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GW sent me a box of City of Ash, so I took some high-res sprue images and did an unboxing video for you. I also compiled a list of all the build options of each kit. Gutter Runners & Night Runners are a dual kit, so you can also build 20 Gutter Runners or 20 Night Runners if you fancy. Also the terrain is super modular, a shame you just get a single sprue of it.

Check my review over on my blog: https://taleofpainters.com/2026/04/review-age-of-sigmar-spearhead-city-of-ash/

Well that was fast

Do we know if Gallant heads are interchangeable with Freeguild Cavaliers?

If I wasn't saving up for the new Guard kits I'd have probably nabbed this set for the various bits

I just want those buildings and more of them

 GaroRobe wrote:
I just want those buildings and more of them

Same

jullevi wrote:
Do we know if Gallant heads are interchangeable with Freeguild Cavaliers?

The heads are fully interchangeable.

A look at Cogforts :

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/paeb02ns/what-is-a-cogfort/

Looking forward to how folks convert theirs to their faction of choice.

I take it since we're seeing articles for the thing now we can expect a pre-order announcement on Sunday?

Will be interesting to see what the thing costs. Not pretty, but interesting.

Presumably. Seems to be a habit now the full release gets announced the weekend a launch box gets its release. I'm guessing the same as Mega-G in cost.

Hm, perhaps I could find some use for that warmachine colossal hiding in the attic. But it might be somewhat on the small side to count as a cog fort.

 nels1031 wrote:
A look at Cogforts :

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/paeb02ns/what-is-a-cogfort/

Looking forward to how folks convert theirs to their faction of choice.

I don't play AoS, but these are pretty wild.

Christ, finally

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/9idi5uub/sunday-preview-march-out-with-the-cities-of-sigmar/

The second most expensive week of the year has finally come.

And here comes the pain

The online store seems to be down? So I can’t check $210 right now (€ prices below)

I think the store is being updated/having a glitch cause its working in the UK, but all the non plastic models vanished in one go (resin and metal across all ranges)

That would be cheaper than the mega, which would be surprising. 106 for the gargants? that seems, actually quite fair.

Euro prices from TGA

Cogfort 170
Gargants 84
Erasmus 55
Terrain 51,25
Gallants and Grenadiers 45
Each mage 32,5

Edit price list attached some price differ to earlier

That's 5 cheaper than the 40k combat patrol starter which is £134. So it's ever so slightly cheaper than a mega.

I'm very happy Dawner's Triumph is only $65

But no way in hell is the death knellmage worth $40...

 GaroRobe wrote:
I'm very happy Dawner's Triumph is only $65

But no way in hell is the death knellmage worth $40...

You're paying for the sweet tactical column and getting the Knellmage free.

I think I do want a Cogfort as a challenge display piece. But not this month.

Yeah, the big stuff isn't as expensive as I thought it would be, still going to have to go on the wish-list for now though.

I suppose you could argue that at 170€ the Cogfort is okay as it's ever so slightly cheaper than giant giants at 172.50€, but it's worth remembering that giant giants started out with a generous price difference to their 40k equivalent. Imperial Knights are still only 150€ for what's effectively the same size category.

By itself that's a bit much for my taste. For me the temptation will be in any third party discount that exceeds the usual 20%. Which I suppose won't come up before Black Friday at the earliest. Or if one is part of a Christmas battle force if the rest of the contents agree with me.

Cogfort rules et al

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/gyfmfcvt/cities-of-sigmar-rules-the-mighty-cogfort/

Those are some chunky rules.

I think it is a weird choice to give the flame cannon auto 22 attacks with the heat ability. The average for 6D6 is already 21. Why should you take this?

The 1 on the other hand is really good with Grenadiers.

 Astmeister wrote:
I think it is a weird choice to give the flame cannon auto 22 attacks with the heat ability. The average for 6D6 is already 21. Why should you take this?

The 1 on the other hand is really good with Grenadiers.

Because Fate is fickle.

 Astmeister wrote:
I think it is a weird choice to give the flame cannon auto 22 attacks with the heat ability. The average for 6D6 is already 21. Why should you take this?

The 1 on the other hand is really good with Grenadiers.

Reliability. 6d6 is incredibly swingy. If you really really need some damage but don't have much reason to fish for the high roll (say, you need to scorch some Chosen before they blow something up, but the unit isn't full) you don't want to risk getting just 11 or so attacks out with a bad roll.

Sometimes you just need to absolutely, positively, burnificate every melon farmer right in front of you.

I feel like to be more on-theme with “safeties” being off it should add some fixed amount eye 10 to the 6D6 roll for attacks then add extra heat for every attack over say 30. But that’s even more math and I know people don’t like that.
Still, guaranteed numbers for a small penalty isn’t terrible.