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Chikout wrote:

 Bottle wrote:
I'm getting really excited about AoS Skirmish. How far off do we all think it is?

Assuming the June 17th release date for 40k is true, we have four weeks to fill before then. Aos skirmish will surely be one of those releases.

I really hope so!

I don't have a lot of interest in AoS.

Well, I didn't until those Kharadron Overlords were released...

So now I'd like to get some - for AoS Skirmish - at least to start!

Do you think Skirmish will be that 'new' cut-down Starter Set that was rumoured recently?

UltraPrime wrote:
Do you think Skirmish will be that 'new' cut-down Starter Set that was rumoured recently?

That would be amazing. I would love for a skirmish approach to become more normal in people's experience of both AoS and 40k.

 tyrannosaurus wrote:
Anything that comes from AoS isn't any of the above.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/genetic

UltraPrime wrote:
Do you think Skirmish will be that 'new' cut-down Starter Set that was rumoured recently?

I don't think so, because they haven't changed the number of units. It would still be 4 units of sigmarines and a character, and 4 units of blood blooders and a couple of characters. That is the current starter without a couple of the characters for £50.

That's still a lot. They might do that, but I'd hope they'd either do something like Storm of Sigmar with 13 minis or something new, hopefully with different factions to the other three starters, though I'd anticipate them pushing Sigmarines as the new space marines.

Basically I want a low model count game and with improved rules. A skirmish game might be a good place for them to test out some improvements to the rules.

We still don't know for certain that it won't just be a section in the Generals Handbook.

They could rework that mini starter Set.

This might be interesting. Really loving a few of the newest AOS minis, and the fluff seems to be more interesting now that they stopped focussing on the SCE so much, but really can't get into it since the rules are so shallow.

If the skirmish rules turns out to be interesting, i'll probably start a few warbands

 streetsamurai wrote:
This might be interesting. Really loving a few of the newest AOS minis, and the fluff seems to be more interesting now that they stopped focussing on the SCE so much, but really can't get into it since the rules are so shallow.

If the skirmish rules turns out to be interesting, i'll probably start a few warbands

If you are after skirmish experience, I recomend you the Hinterlands Proyect by Bottle! Seriously, I doubt GW will do a better job at making a Skirmish system for AoS than him.

EDIT: Obviously, if you are after warhammer/AoS Skirmish experience. You can find other skirmish experiences out there!

I'm sure Bottle rules are great, but in my area, it is nearly impossible to find people willing to play fan made rules unfortunately

tyrannosaurus wrote:Please don't mention Mordheim in the same breath as this. Mordheim is an incredible game with some of the best models ever produced, with a wealth of wonderful background based upon the Old World. Anything that comes from AoS isn't any of the above. Like comparing a diamond with a turd.

And yet you are still here. If you dislike Age of Sigmar so much how come you are in an Age of Sigmar forum? Please don't tell people what they should and shouldn't say? If they like the product they are perfectly in their right to do so. Also you have the perfectly right to dislike/hate something. So the question is, if you dislike/hate Age of Sigmar so much how come you are here? Why not go to a Fantasy forums with what you love?

Having this much hate inside is not healthy. I should know, been there myself and realized the problem is with me not Games Workshop or who/what ever. So if you dislike so much then don't go into an Age of Sigmar forum and be at peace.

Davor

SInce when is Dakka and or news and rumours an AOS forum?

 streetsamurai wrote:
I'm sure Bottle rules are great, but in my area, it is nearly impossible to find people willing to play fan made rules unfortunately

I'm sady to hear that, but for my months on this kind of forums I have found that many communities in the states/canada are of that kind. A really sad thing, at least to me. My group is pure narrative driven, so to us, playing with fan-made rules is quasi mandatory to many of our campaings.

If thats the case, I wish for a good ruleset for AoS Skirmish so you can have a good time with your group. Those Kharadron Overlords deserve to be used for everyone! Maybe that way GW will be more "animated" to push really original factions like that and not more Stormcast!

 Galas wrote:

 streetsamurai wrote:
I'm sure Bottle rules are great, but in my area, it is nearly impossible to find people willing to play fan made rules unfortunately

I'm sady to hear that, but for my months on this kind of forums I have found that many communities in the states/canada are of that kind. A really sad thing, at least to me. My group is pure narrative driven, so to us, playing with fan-made rules is quasi mandatory to many of our campaings.

If thats the case, I wish for a good ruleset for AoS Skirmish so you can have a good time with your group. Those Kharadron Overlords deserve to be used for everyone! Maybe that way GW will be more "animated" to push really original factions like that and not more Stormcast!

Hopefully this will be the case, I'm just a chtulu elves release removed from falling and starting a small AOS warband. This in itself is incredible considering my opinion on this game not even a year ago.

Thanks for the plug on my Hinterlands rules, Galas. The plan is for the next version of Hinterlands to sit on top of AoS Skirmish rather than offer an alternative, the rules will be fully compatible and then players can choose to add on as many of the rules as they like. All of them or just a few depending how open they are to house rules.

 Bottle wrote:
Thanks for the plug on my Hinterlands rules, Galas. The plan is for the next version of Hinterlands to sit on top of AoS Skirmish rather than offer an alternative, the rules will be fully compatible and then players can choose to add on as many of the rules as they like. All of them or just a few depending how open they are to house rules.

For now I'm convinced that I'll still use the complete Bottle's aproved Hinterland ruleset package, but glad to hear that you have more plans to add content to it! It totally suck when a company put a official thing over a fan-proyect (Even if the fan proyect is leagues superior) because like 95% of people will just jump in the official one!

Thanks for the vote of confidence! I honestly don't mind if everyone goes to the official Skirmish game over mine, as I will be strongly looking into doing that myself. If the rules are tight and offer a good amount of playability I will work only on fun new Battleplans/campaign systems and things like that. If I think there is room to build on the rules themselves I will probably take the popular parts of the Hinterlands rules and present them as a series of house rules to go with AoS Skirmish.

All in all, really exciting times! I'll be helping run a Skirmish Friday night at a tournament in September so I will plan to get something out for that in the Summer :-)

Just need to see what this AoS Skirmish is like! (I am sure it'll be awesome).

 streetsamurai wrote:

 Galas wrote:

 streetsamurai wrote:
I'm sure Bottle rules are great, but in my area, it is nearly impossible to find people willing to play fan made rules unfortunately

I'm sady to hear that, but for my months on this kind of forums I have found that many communities in the states/canada are of that kind. A really sad thing, at least to me. My group is pure narrative driven, so to us, playing with fan-made rules is quasi mandatory to many of our campaings.

If thats the case, I wish for a good ruleset for AoS Skirmish so you can have a good time with your group. Those Kharadron Overlords deserve to be used for everyone! Maybe that way GW will be more "animated" to push really original factions like that and not more Stormcast!

Hopefully this will be the case, I'm just a chtulu elves release removed from falling and starting a small AOS warband. This in itself is incredible considering my opinion on this game not even a year ago.

To be honest it was hard for it go down. Little could be done to make it sink any further. Now. I highly doubt we see more stormies for this year (for sure) and the following.

 streetsamurai wrote:
SInce when is Dakka and or news and rumours an AOS forum?

Replace 'forum' with 'thread'.

Lord Kragan wrote:

 streetsamurai wrote:

 Galas wrote:

 streetsamurai wrote:
I'm sure Bottle rules are great, but in my area, it is nearly impossible to find people willing to play fan made rules unfortunately

I'm sady to hear that, but for my months on this kind of forums I have found that many communities in the states/canada are of that kind. A really sad thing, at least to me. My group is pure narrative driven, so to us, playing with fan-made rules is quasi mandatory to many of our campaings.

If thats the case, I wish for a good ruleset for AoS Skirmish so you can have a good time with your group. Those Kharadron Overlords deserve to be used for everyone! Maybe that way GW will be more "animated" to push really original factions like that and not more Stormcast!

Hopefully this will be the case, I'm just a chtulu elves release removed from falling and starting a small AOS warband. This in itself is incredible considering my opinion on this game not even a year ago.

To be honest it was hard for it go down. Little could be done to make it sink any further. Now. I highly doubt we see more stormies for this year (for sure) and the following.

Besides the ones for Skirmish and Shadowspire - and everything else new in the AoS universe

Hey everyone, some cool news:

On Wednesday the 17th of May, Warhammer Live will be showcasing the new AoS Skirmish game and yours truly will be appearing on the show to play the first games of it!

I hope you are all excited. I know I am! Let's hope I don't lose spectacularly on live internet TV!

Remember to tune it at: twitch.tv/warhammer

That's awesome new bottle!


Have fun.

Congrats, Bottle!

Thanks guys, make sure you tune in if you are free. It's gonna be my Freeguild fighting off Ben Johnson's Flesh Eater Courts, so it should be loads of fun!

At what hour it will be the Stream? I think Spanish is UK hour-1.... or not. I think is the same.

Can you spoil any details? Like how many models in your Freeguild?

That's awesome Bottle, looking forward to it!

Im curious to know if profiles will be AoS style or Fantasy style?

In shadow war they change the profiles..

I'm curious about the number of models required or points, but I imagine it'll all be answered on the 17th.

IT FEELS SO FAR AWAY....

Is this skirmish thing a new game, new supplement, or is this that Shadowthingy with the hex grid?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Is this skirmish thing a new game, new supplement, or is this that Shadowthingy with the hex grid?

Brand new, was only announced like a week ago or so in the white dwarf.

Bottle paved the way with the Hinterlands Skirmish rules, and GW took note - now we know to a serious extent. Ultimately we're still lacking details - I'd assume at this point Bottle must know, but has probably signed an NDA (ALL COOL, WE'LL WAIT.)