Peter (Age of Miniatures)

Next up in our guides for the wave 2 warbands in warcry - Ossiarch Bonereapers! https://ageofminiatures.com/ossiarch-bonereapers-warband/

Wave two guides are coming out hot. This time it is the turn for the Spire Tyrants: https://ageofminiatures.com/spire-tyrants-warband/

We are kicking of our guides for the Warcry wave 2 warbands with the Warrior Chamber: https://ageofminiatures.com/stormcast-warrior-chamber-warband/

Today I take a look at what I think are the best movement trays for Warhammer: https://ageofminiatures.com/best-movement-trays/

So Johannes (our local dwarf fanatic) finished of his review of the new Kharadron Overlords Battletome. It is a really great read, particularly the part that goes into the details on the expanding lore of the flying duardin. https://ageofminiatures.com/kharadron-overlords-review/

Finally, we are done with creating guides for the wave 1 warcry warbands. Onwards to the new wave! https://ageofminiatures.com/gloomspite-gitz-warband/

Had some trouble getting my gaming group into the campaign aspect of warcry. Decided to collect all the rules in one place, so here is is a step by step summary of how to run a warcry campaign: https://ageofminiatures.com/warcry-campaign/

Tom from Go to Ground Wargaming sent my some commission terrain for our gaming club. This is the review of the jungle set we received: https://ageofminiatures.com/review-jungle-commission-terrain/

Cornelia have been finishing up her article with tips on faces: https://ageofminiatures.com/painting-miniature-faces-tips/

We had a look at Tome of Champions for Warcry and this is our thoughts on our new yearly book for Warcry: https://ageofminiatures.com/tome-of-champions-2019-review/

I doubt we have seen the last point changes for this round, maybe the rest will be further out. I have been compiling my own notes throughout the evening and the 4chan screendump fits with what I have. There seem to be some contradiction between Azyr app and the Japanese pdf-leaks, so we will see once the technical dust settles. I will be updating the points as I go along here (which should be easier on the eyes than grainy jpg's): https://ageofminiatures.com/points-changes/

Another lore article is up, this time a look at the different realms in Age of Sigmar: https://ageofminiatures.com/aos-lore-mortal-realms/

So, I (and a fellow writer) have been working on a new tool. It is a table/overview of all the Start Collecting Boxes in Age of Sigmar. The table contains: price, discount, total points values for the box, how much it will cost pr. point and a few other bits. Soon the table will be updated with a link to a small review of each SC Box. Hope you find it useful! https://ageofminiatures.com/start-collecting-boxes/

We are back with some of that "very basic" hobby stuff. This time, an article on how to thin your paints. It is something that people always say, but in spite of that it is actually quite hard to explain. https://ageofminiatures.com/thin-your-paints/

So, this concludes the guides for all of the (current) Chaos Warbands. Corvus Cabal Guide is here: https://ageofminiatures.com/corvus-cabal-warband/

We are almost done with the Warcry warband guides and overviews. It is time for the splintered fang! https://ageofminiatures.com/splintered-fang-warband/ Next up: the bird bois.

Glad I posted about this, some really great thoughts and insights here. I agree with you @prochuvi on the Brexit thing. I have no clue how it will affect the company on grand scale, but I know what it will (at least initially) do to the amount I spend on GW games. Right now I can get something that normally costs £100 for £80 via a good UK webshop. If I had to buy that some product from a local retailer in my country, I would have to pay somewhere between £100-115 for it. Due to import taxes, that discount on my big purchases is probably going way. That means an an increase of between 20-25%. Odds are good that it will significantly reduce the amount of purchases I make that are in the "maybe-I-need-this" category. So yeah, Brexit is the big monster under the bed right now... You are bringing up some good points @Inquisitorsz in the "why the heck are they still doing this?" category. It is some of the things new players starting the games struggle to understand and cope with. From an outside perspective, I guess some of the ways the do things make little sense. Some of my own worries for the future: Painting minis and building terrain is slowly getting more and more accepted and widespread. I guess the explosion of DnD into the mainstream has a big part in that. Playing wargames/skirmish games certainly has the potential of exploding in the same way, but is it really possible with the lack of diversity in GW gaming population? Can we change ourselves and our community to be more inclusive? The communication from GW is certainly a lot better than compared to just a few years ago. But some of their decisions boggles the mind and their communication when that happens is subpar. Maybe it is internal power struggles (as mentioned earlier), but without a more clear communication from GW we will probably never know why Dwarf artillery was a featured part of GHB19 and the next moment is discontinued (just an example). Those kinds of weird things happen all the time, and all we get are "look how awesome this battletome is" articles on the Warhammer Community Webpage. It rubs people the wrong way when no clear answer is in sight. What I am looking forward to in the future: It seems we are finally done with merging factions and bringing out battletomes needed for fixing the wholes. What will happen next? How is a release schedule for AoS going to in this new 2.0 stage? What new armies will we see? GW is improving each day. It is clear they have some internal conflicts, but it also seems there are just a bunch of great people who want to produce great things. I am just looking forward to seeing what that "next great thing" is going to be.

A few days ago I got an email from a person who wanted to talk to me about AoS and GW. The reason? He was doing an analysis of GW for his investment analysis company. At first, I thought it was a joke or some kind of spam/phishing stunt. Turns out I was wrong and I ended up having an hour-long chat about GW, AoS, purchasing habits of Warhammer gamers, the future of AoSe, the twists and turns of GW etc. I am writing this because I found it immensely fascinating that a company thought my knowledge as a gamer and hobbyist was that valuable for them, in terms of determining the future success of GW. I thought others might find this interesting as well. What they wanted to know: For several years, the profits of Games Workshop was quite flat. After the launch of AoS (and various other changes in the company and their production), they are now increasing profits each year. GW had a similar growth curve back in the days (around the launch of the LotR game as far as I understood the investment-guy), but that growth vanished quickly again and GW again turned weak profits. So the question the investment-guy was looking to answer: is the current growth of GW profits sustainable? Is current GW growth based on a lot of initial investment into games, that will start to fall off once people have bought the number of minis they need? In essence - what is "new-GW's" profit baseline? Why they contacted me and who else are they contacting: The investment-guy did not really know anything about Warhammer, GW or Age of Sigmar. I produce quite a lot of content aimed at completely new players so at the beginning of his research into the games he used my page a lot. He was very keen to pick my brain about all things GW and AoS. He/they are in the process of reaching out to all sorts of people, to get the most perspectives into their analysis. This means owners of stores selling warhammer, new players in the different games, older players, YouTubers and so on (if you get contacted and are on the fence talking to them, I can say that he was very friendly and we had a nice chat). What we talked about: My background What I like most about the hobby and the game What other games I play (DnD, 40k, other mini games etc.) How AoS has evolved since launch and how it differs from Fantasy Are more new people (and new types of people) entering the game as opposed to earlier (early AoS and fantasy) What was my initial investment into Age of Sigmar (did I buy a lot of books, did I buy a new army or reuse old armies etc.) My AoS purchasing habits the last few years, how it might be in the future and how it was back in the Oldhammer days How many people just collect and paint and rarely play the game How much time it takes for me to paint an army If the change so independent retailers could sell Warhammer online affected me in any way How many of the books and AoS supplements I see as "mandatory" or "necessary purchases" My thoughts on why I think "new-GW" and Age of Sigmar is a success The biggest problem with GW and AoS right now What I am most excited about for the future of the game What do you think? After chatting to investment-guy I was interested to hear other peoples opinions. I chatted with some friends regarding the topics and while we agreed on quite a lot, we also had some differing opinions. I guess the essence of the question is: how do you see the future of GW and Age of Sigmar?

I have probably tried to explain the gist and background for the different Age of Sigmar factions 20 times. I finally have a resource that can do that job, and hopefully do it far better. We created a monster (6000 words!) intro, covering the background and lore for each AoS factions. https://ageofminiatures.com/age-of-sigmar-faction-lore/ I hope you will link to it when you have a new friend who is confused about the lore of the different armies

Time for some Ironjawz love! The Ironjawz Guide for Warcry: https://ageofminiatures.com/ironjawz-warband/

https://ageofminiatures.com/bonesplitterz-warband/

"If you like using fear as a weapon and becoming stronger as you take damage sounds like the true path of Chaos, the Unmade might be the perfect warband for you!" https://ageofminiatures.com/unmade-warband/

All of the Death guides are now up for Warcry, now that Flesh-Eater Courts is done: https://ageofminiatures.com/flesh-eater-courts-warband/

More warcry and more golems! https://ageofminiatures.com/iron-golems-warband/

We continue the streak of Warcry content, this time with a guide for the Nighthaunt Warband: https://ageofminiatures.com/nighthaunt-warband/