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**VeteranNoob**

thar she is
https://www.facebook.com/GWWarhammerAgeofSigmar/?fref=ts
3 ways to play

**Ossified**

POINTS VALUES!

**Mymearan**

POINTS HOLY gak

That's... wow.

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"We’ve put these rules together in association with some of the world’s biggest tournament organisers, to create a new standard for balanced competitive play. And yes, it includes points values."

:O :O :O :O :O :O :O

**reds8n**

That’s right, guys. As of this summer, you’ll have your pick of 3 great ways to play Warhammer Age of Sigmar. We couldn’t be more excited, and we’re certain you’ll love it too.
We’ll have more details for you soon. For now:
Open Play is probably the most similar to the way you play now, but there are new rules on the way to give you even more freedom, including the option for huge multi-player battles.
Narrative Play is as you’d expect – recreating the great stories and epic encounters from the Age of Sigmar. To help you forge your own stories within the Mortal Realms, there are also some really cool campaign rules and tools on the way as well.
Finally, Matched Play is something we know a lot of you have been keen to see. We’ve put these rules together in association with some of the world’s biggest tournament organisers, to create a new standard for balanced competitive play. And yes, it includes points values.
Okay Internet, go nuts.

**Paradigm**

Excellent news!

Even as someone who is fine with the no points aspect of what they're now calling Open Play, this can only be a good thing. Adding points for those that want them, a campaign system in the works, and most significantly, GW actively working with the community to balance the game!

Bravo GW, bravo!

**Mymearan**

Yeah you can't but give them a round of applause for this.

**Herzlos**

They used the word balanced. Awesome

**Thud**

I'm guessing there are a couple of people wishing they hadn't been quite so bombastic in their statements that points would never happen.

**CthuluIsSpy**

Huh, well that's unexpected. GW might be improving after all.
I still want WHFB back, and I still don't want to play AoS, but at least they seem to be making the effort to make a game this time, instead of letting the community do all the work.

**VeteranNoob**

And that these are options and we are not "forced" to play any one type...amazing. Happy. Hope you are too.

**nudibranch**

Wow, this is genuinely the best way they could of handled this, though it would of been nice if this was around from the start (but I'll just blame Kirby on that.) Also, really surprised they're working with tournament organisers, really unlike old GW.

**The Wise Dane**

What a time to be alive.

**DarkBlack**

CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Huh, well that's unexpected. GW might be improving after all.
I still want WHFB back, and I still don't want to play AoS, but at least they seem to be making the effort to make a game this time, instead of letting the community do all the work.

Try Kings of War. Seriously, no snark. If GW fixed WFB it would have looked pretty much like KoW

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All and none of the above, well played GW.

I recall that all the warhammer rules books I've read have a sentence or paragraph encouraging "free play", did anyone ever try it though?

**usernamesareannoying**

I wonder when we'll get to see the new points and guidelines?

**tneva82**

VeteranNoob wrote:
And that these are options and we are not "forced" to play any one type...amazing. Happy. Hope you are too.

Umm. They basically went back in that regards to what FB was pre-AOS.

At least they improved on that regard. Now if only they would improve the fluff and there could be something salvageable...

**CthuluIsSpy**

DarkBlack wrote:
CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Huh, well that's unexpected. GW might be improving after all.
I still want WHFB back, and I still don't want to play AoS, but at least they seem to be making the effort to make a game this time, instead of letting the community do all the work.

Try Kings of War. Seriously, no snark. If GW fixed WFB it would have looked pretty much like KoW

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All and none of the above, well played GW.

I recall that all the warhammer rules books I've read have a sentence or paragraph encouraging "free play", did anyone ever try it though?

I've already considered going into Kings of War

I'm just waiting for some salamander choices at my FLGS; if I'm going to play KoW, I want at least 1 Kings of War miniature in my army. The rest will be Lizardmen though

**CragHack**

Yes, but will there be more Slaanesh? :3

Jokes (?) aside, that's some great news.

**Mymearan**

Could a mod please update the title to include "Points values" somewhere?

Also, I'm guessing the points will be created in cooperation with the SCGT guys and some others.

**ShaneTB**

I'm certainly expecting it to be SCGT related:

Perhaps a yearly 'Matched Play 20XX' book that lists the units, scenarios and updated (community feedback) pool values.

**Sidstyler**

"This is NOT a system to add points! lol"

"Surprise, it's a system to add points!"

**Ferrum_Sanguinis**

GW is listening, good.

Hope its not too late to right the ship. I wanted to like AoS (medieval space marines aside). With a good points system, maybe I finally will.

**Mymearan**

ShaneTB wrote:
I'm certainly expecting it to be SCGT related:

Perhaps a yearly 'Matched Play 20XX' book that lists the units, scenarios and updated (community feedback) pool values.

Indeed

Dan Heelan is the god darned man!

**Zywus**

VeteranNoob wrote:
And that these are options and we are not "forced" to play any one type...amazing. Happy. Hope you are too.

I know, right! It was such a hassle back in the days where armed GW guards constantly showed up at our gaming tables and forced us to abandon any houserules and only use their prescribed unit entries!

That's my only beef with Mantic these days. KoW is a great game and all but I'm forced to play one type of game. I once tried using those alternative extra spells from Ironwatch Magazine and boom; a knock on the door before the first dice had even landed on the table and there was a Mantic death-brigade on my porch. I don't know how they knew, but they confiscated my computer and made me promise never to modify the game again.

I'm so glad GW have stopped that kind of behaivor. Maybe they truly are back on the right track.

**TheWaspinator**

Oh hey, they finally realized that the game needs to be playable as a pickup game without major house rules.

And to anyone who thinks that the standard way of playing the game going forward is anything but the points system, I just have laughter for you.

**Sidstyler**

You know this means there's gonna be a whole new batch of expensive books to buy with all the new points values and stuff, though.

**Mymearan**

Sidstyler wrote:
You know this means there's gonna be a whole new batch of expensive books to buy with all the new points values and stuff, though.

Except all the rules so far have been free and there's no reason to expect anything less going forward.

**Paradigm**

Sidstyler wrote:
You know this means there's gonna be a whole new batch of expensive books to buy with all the new points values and stuff, though.

Given that even with the new releases, everything you need to play AoS has been completely free, and the only stuff you 'need' to buy are the Batallions/Battleplans, I wouldn't be so quick to say that. They're not going to re-release the Grand Alliance books they just printed but with points, I imagine the online resources/AoS app (which by the way is great!) will just get updated.

**Cheex**

I'm intrigued!

I had a good read of the AoS ruleset when it came out, and while I really liked most of the core concepts, the lack of any kind of army balancing threw me off. Being forced to intuit what 'felt' balanced really intimidated me, personally, even as a very narrative-focused player.

You can't deny that the 'New GW' has really been making great moves to reverse some of the bad will the 'Old GW' gained over the past decade or so. Still a few hurdles to overcome, and some of those fairly big, but I'm excited.

**ShaneTB**

TheWaspinator wrote:

And to anyone who thinks that the standard way of playing the game going forward is anything but the points system, I just have laughter for you.

At your club(s), perhaps. My friends and I love playing the current narrative scenarios and if they go further with this Narrative Campaign play that'd be great for us.

And then when I fancy something like SCGT I can use the pool system too.

Sidstyler wrote:
You know this means there's gonna be a whole new batch of expensive books to buy with all the new points values and stuff, though.

As all the rules are free I think that's a fair trade; i.e. buy the books that appeal to you (narrative or matched play ones).

**notprop**

ShaneTB wrote:

Sidstyler wrote:
You know this means there's gonna be a whole new batch of expensive books to buy with all the new points values and stuff, though.

As all the rules are free I think that's a fair trade; i.e. buy the books that appeal to you (narrative or matched play ones).

Sorry chap the rules are not free, Apparently they come at the cost of your spleen judging by the bile that seems to get brought up.