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As the title says, at first I was very skeptical about AoS as I was a long time fan of WFB (5th edition), so it was painful to see a setting I had grown up with come to a sudden end.

Fast forward a few years, and I am now willing to give the setting a chance as I have come to see the quite frankly wonderful miniatures for the new imagined races come to light.

That and I am getting ever annoyed with the sheer glut of Marine variants in 40k.

So with that all said, if I were to start and wanted to get an idea of the background, but not wanting a Starter set (not a fan of the factions.) Where would be a good start?

 stonehorse wrote:
As the title says, at first I was very skeptical about AoS as I was a long time fan of WFB (5th edition), so it was painful to see a setting I had grown up with come to a sudden end.

Fast forward a few years, and I am now willing to give the setting a chance as I have come to see the quite frankly wonderful miniatures for the new imagined races come to light.

That and I am getting ever annoyed with the sheer glut of Marine variants in 40k.

So with that all said, if I were to start and wanted to get an idea of the background, but not wanting a Starter set (not a fan of the factions.) Where would be a good start?

I would recommend the realmgate wars as a good start and of course the battletomes. there was an original hardback AoS core book that had lore in it.

There would be a setting book coming out possibly this year so it should be your prime target. Other than that that the Realmgate wars books, various novels and batlle tomes. I should warn you that useful info is pretty scant though... The first hardback book Age of Sigmar has possibly the widest assortment of info, but honestly it is not a very good buy. Various novels could serve you better as they have been adopted as cannon and are regularly cited in lore disputes... If you wanted something right now I guess you could possibly get the first Age of Sigmar book and some novels - the legends of the age of sigmar series are generally a good pick. My advice would be to read all the wikis and just wait for the actual setting book because right now to get some kind of a picture out of AoS you have to pay through the nose for 2 tonnes of hardback books and novels....

www.malignportents.com You'll find an abbreviated timeline and some really good short stories regarding the coming campaign.

scribd subscription has all the AoS books on it as well.

Is there any lore in that 'Getting Started with Warhammer Age of SIgmar' book? The one that comes with a pushfit liberator?

Theres a couple of pages of history done as comic book panels, but its relatively scant and basic.

city of secrets is a pretty good book. goes more into the day to day lives of ordinary people than any of the other stuff before it.