Re: WHF 9th edition / Age of Sigmar

[Silver Wolf]

Release schedule looks like this:

-Rustwalkers, Admech codex - April 3rd
-Onager dunestrider (next week) - April 10th
-Eldar jetbikes, shining spears, codex - April 17th
-Whatever this thing is - April 24th

And rumored contents...

- All-new miniatures
- Rules includes
- Round bases
- Chaos: 2 characters, one of which is exclusive, five Chaos Knights, 10 Chaos Warriors, 5 Chaos Daemons, and 1 Chaos monster of some kind
- Light: 2 characters, 10 Sacred Warriors, 10 Warriors, 5 Sacred Knights, 1 dwarf warmachine
- Light faction models look like Grail Knights

New info guys. Maybe im misunderstandig the situation, but i think that 9th edition will have 2 ways for play WH. The game coming this month is the skirmish way i think, and the rules for massive battles will come this summer. But maybe im wrong and skirmish is a complete different game, but, 2 starter sets based on fantasy after the world ends seems so strange for me...

[Jubal]

Well, we'll find out soon enough - though I still suspect we may not like it much when we do!

[Silver Wolf]

Too bad. :/

And I still haven't finished collecting my Empire and O&G armies.

[Silver Wolf]

All of the armybooks in stores were replaced by these:



Seems like we're going to see the new edition soon.
And rumour is that they're going to reboot (restart may be a better word to describe it) the whole WHF universe, focusing on humans vs. forces of chaos with additional factions purely for flavour.

[Jubal]

Still feeling deeply unconvinced...

[Silver Wolf]

Some of my friends have been in the shops and pretty much confirm what I saw on the net.

Warhammer is turning into a skirmish game and the setting is being rewritten. Sigmar starts a new world after the events of Endtimes (which honestly sounds a lot more boring than the old one).

http://tozudosadieces.blogspot.com.es/2015/06/age-of-sigmar-un-par-de-pistas-y-nuevo.html

[Flamekebab]

A skirmish game, eh? I'd be interested in that.

[Jubal]

It will probably still be inferior to Mordheim. 

[Clockwork]

Mordheim was clunky as hell and dual wielding was kinda op.

I agree, Jub

[Flamekebab]

Mordheim rocks but it's also not supported any more.

[Pentagathus]

Don't need no support. Don't need no GW.

[Flamekebab]

Not really the point I was making, Penty...

I got into this stuff in 1998. Several games had come out and there were game dev things in WD for Battlefleet Gothic and Mordheim. It was an exciting time with some fun experimentation going on. I'm never going to play WFB. Too many models, not enough time (or money). If they're going to have a skirmish game that I can play in store then that'd be great. As it stands the local GW is worthless to me - I don't have a full 40K army built up again and so gaming there is a non-starter. Warhammer is pretty much the only fantasy setting I can get even slightly interested in and as such having somewhere I could field a small Skaven force, or Lizardmen, or something else, sounds fun.

It's also interesting to see GW doing things slightly differently rather than just staying the course and hoping for the best.

[Pentagathus]

Warhammer is pretty much the only fantasy setting I can get even slightly interested in

Really? I generally find it pretty lame, I'm looking forward to the new setting. Maybe.

[Flamekebab]

I mostly meant "the races that exist within it don't immediately turn me off"

[Silver Wolf]

I like WHF just because it isn't a skirmish game. :/

And I love the current setting. The new one sounds like it's made purely to support the gaming system instead of being a full story of it's own.