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Ok, so far I want both Heralds. Badly.

Here's hoping Destruction is an Ironjawz

Chopstick wrote:
So AOS will get 4 new model for this campaign.



....hmmm yay?

4 new character models. Who knows what else may or may not follow? There's an awful lot of unsolved Rumour Engine bits!

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Ok, so far I want both Heralds. Badly.

Here's hoping Destruction is an Ironjawz

Nah, gimme another faction!

That or another cabbage krusha!

Fyreslayers, Ironjawz and Sylvaneth could use some new units to expand their factions.

 Galas wrote:
Fyreslayers, Ironjawz and Sylvaneth could use some new units to expand their factions.

Bonesplitterz too.

 Galas wrote:
Fyreslayers, Ironjawz and Sylvaneth could use some new units to expand their factions.

Basically anything that isn't Seraphon or Chaos can use that.

Wanderers could use units of Waywatchers being rejigged, for example.

You know what'd be good? Something that actually takes advantage of all this "freedom" the setting change ostensibly created. Some good-guy humans who don't look like Empire leftovers. Flesh out Destruction a bit with something other than a slightly bigger Orc or a slightly more overwrought Ogre. Fimir maybe?

The Warqueen is a good start, but she's remarkable mostly for being a she rather than her aesthetic, the Darkoath folks are awfully Chaos Marauder'y(not that I'd object to a whole box of infantry in that style, the classic Marauders have not aged gracefully, some parts of the Horsemen kit aside). The Death one is a floaty spooky thing but with a helmet this time, though to be fair to them I dunno where they could take Death otherwise, all the archetypes are pretty solidly covered(though standalone plastic Vampire and Ghoul characters would be nice). With Order & Destruction though they could do something fresh, if they tried, rather than the slightly-different Orc and slightly-different Stormcast folk seem to be expecting.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Galas wrote:
Fyreslayers, Ironjawz and Sylvaneth could use some new units to expand their factions.

Basically anything that isn't Seraphon or Chaos can use that.

Wanderers could use units of Waywatchers being rejigged, for example.

Yeah but is obvious that GW is gonna be more willing to push the proper AoS faction than old world left overs. I'll love for a battletome for Gutbusters and more ogre units but...

Following what you are saying Yodhrin, I'll love for the Firebellies to be expanded in a full ogre faction mixed with fire monsters and a roman aesthetic instead of the clasic mongol one. It would be actually pretty ironic for the "Fire order" faction to be a bunch of naked dwarf berserkes, and the "Fire Destruction" faction to be a some kind of organized Ogre Empire.

 Yodhrin wrote:
You know what'd be good? Something that actually takes advantage of all this "freedom" the setting change ostensibly created. Some good-guy humans who don't look like Empire leftovers. Flesh out Destruction a bit with something other than a slightly bigger Orc or a slightly more overwrought Ogre. Fimir maybe?

The Warqueen is a good start, but she's remarkable mostly for being a she rather than her aesthetic, the Darkoath folks are awfully Chaos Marauder'y(not that I'd object to a whole box of infantry in that style, the classic Marauders have not aged gracefully, some parts of the Horsemen kit aside). The Death one is a floaty spooky thing but with a helmet this time, though to be fair to them I dunno where they could take Death otherwise, all the archetypes are pretty solidly covered(though standalone plastic Vampire and Ghoul characters would be nice). With Order & Destruction though they could do something fresh, if they tried, rather than the slightly-different Orc and slightly-different Stormcast folk seem to be expecting.

amen

the worst thing about AOS is that they destroyed an incredible background, only to introduce new armies that would fit neatly in it (bar the abominable SC and the sky dawrves).

There's a reason why the time when people were the most excited for AOS was when they released the sky dwarves. Enough with the millions of stormcast, and give us something to flesh out the setting

Chopstick wrote:
So AOS will get 4 new model for this campaign.



....hmmm yay?

Would you rather it be 4 marine models?

Fyreslayers have a bunch of hero options already. Make it an Ironweld hero imo. As for destruction, well I'll be happy with anything really. An ogor or grot hero would be ideal though.

I think GW has made the best ogres in fantasy history with their 6th edition army book (Tied with the Warlords of Draenor Warcraft Ogres, but GW was first in expanding them besides the generic brute-canibal trope).

I'll love if they give them more love in any kind of AoS style (I know, Beastclaw Raiders, but thats like Bonnespliterzs, no new models). I know many people disliked the mongol-ogres and they prefered the older editions, where they where just generic fantasy ogres, but oh man. I have still my Ogre Kingdom books, they where so beautifully imaginative.

 Desubot wrote:

Chopstick wrote:
So AOS will get 4 new model for this campaign.



....hmmm yay?

Would you rather it be 4 marine models?

For AoS?

Absolutely!

Yod's got a very good point though - maybe something that takes advantage of the 'new' and doesn't point directly back to/at WFB's Olde Worlde too?

Utter hypely hope:
Big Death release, Nighthaunt and Deathrattle BT's
Chaos Marauder faction release, proper Norse men again.
Campaign books

Most likely:
4 heroes, Campaign book.

Damn I can't wait to see what Malign Portents will bring to AoS!

I really wish there were new Drakoath style marauders, the old ones are completely unusable. (The horse guys are tolerable.)

But thing I'd like to see most is just some new stuff for normal humans. I kinda like how AOS world is so surreally weird, but it really need some focus on some normal guys for contrast.

Marauders unusable? I still think they look great! What is wrong with them? Just that they aren’t menacing enough? Or not enough scars?

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Marauders unusable? I still think they look great! What is wrong with them? Just that they aren’t menacing enough? Or not enough scars?

They've old and look like crap. Just compare them to these Drakoath characters.

 unmercifulconker wrote:
Utter hypely hope:
Big Death release, Nighthaunt and Deathrattle BT's
Chaos Marauder faction release, proper Norse men again.
Campaign books

Most likely:
4 heroes, Campaign book.

Damn I can't wait to see what Malign Portents will bring to AoS!

We know there's 4 heroes and a campaign book, at least.

It's looking more and more like we're going to see Rotbringers as well come the new year.

I've got my wallet ready and fingers crossed for Shadowkin.

Chopstick wrote:
So AOS will get 4 new model for this campaign.



....hmmm yay?

2 of them are not Stormcast - thats some progress.

 Mr Morden wrote:

Chopstick wrote:
So AOS will get 4 new model for this campaign.



....hmmm yay?

2 of them are not Stormcast - thats some progress.

Yeah, it's been such a heavy few months for Stormcast...
There's the 3 in Shadespire, Naeve Blacktalon, and one more coming soon-ish.

Damn you Stormcasts taking up the whole release schedule!

...but there haven't been many other AoS releases outside of Shadespire as it is!

My hope is for Ogors of any kind and a new Seraphon.

The Saurus warriors are looking a little lean these days compared to the big and burly Ironjawz. That ain't right.

Of course I'd love to see them dial up the Meso-American style to 11 and really go hog-wild with the lizards...

Personally I'd like to see a new Greenskinz hero (and an updated Orruk Boyz kit to match the Boarboyz) or maybe something for the Moonclan Grotz. Unfortunately I doubt we'll see the Fimir produced in plastic by Games Workshop proper any time soon

Ive been out of AOS for a while now, what the current state of play, I have noticed all those new sets with stormcast in all of them allied to other forces, whats that about?

 Crimson wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Marauders unusable? I still think they look great! What is wrong with them? Just that they aren’t menacing enough? Or not enough scars?

They've old and look like crap. Just compare them to these Drakoath characters.

To be fair, they looked like crap when they were new.

What's more interesting on the AoS front is from the ADB AMA, which is up on Atia's site- https://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/2627
He mentions not being a fan of AoS on release, but that he's getting more interested for stuff coming in the future:

I was a crazy-late adopter to Age of Sigmar. The Old World resentment hit me reeeaaaally hard, but I got a seriously lucky break, when WHTV asked me about helping them with some script work for their trailers. I had to sign a bunch of extra NDAs, and the end result that I've started seeing some insanely awesome stuff coming down the pipe for AoS in the future. And that finally turned me around all the way on the new setting

 Yodhrin wrote:
The Death one is a floaty spooky thing but with a helmet this time, though to be fair to them I dunno where they could take Death otherwise, all the archetypes are pretty solidly covered(though standalone plastic Vampire and Ghoul characters would be nice). With Order & Destruction though they could do something fresh, if they tried, rather than the slightly-different Orc and slightly-different Stormcast folk seem to be expecting.

I like the immaterial undead minis they've made over the years quite a bit, but for new Death directions, I'd love to see a faction that would be based on deathmages creating bizarre necroconstructs. Sort of a Khemri meets Moulder meets Deadwalkers thing. I think there'd be potential for some really cool modular kits with little familiar creatures/bodyparts spanning the current ranges, just rotting/decayed, and even rules potential in the direction of Looted Tanks/Design-A-Landraider customization.

 Formosa wrote:
Ive been out of AOS for a while now, what the current state of play, I have noticed all those new sets with stormcast in all of them allied to other forces, whats that about?

They were boxed sets released for a campaign event. They're the signature forces of each of the cities established, in the fluff, from the campaign event last year.

Yeah, the Firestorm boxes. Have some pretty nice formation abilities too.

With the "age of hope" ending I got a feeling they're going to need them.

But yeah, really excited for what next year is bringing on top of the crazy stuff we got this year.

From all the rumors I think poor destruction is the only getting mostly left out but hopefully their hero model is killer (kinda hoping Grot just for surprise value) and the year after is when Gorkamorka will make his own play.

Yod's got a very good point though - maybe something that takes advantage of the 'new' and doesn't point directly back to/at WFB's Olde Worlde too?

All in good time. For now the more recognizable releases help older fans transfer over into AoS easier by having a identifiable starting point and plays off the TWW hype as well.

It'll be a few years down the road when GW can go really crazy with stuff like Duardin that make homes in gargantuan trees, Grot pirates using Leviathans as ships and ancient races that built magic weapons that could destroy realms.

Even the sky titans can make an army again and the God-beasts are an untapped source of powers and followers.

Baron Klatz wrote:
ancient races that built magic weapons that could destroy realms.

No one tell Archaon.

 eohall wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
The Death one is a floaty spooky thing but with a helmet this time, though to be fair to them I dunno where they could take Death otherwise, all the archetypes are pretty solidly covered(though standalone plastic Vampire and Ghoul characters would be nice). With Order & Destruction though they could do something fresh, if they tried, rather than the slightly-different Orc and slightly-different Stormcast folk seem to be expecting.

I like the immaterial undead minis they've made over the years quite a bit, but for new Death directions, I'd love to see a faction that would be based on deathmages creating bizarre necroconstructs. Sort of a Khemri meets Moulder meets Deadwalkers thing. I think there'd be potential for some really cool modular kits with little familiar creatures/bodyparts spanning the current ranges, just rotting/decayed, and even rules potential in the direction of Looted Tanks/Design-A-Landraider customization.

I'm not a Death player, but I think I speak for all of them in saying that Death-anything would be a huge improvement.

Baron Klatz wrote:

Yod's got a very good point though - maybe something that takes advantage of the 'new' and doesn't point directly back to/at WFB's Olde Worlde too?

All in good time. For now the more recognizable releases help older fans transfer over into AoS easier by having a identifiable starting point and plays off the TWW hype as well.

It'll be a few years down the road when GW can go really crazy with stuff like Duardin that make homes in gargantuan trees, Grot pirates using Leviathans as ships and ancient races that built magic weapons that could destroy realms.

Even the sky titans can make an army again and the God-beasts are an untapped source of powers and followers.

For me it's the exact opposite, and I doubt I'm alone among the more vehement fans of WHF as-was(and lets be real, we're all that's left from the "played WHFB/Mordheim" group now, everyone else has either jumped on AoS already or moved on from GW games). The more recognisable something is, the more put off I am, because I don't want to be reminded that AoS exists at the expense of one of my favourite settings - the closest I came to buying-in on AoS so far was Overlords, and for me that's the kind of level of difference I'd like to see pervade the new setting. It's even a bit irritating, when they ostensibly killed off WHF to create this great opportunity to be as weird and surreal and mythical as they like...and then we got Land Marines and an army of Slayers and Dryads-but-with-elves-sticking-out-the-front etc.

I can understand why they cannibalised the old WHF model range to cut the cost of launching the new IP even if I don't like it, but at some stage GW have to gak or get off the pot.