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I hope they don't give any more chaos god specific afiliations to monsters. Doesn't make sense to have nurgle for jabberslythe, just like tzeentch for spawn. Simply give them a "mark of chaos" to pick rule as many other chaos units have so it isn't as restrictive (and would make sense if your mini is converted to fit a specific mark).

The wooden shields look fantastic! Actually, your stormcast look really nice and smooth with the green and teal blades, much better than the average. It gives them a not so "bright" tone, which is good. May I ask how did you proceed for the blades? Nihilakh oxide? I'm not too familiar with the current citadel range.

The Blood Tithe mechanism looks quite interesting, like a lesser version of the w40k Eldar Ynari thing. Could encourage MSU armies which is quite cool. I also hope for sky pirate goblins, sounds like a helluva fun concept! but please dont make them w40k looking like the kharadron dwarves, thnx.

The image made me think of the cold one champion, exactly the same idea: Quite excited to see new elves minis in AoS, could have a break of so many new minis being dwarves, SC or chaos...

First post on the thread, absolutely love the /28 aesthetic! On a longer term I have the intention of doing some chaos warband but below is the initial stage of an elf project (not precisely a warband but I think it might fit here?). Very WIP, as it's only blue tag for now to have a clear idea. Haven't touch any green stuff or paints in a decade so I'm a bit uneasy with how these will turn out. Anyway, the idea is kit bashing lefover wildriders/dryads to make some tree-like elf/specters (no legs left hehe!). The fluff idea behind is a bunch of wild riders awakening from a deep slumber after being slain during the End Times along their liege. To their horror, they find themselves in a barren plane of the Realm of Shyish, devoid of their mortal flesh as Kurnous is no more. Confused, they wander without aim as they mourn their fate, growing ever more sour and twisted... (this might also be my whole excuse in bringing my wood elves into AoS).

I completely agree. Maybe it's because the fluff isn't too fleshed out yet, but AoS seems very Good vs. Bad oriented. Cool thing about the Old World was that every race had at some point a feud with other races, and also had internal strifes (perfect justification for same race war). The Solkan idea is a good one. One thing I thought was introducing a faction similar to radical Inquisitors in 40k. Good guys (Stormcast, Aelves, Sylvaneth,etc...) that deviate in their quest to destroy Chaos and end up corrupted using chaos artefacts and demonic invocations, giving room to a sort of limbo where everyone hates them and they grow bitter.

Probably already mentioned but flexible unit size would make life much easier. Reduce the minimum size for certain units (like from 10 to 5) and implement the possibility of adding individual minis. I know the understrength concept is to sell more minis, but the whole unit size restrictions are particularly annoying (like, I'd be ace to field my 8 dryads for 96 points). I'd also make some changes to army building, as the previous point could lead to battleline tax abuse. So instead of +2, 0-1, etc... I'd go back to percentages. I think they help to balance army compositions instead of min-maxing everything to fit as much as possible on heroes, behemoths, etc... Last point, prevent units from shooting when engaged in cc and add some form of friendly-fire. It makes sense from a logical point of view and would tone down the shooting domination. Possibly adjust point cost of certain units.

Good to see Squats are back in w40k, 8th edition is looking good

My 2cent regarding summoning even if I'm no expert. But I don't really see a problem with it overall. Sure you pay for a unit that has certain conditions to be deployed (cast it with an available wizard) but in exchange you get a advantage that regularly deployed troops don't have (tactical options and flexibility). Seems a fair exchange. This page develops this idea: https://aos-tactics.com/2017/03/06/summoning-in-age-of-sigmar/

Is the mutant baby a reference to Eraserhead?? Such a cool idea Whole band amazing!!!

What a funny thread! New to the forums, I was sort of rage quitter at some point Use to play 5th/6th/7th ed WHFB before stopping because of RL. With the End Times, I started getting interested in the hobby again. However, the arrival of AoS was horrifying. I just couldn't believe the terrible current setting and dumping all the past (and those "sigmarines"... damn it GW!). So that was a frustrated attempted to start over again. But after sometime, I ended up admiting that I just enjoyed painting these little toy soldiers and maybe even playing with them. So that's what I do now. I'm more interested in the painting/modelling side, and more toned-down stuff like AoS28.