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Had a game of AoS 3rd on Saturday, and while we got various rules wrong (mostly through rules inertia from a lot of other games) and largely ignored others (a chunk of the faction abilities) in favour of just pushing some models about to try the basic concepts it went quite well.

my Nighthaunt v a friends Orcs with 1,000 points, or about 90 less in my case due to not having a 90 point unit to add. Only magic used was stuff on the unit profiles so just the Guardian of Souls spell for me, none for the Orcs.

enjoyable, and not as predictable as I thought it was going to be, I'm not used to being so seriously out numbered and never having seen the Orc book they had some surprises which added a fair bit to it, grots chucking acid was fun. both surprised at how bloody the game was with huge losses on both sides but impressed by the scoring (we only had the objective VP as had decided to drop the other bits) but was interesting to see a game seemingly written so anyone who tries a castle/gunline is going to lose.

while its not the best fantasy game I have (do love the middle earth game) its both good and different enough in how it works to be worth playing as well, and with the large number of legacy models I have I can see getting a few more books as well.

the main disappointment is the core rulebook, since I already had the downloadable core rules about the only bit of this that was useful was the couple of pages on how to actually build the army and the few more with scenarios. To be honest I'd much prefer this to be a two volume set in a slip case, the hardbacked book with the background and art, which looks very nice but isn't needed during the game and a softback/spiral bound rules volume that has all the rules in it - even if that gets a re-issue annually.

Opponent had gotten hold of the Orc unit cards, naturally I can't get the Nighthaunt ones as typically for GW they are a splash release, will be making my own as a result

overall it was worth the time to set up and play and will play it enough the cost of the rulebook for the few required pages isn't that irritating, though I can see a scanner and printer being used to create a "portable" edition that can have the FAQ etc added to the folder its in

thumbs up here, who knows maybe next time will even play it properly

Get ghb(though new one comes in summer). Ring binder, contains core rules and 12 more scenarios. You miss just ptg stuff from big tile. While ptg is fun you don't need big book outside it

tneva82 wrote:
Get ghb(though new one comes in summer). Ring binder, contains core rules and 12 more scenarios. You miss just ptg stuff from big tile. While ptg is fun you don't need big book outside it

does the GH have stuff like the matched play rules and the bit on how to put a matched play army together?

if so that book looks a country mile more portable

Yes. Basically all but open play, ptg and core book matched play pack(but that's separate so if you play ghb rules you don't need core book. Battle tactics etc separate. Ghb is instead of instead of in addition)

tneva82 wrote:
Yes. Basically all but open play, ptg and core book matched play pack(but that's separate so if you play ghb rules you don't need core book. Battle tactics etc separate. Ghb is instead of instead of in addition)

cheers, will have a look