I am losing interest...

[chipset35]

First off, let me point out that I purchased the Age of Sigmar starter set to great excitement at getting in at the bottom floor of something new.
I purchased all the novels as I am a lore junkie.
Unfortunately, I have stopped buying both...here is why.

1) The novels and Storm Hosts are uninspiring, they are the same old thing in each, i.e. Storm Host is being overrun, another Host comes to their rescue, victory is now in their grasp, then a big bad guy shows up and they are on the brink of disaster again, then somehow the Storm Host pulls out a victory usually due to divine intervention. None of these novels can hold a candle to ANY Warhammer 40K or Warhammer Fantasy Novel. Not because the writers are not good, but because the writers have nothing to work with. Uninspiring Heroes and in the case of the Storm Hosts, they lack the variety of both Warhammer and WH40K.
The bad guys do have better variety, but the Storm Hosts remind me of NFL football teams all with the same uniforms and slightly different color schemes. They do not compare to even Space marine chapters.

2) The setting is bland....and confusing.
Are they in the old world a different world, in the iron core of the old world? Who knows?
You would think that the current setting would be interesting, but its not.
It would have been better if GW had placed AoS in the ruins of the old world with recognizable features or ruins that we used to find interesting. Instead, we have a bland and bleak boring landscape that despite its variety pales in comparison to the old world.

3) I want to love AoS, it was my first and only chance to get in at the ground floor of Warhammer/40K, but the more I read, the more I see the less excited i get. Maybe Dan Abnett can inject some life into it by writing an Epic Novel for it?

[Psychosplodge]

Don't distract Dan Abnett, he's got Gaunt's ghosts books, the next Eisornhorn/Ravennor book, and whatever else they want for the heresy from him to do.

[Charon]

Don't distract Dan Abnett, he's got Gaunt's ghosts books, the next Eisornhorn/Ravennor book, and whatever else they want for the heresy from him to do.

Benqin!

[Psychosplodge]

That's what I said

[Xodis]

Don't distract Dan Abnett, he's got Gaunt's ghosts books, the next Eisornhorn/Ravennor book, and whatever else they want for the heresy from him to do.

You also forgot the He-man comic book series going on right now....its awesome

[Psychosplodge]

I didn't, I wasn't aware/didn't care (delete as appropriate) as I covered the ones that mattered

[Just Tony]

I imagine things will pick up a bit again when new 40k starts dropping, ZPGs only good for lols at this stage, like

[url]http://warhammerworld.games-workshop.com/2015/08/03/the-battle-for-the-realmgates-the-eight-realms/[/url]

and

[url]http://warhammerworld.games-workshop.com/2015/08/04/the-battle-for-the-realmgates-the-eight-realms-2/[/url]

for example.

Side splitting stuff.

Maybe they need to introduce a Realm of Resin with rules appropriate, then they can try to seduce people into buying Finecrap.

Well I see the dance around while rubbing your belly aspect of the game is still alive and well... maybe we're just playing this thing at the wrong level of intoxication.

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For me this has always been a GW board so I don't bother posting much about the other games here since you get better and broader feedback on them elsewhere.

Case in point, there isn't even a subforum for Star Trek Attack Wing. If I want to have ANY sort of discussion, I have to go elsewhere. However, coming here over the past month or so has resulted in only a couple WFB/AOS threads being responded to at all and the general mood of the place feeling like a ghost town.

I'm losing interest in anything but Classichammer at this point.

[Caitsidhe]

Maybe they need to introduce a Realm of Resin with rules appropriate, then they can try to seduce people into buying Finecrap.



Case in point, there isn't even a subforum for Star Trek Attack Wing. If I want to have ANY sort of discussion, I have to go elsewhere. However, coming here over the past month or so has resulted in only a couple WFB/AOS threads being responded to at all and the general mood of the place feeling like a ghost town.

I'm losing interest in anything but Classichammer at this point.

Yep. Forums like this are canaries in the coal mine. I've said this before and been told I'm crazy. However, there is a direct correlation between activity on Forums and interest/sale of a product. If what is happening around the internet is any indicator (and I am submitting that it is) then AOS is going down like a submarine with screen doors. The sad thing is there is also a steady decline in conversations about 40K too. It seems to mirror the slow but sure decline in discussions and interest online that befell WHFB. Food for thought.

[40kGamer]

First off, let me point out that I purchased the Age of Sigmar starter set to great excitement at getting in at the bottom floor of something new.
I purchased all the novels as I am a lore junkie. Unfortunately, I have stopped buying both...here is why.

Right there with you. Although the lack of any balancing mechanism also contributed to my plunging interest as well. Guess those Stormcast Eternals are going to be the basis of some Truescale Blood Angels for me now.

[nsc]

1) I disagree, I find the individual personalities of each Stormcast to be very endearing, they're all very different and vibrant. They all behave slightly differently, with many being recklessly zealous for their own reasons. I find the reforging very interesting and I like how the stormcasts react to the creeping realization of what exactly it means to be a portion of sigmar's will. I find them infinitely more interesting than the standard loyalist marines and I've only read one short story which left a bad taste in my mouth (mandrake, imo the writing is absolutely abysmal).

2) How are you confused if you've read all these materials? The mortal realms are clearly separate from the old world which hangs in Azyr as a metal lump. The old world in its entirety (well what survived) is that metal lump. All of these mortal realms are pocket dimensions made real by sigmar and other gods. They are new and separate from everything previous, they are joined by realmgates and other celestial constructs.

Within these realms there are many thousands of years (possibly 2, possibly more) of history which are slowly being teased to us. Heroes and Heroines are cast about as desecrated statues which the stories from the blacklibrary and the campaign books, and I don't know about you, but I want to know more. I want to learn more about Celemnis and her Celemnite swords, I want to hear of her tragedy and rage which binds her soul to molten silver.

This is a type of world building which in design is known as "top down" and it is very popular. Now, if you don't like it, it's fine for you to say that you don't like it, but it's not fine for you to say that this is bland, sloppy, or bad. They've done a very good job of top down world design, providing a great deal of detail for the mortal planes within gorgeous maps, and very well placed and teased top-down lore design. MaRo very famously talked about the first edition of magic, where things like Shivian Dragons excited many people into wonder, "Where is shiv? Why does it have dragons?"

If this type of curiosity doesn't appeal to you then I'm sorry, it appeals to me and it's wonderful. With every page turn there's more to discover within this age and it's very exciting for me.

3) I cannot excite you friend, but if you don't like the design style of the setting then I suppose there's nothing to be done.