Age Of Sigmar To Explore A Skirmish Mode
May 1, 2017 by brennon
Yes, the world of Age of Sigmar from Games Workshop is continuing to evolve as they put together a skirmish mode for the game where you'll be playing with a handful of warriors per side.
One hopes that this follows the route that many hoped Path To Glory would take. That was a fine format, but it still had you playing with effective armies. It seems like this will focus on a smaller model count and they'll throw in some extra rules for combat and the upgrading your warriors over time.
Maybe we'll see the rules in a White Dwarf, or as part of the next General's Handbook?
I really do like smaller scale games nowadays and would love a chance to focus on painting up particularly characterful models in a force rather than massive armies.
What do you think?
"Maybe we'll see the rules in a White Dwarf, or as part of the next General's Handbook?"
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So this is going to be just additional way to play game rather than it’s own game just like WHFB 6th ed had similar based on Mordheim.
That’s just marketing (like calling Hordes and Warmachine different games). If they remake Mordheim, it will be as Age of Sigmar as anything else. AoS is only four pages long- and most of AoS doesn’t use all four pages. It wouldn’t be very hard to create a Mordheimesque skirmish game that uses the core AoS rules. Just adding campaign elements, and creating a few force rosters would do it. If they made this a “separate” game, they’d just reprint the 3 or so pages with the AoS rules on them. Of course, th other route they could go is to… Read more »
I’m hoping this will be AOS’ version of Shadow War: Armageddon and use the core mechanics of Mordheim. Hey, I can dream…
As said above, maybe this’ll follow the cue of Armageddon and be an update of Mordheim.
They never managed to reach the fantastic rules of chaos warbands from the Realms of Chaos book 2, they tried several times but never nailed it. Even Mordheim, good as it was, was not able to replicate the fun, randomnesses and chaotic fun of warbands. Let’s hope for this one perhaps, it is the new games workshop after all 🙂
In order for this to interest me they would need to address what I see as a major flaws with the system. I also don’t see what they are going to do to distinguish this, as AoS in essense is design to grab models and pop on the table, unless its more of a army selection thing.
I think this will probably just be a quick rule set rather than a full blown game like Shadow War. Maybe something like 500 pt armies that let you take partial war scrolls at a reduced cost, much like a lot of people play already. They are already running with a separate game system in the Sigmar world with Shadespire.
I really hope that this is individual models rather than small ‘armies’ – that was basically the case with Path To Glory.
Just want to have a handful of models, no more than twenty or so, battling it out on the tabletop.
Hoping it is a sort of Shadow Wars / Inquisitor / Mordheim, Kill Team or other ‘limited scale’ system with campaign elements.
So … AoS itself is not a skirmish game ?
It definitely is not mass combat …
Am I the only one who thinks this is a rather odd ‘expansion’ for the game ?
The title is also rather boring.
40k at least got ‘shadow war’ as the title for a squad level skirmish game variant.
What the heck GW ?
As the title suggest it feels like a page of add on rules to be able to play killteamesque games rather than a stand alone product. They would have gone with the new product name instead if it was a new mordheim.
There is a hobby developed skirmish rulesystem based on AoS called AoS hinterlands that works pretty good, maybe they have been looking at that and saw that this is doable?
I for one love the smaller format of shadow wars and skirmish so this will be interesting even if it’s just a path to glory styled add on.
The key for me is if it is a boxed set with sweet terrain. Awesome.. all in (as long as it’s not ridiculously limited release). Otherwise I’ll stick with Mordheim and Frostgrave.
I’m already a fan of Frostgrave, so this definitely appeals to me. Sadly I never did get the chance to play Mordheim. Nonetheless I’m all in on this, just as I am with Shadow War Armageddon. This is perfect for those of us who love GW models but have no desire to build entire armies.
Maybe it will be a system similar to the fan made ‘Hinterlands’ download which is great.
http://www.tga.community/files/file/19-hinterlands-skirmish-campaigns-in-the-mortal-realms-by-sam-james/
I don’t think we’ll see a box set release as the pictures are all existing models. more than likely it would be an expansion book.
The trouble is, Mordheim had it’s own aesthetic and feeling. Your guys weren’t really heroes at all, they were the average lark in the wrong place trying to make a bit of G. AoS seems too squeaky clean for me, their lore isn’t fully fleshed out. Half the teams don’t even have new units yet. It just needs to be darker, grittier and realer for it to be plausible as a skirmish game. If they try to call it the next Mordheim (which I don’t think they will do) the current Mordheim players won’t be happy. Then theres terrain. There… Read more »
@feeth I don’t know how much of AoS you have read but one book I can recommend is ‘City of Secerts’ if you want dark and gritty. It follows one of the city guardsman and a plot he stumbles across. Another good short story is the one that comes in the ‘Shadows over Hammerhal’ game box.