New Age Of Sigmar Campaign Book – The Quest For Ghal Maraz [Updated]
August 5, 2015 by brennon
Games Workshop continue the fight of the Stormcast Eternals in Age of Sigmar. This week is the Quest For Ghal Maraz as well as releases for the Bloodreavers AND a repackaging of the Skaven forces. Thanks to El Taller De Yila...
New Bloodreaver Images Spotted Online HERE
The focus of the Quest For Ghal Maraz is probably, well, to find the hammer. It also looks like the story is going to take place in a realm threatened and/or controlled by Tzeentch. You can see the images we've got so far of the book HERE.
When it comes to the Skaven...
- Skaven Plague Monks
- Skaven Plague Furnace
- Skaven Pestilens Plagueclaw
- Plague Priest
- Plague Censor Bearers
All of these are undoubtly going to be repackaged from the existing line up and as you can tell it probably hints to those followers of the Pestilent Horde being a focus in the story.
Will you be keeping an eye out for more details?
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I think the list in the article above needs a slight checking? Surely one of those Furnaces should be a Plagueclaw? Slightly surprised with Plague Monks et al. getting a repackage as they don’t quite fit the aesthetic of the current Stormvermin / Clanrats (imo), even the Plague rats on the Furnace and Claw. I’d have thought if they were redone with a new plastic kit, it could have incorporated the means to make the Censor Bearers and a Priest (both direct order only now), in addition to taking advantage of why you have things on round bases in the… Read more »
Yep a mistake C&Ping it over from elsewhere. The plastic kits serve the Plague Monks well at present so I guess they don’t see a reason to redesign them for a new box – hey, we could be wrong and there are new models – but I wouldn’t hedge my bets.
Also if it’s any indication from the Sylvaneth relaunch they didn’t get rid of the finecast Branchwraith, so doubt the Censor Bearer or Priest will vanish right now either.
Speculative question: Can anyone explain the GW secrecy policy and giving essentially no lead time in their preview of upcoming items (the opposite policy basically of Fantasy Flight for example)? Instead of leaks leading to mostly negative speculation why don’t they tell people what is coming in advance? Miniatures aren’t like a movie in that knowing what will happen in the movie ruins it. Is the thought that if I know Skaven are coming out in August and Sylvaneth in September, and I prefer Sylvaneth, that I wont buy any Skaven? It seems like they could drive a lot of… Read more »
Yep, that’s exactly it.
They think GW gamers are completionists who buy models of all their armies? Is that common? I never knew anyone in my gaming circles remotely close to that.
They think a lot of their customers are impulse buyers and that if they knew the release schedule they’d be less inclined to impulse buy the new release. Obviously not everyone will buy every release, but enough will buy enough of the releases. Their business model depended on people impulse buying minis they’d never use. With higher prices and a more frequent schedule, I’m not sure if it’s as effective as it was in the past.
If they believe strongly that their customers are impulse buyers, then they should add a lot more content to their webstore that helps push product on people. Previews and Demos would do that very well I would think. Some of that they have already on YouTube, but it isn’t integrated to the webstore.
This is a philosophy that dates back at least to the management buyout in 1991. They don’t believe that pushing their product onto people is what creates the impulse to buy, which is why they never advertise (or didn’t until this week). Instead they believe their customers have the ‘hobby gene’ which causes them to go to GW and impulse buy.
My take is that they are very stuck in their ways and believe them selves to be the market leaders (which is probably true in terms of sales and brand recognition, even if there are literally hundreds of games out their with less brain damaged rules than GW’s). Ultimately its a trait of “premium” brands, (apple do the same), basically tell you nothing offer an incremental “improvement” (d weapons, £100 robots, with really sweet rules if you stump up for 4 or 5 of the things) then 6 months later release something that blows the old latest and greatest out… Read more »
GW’s attitude toward communication with the community and proper advertising has been mystifying everyone for years, though to be fair to them I think that their relationship with the community has now hit such a rock bottom level with some community members that there probably is nothing much they could do that wouldn’t be met with negativity. They really need to work on improving their relationship with those elements of the community that are amenable to reason and rapprochement. As for those who will pretty much hate GW forever no matter what they do, they are clearly a lost cause… Read more »
I had been buying all the new AoS stuff week to week but another massive hardcover book when I have not even started the last one… At this rate I’m probably going to give up and shelve the lot. There is a fine line between maintaining impulse buyer and overwhelming them so they get disgusted and quit entirely.
They used to wait a few months between army releases to let the novelty of the previous purchase wear off and the bank balance build up again. Like I say a few posts up, I’m not sure how effective a strategy it is with a more frequent release schedule.
Its a very weird strategy to be sticking with. In regards to AoS, a lot of the non-troll posts are usually along the lines of, “I’m waiting to see how (Army X) looks.” Those are people not spending money, because they have no idea what is coming.
Is it wrong for me to be happy in seeing some ethnic diversity with the khorne dudes? thats another step forward for GW, it would be cool to see some non Arian humans from time to time
I now what you mean – GW models and artwork tend to be a little uniform at times, and there is no need. If Khorne doesn’t care from whence the blood flows, then I doubt he cares over much about his worshipers’ skin tones, or those of their victims.
You have to hand that much to him – he may be a ruthlessly cruel god of carnage and slaughter, but Khorne is no bigot.
You’re not wrong at all. In fact it’s a very positive step forward.
The main thing I am interested in at the moment is the new Orcs.
I do really like the AoS Chaos stuff, but I have already got a large GW Chaos army (waiting to be painted) so the chances of me buying any new stuff right now are close to zero.
In terms of the round bases, are there any compelling reasons to use them other than aesthetics?
I’m thinking I will keep using square bases to enable me to rank my minis up if I use other games systems at some point in the future…
It even says in the rulebook that it doesn’t make much difference whether you use round of square bases for your minis – it does seem to mostly be a question of aesthetic preference. As for myself, I am looking forward to the release of the forces of death. I want to see what is going on with my favourite Warhammer villain faction in the new setting. The current intermediary rues for the Vampire Counts and Tomb Kings armies are really rather good, and I look forward to seeing how that translates into the version of the faction(s) specifically hailing… Read more »
To the best of my knowledge, there is no reason to swap over your models from square to round.
I suspect future releases will take advantage of the fact that they don’t need to be designed to be lined up base to base in blocks of troops, but that’s more of a gut feeling (i.e. it might get trickier to get models to stand next to each other).
It feels to me like we are still too close to the original release for there to be a campaign expansion already. I haven’t had the chance to play a single scenario from the main rule book yet, despite wanting to. At the moment our gaming group is still getting our head around the core game rules.
It also costs the same as the full main rulebook, which might be ok if its as big. But even then I can’t keep spending that much every month or two on supplements.
It’s just part of the initial push of getting some AoS stuff out there, so people get an idea of what GW have in store for the system as a whole (how a new faction gets released, what a campaign book is like, etc….).
The release schedule I’m sure will calm down and not be as “intense” as it currently is (i.e. it’ll probably swap over to 40k stuff after Khorne gets some of its plastic kits).
That’s probably true. For now I’m happy to keep up but I’ll need them to slow down soon so I can take the time to enjoy all the stuff I’m getting.