The Flesh Eater Court Reigns With New Age Of Sigmar Book
May 7, 2016 by brennon
Age Of Sigmar is back in control this week from Games Workshop as they show off the new Battletome for the Flesh-Eater Court. Here we have a ravening horde of Ghouls baying for your blood ready to suck the marrow from your bones!
Inside this book you get...
- A huge amount of information including the history and organisation of the Flesh-eater Courts, their vile actions and motivations, with full background for every unit, character and monster in the faction;
- Three Battleplans - new ways to play Warhammer Age of Sigmar, with special rules and situations;
- Twelve warscrolls – one for each miniature in the Flesh-eater Courts range;
- An incredible showcase of beautifully-painted Citadel miniatures;
- The full rules for Warhammer Age of Sigmar - play right away!
...which means that you can seriously go to town on that massive blood covered army of savages you've been thinking of doing.
Miniatures
The range of Ghouls that you have on offer is made up of re-packaged kits now with round bases. The big army that you can get is King Vlagorescu's Ghoulish Host.
But you can break it down and get individual sets like the Crypt Flayers...
Or if they aren't quite your bag then you can a little smaller with the Crypt Horrors.
The main bulk of your army is going to be made up of the likes of the Crypt Ghouls though.
There are additional miniature sets available however so if you're interested in putting together an army of shambling corpse-eaters you have plenty of variety.
Will you be considering them as a new army?
"The big army that you can get is King Vlagorescu's Ghoulish Host..."
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If AoS looks interesting to me after the rules update it’ll either be these guys or the orruks that I pick up.
Aren’t they making AoS needlessly complicated to get into ?
There’s campaign books, codexes (codices?), the starter set and now a ‘death battletome’ ?
Then again … repeating the four pages of rules in every book must be rather trivial lol.
But you technically don’t need any of those books to play and you can still play against people who DO have those books. It’s actually very flexible.
technically you never need any of the extras (except when even GW marks them as ‘must have’ like they did with the new rules for flyers in 40k).
However I’d expect any competitive player to want to have some knowledge of the capability of his opponents.
And as I said … for newbies it is tough to choose an army if all the info is spread across so many expansion books.
I think that’s the point. For a newby, you don’t need any of these books. If you’re a competitive player then I don’t think you can really balk at complexity
As a newbie I would at least want to know a bit about all of the factions in the game.
Perhaps complexity is the wrong word for this.
‘ease of acces’ may be better.
I think that even for competitive players it is better if information is easier to find.
Streamlining benefits everyone, not just the newbies.
“easy to learn / hard to master” shouldn’t be the result of having to dig through a dozen books just to get the info you need.
I’m not sure that predominantly white minis on an all white background is a great design choice.
Nice, I always wanted Ghouls to be their own faction.
I have always liked ghouls, might do these guys later if I’m up for it.
Well I never expected seeing Ghouls as they own faction and not part of Undead but maybe they work well as they own faction.
Technically, the Flesh Eater Courts are still part of the Death Grand Alliance, it is just that the Grand Alliances are in general a bit more flexible than the old faction arrangement we are all used to.
In the same way as Skaven are part of the Chaos Grand Alliance, but no other Chaos faction with any sense trusts them an inch, so it is that the Flesh Eater Courts are part of the Death Grand Alliance, but are so utterly bonkers that they make unreliable allies at best and not even Nagash can always force them to heel.
I like the conceit at the heart of the faction fluff for the Flesh Eater Courts – despite actually being flesh ripping, cannibalistic nightmares, the Aberrant Ghoul Kings believe themselves to be noble lords leading glittering hosts of warriors, and the ghouls that follow them share that delusion in their presence. That they all think themselves paragons of chivalrous virtue even as they suck the marrow from their victims bones puts them in the top tier of stark staring insane Warhammer factions. Trying to negotiate with a monster would be hard enough, how much harder would it be when the… Read more »
interesting are the crypt ghouls & horrors new or did I missed their launch?
i had that same thought! are they new? or just repackaged?
im sure the winged guys already existed ? i may be wrong though.
Been out since VC 8th Edition book came out.
Although I thought the old Warhammer World was much more interesting (at least, the grittier version the roleplaying game was set in) than AoS, I do think that the grand alliances and then mini-factions contained within them are a good way to organise the game.
It enables people to collect thematic armies with a lot of focus (and I quite like the look of these ghouls) while not having to worry too much about balancing loads of different factions into the ongoing storyline. Whatever that is (I still find the setting to be very inaccessible).
So the winged dudes arent Vampires anymore?
These winged creatures – the Crypt Flayers – aren’t Vampires, but rather ghouls that have consumed a mixture of Terrogheist flesh and the blood of their Abhorrant Ghoul King (who is a Vampire) and have grown wings as a result. However, Vargheists – the bat headed, winged, broadly humanoid monsters with the manes of hair down their backs that can also be constructed form this kit – still exist as part of the Vampire focused Soulblight Death faction, and they are still Vampires. They differ from Crypt Flayers in their key words, the fact that they don’t get the mini-death-shriek… Read more »
The crypt flayers look like they are made by putting the vargheist arms/wings onto a crypt horror build. A cheap way of getting a third variant out of the kit 😉
Ah, Thrall yokeys in a way.
Lady Atia has found some images of the Warscroll battalions for the fothcoming Flesh Eater Courts book.
Here’s a link to War of Sigmar:-
https://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/782