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Pumped about Skirmish..


Traceman

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I am kinda pumped about the new Skirmish book coming out. I have always loved small scale skirmish stuff and this fits my needs to a T. I think this will give me a chance also to dip my toe in the water with some factions I have yet to play and not spend a ton of money before hand. I really like the new battle mat that is being released with this stuff and can't wait to get my hands on the new book. I am hoping to generate some interest in AOS with these small skirmish games. What do you all think? What ideas do you have for Skirmish?

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Anything released in the future or they passed over in terms of renown points can be figured out with  simple formula.  Take the points cost of the unit on scrollbuilder.com, azyr or the general's handbook and divide it by the number of models in the unit.  Then take that number and divide it by five.

Also, I think there will be an amazing transition point between skirmish and regular AOS.  While skirmish might be made for 3-20ish models, I think it'll work fine at 40+.  You can start grouping together models from the same warscroll into groups of 3 or 5 and start activating them together like how Bottle had three cavalry run forward on the same roll by accident on the stream.  It'll work.  I think "skirmish our way up" events could replace something like Path to Glory if a local NEO steps up and runs one.

I've been going back to all the friends I know who used to play warhammer fantasy and talking up skirmish gaming.  So far I have three who have dug into their storage and pulled out their models.  One friend has played bloodbowl since the late 90s and when GW stopped selling BB teams for years he embarked on a project to convert every team out of warhammer fantasy plastic models.  So he has tons and tons of extra models across a variety of factions.  It's busy season for his work, so he just gave me his plastic tub of parts in exchange for me bulding and painting him a single warband.  So he's getting Seraphon out of those miniatures.  And I know have a good hundred miniatures across the old world factions and so many bits.  Too many.

I also bought the cheap "Storm of Sigmar" starter to add the fast build Liberators and Retributors to the Order side of things and the Blood Warriors and Reavers to the Chaos side of things.  A splash of Mortal Realms releases into the collection of old stuff.  Though I'm going to have to get more 32mm bases as I grabbed them for the Saurus Warriors for the Seraphon.

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