More Age Of Sigmar Models & Books Spotted On The Horizon
July 8, 2015 by brennon
More models and the new big book for Age of Sigmar by Games Workshop has been spotted by some folks on the internet. Lady Atia on Twitter certainly seems to be a good source of all things leaked so we've got a collection of some of the new images from White Dwarf HERE too.
The main focus is on the coming of the Lord Celestant model alongside a look at some alternative Liberators with a range of differen weapons that include swords instead of their hammers. Also, the Prosecutors (the flying chaps) seem to come with spears later on down the line.
As well as the models you get a look at the Age of Sigmar 'Book' which isn't specifically a rulebook but instead appears to contain a lot of the new background and hopefully a bit more too. Currently the White Dwarf reveal is in German so it isn't very easy to get a grasp of what is in the book.
I really love the look of the Lord Celestant and I have a temptation to try and paint him up like Tyrael from Diablo. I want to try and get into using greenstuff, remove the sun rays from his helmet and then add the top of a cloak instead.
What do you think?
"I have a temptation to try and paint him up like Tyrael from Diablo..."
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I don’t want more models and fluff… I WANT MORE RULES!!!
One of those is absolutely the rulebook, little bit of google translate wizardry
Yeh but unless it contains more rules than the 4 page download, there’s about 300 pages of fluff in that book.
I wouldn’t mind that, I want to know what happened between the end of the End Times and the current setting. As the brief intro in White Dwarf made the Age of Sigmar box setting feel like DDay, so we’re in the middle of the war.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I love a bit of fluff as much as the next gamer! But having played this game a decent amount of times now, it needs some additional rules (on-top of the ones in the war scrolls) to stop it becoming a tactless 3+ 4+ mush pile.
Why? Why on earth do you want hundreds of pages of complicated, confusing, contradictory rules?
If you don’t like it, play another system. You do not need more rules. It’s a game. Play it, have fun. if you don’t, well, that’s up to you but you do not need any more rules for the sake of rules.
Well…they only needed 4 pages to get “the rules” to be “confusing”…must be a record of some sort.
Agreed! If it isn’t your cup of tea, don’t play it. There are plenty of other systems out there. What you like or don’t like is your opinion, just don’t beat down others because they like something you don’t. I feel that sometimes people forget the one rule that I always keep in mind, this is just a game. It’s not a sport, the sky isn’t going to cave in, this is just a product that has been designed for one purpose: to have fun with your mates around the table. I am not bothered about the balance of the… Read more »
Rumour is the book will contain more warscrolls and scenarios. I seems to be that AoS is constructed so that all of the rules which turn it into a ‘proper’ wargame are contained in warscrolls and scenarios.
Most likely as you said, the extra rules will come from the Warscrolls and scenarios. The core rules set is just the rules for a basic “line-’em-up and start fighting” game. The scenarios may introduce some rules for balancing the games.
If the FW open day rumours are to be believed then all the rules and warscrolls contained in the books will be available online as well. The unique content in the book will be the fluff and the scenarios.
Looks like they are still happy to to put the screws on the Australians $74.00 us = 125 au $ reminds me why I got out of GW
so i can get 6 models for only 40 dollars cheaper than the two armies or 47 minis in the starter set… looks like i won’t be continuing with the age of sigmar.
I for one want the fluff. Don’t care about the rules. The rules are fine.
Don’t forget the artwork and model photography. What I have seen so far leads me to think that AoS will have all kinds of eye candy.
I imagine a whole lot of people will follow Brennon’s lead and do a AoS conversion army that looks like the Hosts of the High Heavens from Diablo. A high percentage of Prosecutors would readily represent the whole winged angelic host thing (the forthcoming prosecutors with spears would add extra variety to such a force), and the Lord Celestant would make for an excellent basis for a Tyrael conversion – he already has an appropriate rune blade, a little work on the head to replace the helm and star coronet with a hooded cowl, and then you just need to… Read more »
Oddly enough I’ve been looking at a lot of World of Warcraft imagery lately and the Stormwind Guard have a lot of Lions in their iconography. I think I could potentially get the regular Stormcast to look like Stormwind Knights.
We shall see… 😉 I’m getting my set on Saturday and will make up a paint scheme then.
BoW Ben
I would definitely like to see that. Confusion would doubtless follow…
“For the Ligh… err, I mean Sigmar!”
Just switch the heads if you don’t feel confident enough with GS. Dark Angels terminators have some nice hooded heads 🙂
All of those metal heads gives me the uneasy feeling that Balthasar Gelt is the real power behind the throne. I don’t trust these guys one bit. I’ll throw my lot in with the Chaos Gods. At least you know what you get with them.
Unless it’s Tzeentch and then, well… end of the line, all change!
That art that does not help with whole Fantasy Space Marines feel that sigmarites have as those are so much like 40k art.
Well, I’m not gonna translate all of it, but is there anything you wanna have in English? No really new info in there, AFAICT.
I didn’t think GW could make something as terrible as Finecast.
Then I played Age of Sigmar 🙁