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Most were three sprues half the size of the box, so there's room for more stuff If there's something warbands need to add, it's another, different Leader model. All the Death, Destruction, and Order armies have multiple different leaders . I'm also pretty certain that we will hear of what is coming out in the week just before the launch, so be ready to go scoop what you wanted if it's just a price hike.

I’m not worried about the game, it will probably be rank/flank and have some capability to get AoS Round Base in. The Fluff is the key. They could redo The End Times and have plenty of new material, Orcs, Goblins and Ogres were left out. The intro to Nagash had a Bret/Wood Elf/Beasts War that could have updated two of those armies to 8th Ed standards. Sigmar’s Blood was a fantastic little intro book that I really wish I had had someone to play with when it came out. A redo of The End Times would be a horrible waste of one of, if not the, best fantasy setting ever. I want to see all of historical events redone in earnest. The War of the Beard, the Elves pre-Sundering, Archaon’s Epic Journey, Sigmar and Nagash’s clash, the close places that got no love (like Arabs) and far off places such as Cathay. I want to see more than just a revision of the old armies. I want to see Brets and TK again, but I want to see armies we hadn’t and some more regional specific forces (Like a Nuln or Middenheim list, a Dwarf Slayer army, a Morathi army (even if it would be just Daughters in Fantasy).) Honestly, it worries me a little when they compare it to Horus Heresy. It’s a fantastic setting, but I feel like GW (or FW rather) have totally dropped the ball on supporting it the past three years. /end two cents

Angels described in the Old Testament are less human-looking and more Neon Genesis Evangelion-looking, and honestly, that’s kind of the style I’d like to see 👍

Personally, I don’t think rising costs (thus rising prices) are coming from production. There’s a Warhammer store in my town of 100,000 (which I’m exaggerating, since there’s another town of 100,000 10 minutes away). There is a massive sink cost involved with putting in stores everywhere.

Man, I kinda wanted to be one of the first to do the "Ladies of the Nighthaunt". I enjoyed the read.

Sigmar takes souls and "reforges" them into a new body with gold plated armor. Based on experience, this may be stripping their personality from them. Nagash takes souls and "reforges" them into a new body made of bone. Based on experience, this may be stripping their personality from them. I'm pretty sure the designers would step back from this and say "Yea, that's the irony of the Bonereapers."

I put it more akin to how laws are treated in Louisiana: - I can't scalp tickets. I can however sell you a cheap dollar store pen for an exorbitant dollar amount, with the side deal of throwing in tickets for a game you may/may not want to go see, for free. - If I sell you a Hurricane (alcoholic beverage) in a cup, you can't drive around with it because that's a beverage in an open container. If there's a lid on the cup, it's a closed container and you can and it's legal. If it has a straw in it, it's an open container and illegal. If the straw still has the wrapping over the top, it's a closed container and legal. And we all know you can't remove either the straw wrapper or lid and partake in the contents of your beverage and replace them, so there's nothing to see here. Yes, we have this book of laws, but we have plenty of ways of doing what we want without "violating" the law.

Our area just got a Warhammer store about a month ago, and now I'm the guy who sells people on Age of Sigmar because I collect the models, visit here, and know just about how the game is played. I've spent two of the last three weeks teaching games (We skip most of. Best part is we've jumped from (as far as I knew) just myself two months ago, to four players three weeks ago, to roughly 10-12 players because two new people walked in and everyone else went and bought an army for their kid/SO.

Latest Rumors line up with the old ones: SCE Exorcism Soulstrike Nighthaunt Court of the Craven King Gloomspite Caveshroom Loonz Skaven Corrupting War-swarm So, time to speculate what's in the boxes.

Everything makes sense until the last week, which is just a massive dump of releases: Week Release 26-Oct Feast of Bones 2-Nov Ossiarchs, Dominion Terrain, Hobby Supply 9-Nov Zone Mortalis, Necromunda:DU 16-Nov WU Dreadfane 23-Nov SC SM and CSM, Sisters Thanksgiving 30-Nov Battleforce Boxes 7-Dec Ogre Blood Bowl, LotR, StD, Warcry 14-Dec 21-Dec 28-Dec

Yea, like that rumored Orruks vs Fyreslayers. My guess is Tzeentch vs Nurgle since they did Wrath and Rapture right before XMas last year.

AoS rumors of Skaven, Stormcast, Nighthaunt, and Gloomspite are pretty good choices. My prediction is that we probably get a Tzeentch vs Nurgle Box a la Wrath and Rapture and a Disciples release to start off the next year.

1. You don't need the book. The AoS App has your unit profiles, 1d4chan has most of your Allegiance Abilities and Battalion Contents listed out, and for those gaps missing, almost every other youtuber/podcaster will talk about the few that are worth using. 2. Buying used models on eBay is usually the quick/cheapest way to go. Take your time bidding on items, there will always be better deals in the future. Avoid models that have already been primed (some primers are absolute garbage and will damage your models). 3. Ask local players if they have armies they would offer. 4. Buying fresh?: Splitting a two player box like Soul Wars, Wrath and Rapture, Looncurse, or Carrion Empire (Whoops, those two don't exist anymore) provides one of the best points/price ratios you can get. You can usually find these on eBay for about 50% MSRP of the box. 5. If you are building fresh selecting an army that has high points/price ratio, such as Beastclaw Raiders, and avoiding others, like Daughters of Khaine will allow you to get a full army for your bucks. 6. Playing at the 500 points level until you can get enough to muster 1000 points, then staying at 1000 points until you have 2000. 7. Don't paint your models unless you have to. Paint is just something money gets spent on. If you do have to paint, choose an easy color scheme and don't sweat details, or go with an easy scheme, like Khorne with Red, Black, and Brass.

Going back to WFB 8th, I remember a lot of people playing Swedish Comp, since it "fixed" a lot of the balance issues at tournaments at the time (ex. Banner of the World Dragon was an incredibly powerful item). It's not surprising that that team went on to make T9A. Balance will always be a topic of conversation and there isn't any changing that. The Time and Money that has to be invested into a new army to bring it to tabletop ready is significantly greater than the time/money invested into complaining online about how "easy" it would be to balance things. Contrast was such an amazing product for getting in new players, and then these price hikes just keep new/40K players from getting in. IMO, most of the Youtubers/Podcasters/Battle Reporters had a better feel for what was crazy/overpowered/underpowered/needs buffs/needs nerfs than what GW did in General's Handbook 2019. No, it did not help that the most broken armies (FEC/Skaven/Slaanesh) were released in a time-period between both books in which they could not be fixed in time, but those weren't the only armies.

Hammerhal, Anvilgard, and Tempest’s Eye got boxes during the Firestorm campaign. Spikeybits Link

He still head butted Archaon during The End Times, but it wasn’t effective and got killed for it.

Storm of Chaos

CoS and Orruks? I painted up a unit of State Troops and unit of Orcs back to back and didn’t have many issues as the paint schemes were completely different. But my usual issue cropped up of not staying focused on big projects and I was off painting Plague Monks (then stormcast, then building things, etc). If you are going to do both at the same time, I suggest slowgrowing them in tandem. Start at 300-500 points each, play a game, then add the same amount of points for both.

I would prefer we keep orcs head-butting as far away from this new setting as possible.

My Hopes: Skaven Bonereapers Ogors Gloomspite Sancrosanct Chamber

Yes and Good Question. I don’t believe we’ve gotten the cards separate before either (we did get the models separate)

I'm not going to complain about someone who is doing a community service. In fact, if he reads this, he has my gratitude. Personally, I'd like to have access to the info as he gets it for my own personal machinations.

High Elves lost out because when AoS armies were segregated. Dark Elves kept most of their "Core" with Darkling Covens. High Elves lost Spearmen, Archers, and Silver Helms (Old Kits), the reprint of Island of Blood with Spire of Dawn was too short lived. Most everything else for HE was one-box/one-kit (Phoenix Guard, White Lions, and Dragon Princes) and these made up the core of their three armies. Nothing wrong with Dark Aelves, but there's a distinct Evil theme to their figures that I dislike because I want my "Good" Elves to look like "Good" guys (Even if they were wrong about Malekith the whole time).

Honestly, this whole controversy could have been avoided if the Warhammer Community didn’t jump up additional OB info because someone leaked potato pics. Seriously, don't feed the Troggoths. They're fat enough as it is.