James McPherson

I'm so confused right now. So I can pick an all-Pestilens force, but still get Chaos Grand Allegiance traits and arcane items? My Verminlord Corruptor really needs that Crown of Command!

Age of Sigmar brought me back into the fold after a long exodus from the hobby. Last time I was this involved with anything was the early 90's and I was about 11 or 12. Because of this I had to build everything up from scratch as I had no models or paints or anything, so I've been slowly getting set up since the AoS release over the last year while learning the rules and watching AoS bat reps on youtube (MWG and GMG and tabletop mini's mostly) and following youtube chat shows such as Vince Venturella and Andy2d6. Now I have a great painting station set up for the first time, and a nice collection of tools/paints and models to get started (see pic) My current goal is to get a Nurgle army fully built and painted up from scratch to play games with and try to master the rules for it whilst I am in the UK, before I head back to work in Wellington, NZ in September. I'll be attending Warlords , which is the final week before I leave the UK on the 19th September. My first two games so far were with the smelly/foul/stinky Clan Pestilens. I keep forgetting their rules and using them wrong/doing stupid stuff with them so I am determined to learn how to play them correctly. I'll probably take them to Warlords in September so that I can stick with what I know and get lots of practice in over the summer with them. Crazy I hear you say? Is this a bold tactic or..... a rat too far?! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gaming Gaming wise I recently played my first ever games of AOS at a local gaming club in my area (Rygas Roughnecks in Exeter) Game 1 - Pestilens supported by blightkings and skaven BSB VS Vampire Counts I deployed terribly in my first ever game, bunching everything up in a blob in the centre , 10 slow moving blightkings acted as a protective wall for my Pestilens but also got in the way horribly. Blightkings performed well on their own but ruined all my movement and charges for the rest of the game by the poor deployment. Managed to kill his General with my Corruptor who made a pop up attack but other than that got my ass handed to me. Found it hard to kill his bloodknights who he buffed a lot and had those shields which give +1 against weapons with a rend of '-' Result - Heavy Loss Game 2 - All Pestilens VS Vampire Counts This was a clash comp scenerio, where you both place 2 objectives and have to capture your opponents ones and protect your own. This game was characterised by two large mistakes on my part, I deployed my plagueclaws too far away for their 31 inch range to do much, and I kept forgetting my Hero phase, (3x times in a row!) so wasted a lot of my abilities and magic. I was very tired though so put it down to that. I also lost 40 plague monks in one turn to a Vanhels buffed Skeleton horde, and kept forgetting some of their rules such as the Icon of Pestilence and Doom Gong which would've helped in a couple situations. So pretty terrible on my part, but am learning the game still and improving with each game Result - Heavy Loss Other Gaming firsts - I'm attending Warhammer World open day in August, it'll be my first ever visit to WHWorld. I went to Games Day at the NIC back in the '90s, that was my only other event (see pic) I am also taking part in my first ever games & campaign at my local GW in Exeter, as well as coming to Warlords in September for my 1st ever tournament I am looking for more AoS players in the Devon/Exeter area so give me a shout if you fancy a game!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Painting & Modelling The first stuff paint wise I got into have been my Clan Pestilens faction, as they were what I have been mostly gaming with, so I wanted to get them painted asap. This gave me an opportunity to learn to use an airbrush for the very first time and my brand new Vallejo Game Air set, and the new compressor. So I've set about airbrushing 60 plague monks and blocking out the colors on my behemoths and war machines. I got mixed results with the monks, some turned out beautiful, others have small areas of speckling where I didn't quite get the air pressure right, and the atomisation didn't quite work, so a few still need tidying up a bit. All in all though its a good start and pleased with the way its coming on. I've also done the base coat on their flesh, swords and woe staves so far as well as their bases. I'm hoping to have these finished in the next few days, and then I have another box of 20 to add to the woe staves giving 40 of each weapon option. I'm hoping to have most of it base coated by the weekend, ready for the first battleplan of the Season of War summer campaign. Go stinky rats!

I think all the points were leaked last night on /tg/ , at least I think that's all, not sure whats up with legacy, saw bretts in the leaks though

Verminlord Corrupter is significantly less than Deciever or Warbringer Looks like Pestilens only includes the 4x formations in the battletome. So none of the Realmgate Wars formations such as Pestilent Clawpack of Bringers of the Rotsmog. Kind of disappointed by that to be honest, they were the other two I wanted to try out most after The Virulent Horde (which also isnt included) Also note the other formations from the Realmgate Wars are missing for Rotbringers & Nurgle Daemons such as Torglugs Foulblessed, Nurgles Deluge, Bloabs Swarmbrothers

there's a blank line under Rotbringers 'Blightguard' formation... will be crazy if they only come with one formation. Torglug's is 100% rotbringer and Blighted Warband contains spawn. Bloabs Swarmbrothers and Nurgles Deluge both contain Daemons, so maybe they are there

cool cheers Ben

are any of the exclusive boxset warscroll batallions costed in there? Like Clan Pestilens 'Virulent Horde' formation?

I saw this somewhere too (which confirms legacy warscrolls) - Bretonnia Louen 400 p.ts Knights Errant 200 p.ts/8 models Knights of the Realm 220 p.ts/8 models -Dwarfs Flamecannon 200 p.ts - Warriors of Chaos Hellcannon 300 p.ts Archaon 320 p.ts

They will get points I'd bet my hat on it, not sure if it'll be in time for the campaign. FW released those pdf's pretty soon after the initial release last time around. And that big Khorne Dragon guy is going to need some points...

so the guy I spoke to must have got his 'next week' and 'next month' a bit mixed up, was probably high on paint fumes and glue, apologize if I got anybodies hopes up

A certain book is going on Pre-Order next weekend I think, so save some pennies =)