin and Gloom tribes?

o.O;

Tell me more!

 Thunderfrog wrote:
Shadowkin and Gloom tribes?

o.O;

Tell me more!

It's all quite simple really. The Gloom Trybes follow Borblegoth, the Ever Saddened God, and wyeld his power through the dark magyk of Ennui. They travel the Mortal Realms yn search of the magykal elyxier which, yt ys prophesyed will finally allow them to smyle agayn, but only ever at nyght, because they sparkle yf exposed to sunlyght and yt hurts theyr feelyngs when the Sygmarines take the pyss out of them for yt. The Shadowkyn, who worship Emoworble, the Ever Angsty God, hate and despyse the Gloom Trybes and see theyr quest to once more fynd joy as a betrayal of all the Gods of the Realm of Shadow. Yadda yadda, Sigmarines show up for some reason, and everyone learns the Power of Fryendship, the end.

In all seriousness though, any hope that them beginning to flesh out the setting might redeem it is firmly gone - I thought sitting through the first episode of that Shadowhunters TV series would be the low point of this week, but evidently I once again underestimate GW.

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Thunderfrog wrote:
Shadowkin and Gloom tribes?

o.O;

Tell me more!

It's all quite simple really. The Gloom Trybes follow Borblegoth, the Ever Saddened God, and wyeld his power through the dark magyk of Ennui. They travel the Mortal Realms yn search of the magykal elyxier which, yt ys prophesyed will finally allow them to smyle agayn, but only ever at nyght, because they sparkle yf exposed to sunlyght and yt hurts theyr feelyngs when the Sygmarines take the pyss out of them for yt. The Shadowkyn, who worship Emoworble, the Ever Angsty God, hate and despyse the Gloom Trybes and see theyr quest to once more fynd joy as a betrayal of all the Gods of the Realm of Shadow. Yadda yadda, Sigmarines show up for some reason, and everyone learns the Power of Fryendship, the end.

In all seriousness though, any hope that them beginning to flesh out the setting might redeem it is firmly gone - I thought sitting through the lfirst episode of that Shadowhunters TV series would be the low point of this week, but evidently I once again underestimate GW.

I believe The Gloom Trybes are lead by their darkest lord Kylo Ryn...

Valete,

JohnS

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Thunderfrog wrote:
Shadowkin and Gloom tribes?

o.O;

Tell me more!

It's all quite simple really. The Gloom Trybes follow Borblegoth, the Ever Saddened God, and wyeld his power through the dark magyk of Ennui. They travel the Mortal Realms yn search of the magykal elyxier which, yt ys prophesyed will finally allow them to smyle agayn, but only ever at nyght, because they sparkle yf exposed to sunlyght and yt hurts theyr feelyngs when the Sygmarines take the pyss out of them for yt. The Shadowkyn, who worship Emoworble, the Ever Angsty God, hate and despyse the Gloom Trybes and see theyr quest to once more fynd joy as a betrayal of all the Gods of the Realm of Shadow. Yadda yadda, Sigmarines show up for some reason, and everyone learns the Power of Fryendship, the end.

In all seriousness though, any hope that them beginning to flesh out the setting might redeem it is firmly gone - I thought sitting through the first episode of that Shadowhunters TV series would be the low point of this week, but evidently I once again underestimate GW.

At the risk of attracting Mod-wrath, I have to say this:

Seriously, we get it. You don't like Age of Sigmar. You have been poo-pooing this thing since the first rumors of the End Times came out. It's old hat by now. If you hate the game so much, why not stay out of threads for it, hm? You'll probably save yourself a migraine.

As for the topic at hand: The Magmadroth in that Battleplan looks like they basecoated it, then forgot to finish painting it; the Fyreslayers around it don't help it out very much, either. What strikes me as curious is how this whole mercenaries thing is going to work: is it specific to the battleplans in the book, or what?

Pretty sure it's the image quality doing it no favours there...

+1 to MvD

Additionally, as has been said now FAR too many times - there IS a topic for this thread - PLEASE stick to it...or, you know...

on topic, the Auric Runemaster is one of my favorite AoS releases, so far...
that wicked animal design on the helmet, the shaved lip (which reminds me of the old fishermen's style, or some of the interpretations of ancient Greek's style), and details on the staff are really making me want to paint that guy...

he may just be my pick of the lot from the last six months of releases for this new setting...
since the Khorne Lord from the starter needs a resculpt of his abdomen (not a skull acne fan), the Runeson wins for being perfect straight off the sprue, but it's a tough choice between the two...

i look forward to seeing what they do with Orcs...

cheers
jah

Ago of Sigmar's fluff is dumb/good, kinda like Deadpool. He probably came from Age of Sigmar.

Is there an undying smart-ass in any of the factions?

It's probably Nagash. He got tired of being Uber-serious and just trolls people as Deadpool in our realm.

On a serious note, I love the division of realms. It's not quite the rumored bubbleverse, but still neat.