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Pesky so called 'good' mortals currently have the upper hand in my local, hopefully Nagash will change that.

Life cannot escape death!

str00dles1 wrote:

Highly doubt they will make "mini" warscrolls. The game already scales to however much you want to play. You can take whatever you want already in open or narrative play.

I don't think a group of 5 Bloodreavers would do very well without an increase in bravery. Battle shock could wipe out the entire unit if you lost even one figure. I agree that Liberators and Blood Warriors are probably fine though.

The whole purpose of this mini box set is to show you the AoS mechanics to see if you like it. It could cost them tooooons of $ to break apart sets and make custom boxes then ship em out for every faction. If you like this mini set, then it gets you to buy the starter OR invest in another army. You can try and proxy anything since the rules are free to see if you like it before buying.

I would be surprised if AoS doesn't have a new starter set to launch with whatever the storyline after Realmgate Wars is.

 Sqorgar wrote:

str00dles1 wrote:

Highly doubt they will make "mini" warscrolls. The game already scales to however much you want to play. You can take whatever you want already in open or narrative play.

I don't think a group of 5 Bloodreavers would do very well without an increase in bravery. Battle shock could wipe out the entire unit if you lost even one figure. I agree that Liberators and Blood Warriors are probably fine though.

The whole purpose of this mini box set is to show you the AoS mechanics to see if you like it. It could cost them tooooons of $ to break apart sets and make custom boxes then ship em out for every faction. If you like this mini set, then it gets you to buy the starter OR invest in another army. You can try and proxy anything since the rules are free to see if you like it before buying.

I would be surprised if AoS doesn't have a new starter set to launch with whatever the storyline after Realmgate Wars is.

Nurgle vs elves, Nurgle vs elves

Or humans or Slaanesh or Lizzards or a new race or whatever, as long as the streak of kickass Nurgle minis continues.

Giant battle in my local between Chaos Daemons (me), Warriors of Chaos, two Dark Elves, two Seraphon, Skaven and Vampire Counts. Alliances happened and ultimately I won so one for Chaos!. Was capture the artefact.

I guess with this new Snap Fit Sets, they will "repack" the older Snap Fit Models from 2002 (Chaos Warrior, Skeletons, Orks)?

Binabik15 wrote:

 Sqorgar wrote:

str00dles1 wrote:

Highly doubt they will make "mini" warscrolls. The game already scales to however much you want to play. You can take whatever you want already in open or narrative play.

I don't think a group of 5 Bloodreavers would do very well without an increase in bravery. Battle shock could wipe out the entire unit if you lost even one figure. I agree that Liberators and Blood Warriors are probably fine though.

The whole purpose of this mini box set is to show you the AoS mechanics to see if you like it. It could cost them tooooons of $ to break apart sets and make custom boxes then ship em out for every faction. If you like this mini set, then it gets you to buy the starter OR invest in another army. You can try and proxy anything since the rules are free to see if you like it before buying.

I would be surprised if AoS doesn't have a new starter set to launch with whatever the storyline after Realmgate Wars is.

Nurgle vs elves, Nurgle vs elves

Or humans or Slaanesh or Lizzards or a new race or whatever, as long as the streak of kickass Nurgle minis continues.

Id love nurgle vs sylva. Buddy plays nurgle so a easy split. Or something with more Ironjawz...

High/Dark elves if they ever make a starter would be vs slaanesh since they captured it. That would be a good themed set though. I'm sure that will be a big release/story point soon enough.

Lizards would be vs a mix of chaos if it was a starter since they fight demons a lot.

They're releasing a mini starter set of Stormcast and Bloodbound. I very much doubt the (only 1 year old) big starter set is going anywhere any time soon.

RazorEdge wrote:
I guess with this new Snap Fit Sets, they will "repack" the older Snap Fit Models from 2002 (Chaos Warrior, Skeletons, Orks)?

I doubt we'll see those once more, but then again I never thought we'd see Assault on Black Reach again either

 unmercifulconker wrote:
Pesky so called 'good' mortals currently have the upper hand in my local, hopefully Nagash will change that.

Life cannot escape death!

Silly necromancer, the realm of life belongs to the living! You already have your carrion world and corpse castles to lurk in.

Warp Rider wrote:
Giant battle in my local between Chaos Daemons (me), Warriors of Chaos, two Dark Elves, two Seraphon, Skaven and Vampire Counts. Alliances happened and ultimately I won so one for Chaos!. Was capture the artefact.

Bah, never send elves, lizards and vampires to do a human's job. (Congrats on the win, though)


On bets for a new starter set, my money's on Duardin vs Tzeentch. Alot of rumors kept pointing towards silver tower being a starter set so it's possible the leaked info got mixed up.

A lot of those X vs Y posts will probably become somewhat true with all the boardgames GW releases. And I'm a sucker for big boxes/starters. They should release some more "mini starters" with two factions (20 ish minis) on a larger sprue and place them between the real starter/Silver Tower price band and the SC boxes. I'd buy most boxes. All if the trend of amazing monopose models continue. And then expand most warbands.

But GW would rather use existing CAD models to make a new mould instead of using a few sculpter hours to alter the models a bit and absolutley refuses to crush the competition on economy of scale grounds. Instead of undercutting Malifaux/Infinity/many other brands starter boxes and laughing all the way to the bank their pricing structure made it economically feasible for the others to throw their hat into the ring in the first place.


And I really want a box with a Nurgle ogre, a sorceror, a few beastmen and some cultists

From the FW thread, these lads are now available to order. £60 for a unit of Renders and £70 for Shar'tor the Executioner. Ouch

 Peregrine wrote:

We are off and running at the LFGS here too. 3 battles - stormcast won the first two vs orks and Bloodbound.

Nagash was facing off with Archaon in the 3rd but it was a late night and didn't see that one completed.

Prices not withstanding, I like those new centaurs. More meaty than the dragonogres.

 Uriels_Flame wrote:
We are off and running at the LFGS here too. 3 battles - stormcast won the first two vs orks and Bloodbound.

Nagash was facing off with Archaon in the 3rd but it was a late night and didn't see that one completed.

Prices not withstanding, I like those new centaurs. More meaty than the dragonogres.

Yeah played a game yesterday, the iron jaw's pretty much destroyed my ranks those gore grunta's hurt a lot and the brutes tear apart my infantry and Gordrakk killed manny in one round of combat. Perhaps I should spread out my infantry more to soak the lines while my heroes work the iron jaw's down but bloody hell the iron jaw's are tough.

Nice looking new model. Was hard imo to see detail of the head in the original pic. Happy to see more Hashut mentioned in AoS. There's a note in All Points/Gates whichever one the book is called

 VeteranNoob wrote:
Nice looking new model. Was hard imo to see detail of the head in the original pic. Happy to see more Hashut mentioned in AoS. There's a note in All Points/Gates whichever one the book is called

Yeah in the all-gate books it said that the children of Hashut were the one's who built one of Archaon's fortresses.

Chaos Lords, Mortarchs and Warbosses: are you just going to stand there and let the God King claim the realm of Ghyran?

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Wonder if we'll see some GoT action and Gods actually get killed?

 reds8n wrote:

Chaos Lords, Mortarchs and Warbosses: are you just going to stand there and let the God King claim the realm of Ghyran?

Report your results at one of almost 2,000 locations across the world

It will be interesting to see if it ends up lopsided if they've moved on from: "Well that wasn't the result we wanted, hmm... Move on nothing to see here." Like they did with the last one.

Not sure how it can reach a result they don't want. The background's open enough for any possibility to happen with minimal consequence to the setting barring that Sigmar's realm is besieged.

Realm of life falls to chaos? Focus on another realm for stories and models and decide on whether another campaign should be made to defend the next realm or retake life.

Its three citys that are very distant from each other. Even if Chaos steamrolled all of them the whole realm is not going to follow.

 Uriels_Flame wrote:
Wonder if we'll see some GoT action and Gods actually get killed?

Game of Sigmar. You win the campaign or you die.

Chaos is coming.

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Kinda meh for me. Get if you need'em.

I will say I played against Blight Drones and they will not freaking die...

I may add them to my own force.

So...the massive bull centaur is named Shart?

 dienekes96 wrote:
So...the massive bull centaur is named Shart?

Yes.

Shartor.

As in "that bull centaur is constantly changing his pants because he is a shartor."

What pants?

@Motski, take my exalt.

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

I couldn't make out the price - what was it in UKP?

£20 Az. The 2 Retributors are a nice way to round out the starter, but the other numbers of miniatures seems a bit odd.

I wonder if we will see next week more Snap Fit Sets?

Hahaha love the artwork of the Bonesplitterz fighting the Sylvaneth, the Big spear guys just smacking it into the Treelords leg and the back orc is just dangling in the air.

Liking this release and £115 un-discounted for Battletome, 20 orruks, 10 Boarboyz and 3 heroes is not too bad. I am used to seeing those new releases bundles at like £200-250.

Edit: Love these models though, honestly if I had only just looked back into fantasy now, you could have said these are completely new models and I would've believed you.

So just did a quick check on a discounted retailer, about £90 included P+P gets you 40 orruks, 10 boarboyz and the Ironjawz Shaman since I would use him instead of finecast, gives you about 1000 points minus the ork big boss with I think it was:
10 savage orruks, 10 arrowboys, 10 maniacs, 2 big stabba teams, 1 shaman and 10 boarboyz. Thats without taking a battalion.

Not bad I reckon, not bad at all.