Age of Sigmar Rumor Roundup

[Erik Setzer]

Well, I'm ready for midnight, to figure out rules for these guys and then give a few trial runs to see how it plays.



Dwarfs:
Lord with axe and pistol
Lord with axe and shield
Engineer
Runesmith
2x Slayer hero
10 Ironbreakers
10 Slayers
10 Thunderers
16 Thunderers
8 Miners
12 Warriors
2x Cannon

Orcs & Goblins:
Black Orc Hero
Orc Hero
Savage Orc Shaman
Goblin Shaman
Night Goblin Shaman
10 Black Orcs
10 Arrer Boyz
10 Orcs w/ 2 hand weapons
10 Savage Orcs w/ 2 hand weapons
15 Night Goblins w/ short bow

Not exactly balanced against each other, since it's mostly what I could scrounge for Orcs (I'm not taking apart my painted army). I figure this should allow for testing melee units, ranged units, heroes, magic, and artillery.

[Asymmetrical Xeno]

If you can take whatever models you like then I guess my tomb kings serpent host will be playable, does anyone know what the right round base equivilent for the charriot bases would be? I much prefer the round ones and never glued them to the ones they came with anyway..

[40kGamer]

Forget the round bases. I blew the dust off of 15 year old armies to get ready for the new rules.

Hopefully they're good... I'm also hoping for a WOTR style supplement in the future to bring in movement trays and more massive battles. I don't want to push 100-200 figs around individually.

[Wargamer]

More pictures from /tg/

[Mr Mystery]

Refers to a guide rather than rules....

That's an interesting turn of phrase.

[Erik Setzer]

Refers to a guide rather than rules....

That's an interesting turn of phrase.

It's more "friendly," especially if they're going for just narrative games with no set structure just to allow people to tell a story with their miniatures.

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Meanwhile:

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/blog/blog.jsp;jsessionid=81EFF9582B5FC8605F5943FE2B5A19 95

"This issue of White Dwarf also includes a four-page pull-out containing all the rules for Warhammer Age of Sigmar."

So there it says rules, and says it's ALL the rules.

Can we PLEASE stop this nonsense with acting like the four pages are just some starter set rules only intended for intro games? Now we have GW's official website saying that's all the rules. It's not a scan or copy of an email, not rumors from whatever-reliability rumor mongers. It's the official company, saying officially, THESE ARE ALL THE RULES.

[Tomgar]

Mantic are releasing Kings of War 2nd Ed for free next Friday. Just thought I'd throw that out there. Y'know, once we're all done licking each others' balls and such.

[Erik Setzer]

GW's site has converted their Warhammer section to Age of Sigmar and has the armies broken down by "faction" (Order, Chaos, Death, Destruction) and race. You can see the names for the races, and see who matches up with who in the new setting.

I'm still shaking my head at "Orruk," "Ogor," and "Troggoth."

Seraphon are indeed Lizardmen.

It seems they're still sorting it, though. I clicked on Beastmen, saw only 8 products with some key ones missing (i.e. Centigors), then clicked on something else, noticed the numbers for Beastmen had changed, and Centigors were showing then. So don't assume anything's gone until a few hours have passed.

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Also interesting to see classifications: Hero, Monster, Priest, Engineer, Wizard, War Machine. I'm guessing there'll be some rules that apply to Priest and Engineer characters in the warscrolls.

Sure, we'll know in a few hours, but it's fun to guess right now!

[Trojan66]

Dark elves. Sitting nicely under forces of order so all swell in the world...still as Mr mystery has been routinely telling us for months, there's no major shake up of the game coming up...why would they do that , it doesn't make business sense !
Needs a cricket bat in his balls not a pair of lips...

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And can someone remind me why the race names had to change ?

[Tomgar]

All out on New Zealand's site. No points values, 4pg rulebook and Warscrolls is all you get. Like I've been saying from the start. Hard not to look smug right now.

Ah, bugger it.

*adopts the smug face*