SuperHappyTime's Opinions

Imo the fluff is very good for 1 year since release.

Fantasy had 30 to develop. 

Also, fantasy played safe by the book.

Aos is high fantasy, with chained dragons as suns and stuff.

 

Edited August 19, 2016 by Sadysaneto

I can see where you are coming from.  But I think the evolving fluff is a key part of this game.  I mean a year ago, nobody had any idea who any of these armies were.  Now, for the ones that have appeared in the books (campaign or novels), and the ones that have gotten Battletomes, we have a ton of awesome information.  I personally think it's kind of cool to have the realms opened up to us a little at a time. Also, I'm not entirely sure if they care if we buy the ranges that haven't been updated.  I'm guessing those lines have made their set up costs back, and AoS is selling better than WHFB, so their good on that count.  See link below for more on this...  Assuming the source is any good.  Also, the last thing they want is more people reading the fluff for units that the crunch isn't settled on.  I mean, they really don't need anyone else rage quitting this game.  So less fluff - less interest in the armies - less people upset when they find out their army doesn't really work together the way they thought.

-- http://natfka.blogspot.com/2016/08/how-is-age-of-sigmar-doing.html

And of course the simplest, and most likely truest answer IMO, is that they don't actually have enough of the fluff settled for those factions to actually tell you much more about them.  Most likely those factions are still pretty fluid at this point.  No use telling us things that are probably changing fairly regularly.

That all said, I'm starving for more fluff, especially about the various undead factions, so I don't fault you for being upset.

I agree with Sadysaneto... Aos is in the early stage, is new and fresh and is a far cry from the Old world that we all loved. However,  the old warhammer was very 'forgotten realms' with a sizeable dollop of Tolkein. You are showing extracts of the Grand Alliance books... have you read the battletomes? Some very original and characterful fluff there. Wait for the 'Shadow Aelves... If the models in the Silver Tower are any indication then we are all in for a treat  

Think it is to hard to judge at this time on the evolving fluff of AoS especially against the many years that fantasy had I mean you look at the early years of warhammer fantasy battle and it didn't have much in the way of fluff and for me personally the flesh eater courts battle tomb has the best fluff and reimagining of an army I have ever read so who knows where we will be in another years time 

There is more information in the Grand Alliance books on each mini faction. Not a huge amount, but they do put the faction into a place in the world.

However, it is the kind've fluff that should be on each sub-factions landing page for each sub-faction on the website. The problem is, the current website is really just a webstore and everything is just filters on what products the user should see. So while you can select Order Serpentis on the store, you could also click Order Draconis as well and then what info should it be showing.

 

Personally I think GW should invest in an actual 'Age of Sigmar' website in a similar fashion to what they're doing with some of their boxed games. This website can give a brief history up until now, details on the goals and agendas of ALL of factions in the game, and of course, links to where to buy the models from the online store.