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 judgedoug wrote:
So after 8 pages of negativity, I have concluded that Star Drake is the best model GW has done since... Archaon.

Actually, jeez, Age of Sigmar is GW's showcase for beautifully designed and intelligently executed models.

Age of Sigmar puts their 40k line to shame.

What's most impressive is that most of the End Times models were total garbage, whereas the models released for Age of Sigmar have been excellent. It's like the model design runs parallel to the quality of the rules.

Your internet contrarian is showing.

Joyboozer wrote:
Yes, a Maw Crusher, finally my dream of having a creature that crushes the mouths of other creatures will become a reality!
Your days of having uncrushed maws are at an end, human scum!

Maybe it has a massive unrequited love for someone's mouth?

New rumour post from BoLS regarding GW's attendance at GAMA Tradeshow and rumours point towards some big changes coming to AoS which would be awesome if true:

"Details of the Organized Play program are sketchy, and I’m sure the full program will be rolled out over the next few months. But here are the broad brushstrokes of what was reported from the seminar:

The Program will include Organized Play Systems for both Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar.
There will be a “campaign system” for each game.
Prize support is a part of the system.
The system will engage players at the Store, FLGS, and Convention level.
and the big one….

The Age of Sigmar campaign will include some type of “points” system!"

Full post at http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2016/03/bombshell-games-workshop-returns-to-organized-play.html

Ok GW, I'm listening....

I could've sworn I saw Satan skating to work this morning...

Now I know why.

Seems like that could be it's own rumor.

Not sure where to put this but GW's AoS Facebook group is a lot more communicative than I expected. Some things said so far...

Advanced rules:

Warhammer Age of Sigmar "Hey Sebastian,
Thanks for your question.
When Warhammer Age of Sigmar was created, we were keen not to impose restrictions on how people could play.
Many of us are of course 'seasoned' wargamers ourselves, so we understand your desire for a more advanced ruleset, and we've already started to introduce more optional complexity with things like the Time of War rules, and Battleplans. In terms of army building, we understand your desire for that as well. If that's how your group likes to play, we'd suggest you check out some of the community generated mechanisms used at some of the big events, like Adepticon.
I hope your group gives it a go."

Bloodbowl:

Warhammer Age of Sigmar "Hey Richard,
We're not sure yet - that sounds cool though!
at the moment, we're not even sure where the new Bloodbowl will be set, but we'll bring you news when we get it."

Summoning:

Warhammer Age of Sigmar "It really depends on the game.
And obviously, you need the models.
If someone rocks up with a Lord of Change + 20 carry cases of daemon miniatures, it's probably best to establish their intentions before the dice start to roll.
There's no right way to do it, only what's right for you."

Old armies:

1: Settra's story thread was left fairly open in the end times, will we be seeing more of him in Age of Sigmar?
2: Will we be seeing non-chaos human factions explored in the near future?
3: What realm would be closest to the old world in setting and cultures, as a good basis for building armies with a similar feel and tone to the older Eurocentric high-fantasy of the previous setting?
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Warhammer Age of Sigmar "Hi Pat,
Thanks for you questions.
1) Nothing announced at the moment, but it's certainly not beyond the realms of possibility that he's still around in some form.
2) We'll certainly expand on those, as we continue to explore the Mortal Realms and it's inhabitants.
3) Any of them! The Realms are vast. Like, really, really vast.
It's already been established that the realms of Metal and Death were once home to cities not unlike the great metropolises of the Empire, but there were certainly human civilisations across all of them.
In Azyrheim, the last free city, there are remnants of every civilisation from the Age of Myth, so that might be the closest we've yet encountered, but we've only just begun to explore the realms, so any are fair game for your own collection."

coldgaming wrote:
In Azyrheim, the last free city, there are remnants of every civilisation from the Age of Myth

To me, this says, "Don't melt your Bretonnians quite yet."

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

coldgaming wrote:
In Azyrheim, the last free city, there are remnants of every civilisation from the Age of Myth

To me, this says, "Don't melt your Bretonnians quite yet."

aka... "We wrote battletomes for every model that was still made in 2014, so a few of them are kicking around in Azyrheim!"

Virtually the entire Bretonnian range on the GW UK website has just gone Sold Out - No Longer Available. So much for the Last Chance To Buy Section. Get what you can while you can and don't rely on GW to give you any advance warning.

AdamBridger wrote:
Virtually the entire Bretonnian range on the GW UK website has just gone Sold Out - No Longer Available. So much for the Last Chance To Buy Section. Get what you can while you can and don't rely on GW to give you any advance warning.

It could be due to rumours like this: https://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/550

People were expecting it, and following how quickly Tomb Kings sold out, are getting in early.

Those wings really are weird. They look aquatic.

Yep, they're like a gurnard's!

Man, those sprues are sweet. Once again incredibly apparent that GW has their top tier sculptors working exclusively on AoS while 40k has been handed off to the unpaid interns.

 judgedoug wrote:
Man, those sprues are sweet. Once again incredibly apparent that GW has their top tier sculptors working exclusively on AoS while 40k has been handed off to the unpaid interns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

Stardrake up:

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/Stormcast-Eternals-Stardrake

Does look a little less ridiculous from side-on views or from looking top down. Also comes in a fancy box.

Looking at the 360, I think that's a beautiful model. The knee pad, which I think is actually a shin pad, is my only complaint. Don't like the closed-mouth dragon version. Think that's a top model.

Now that I've seen the 360 I have no remorse saying that I find that model horrible. I don't like the wings (be it their design or their positioning), I can't stand the armor and the front legs make no sense, especially compared to the illustration in the WD that looks so superior to the actual model.

Interestingly while looking at the 360 view, if you look at it from slightly behind the shoulder plates look curved. This looks MUCH better. If I buy this model I am definitely going to be shaving off a few of those sharp corners.

Something about that front right leg just bothers me. Overall it's not as hideous as I first thought. Still meh.

Is it just me or does the star drake look like a blue horn-ey Smaug in Stormcast Armor?

 MechaEmperor7000 wrote:
Is it just me or does the star drake look like a blue horn-ey Smaug in Stormcast Armor?

No. Edit as in it is not just you if that was not clear.

To put in video game terms; it seems like a great skin on an altogether underwhelming render. A lot of the details (scales specifically) look amazing but the overall shape and anatomy just seems 'meh' to me.

Azreal13 wrote:Yep, they're like a gurnard's!

More like a lionfish, akshualee. D&D was doing things like it years ago.

motski wrote:
Does look a little less ridiculous from side-on views or from looking top down.

Told ya.

Looks like the shoulder and chest pieces can be left off, or are otherwise easily removable. That's good. Removing the hindleg armour and filling the gaps might be more problematic.

So, they look like a lionfish's pectoral fins, notable for their disproportionate size and pronounced rays, rather than a gurnards, notable for their disproportionate size and pronounced rays?

Whatever you need dude.

Besides, none of that matters now, there's a fething angle in its neck. An angle!

It looks like with very little work, you could make this wingless

Wouldn't those gold plated armor things directly over the wing joints need to be articulated in order for it to open it's wings for flight? From what I can tell it can't even logically open it's wings due to that useless additional detailing.

 Red Corsair wrote:
Wouldn't those gold plated armor things directly over the wing joints need to be articulated in order for it to open it's wings for flight? From what I can tell it can't even logically open it's wings due to that useless additional detailing.

You're assuming that the fictional, magical star-metal isn't flexible.

 Ghaz wrote:

 Red Corsair wrote:
Wouldn't those gold plated armor things directly over the wing joints need to be articulated in order for it to open it's wings for flight? From what I can tell it can't even logically open it's wings due to that useless additional detailing.

You're assuming that the fictional, magical star-metal isn't flexible.

I'm now picturing Sigmarines bending about like Gumby. It doesn't help.