I figured this would be helpful to new and experienced players alike in keeping track of how the state of the game generally is and a track on what is likely to come in the near future from what
GW has officially said.
GAME EXPANSIONS
Note I've listed this as expansions, however several of them are so widely used that they are considered core to the game in many play areas.
Malign Sorcery. Endless spell components are considered to be core to the game. Use of realm specific rules varies region to region, though generally quite well accepted in most places.
A single boxed set that contains:
rules for Realm Spells, Realm Artefacts and Endless Spells.
14 warscroll cards
13 endless spells (Balewind vortex is the "missing" Endless Spell model as it has its own box)
Forbidden Powers. Another expansion boxed set like Malign Sorcery. Endless spells and new terrain feature are generally considered core to the game. Mercenaries and new terrain feature rules vary region to region, but generally good uptake. Note set appears to contain less than Malign Sorcery, however most of the models in this kit are much larger.
Rules for Greyfyrd Lodge Fyreslayers and Tenebrous Court Flesh-eaters - both mercenary company bands.
Model and rules for Penumbral Engine terrain feature
4 New Endless spells
Warscroll cards for new models and several new terrain sets (as listed on the
GW store page)
Older expansions. These are often still valid to play, however as they were generally linked to time-limited events run by
GW they are often not so widely used after their general campaign period. Model stats presented in them are likely very out of date though and I believe some battleplans have been reprinted in latter publications. The books can sometimes have lore in them which is often an engaging read for those after a bit more depth and understanding of the world and story of the Age of Sigmar
Malign Portents - mostly a campaign book with battleplans and some narrative battle systems. The rules for models are now present in the respective armies in the Battletomes; whilst the terrain feature is no longer sold by
GW. Note currently
GW only sells this in e-book format.
Skirmish - a rules set for playing smaller games with far fewer models. Whilst most new battletomes have details for their army for Skirmish within them, the original book is now out of date.
GW reprinted updated rules in a White Dwarf issue in 2019 (need to edit in when I find which one) - note this
WD might be a bit tricky to get hold of. It's hoped/expected that Skirmish might get its own updated book in time - however Warcry has somewhat jumped into its slot of the smaller format game right now.
Realmgate Wars - some of the first campaign books to be released for the game. The story lore from them is already sold in books by Black Library. Meanwhile the stats and many of the rules are now very out of date.
GW only sells these now as ebooks.
Path to Glory - much like the Realmgate Wars this is another very early publication in the
AoS timeframe and is now quite out of date.
BATTLETOMES
Note:
Old Battletome = earlier editions which have lore and warscroll cards; but have no allegiance abilities, pre
AoS 2.0 rules
New Battletome = more recent release with
AoS 2.0 rules, includes more depth and allegiance abilities and other extended content.
No Endless Spells = army with new battletome, but no unique endless spells
Unique Terrain = army has unique terrain feature as part of their collection
Current count (note includes all announced Battletomes)
No Battletome - 0
Old Battletomes - 0
2.0 compatible Battletomes- 24
Grand Alliance Order:
Free Cities - combines Free Peoples, Dispossessed and Aelves - New Battletome, No Terrain, No Spells (however all universal Endless Spells get realm bonus as default)
Daughters of Khaine - New Battletome, No Endless Spells
Fyreslayers - New Battletome announced along with Endless Spells and Terrain feature
Idoneth Deepkin - New Battletome, No Endless Spells, Unique Terrain
Kharadron Overlords - New Battletome
Seraphon - New Battletome, Unique Terrain
Stormcast Eternals - New Battletome, Unique Endless Spells
Sylvaneth - New Battletome, Unique Endless spells, Unique Terrain
Lumineth Realm-Lords - BRAND NEW army reveals in proper began at the
LVO 2020 event reveal
Grand Alliance Chaos:
Beasts of Chaos - New Battletome, Unique Endless Spells, Unique Terrain
Blades of Khorne - New Battletome, Unique Endless Spells, Unique Terrain
Disciples of Tzeentch - New Battletome, Unique Endless Spells
Slaves to Darkness - New Battletome, Unique Endless Spells
Hedonites of Slaanesh - New Battletome, Endless Spells and Unique Terrain
Maggotkin of Nurgle - New Battletome. Unique Terrain
Skaven (All Clans) - New Battletome, Unique Endless Spells, Unique Terrain
Legion of Azgorh (Forgeworld Chaos Dwarves) - New Battletome
Tamurkhan's Horde (Forgeworld Nurgle) - New Battletome - WARNING Tamurkhan has been removed from sale from
FW - army status at risk
Grand Alliance Death:
Flesh Eater Courts - New Battletome, Unique Endless Spells, Unique Terrain
Legions of Nagash - New Battletome, No Endless Spells
Nighthaunt - New Battletome, Unique Endless Spells
Ossiarch Bonereapers - New Battletome, Unique terrain, Unique Endless Spells
Grand Alliance Destruction:
Ogor Mawtribes - New Battletome, Unique Terrain
Orruk Warclans - New Battletome - no terrain - no endless spells.
Gloomspite Gitz - New Battletome, Unique Endless Spells, Unique Terrain
Forgeworld Armies - downloads for Rules found here :
https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Downloads#warhammeraos
Removed armies: Note these are armies no longer listed on the
GW store for sale, they might have Generals Handbook rules, or they might have been consolidated into other Battletomes/armies.
Brayherd - No Battletome, Allegiance Abilities GHB2018 - However army replaced now with Beasts of Chaos as unified force.
Greenskinz - No Battletome - all models removed from sale
Gitmob (goblins) - No Battletome - all models removed from sale
Aelves - general listing (includes most of the old elf model lines and aelf lines from
AoS) Now majority rolled into either Free Cities or removed from sale.
Darkling Covens - GHB2019 rules only - however model line is in Free Cities
Wanderers - akin to aelves above.
Beastclaw Raiders - now part of Ogor Mawtribes
Gutbusters - now part of Ogor Mawtribes
Everchosen - now rolled into Slaves to Darkness
Consolidated future Battletome release rumours/hints:
Lumineth Realm-lords - Revealed at the New Years event, release in Spring 2020
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/01/04/reveals-from-the-new-year-open-day-2020gw-homepage-post-1/
Sons of Behemat - shipping manifesto seen with their name on and teased in a
GW video, but no actual photos nor details yet.
WARNING = products likely and actually on last orders
Forgeworld models -
FW has removed quite a lot of
AoS models recently and might well continue to remove more in the short term. Keep an eye on them and buy any you want (even popular ones like the magma dragon, warpfiredragon and wolf rats have gone!)
Realm of Chaos: Wrath and Rapture - all models within are now on individual sale - very likely this box will vanish.
Other Age of Sigmar Games:
The following are other games set within the Age of Sigmar:
UNDERWORLD:
A card and board format game which features small warparties of warriors adventuring and competing over small battlefields. The game features core packs which update every so often with a new edition (Beastgrave is the current edition). These contain boards to play on as well as warbands to play with. Many races feature their own unique styled warband which is sold with its own cards and rules. Launch periods often have custom card protectors and dice for newly released factions.
A minor negative point is that many universal cards (can be used by any force) are often sold through different warbands so there's a bit of a "collect them all" aspect to the game.
The models released in this have full rules for the full
AoS game and can be used in it. Those which had battletomes published after the release of a warband will have the rules within the battletome; otherwise the rules will be included in the box and on the
GW website under the rules tab for each warband on their store page.
NOTE The
GW store often shows two listings for many of these warbands. One on the "Underworlds" tab which has a slightly higher price and will have all the Underworld cards included. The other is on the army page for the warband under Age of Sigmar and will feature a slightly lower price but also no cards. Note some warbands do fall out of production when it comes to card supply; however the models remain on sale under their respective army page. Sometimes you can find "out of production" warbands with cards in retailers (3rd party and
GW stores).
WARCRY
A skirmish game format which features its own unique set of rules and boxed game. The game works by using small warbands of warriors, either unique chaos themed ones or regular models from all current
GW armies for the game.
The game is sold through terrain packs which contain terrain features in plastic as well as card boards to play the game on. The terrain positions and design vary depending on randomly drawn cards which detail the setup of the game; the position for starting for both players; twists (unique variations to the rules/stats which can include wandering monsters such as chaos furies).
Players roll dice and make choices on how to play through the battle. Games are short and brutal aiming for a quick to setup and quick to play game ideal for new people with limited budgets and for any gamer with limited time or after a different scale of combat.
All models can be used in the regular
AoS game (most Warcry unique models are all from the Slaves to Darkness
AoS army