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I guess we will see a new Human faction, replacing the complete Empire and Bretonia range with a different and new design.

I would speculate the Aelfs will have many units disappear in their own Battletome or the Grand Alliance Order books too.

I'd like the Empire stuff to take on more of the weird and wacky steampunk style Renaissance look they had going for them, rather than basic historical stand- ins.

Always liked the steam tanks and would love to see them develop more stuff along those lines. What about some automatons to do all the grunt work?

I know people would cry foul of trying to copy Warmachine if there's too much steampunk, but hell, that's stuff been there for so long in WH anyways, might as well embrace it I think.

 Mymearan wrote:

RoninXiC wrote:
Oh look. Old minis in new boxes.

That's so going to help AoS skyrocket its sales EVEN MORE.

What's your point? They clearly need to rebox everything for Age of Sigmar, and they're throwing in some discounted box sets while they're at it... there's really nothing to be negative about here.

Except they sold me a huge rulebook for a game called Warhammer not so long back costing £50 and I need figures with square and rectangular bases to play it.
I just wish they'd slap the round/oval bases into the boxes as well as the square/rectangular ones. It would keep 2 sets of people happy.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I'd like the Empire stuff to take on more of the weird and wacky steampunk style Renaissance look they had going for them, rather than basic historical stand- ins.

Always liked the steam tanks and would love to see them develop more stuff along those lines. What about some automatons to do all the grunt work?

I know people would cry foul of trying to copy Warmachine if there's too much steampunk, but hell, that's stuff been there for so long in WH anyways, might as well embrace it I think.

This is what I want too, flying windmills and all that craziness.

The burning question though with Age of Sigmar and all the factions bar Order making it through unscathed so far is: Why is it only the order factions that need to be changed!? Were they all worst sellers? Because my impression was High Elves, Dark Elves, Dwarfs and Empire were some of the best sellers - and yet Age of Sigmar is becoming Age of Everything-the-same-as-it-was-before-except-order

Yep love to see some some more steam punk stuff - like flying ships

just like a fav recent film

 Bottle wrote:

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I'd like the Empire stuff to take on more of the weird and wacky steampunk style Renaissance look they had going for them, rather than basic historical stand- ins.

Always liked the steam tanks and would love to see them develop more stuff along those lines. What about some automatons to do all the grunt work?

I know people would cry foul of trying to copy Warmachine if there's too much steampunk, but hell, that's stuff been there for so long in WH anyways, might as well embrace it I think.

This is what I want too, flying windmills and all that craziness.

The burning question though with Age of Sigmar and all the factions bar Order making it through unscathed so far is: Why is it only the order factions that need to be changed!? Were they all worst sellers? Because my impression was High Elves, Dark Elves, Dwarfs and Empire were some of the best sellers - and yet Age of Sigmar is becoming Age of Everything-the-same-as-it-was-before-except-order

Would love to see more whacky stuff for the Empire, but their pseudo-historicity was what made me love the old State Troops and Greatswords. It's possible we will see a great culling when the other factions get AoS updates. I think GW really wants to push an aesthetic that both stands separate of what came before and create a more defensible IP (not saying that's possible/a good idea). The Order armies are less distinct and defensible: you have traditional variations of Elves, historically inspired humans, standard Dwarves, and so on. Then again not all of the Destruction or Death armies are all that distinct either (with the exception of Skaven and the various flavors of Chaos).

Regardless, it will be very interesting to see where GW goes from here with AoS.

I would rather have small, unaligned, thematic and unique warbands, things like a group of fimir etc I think warhammer has the potential to create little stories with cool warbands box sets.

Looking at the GW site; there seems to be a few sub-factions that are rather light on variety, like Tzeentch Arcanites, Thunderscorn and definitely "Gargants" (only looked at chaos).
So light, in fact, that I get the impression that they are not complete (esp. Arcanites) and/or will be reorganized (anyone notice that giants don't have a chaos keyword).

Thoughts? Possibility that the big new chaos book will have warscrolls that we don't have models for yet (assuming it will be complete for some time)? That would be quite the teaser.

 DarkBlack wrote:
Thoughts? Possibility that the big new chaos book will have warscrolls that we don't have models for yet (assuming it will be complete for some time)? That would be quite the teaser.

Doesn't look like it will:

Looks like we have had all the love for chaos for a while then. Which is good seeing as we need other alliances to stay interested.
Do other countries also have most of the "slaves to darkness" stuff missing?

Yes, because it's getting reboxed and placed back up this weekend.

 Gimgamgoo wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:

RoninXiC wrote:
Oh look. Old minis in new boxes.

That's so going to help AoS skyrocket its sales EVEN MORE.

What's your point? They clearly need to rebox everything for Age of Sigmar, and they're throwing in some discounted box sets while they're at it... there's really nothing to be negative about here.

Except they sold me a huge rulebook for a game called Warhammer not so long back costing £50 and I need figures with square and rectangular bases to play it.
I just wish they'd slap the round/oval bases into the boxes as well as the square/rectangular ones. It would keep 2 sets of people happy.

Everyone who ever bought something shortly before it stopped being supported has been annoyed, that is unfortunately the nature of commercial products. As for doubling up on bases, that would make little sense since Warhammer Fantasy is no longer supported. It would be an additional cost that would serve mostly to confuse new customers. It sucks for you but fortunately square bases can be had super cheap from any number of manufacturers. I have to buy tons of rounds and ovals to rebate my WHFB minis so I can sympathize.

 NAVARRO wrote:
I would rather have small, unaligned, thematic and unique warbands, things like a group of fimir etc I think warhammer has the potential to create little stories with cool warbands box sets.

We can't have that, that would be a great idea.

How cool would be little warbands of various sub-factions (empire cities/states, dwarf strongholds, goblin hosts) that go beyond an army's main themes (like a Caledor based high elf army, the kingdom not the dude). The slayers were actually one such option but bubbleverse kinda changed them into something different and I don't know if any distinct elements from all the armies are left after bubblversing everything. It feels like other factions will also get some minis that are themed after something from the old WHFB world but made over the top yet bland at the same time.

Thematic mini-factions is basically exactly the way AoS has been going with all the splitting up of the old armies into sub-factions with a handful of units each. I love it.

coldgaming wrote:
Thematic mini-factions is basically exactly the way AoS has been going with all the splitting up of the old armies into sub-factions with a handful of units each. I love it.

It would just be nice if the factions got roughly equal love. *Tzeentch and Slaanesh take a long, hard look at Khorne and Nurgle*

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

coldgaming wrote:
Thematic mini-factions is basically exactly the way AoS has been going with all the splitting up of the old armies into sub-factions with a handful of units each. I love it.

It would just be nice if the factions got roughly equal love. *Tzeentch and Slaanesh take a long, hard look at Khorne and Nurgle*

We literally just got the names for the Tzeentch Arcanites this past week. Give it some time.

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

coldgaming wrote:
Thematic mini-factions is basically exactly the way AoS has been going with all the splitting up of the old armies into sub-factions with a handful of units each. I love it.

It would just be nice if the factions got roughly equal love. *Tzeentch and Slaanesh take a long, hard look at Khorne and Nurgle*

The more reliable rumor sources say we should be seeing some Chaos models of the blue variety this year.

 Ghaz wrote:

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

coldgaming wrote:
Thematic mini-factions is basically exactly the way AoS has been going with all the splitting up of the old armies into sub-factions with a handful of units each. I love it.

It would just be nice if the factions got roughly equal love. *Tzeentch and Slaanesh take a long, hard look at Khorne and Nurgle*

The more reliable rumor sources say we should be seeing some Chaos models of the blue variety this year.

That would be fun. Would love to see some non-spell casting Tzeentch mortals. They've never seemed to have a terribly well defined role, and I feel like there's a lot of space to explore there.

Looking at that table of contents, it doesn't seem the Chaos Formations will be in that book, unless they are under "The Rules", at page 300.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

coldgaming wrote:
Thematic mini-factions is basically exactly the way AoS has been going with all the splitting up of the old armies into sub-factions with a handful of units each. I love it.

It would just be nice if the factions got roughly equal love. *Tzeentch and Slaanesh take a long, hard look at Khorne and Nurgle*

We literally just got the names for the Tzeentch Arcanites this past week. Give it some time.

AoS has literally been out for months, how much time are we supposed to wait to learn our faction's name?

 jonolikespie wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

coldgaming wrote:
Thematic mini-factions is basically exactly the way AoS has been going with all the splitting up of the old armies into sub-factions with a handful of units each. I love it.

It would just be nice if the factions got roughly equal love. *Tzeentch and Slaanesh take a long, hard look at Khorne and Nurgle*

We literally just got the names for the Tzeentch Arcanites this past week. Give it some time.

AoS has literally been out for months, how much time are we supposed to wait to learn our faction's name?

Which faction do you play?

Well at least it looks like Slaanesh isn't getting offed after all.

 KingmanHighborn wrote:
Well at least it looks like Slaanesh isn't getting offed after all.

Wow, we finally learned something that was told to us literally as soon as Age of Sigmar was released. Seriously, how has it taken this long for people to realise this? Every source that has mentioned Slaanesh has claimed that it is only missing, which is EXACTLY the same as what is being said about the Aelves for the most part, yet no one makes claims that they are being 'offed'.

 Mymearan wrote:

 jonolikespie wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

coldgaming wrote:
Thematic mini-factions is basically exactly the way AoS has been going with all the splitting up of the old armies into sub-factions with a handful of units each. I love it.

It would just be nice if the factions got roughly equal love. *Tzeentch and Slaanesh take a long, hard look at Khorne and Nurgle*

We literally just got the names for the Tzeentch Arcanites this past week. Give it some time.

AoS has literally been out for months, how much time are we supposed to wait to learn our faction's name?

Which faction do you play?

Dark Elves for one, Vampires were the other. Plus Bretonnians now that I think about it. My point was more related to the "Tzeentch Arcanites" though. Great, we learned their name this week. And a Tzeentch player had to wait how long to learn even that (mostly irrelevant) information about their army?

 NAVARRO wrote:
I would rather have small, unaligned, thematic and unique warbands, things like a group of fimir etc I think warhammer has the potential to create little stories with cool warbands box sets.

That'd be great. The way AoS is set up (not army restrictive) really allows for this. I have my eye on the FW Fimir once their rules finally come out...

Yes, I'm enjoying that aspect of AoS already. I bought just one box of Fyreslayers to slot into my existing Empire & Dwarfs army (they'll be joining Siegfried and his Desperados ;-D)

 jonolikespie wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:

 jonolikespie wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

coldgaming wrote:
Thematic mini-factions is basically exactly the way AoS has been going with all the splitting up of the old armies into sub-factions with a handful of units each. I love it.

It would just be nice if the factions got roughly equal love. *Tzeentch and Slaanesh take a long, hard look at Khorne and Nurgle*

We literally just got the names for the Tzeentch Arcanites this past week. Give it some time.

AoS has literally been out for months, how much time are we supposed to wait to learn our faction's name?

Which faction do you play?

Dark Elves for one, Vampires were the other. Plus Bretonnians now that I think about it. My point was more related to the "Tzeentch Arcanites" though. Great, we learned their name this week. And a Tzeentch player had to wait how long to learn even that (mostly irrelevant) information about their army?

This, exactly. Because Mortal Tzeentch has so far been effectively ignored* with all the Chaos love, and the Heroes are 'meh' at best. My Disc Lord has so far killed all of one Empire wizard, and it took him several turns to do even that. A unique regiment isn't too much to ask for, is it? Even Slaanesh has one of those...

*The Gaunt Summoner hardly counts. It's an awesome-looking model, but is really only useful if fielded in conjunction with a very specific piece of terrain and you have a bunch daemons lying around.

 jonolikespie wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:

 jonolikespie wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

coldgaming wrote:
Thematic mini-factions is basically exactly the way AoS has been going with all the splitting up of the old armies into sub-factions with a handful of units each. I love it.

It would just be nice if the factions got roughly equal love. *Tzeentch and Slaanesh take a long, hard look at Khorne and Nurgle*

We literally just got the names for the Tzeentch Arcanites this past week. Give it some time.

AoS has literally been out for months, how much time are we supposed to wait to learn our faction's name?

Which faction do you play?

Dark Elves for one, Vampires were the other. Plus Bretonnians now that I think about it. My point was more related to the "Tzeentch Arcanites" though. Great, we learned their name this week. And a Tzeentch player had to wait how long to learn even that (mostly irrelevant) information about their army?

Dark Elves, Vampires, and Bretonnians are still just that--Bretonnians, Dark Elves, and Vampires.

We haven't seen what they become beyond that or if they'll even retain the same general background. I'm, personally, thinking that we'll find out when we get the Shadowkin stuff that is mentioned in Fyreslayers.

 Kanluwen wrote:

Dark Elves, Vampires, and Bretonnians are still just that--Bretonnians, Dark Elves, and Vampires.

We haven't seen what they become beyond that or if they'll even retain the same general background. I'm, personally, thinking that we'll find out when we get the Shadowkin stuff that is mentioned in Fyreslayers.

And this far into the game not knowing any of that is a big problem

Still awaiting the pricing on the new boxsets (the big box and the combined boxes).