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 Ghaz wrote:

Combining the Core Rules, Pitched Battle rules, Realm of Battle rules (including Artefacts and Spells of the Realms), the Grand Alliance allegiance abilities and 31 Pitched Battle battleplans, it’s the perfect companion for your next matched play game.

Sounds like a good way to get new players into the game instead of buying the Core Rules and the Malign Sorcery box.

not only for new players, I can see myself getting that book so I have to carry less with me

Is it just me, or are the names backwards? Wouldn't Anvilguard fit more with Dwarfs and Greywater Fastness fit better with Corsairs?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Is it just me, or are the names backwards? Wouldn't Anvilguard fit more with Dwarfs and Greywater Fastness fit better with Corsairs?

No.
Anvilgard is named after the Anvils of the Heldenhammer and is a seaport.
Greywater Fastness is a steampunk city built on a drained swamp.

A rare case where GW doesn't just go "wolves of Wolfington living in Wolftown riding wolves" in naming conventions.

The gaming book is great for new players, and I might consider buying it, if the price is low enough. I would like not to drag along three books with me wherever I go.

I just started AOS recently. I only own my battletome. No GHB, No Core Rules, No malign sorcery or Forbidden Power. I am hyped for this book.

I’m excited for the cities book (is it preorder or release next week?) but as someone who wanted to do a dispossessed army I’m worried about the gutting of their range.

 Future War Cultist wrote:
I’m excited for the cities book (is it preorder or release next week?) but as someone who wanted to do a dispossessed army I’m worried about the gutting of their range.

Pre order this weekend.

Cool, thanks.

I was off next week too...would have been nice to spend it seeing what lists I can come up with.

hopefully we get some ideas during the week plus once it goes on sale the warscroll builder site should get updated too



Honestly I'm surprised GW doesn't have a warscroll builder for 40K for free now. It's especially useful in encouraging me to spend money sitting there theory crafting armies! Esp for factions I might not own

My three fantasy 8th armies.

Empire, VC and Ogres.
Getting so close to them all having something.
Though realistically I won’t rebase the VC or Empire as they are all magnetised and in tray and blocks etc..

But nice to see them with books.

And this coming Ogor book, that’s what may get me to give it a go and play.

I really hope that after GW does Bonereapers, they pay some attention to Vampires. Right now the vampires are clearly popular in the lore and such, but game wise they are sort of sitting as a side order in the Legions army. It would be great to see them rise up wtih some updated models and get back to being the bloody monsters of the setting - right now Daughters of Khaine are ruling the roost in terms of blood

Damn straight. Tell me, are Abhorant Ghoul Kings vampires? Because if they are they’re a pretty good replacement for the old Strigoi line. Which makes me think that they should try to bring back more of the old lines in new forms.

For example, I think that the necromancers and zombie units would make a good infiltrating cultist faction for Death; their version of chaos cults. And vampires that are a sort of mixture of Von Carstein and Necarch would be perfect as the leader unit.

I like the Start Collecting kits. Especially the dwarf one is full of stuff I considered buying at one time or another. Hopefully they'll end up at the lower end of the price range for Start Collecting boxes.

 Future War Cultist wrote:
Damn straight. Tell me, are Abhorant Ghoul Kings vampires? Because if they are they’re a pretty good replacement for the old Strigoi line. Which makes me think that they should try to bring back more of the old lines in new forms.

For example, I think that the necromancers and zombie units would make a good infiltrating cultist faction for Death; their version of chaos cults. And vampires that are a sort of mixture of Von Carstein and Necarch would be perfect as the leader unit.

Yeah, Abhorrants are vampires and something like three quarters Strigoi. Instead of dwelling on the edge of society and getting their blood from vermin like Strigoi the first Abhorrant got locked up by Nagash and forgotten, and went bonkers in the process. They're (obviously) physically the same, using the same models, and they still have their connection with Ghouls. They just had their theme of being shunned and hunted by other vampires replaced with upsetting Nagash and being cursed with infectious delusions.

While I think the idea is very funny, I have a hard time seeing zombies as infiltrators. Less deformed Ghouls like the old metal versions would work better embedding themselves into society because they're not dead, not necessarily dimwitted, and don't reek quite as bad.

Personally I'd rather see a crossover army based on the free cities but incorporating Lahmia kind of vampires that pull the strings. That used to be their thing back in the day (in the background anyway) and since Neferata is still around there's no reason not to give it another try in AoS.

The artwork features humans in breast plates wearing what appears to be puff and slash clothing...Dare I dream of a nice infantry kit that would work well with old Empire armies?
Knowing GW they are all probably human Yorkie centaur things or something equally zany.

Vampires are all over the Mortal Realms including Azyr and the new Cites of Sigmar - when Nagash and Sigmar are not outright fighting they are probably given the same lattitude as Scourge privateers or Khainites.

Its fun that you can now have Blood Knights unit (Mecranaries) leading your Free Cities cavalry but yeah a Vampire led living army would be very nice and loresome, as you say Neferata has not changed and has her living and dead agents everywhere....

They have been confirming on the FB page no new models to go along with the book releases but that does not mean future remodels

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/09/23/faction-focus-cities-of-sigmargw-homepage-post-4/

Lots and lots of details on Cities of Sigmar - from battleline to army composition to allies and even more.

Of note there's a huge amount of battleline units on offer as well as options for themed battalions.
In addition whilst they get no endless spells, all the universal endless spells that they do cast count as being empowered by their respective realm. So they get nothing unique, but they do get empowered spells even if you're not using realm rules for the game. That's going to make a lot of the core spells very attractive to use for them.

The two new start collecting boxes are £60 each (from what the GW rep told my facebook based kit supplier today)

How much should that be in USD? Just curious if that's the $90 or the $95/100 level for SC boxes, now that there's more than one price.

I think this book is a must, since my wife has order stuff and can basically trick it out with Sylvaneth and/or Stormcast mixed in.

 Overread wrote:
Of note there's a huge amount of battleline units on offer as well as options for themed battalions.

Oh my crap, Hydra/Kharybdiss as battleline:

I did not know that was a thing I needed in my life

$95 price-mark. It's Skitarii level.

Really excited at the options presented, we'll see how it stacks up in reality when released.

Wild Riders and Black Guard are the only Aelf units that aren't a Hero that cannot be Battleline.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
The two new start collecting boxes are £60 each (from what the GW rep told my facebook based kit supplier today)

Not bad for Anvilgard, but you're just getting the characters for free in the Greywater Fastness one.

From the Warhammer Age of Sigmar Facebook page:

beast_gts wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
The two new start collecting boxes are £60 each (from what the GW rep told my facebook based kit supplier today)

Not bad for Anvilgard, but you're just getting the characters for free in the Greywater Fastness one.

In USD:
Irondrakes/Ironbreakers are $50.
Gyrocopters are $50.
Cogsmiths and Warden Kings are $25 each, so that's another $50.
Contents are $150 but the box is $95.

You save $55, meaning both characters or any of the boxes are free and tax is a bit less.

Anvilgard is:
Corsairs for $30
Fleetmaster is $25
Kharibdyss/Hydra is $65
Chariot is $45
Contents are $165, box is $95.
You save $70...but comparatively, you're not getting much. Corsairs are cheap. A 10 man unit, currently, isn't impressive.

 Kanluwen wrote:

beast_gts wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
The two new start collecting boxes are £60 each (from what the GW rep told my facebook based kit supplier today)

Not bad for Anvilgard, but you're just getting the characters for free in the Greywater Fastness one.

In USD:
Irondrakes/Ironbreakers are $50.
Gyrocopters are $50.
Cogsmiths and Warden Kings are $25 each, so that's another $50.
Contents are $150 but the box is $95.

You save $55, meaning both characters or any of the boxes are free and tax is a bit less.

Anvilgard is:
Corsairs for $30
Fleetmaster is $25
Kharibdyss/Hydra is $65
Chariot is $45
Contents are $165, box is $95.
You save $70...but comparatively, you're not getting much. Corsairs are cheap. A 10 man unit, currently, isn't impressive.

Gyrocopters were horrendously overpriced in cash when released though, it makes it artificially a better offering in that regard.

Mr Morden wrote:Vampires are all over the Mortal Realms including Azyr and the new Cites of Sigmar - when Nagash and Sigmar are not outright fighting they are probably given the same lattitude as Scourge privateers or Khainites.

Its fun that you can now have Blood Knights unit (Mecranaries) leading your Free Cities cavalry but yeah a Vampire led living army would be very nice and loresome, as you say Neferata has not changed and has her living and dead agents everywhere....

I used to have a Von Carstein army with plenty of Sylvanian militia. Ahh good old 6th(?).

Boss Salvage wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Of note there's a huge amount of battleline units on offer as well as options for themed battalions.

Oh my crap, Hydra/Kraken as battleline:

Spoiler:

Everything you see is battleline (many unlocked by choice of general)

I did not know that was a thing I needed in my life

Guess they have some stock to clear

They do mention that some of those are only battle-line if unlocked by a commander. You can probably guess which ones.

 Boss Salvage wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Of note there's a huge amount of battleline units on offer as well as options for themed battalions.

Oh my crap, Hydra/Kharybdiss as battleline:

Spoiler:

Everything you see is battleline (many unlocked by choice of general)

I did not know that was a thing I needed in my life

My Empire army apparently needs more Steam Tanks. Battleline Steam Tanks is too silly not to try.