More Warhammer Age Of Sigmar Empire & Chaos Models Sighted [Updated]
June 27, 2015 by brennon
Games Workshop have been teasing a few more morsels of information about the coming Age of Sigmar Edition of Warhammer Fantasy and with next week heralding the start of pre-orders this week is a Warhammer Fantasy Celebration. Also, could we be getting free rules?!
Update: Leaked Image of New Sigmarites & Chaos Revealed
More Leaks - Close Ups Of Chaos & Sigmarite Warriors
The images above come from a more up to date source than the ones below and pretty much blow them out of the water. This is most certainly the NEW Warhammer Fantasy Starter Set with both Chaos and Sigmarites clashing.
If you want a low down on what we think of the new models keep an eye out for our thoughts later this week.
With that in mind I thought it would be fun for you guys to comment below with your favourite moments from Warhammer as it was and what you hope to see going forward.
Prospective Starter Set Details (Old Rumours)?
Some more details came in about the prospect of a new Starter Set and while I don't think there is much truth to this particular morsel I'm sure we'll see for certain very soon...
- 1x Empire General on Griffin
- 5x Knights of Sigmar
- 10x State Troops with Spears
- 10x State Troops with Muskets
- 1x Lord of Khorne on Daemonsteed
- 5x Chaos Knights
- 10x Chaos Warriors
While that sounds very plausible when you think about the contents of a Starter Set it doesn't found very 'fun' and Age of Sigmar. Added to that no small rulebook, and you have some people scratching their chins.
You never know though, this could just be someone using very general terms for a whole range of new plastic models.
Free Rules?
There was also this leak which apparently showed up some rather interesting information about the new rules being...FREE?!
"Contained within this free download is the core ruleset needed in order to begin your own adventures within the Age of Sigmar. This four-page PDF is yours to keep, print out and play with, and when combined with a Warscroll Compendium or two - available below, also totally free - is everything you need to know. Grab it, read it, and begin playing right away!"
I will probably picking up as much Age of Sigmar stuff as I can just to give it a go. I am actually getting a bit excited.
What do you think?
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I was more hoping that this version was true:
http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2015/06/age-of-sigmar-rumor-tidalwave.html
Free rules you say? Welcome to the 21st century, Games Workshop, we’ve been expecting you…
While I would love to see that I expect it will be a getting started booklet or quick start rules. GW please prove me wrong. But if not 4 pages of rules? Could be interesting
Seems full rules could be 4 pages, same source also says never more inclusive which could be taken a number of ways. So wait and see …
Yes @redben they are free. All you need to do is sign this waver and it all yours. Don’t bother reading fine print that says you willingly give up your soul for this “free” download. 🙂
@manpug Only one soul, that’s a price decrease 😛
I’ll wait and see
The rumour mill for this has been a bit up and down. I hear one set of rumours and I think, “wow, that sounds cool”. Then I hear another set and I’m a bit “meh” so I guess ultimately I’m in the I’ll wait and see what it’s all about when they announce pre-orders. Rather than saying I’m excited, I’ll say I’m interested. I have a huge soft spot for Warhammer Fantasy and I would really like to see this turn the game around. But there’s too many conflicting rumours for me to be genuinely excited. One thing me and… Read more »
I’d honestly be pretty interested to see someone come up with a list after Age of Sigmar has come out, in which you had what people predicted vs what actually turned out to be the case.
So much has been “leaked”, and I’d honestly like to know who to avoid listening to in the future; I don’t know what possesses people to just make up stuff, what do they get out of people believing lies?
The form of lies you’re speaking about and the reason they do it is complex. We all know at some point the truth will be revealed as the product will hit shelves. You’d think that making lies in the form of rumors for something that can and will be proven untrue would be an obvious area for people to avoid lying but it still happens. In part do to some people really wish to stir the pot and make waves. They know that it’s a fabricated lie but wish to see how many of us buy into the “version” they… Read more »
Looking over the leaked White Dwarf articles I am very glad some of the more pathetic/embarrassing rumours that so many people got excited about for some reason seem to be garbage. Every thing in the White Dwarf at least looks like they are building up to BIGGER battles. Which is in line with GW quite frankly :p But I think by bigger they really mean Warhammer Unbound. I also get the feeling that this game is more “Warmachine” or Hero Hammer based – I assume the “skirmish” game is to be like that. I mean, it clearly says the “End… Read more »
I take this information with a HUGE handful of salt…..
The pictures look pretty genuine…
When people said “skirmish game”, I kind of had the Warmachine size in mind. Having seen a few friends’ armies for Warmachines, they seem to be quite reasonably sized. Currently I have a High Elf army with upwards of 70 models (it’s not massive, I know) which is only just scraping 1500 points, My Bretonnians are even worse, weighing in at nearly 100 models and barely scraping 1000 points. Bot those armies are considered “small” in terms of WFB, but would be massive something like Warmachine. I think I could enjoy a Fantasy game that ran out at 30 –… Read more »
Speaking as someone who loves Skaven, I’d love the new rules set to allow more a lower model count. I love all the weird warmachines / ninja’s / mech wizzards / etc…, what I’m not a fan of, is the thought of painting ranks and ranks and ranks of Skaven Slaves. As an aside, I will say what has always made (current) Fantasy less appealing, is that your troops are relatively faceless; just something to be removed from the back rank. It seems to be harder to become attached to models and create a story from them; here is the… Read more »
try playing Bolt Action lol :p
I must have missed the WW2 lessons which involved little ratman shooting rifles, while being supported by big jerbil wheels that shot lightning everywhere.
I refer to how faceless and doomed and cheap life is when I say “try Bolt Action”
Free rules and already have warhammer fantasy minis at hand? 🙂 why not .. with the amount of skaven I have i would be hard pressed to buy new ones for this.
I’m not overly excited by what appears to be a reboxing/rebranding of empire and chaos models. Its as boring as what I’ve been stuck playing with warhammer for the past 5 years.
Definitely hoping for something much more exciting and possibly warmachine like. if not I’ll be searching for a new game to play.
If this pic. is the real deal, I’d say that the Sigmarites looks a bit like fantasy Space Marines….
http://www.warseer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=215857&d=1435327952
Very space marine like,,though I do like the winged models, that’s interesting.
One week to go! Going to be a long week
Looks real to me – and exactly as expected. Expect all the factions to have a “space marine” equivalent. Lol @ the winged models, so much for “less cartoony”. Great models though.
doesnt look too bad actually … hard to see yet if they dropped the cartoony style of minis. Perhaps this game can help 40k develop further into a futuristic game rather than just fantasy in space.
What part of this He-Man inspired parade of uber men in golden armour wielding over-the-top massive warhammers is not cartoony… Please tell 😛
I meant for example the typical style the vampire count monster mounts had .. the contures are jagged and sharp and look like sketches. I cant tell from these pictures, but the proportions look better than heroice whfb to me. The picture further down shows some cawdor footmen i beleive so its difficult to know what to think 😛
Looks interesting, but then I remember that all the models in that photo will probably retail for about $10,000.
the do, but I like them
I Spy Space Marine Conversions!
I agree. Will make an awesome successor chapter for the blood angels. Blood hammers….
Bit weird in the fantasy space though (pun not intended).
Chaos warriors needed a good hard punch on there nose from someone big enough to go toe to toe with them. Sigmarites look like “good” magic imbued warriors designed to do just that.
Hopefully other kingdoms/tribes of men will be more conventional and puny.
So, they do have guns then after all, all looks like warmachine to me in the style.
I don’t see any guns. Every model has a hammer and/or an axe
I’m with wayneo7 on this one. There have been rumours – such as those Warren discussed in the second XLBS last week – that sounded really innovative and exciting. If the new set is as now seems the case, it doesn’t strike me as that different from existing WFB, apart from the rumoured move to a lower troop count. I loved the idea of African berserkers, warrior priestesses and so on. The purported skirmish game in that set of rumours seemed so full of character. Compared to that, this seems like very much more of the same. Still, it is… Read more »
How are “big troops in armour with angel wings” innovative?
Do you know what is actually innovative? The Steam Tank. The Doom Wheel. The Anvil of Doom.
Warhammer already had Warrior Priestesses and a host of female models. It already has Cathay and Araby which merely needed armies.
You may still see the steam tank and Doom Wheel.
But what’s not innovative is Empire State Troops, Imperial Knights, Bretonnian Knights… The evil forces for WFB were, mostly, quite good and had their own style. The Good races, specifically the humans, were just exaggerated historic soldiers
And bringing them together into a fantasy universe that is coherent is innovate. It’s what Warhammer WAS.
The Warhammer range was originally an amalgam if whatever minis in the Citadel catalogue could conceivably work in a fantasy game. In large part that meant re-purposing their historicals. Landsknechts became Empire, HYW French became Bretonnians, Vikings became Norse, and the random leftovers became the likes of the Tilean mercs and the warriors of Nippon. (In the same way as Runequest Broo became Beastmen and Judge Dredd minis were ported into Rogue Trader). They then got knitted into the Old World and the Empire was fleshed out. It’s what made the Warhammer setting stand out from the host of generic… Read more »
Don’t get me wrong, I loved the setting. It was unique, in a way, in that rather than being a medieval/dark age fantasy (such as Tolkien) it was a Renaissance setting. It definitely had a stand out feature. It was unique, but was it original? Perhaps it was original in that it took a period in history and fantasised it, a period in history that perhaps hadn’t really been used in that way before. My point about innovation was purely related to the aesthetics of the miniatures of the forces of order, specifically Empire and Bretonnia. If you base something… Read more »
Bloody hell, is this something genuinely positive from GW?
Can someone pass me a stool – I think I need to sit down
More Sigmarites…
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/downloadAttach/221708.page
you mean cawdorites? now we are slowly getting into plagiarism 😛 ironic
I think it’s a deliberate fake, possibly intended as satire
Oh yeah, it is probably a fake actually.
…those minis are available from Privateer Press, and are called “Sword knights.” It is more than probably fake, and clearly satirical.
LOL! I actually saw this picture and didn’t see the ” age of sigmar ” and thought these were some Warmachine models, and someone was mocking GW, showing how they’ve just copied Privateer Press.
LITTLE DID I KNOW.
They are PP minis, what is amusing though is the GW twitter posted this – does make the legitimacy of that seem questionable
I must admit, though. The models are nice. Very stylised and OTT…but nice.
Hmm.. I was hoping for a bit of GoT flair.
The Sigmarites don’t float my boat. Yet.
However, I will certainly get the Starterbox and give it a go..
It was never going to have GoT flare. Too easy to rip off – I think this change in direction is a deliberate move to prevent, or limit, 3rd parties making similar models.
At the end of the day it will be the Rules not the models that count.
Good luck with that.
But it’s sales of models that keeps companies like GW in business.
Rules are related to the quality of the game which is what gamers actually want (GAMES Workshop).
The game drives the purchase of multiple models which gives GW “high” profits. GW want you to buy 10 boxes of Space Marines instead of 1 – the only way they do this is via the actual game.
A healthy game is what sells models, it why GW got into making games
The more generic medieval knights are also well represented by historical games manufacturers, so I get the need to continue the more obvious Fantasy-theme.
Not being a Fantasy-player, I quite look forward to using my round based daemons to try out AoS. Especially if the rules are free and rather decent.
Too much 40k style (not bad), the creature mount it seems awesome. I think that all the different things that I read until now about it that remembers confrontation : age of ragnarok game…..I think….
Weird what GW have done with their fantasy battles game… Chaos models look just like dark eldar wracks with axes and Sygmar models are more blood angels than fantasy knights… even warmachine steampunk models look more fantasy styled to me than the sygmarines… I hope tha game itself turns out to be so good that makes me forget all that and buy the box, otherwise they have no lpace in my collection, I don’t even feel like painting those models. 🙁
I see many, many Adeptus Custodes conversions coming very soon. Its a big jump from where FB was before but I like the look of these minis, if the rumours of faster, skirmish style game play are true I could get into this.
Rumors last weekend that GW perhaps was moving away from high fantasy towards a more gritty fantasy setting, had me interested. Now these images of the new Sigmar army is what I would consider high, high fantasy, in fact almost up in space high fantasy.
I wonder if this new fantasy style is going to boost fantasy sales? Initially perhaps, but in the long run… I have my doubts.
I had the money ready to throw at them. But the models turn me off and no rule stet will be able to save this one for me anymore.
Those models really don’t represent a gritty look, and the old setting was damn gritty til 8th at least
And gone is all hype.
The Chaos stuff is ugly (again) and, well, them Sigmarites… not sure, but definitely no WOW factor at all to them.
well they had the coolest fantasy IP of all time to work with, guess they didnt want it anymore 😛 unless this can keep going in the same gritty wein as the old world.
Theory: Age of Sigmar is set 20 years after the End Times.
Sigmar, using that magical orb thing, went back to before the End Times kicked off in an attempt to foil Chaos. He created the Sigmar Marine order to fight against Chaos.
So everything is still in. No one who died is dead…
That’s what I would do anyway…
…didn’t that happen in ‘Dallas’?
Yes ha ha. But scrap that. What’s apparently more likely is the reason nearly everyone was killed off in the End Times is because in the new Warhammer World (which is pretty similar to the Warhammer map with some changes) peeps who died int he End Times have been resurrected, probably thanks to Sigmar. A few other worlds connected to the primary world (which was what all this bubble crap was about). So there you go. GW didn’t screw everyone, if this is true. They just shifted the chess pieces around the board a little. All your fave characters are… Read more »