The same weekend GW released the so called ‘Warscrolls’. Rules that I have delved into in my previous blog post. The rules for Age of Sigmar have leaked two weeks ago, followed by an official, online release of the rules last weekend. We already know most important aspects of the Warhammer: Age of Sigmar game. And to spoil the surprise: there could be quite some exiting things coming up… Gone are the Old World armies, and here are the new styled armies: Sigmarines known as Stormcast Ethernals and Chaos Warriors aka Khorne Bloodbound. Based on known facts, rumours and some educated guesses based on information from the Age of Sigmar book and ruleset I would want to make a couple of predictions. In this post I’ll try to look into that future. Because even though we know most details about the first ‘wave’ of Age of Sigmar content, there is still little known about the future of the game. There is still a big question concerning Warhammer: Age of Sigmar though. Still even though many gamers have vented their discontent online, the launch of a new starter set is for any miniatures game something special. Instead we now have an easy to learn, fast playing ‘beer and pretzels’ game that has more in common with party games like Muchkin or Fluxx, than that is has with mass miniature games.

Gone is the large scale combat and unit focussed approach from previous editions of Warhammer.

In fact there are quite a few (or should I say a lot) of people who are not happy with the new direction that Warhammer has taken. The only comparison that can be made is the shift from Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 to D&D 4.0, a change that torn the D&D community apart and saw the rise of the Pathfinder Role Playing Game.Ī similar division is also occurring in the Warhammer Fantasy community. And based on what we know we can only conclude one thing: Age of Sigmar breaks with Warhammer Fantasy in one of the most dramatic ways ever been seen in a large gaming franchise or even the game industry in general. We already know quite a bit about Age of Sigmar. This is because on that day Games Workshop will release the starter set for their new game Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. This Saturday will mark the beginning of a new era for Games Workshop.

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