The Lost Sigmarite

No. Tomb Kings need to remain in TOW so that the Ossiarchs can stand on their own without their old inspiration competing on their turf for the "organised undead empire" slot.

They're everything Skaven jezzails should be. 10/10 minis and can't wait for the reveals of next week.

Absolutely. Because I'll only need to paint the cannon and marshall to have a fully painted Spearhead force (I already have the steelhelms and cavaliers covered with the CoS launch box).

Really feels like GW actually read the stories Robert E. Howard wrote about Conan and understood them. Conan above all else hates “civilisation”, he views it as hypocritical and even if he interacts with it he’s always pretty jaded by it. In the world of Howard, “civilised” cultures always lack a bit of something the so called “barbarians” have… and they’re imperialist. And that whole “Dawnbringers vs Darkoath” narrative is pure Howard… with his Aquilonians vs the Cimmerians and Picts. With no clear good or bad sides and deeper meaning than a bunch of muscle bound barbarians might imply.

I didn't say it yesterday but I like the changes to endless spells & invocations - giving them wounds and regular attacks makes sense when most of them are elemental magic like Demons or Nighthuant, or some even actual creatures. Shoutout to FS players who just gained a new unit with the new Infernoth ! You now have 5 units to choose from that aren't heroes or static manifestations ! Yeah !

This is so good ! I hated how they gutted Combat Patrols in 10th - replacing all the 9th edition ones with new ones that offer less value for the exact same price. AoS won't suffer the same fate as 40k ! It looks like I will be playing a lot of Spearhead. This sounds so promising !

Is there a rumour for new endless spells that could confirm (or deny) that this RE is from an endless spell ?

It’s 100% for the new edition. But lightning could be celestial lightning for SCE or warp lightning for Skaven. I’d say wait and see if it’s one or the other, but that’s already good if we can point a rumour engine to 2 specific factions.

I'm all for Ruination Hammers of Sigmar in Balthasar/Gehenna's Gold.

I went back and noticed it too. That's a subtle and great way to differenciate Ruination SCE from regular ones, I like it a lot.

Am I the only one to notice the Hallowed Knights steel armour is darker now ? Or is it just the way the minis are shot that's tricking me ? Really feels like their armour has gone from Leadbelcher to a darker metallic like Iron Warriors. Or they used more generous amounts of Nuln Oil.

In the John Blanche artworks the helmets look more like Aztec helmets, while these new miniatures' helmets remind me more of Corinthian helmets.

It’s said in the article you have 2 styles of head options.

Another week, another 7 days of Dawnbringers VI not releasing... what's taking them so long ?

I really do feel like these new universal/Grand Alliance battle tactics were made as a response to how impactful faction specific battle tactics are in this edition - some factions lived or died by their battle tactics and how easy/difficult they were to score. At least now, you won't see degenerate SBGL players clogging the board with zombies to get easy battle tactics scoring (same goes for you Tzeentch). I wonder however how certain factions that don't fit the "standard" mold of their GA will use their battle tactics. For example, the Order tactic they showed requires map control, something let's say SCE might do with teleporting or IDK with their fast units, but a more "castle" army like CoS might not score it. As for me, these battle tactics are simple and straightforward, I'll have little problem remembering them by heart, which is great. Because this edition I had to constantly shuffle between documents to keep track of battle tactics.

Lately, I have been feeling a bit down, and painting Warhammer has helped me deal with that. So I guess this is what keeps me motivated to paint : to know I am creating something beautiful, no matter how slow I paint (painting ~45 minutes a day when I can, it's gonna be slow).

The fact the number of Ogres resin/metal kits went to 7 to 6 recently when plastic Gorgers were added via Warcry is a very good sign they'll get a revamp somewhere down the line. And Ogres are quite popular from my experience, it'd be weird no to capitalise on that.

I'd be so cool if they made some made to order with these old AoS terrain pieces...

Hi everyone ! I wanted to start a more relaxed and fun thread about our small anectodes and secrets about the hobby. I was inspired by Louise Sugden's video on that same topic on Rogue Hobbies, and thought "why not bring it to TGA ?". So, a thread were we can banter, tell each other funny little stories, things like that. This is meant to be a judgment free place, so please don't mock fellow TGA members if they share some weird stories they had while engaging in our favourite hobby. We're a positive place ! As I'm starting this thread, I guess it's up to me to tell you my hobby secret. I have never won a single game of AoS, ever. And I play since 1st edition... My performances in game range from "valiant attempt at winning" to "getting absolutely crushed in 2 rounds". Tbf I don't play often so I forget how to play my lists between games, but it's still rough. I hope AoS4 will give me my first Warhammer W. That's my story. What's yours ?

I like what they showed today. A 4 rounds universal scenario is perfect for casuals like me who don't want to be bogged down in 5 rounds game that can take a lot of time. And underdog mechanics are perfect for people like me (I lose a lot of games of AoS). I'm not playing general's handbook yet, but it's unusually generous from GW to include it in the launch box, so I like it. More of this kind of behaviour please GW. I like the suggested scenery placement. When I was a beginner (I'm still a bit at playing the game), some players in my FLGS would manipulate the scenery so they had the good terrain on their side... This won't be happening anymore with this, I hope.

I'd say around 100 pts like what they are now. 20 pts/SCE is a good metric for points and to help players quickly gauge a model's power.

So far I like what I'm seeing from the core rules. I just hope GW won't cut down points to force players to buy more minis.

100% getting a Skryre battle formation with all sorts of Skaven pew-pews.

Feels refreshing to see a Skaven not being in a hunched posture.

Looks like someone posted the mini reveal ahead of schedule...