AoS releases

[Terentius]

Hahaha op 24:30 in de video.

Meer nieuw spul:

[Chris]

Ik moet toegeven dat het me aan begint te groeien. Mijn aversie was vooral omdat het zon radicale stijl verandering is, maar als je de minis zonder vooroordeel bekijkt zijn ze gewoon wel weer heel erg goed.

[blaze unlimited]

wat modellen en vrijheid betreft vind ik er leuk uitzien.
Echter tijdens dat filmpje lijkt het meer 1 grote moshpit te zijn dan echt een tactisch spelletje.
Hopelijk komt dit door de onervarenheid met een nieuw systeem

[Beastherder]

Die 'grappige' regels zijn wel oke
Geven duidelijk aan dat dit allemaal niet serieus genomen moet worden
(for better or worse)

Ook een stap terug naar 'vroeger' toen er in Fantasy wel vaker gelachen kon worden
Goblins die werden opgevreten door Squigs, Skaven die zichzelf opblazen etc.
In de laatste jaren is het allemaal wel erg serieus geworden



Uit de laatste Mantic nieuwsbrief
(dikke letters zijn van mij)

[quote=" Mantic "] Kings of War: The Game of Fantasy Battles

As I hope you know Mantic has been giving away the basic rule set for FREE since the game first came out, and this edition is no difference.

However, this time these are going out BEFORE the launch – because we are so confident that if you like mass battle games you’ll love these rules (and for some reason there has been a lot of requests in the last few days).

July 10th sees the new rules go up for free download. A set will be emailed to you and you will also be entered into a draw to win one of three signed copies of the hardback rule book too – please tell your friends and get them to sign up to the newsletter.

The Kings of War Hardback rulebook will be in-stores 22nd August, to find out more about this book and all it contains please click here. (link to http://manticblog.com/2015/06/30/the-ga ... gs-of-war/)

Due to recent huge spike in interest it is looking like the first print will be gone very quickly. Please place a pre-order with your local friendly local gaming store now – or on the Mantic site.

[Beastherder]

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2015/07/age-of-simgar-we-might-need-a-faq.html

[Terentius]

GW had a guy camped out at the Forge World open day whos entire job was to answer questions and talk to people about Age of Sigmar. His entire job is to go to shows and talk to people about the new game. For the first time I think ever they're taking Age of Sigmar to Gencon, Comic Con, all the major wargames conventions in Europe etc. They're throwing a considerable amount of money at putting this in front of new audiences who have never played fantasy before. He was also brutally honest and didn't dodge any questions and answered everything he could. I'll start with the negative stuff first.

This is it. There categorically will not be a '9th' edition of fantasy. Age of Sigmar is the only thing fantasy related GW will do for the considerable future.

He acknowledges that the 'funny' rules are rather silly and don't make for a great intro to the system for new people. His response was that the armies in the box set don't have the silly rules. They're there as kind of a celebration and final send off of the old warhammer armies, and he said you might notice the new armies don't have the stupid noises or imaginary friends. This is deliberate, its designed that you'll only generally play the old stuff with your mates since it's a bit embarassing to play in a public place.

The new races will look different to the old ones. Ooruks will not look the same as the orcs we currently have. As such, when they get round to releasing Ooruks, the old models will cease production. He did say that you can still use your old models as ooruks, but you won't be able to buy normal orc boys again.

There will never be points values.

On to the slightly positive stuff then.

They are going to fully support all modes of play, and will be releasing rules to balance armies against each other. There will be narrative campaigns where your forces are picked for you for specific missions, and there will be a system for tournament players to balance lists that isn't based on model count. He did not know the specifics of this, but said it is definitely coming.

The rules will always be free. He said that they are very very aware that fantasy had a massive buy in for someone to get started, as such the game was designed with the ability to play it with one box of models. There will be army books, but every rule in them will be available, for free, online. The books will just have extra background info and scenarios.

GW really are trying harder than they ever have before to make this work. If you're at one of the shows go and talk to them. They want to talk to you about this, but especially they want your feedback on it. As he said, this is totally uncharted territory for them and they are totally open to rules revisions as they go.

[Gotrek]

He acknowledges that the 'funny' rules are rather silly and don't make for a great intro to the system for new people. His response was that the armies in the box set don't have the silly rules. They're there as kind of a celebration and final send off of the old warhammer armies, and he said you might notice the new armies don't have the stupid noises or imaginary friends. This is deliberate, its designed that you'll only generally play the old stuff with your mates since it's a bit embarassing to play in a public place.

Dus ipv onze oude modellen obsolete te maken door ze te veel punten te laten kosten, geven we ze maar gewoon belachelijke regels zodat niemand ze durft te gebruiken

GW really are trying harder than they ever have before to make this work. If you're at one of the shows go and talk to them. They want to talk to you about this, but especially they want your feedback on it. As he said, this is totally uncharted territory for them and they are totally open to rules revisions as they go.

Dat is wel een hele grote draai voor GW, dit moet ik nog zien gebeuren. Maar als het echt zo is waarom hadden ze dit dan niet gedaan voordat ze AOS hadden uitgebracht?

[blaze unlimited]

Ik zie het maar als een goed teken dat GW zich aan het nieuwe "klimaat" probeert aan te passen

[Benman]

Ik kan alleen nog geen verband leggen tussen 'no value for units' en 'game balance'.

Kan ik dan straks ook met m'n FoW Duitsers een spelletje spelen tegen Bretonnians?

[Gotrek]

Vooral met modellen die dus hele units kunnen summonen. Ik las dit al op Facebook:

Somebody writing about their game of AOS-
"I started with 1 Lord of Change, which needed a 4+ on either of the 2 dice to summon a 2nd Lord of Change. The 2nd lord of change summoned a 3rd, then another. Then all 4 summoned heralds. That was my first turn.

All chaos wizards can summon daemons, FYI."