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There will also be a new mini starter set this week, with rules, 4 battle plans, 3 Bloodwarriors, 5 Bloodreavers, 2 Retributors and 3 Liberators.
There will also be some small snap fits sets for 10 pounds each.
Last but not least a new "Getting Started with WH AoS" magazine with a free libarator.

-Aaron

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and some more bonesplitta details from the same source

Ska-boosh, Warclans, me get special battalions, me happy.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Bull0 wrote:
I really want to get my hands on the generals handbook and start trying out these new points costs and stuff, but GW direct order haven't even fething dispatched my copy yet. I don't know why I went to them direct. I can't ever be bothered to go with a discounter for one or two items. Still, "2-3 working days" my arse.

General's Handbook isn't released until the 22nd, they won't send it til then.

Oh, well, my face is red. When did they start doing 2-week preorder windows? I know they had a long one for that Lost Patrol thing. Thanks for the heads-up. In fact it's longer than 2 weeks. It's... 3... bastards

 Bull0 wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Bull0 wrote:
I really want to get my hands on the generals handbook and start trying out these new points costs and stuff, but GW direct order haven't even fething dispatched my copy yet. I don't know why I went to them direct. I can't ever be bothered to go with a discounter for one or two items. Still, "2-3 working days" my arse.

General's Handbook isn't released until the 22nd, they won't send it til then.

Oh, well, my face is red. When did they start doing 2-week preorder windows? I know they had a long one for that Lost Patrol thing. Thanks for the heads-up. In fact it's longer than 2 weeks. It's... 3... bastards

This is the first apart from Lost Patrol and that Khorne board game. I'm guessing they wanted to ensure they had the stock or something.

This makes me happy! as previously looking into Orcs n Gobbos for a playable army I have not seen many people field Savage Orks... maybe I just haven't seen much overall...

This is an excellent opportunity for a good starting box and a cool book! (hopefully not expensive) well done GW!

So close to beating the leaks!

Nice try!

I can feel my wallet crying right now.

Visa thanks you!

I'm actually excited for the campaign too.

 ImAGeek wrote:
This is the first apart from Lost Patrol and that Khorne board game. I'm guessing they wanted to ensure they had the stock or something.

Not stock reason. What they would get from that? So many orders they order new? Wouldn't arrive on storehouses within week so can't be that.

More likely just an experiment. Whole book is unusual for them as it's accelerated schedule release to begin with.

Games Workshop has switched to a kind of monthly release cycle again. The first week, which is also accompanied by the back-to-monthly White Dwarf, brings a big release - like Sylvaneth last week - and the following three or four weeks Start Collecting sets, new paints, Battletomes for armies that get only repacked miniatures or board games like Gorechosen.

This is actually happening for the third month in a row now - starting with Orruks - and means they put all the main release's products into week 1 instead of spreading them among three or four weeks like they did in the last two years.

It is unknow at the moment if products of week 2 and beyond will be teasered and shown in that month's WD - previous to their preorder date.

In general there will be one big release at the beginning of the month and several of all kinds (which doesnt have to be minor ones - could be a new scenery range) later on.



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First pics of Storm of Sigmar mini-starterset and Getting started-Magazine - via Spikeybits forum







Link: http://forum.spikeybits.com/showthread.php?20765-Age-of-Sigmar-Warhammer-Fantasy-9th-Rumors-Explosion&p=242730&viewfull=1#post242730

Are there stat cards available for all the units?

Given that they had to cut new tooling for whatever sprue layout combines just those parts anyway, it's a bit of a shame all of those are existing sculpts from the starter box. Some new poses would have been nice.

I might not buy the models, but I'm sure will get the battletome.

So I made the unfortunate mistake of putting the Generals Handbook in my shoping cart along with 4 boxes of the new Wood Elves on July 7th. A sales rep tells me my order is still pending because the book doesnt ship until the 22nd...

Chopxsticks wrote:
So I made the unfortunate mistake of putting the Generals Handbook in my shoping cart along with 4 boxes of the new Wood Elves on July 7th. A sales rep tells me my order is still pending because the book doesnt ship until the 22nd...

This is standard policy for a lot of online retailers - just clarify you want them sent seperately.

Oooohhhh so the AoS battleboard is the following week release. I hope the bases aren't far behind cas I will be needing them.

Davor wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:


That's down to the artist, not the medium. You might prefer hand sculpted models/oil paintings, but they aren't objectively better mediums than digital art/CAD. It's down to the artist and personal preference.

After reading this, I guess I just miss the old style. Maybe not because it wasn't digital art/CAD ( I like it a lot when it's done well) it's because I am not seeing awesome art, or even good art right now. So when I think of good or awesome GW art it was when GW didn't use it. So maybe GW just needs to start paying artists who can actually do the work instead hiring on attitude. After all I want to buy a great pictures, not a shoddy pictures because the person had a great attitude. It was the pictures that got me into 40K since back then the minis were just meh or good. Now the mins are good/great/awesome but the art work is just meh or bad now.

I will not be blaming digital art/CAD no more, just blame GW for releasing poor art work that is not a premium product..

That said, I know the artists work real hard for this, and it's a shame I have to blame them. Thing is when I am buying a "premium" product (GW terms) then I expect premium artwork. The art in AoS does not justify a premium price. I know not the artist fault, but still not a premium product.

I think some of it may have to do with AoS in general. It seems that the 40K books retain a high level of artwork, especially the covers, while the AoS artwork just seems kind of generic. Given that 40K is the cash cow and AoS is the new product still building its fan base, I guess this sort of makes sense.

Ehh, 40k has had it's share of recent poor quality artwork too. The artwork for the wolf space marines as an example.

I think it's them just wanting to try out new artists. kind of the way they throw out the IP net to see what videogame companies are a catch.

Nope, it's just them cutting corners by commissioning art work to independent artists. They are sent photos of studio models and told to replicate them in CG form, while the in-house illustrators continue to turn in excellent work. It's not hard to tell which pictures are by outside parties (hint: it's the sucky ones).

40K is no different in this regard, plenty of shoddy art work in the publications, especially supplemental material.

Meh, the new art looks perfectly fine to me. Maybe the art is fine, you just prefer old styles? (Sounds familiar...)

Yeah, I'm happy with both new art and production (print quality) -- a lot of old art is "iconic", but that doesn't make new art worse.

Going to the new AoS starter box... holy cow, that's cheap. I have no idea why I'd want more the models in them, but I'm pretty sure I'll grab one just because of the price. You can't even buy 2 sets of FW Rhino doors for that price

So I just bought into the Sylvaneth release, and noticed I had a box of Sisters of Avelorn, Wild Riders, and Wildwood rangers, now ones from "Wanderers" while the other is "Sylvaneth" but they are both from Order Grand Alliance. So can they all be fielded together?

Chopxsticks wrote:
So I just bought into the Sylvaneth release, and noticed I had a box of Sisters of Avelorn, Wild Riders, and Wildwood rangers, now ones from "Wanderers" while the other is "Sylvaneth" but they are both from Order Grand Alliance. So can they all be fielded together?

Yes.

With AOS you can literally field anything you own at the same time.

 Nostromodamus wrote:

Chopxsticks wrote:
So I just bought into the Sylvaneth release, and noticed I had a box of Sisters of Avelorn, Wild Riders, and Wildwood rangers, now ones from "Wanderers" while the other is "Sylvaneth" but they are both from Order Grand Alliance. So can they all be fielded together?

Yes.

With AOS you can literally field anything you own at the same time.

What the GHB has introduced is allegiance - bonuses for bringing things from a specific Grand Alliance or faction. Since they are both Order you could use them together and get the benefits of Order allegiance but you would give up the slightly more potent benefits of Sylvaneth allegiance. So while Sylvaneth have a better set of allegiance abilities (faction allegiance replaces the alliance one -- you can't benefit from both Order and Sylvaneth at once) that comes with a heavily restricted subset of options. On the opposite end of the scale you could mix & match Chaos with Wanderers and undead but you wouldn't get any allegiance benefits at all.

So I hope Faction bonus's are far more substantial? Using the Wanderers as an example, they have far fewer models than say Seraphon, and then you have Shadow Blades that only have 2 units... Is it safe to assume that the General's Handbook might say something like a Faction includes "These sub factions"??

Chopxsticks wrote:
So I hope Faction bonus's are far more substantial? Using the Wanderers as an example, they have far fewer models than say Seraphon, and then you have Shadow Blades that only have 2 units... Is it safe to assume that the General's Handbook might say something like a Faction includes "These sub factions"??

The General's Handbook only has Allegiance Abilities for the Grand Alliances. Other Allegiance Abilities will be in the appropriate Battletomes.

Nice, ive very excited for this book.

Upon a closer look at the site though, it looks like Death Grand Alliance, and Destruction Grand Alliance are at a slight disadvantage selection wise..

This new Mini-Starter set. Will it have any of the content of the General's Handbook? Or atleast the Matched Play Rules in a mini-book format?

That mini starter looks great for the price. I will pick one up from a discounter for sure. Good move GW!