[Update] Age Of Sigmar’s New Edition, Adeptus Titanicus & Plastic Sisters Of Battle
May 12, 2018 by brennon
As some of you will know, Games Workshop is running Warhammer Fest over this coming weekend. Well, the first big bit of news hit for that earlier with the news that Age Of Sigmar was getting a new edition of the game.
As the announcement suggests, we're going to be seeing Age Of Sigmar expand to include a new narrative, refined gameplay choices and interestingly more focus on magic which is cool.
It will also see the forces of Order and Death at the forefront it seems as that becomes the focus after Malign Portents. But, it's not just all Fantasy as the team are also talking Warhammer 40,000 too.
[Update] New Blood Bowl Teams
We also got to see some of the new models coming out from the Specialist Games team for Blood Bowl. The lead was taken by some new Blood Bowl Dark Elves.
The team is looking awesome, especially the Witch Elf in the middle of the piece there. I think the models here are rather ace indeed - showing off plenty of motion.
We also got some more of their specialised players like the Assassin here.
Other teams are not out of the loop either with some new releases which can be seen over on their Blog AND these monstrous new Troll designs.
Some wonderful models which take us back to the Old World!
[Update] Adeptus Titanicus Preview
We got our first look at Adeptus Titanicus as well from Warhammer Fest including some of the new models.
The game is set to be released in August and will offer up a chance to play as these mighty Titans without shelling out for a new mortgage AND comes with some swanky looking new terrain options too.
Check out the teaser trailer that was popped up on their Live Blog this weekend...
Are you excited for this awesome new game set within the world of Warhammer 40,000?
[Update] Plastic Sisters Of Battle
Additionally, we also got to see the first miniature for the Sisters Of Battle which will be available ahead of the main release.
It is going to be very hard not to play Adeptus Sororitas when they come out next year...
[Update] New Edition Teasers & Malign Sorceries
So we get some more word on what's coming for Age Of Sigmar in the form of two new forces.
The first of these is the Nighthaunt who have turned out to be a full-on faction within the Death sphere rather than just a single model!
We also have a new Chamber for the Stormcast Eternals as Sigmar unleashes the Sacrosanct Chamber on his foes.
These new warriors of the storm have access to powerful magical abilities and strange beasts.
We also learned about how massive spells are going to be a part of the world now. This means a major overhaul of how magic works AND lasting effects (as miniatures on the battlefield).
I love the idea of these spell effects remaining on the tabletop as it really starts to develop the cinematic feel of Age Of Sigmar on the tabletop.
Are you being won over by the new look of Age Of Sigmar they are bringing to the tabletop?
New Models
We also got to see some of the first new models for the range which included this updated Stormcast Eternal here wielding their tired and tested hammer.
...and alongside that we also saw this new model for the undead, labelled as a Nighthaunt. It will be very interesting seeing where the game goes in the future but that looks like a Stormcast Eternal with a firm grip on magic!
I'm sure there will be plenty of additional news over the coming few days and we'll try and update this as things go on. However, what do you think of a new Edition of Age Of Sigmar?
Drop your thoughts below...
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Cor that nightgaunt!
Couldn’t be more excited. Hopefully a great new box on the horizon, fingers corssed for a stormcast vs legions of nagash set. Or if GW have really been hitting the drink hard, maybe a Deepkin and Legions of Nagash box, Nagash has really got to be pissed that they are making off with all his souls.
I really should have read more of the announcment before excitedly typing away lol. Death and Stormcast it is! Honestly sounds fantastic. Can’t wait to see how they update the gameplay.
As an avid AoS player I am looking forward to this. It will be interesting to see what they do. A new boxed set SC vs Death seems to be a given from the art. I dare say that it will be released mid year the same time as the General’s Handook 2018 is/was due. Will they do a new hardback ? As the last one was largely lore and battleplans there is no real need for one or will they just do a deluxe version of the General’s handbook? or if they do are hardback will the cancel the general’s handbook? (which for people like me who wants all there years in sequence on their shelf ,this would be a fate worse than death… yes I am that sad )
I heard there will still be a general’s gandbook this year @beardragon14 some chap asked the question apparently.
Cheers thanks mate
It’s a bally shame you folks can’t go there and film, as obvs you can’t show the Titanicus minis as they’re on other sites… or can you?
But yes, they’re glorious minis. I haven’t had a chance to play much AoS but I’ve loved the death models for yonks. Those are staggering.
Nah!
Pictures Nightgaunt:
https://imgur.com/a/4yCvUv6
Pictures Stormcast:
https://imgur.com/a/mJo0rlK
I think they both look awesome.
You’ve officially just made my entire weekend. Those new models look insane. Can’t wait to get in on this.
Some great views of the nightgaunt. I especially like the mounted ones. My wife has given me two Gardens of Morr for some reason over the last few years, and I can easily see an army of nightgaunt rising and drifting among the scenery in our AD&D campaign. Would make for a great Battlesystem rumble!
Quite a turnaround from those idiotic floaty fish elves.
What will this new release do for the existing books and forces ?
Or is it more along the lines of a new starter set with an updated set of rules & war scrolls for the forces involved ?
I think it is more along the lines of the second option
That is the existing army boks aren’t invalidated…. except for the 4 pages of rules at the back
All the current stuff out is fully compatible with minor changes to warscrolls which are all still free. The core free rules are changing to reflect the evolution of the game (eg like the way aoe buffs will work to stop conga lines). Got all this and put it into my own words from an official GW slide via the seminar except the conga lines part but the new Death scrolls had aoe buff rules which stopped the player doing that.
New edition but GW still keeps pushing those Sigmarines. That is sure to keep me not interested from AoS.
Well, there’s that big collection of ethereal Nighthaunts too…
Info and videos on the new edition, starter box, new models, how magic manifests on the table etc — https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/05/11/warhammer-fest-live-blog-2gw-homepage-post-1/
So good it needs rewriting before the ink has dried XD
Do it right, do it once!
FML
Sorry but GW along with every other company always releases new editions look at fantasy that had 8 iterations before it was “killed off” there’s always tweaking that goes on so you can’t really grumble like a longbeard just because they’ve updated the rules to accommodate “new and fresh ideas”*
* New and fresh ideas are yet to be confirmed and this commentor takes no responsibility for any failings by GW to do a proper job of making their concepts a reality
Yes god forbid people from actually improving upon a thing as times go by…
And since rules and warscrolls are free, you cannot really bitch about that too.
Are any of you happy with a 2 year turn round on core rule editions?
The constant rules churn has done nothing but put me off GW and if this was unscheduled then it’s little else than admitting that the first edition was an abortion. Fuck the price, I’d rather have a quality product.
Considering the impossibility of any rules system surviving actual use by (competitive) players … I think a 2 year cycle is the best choice, especially when you consider how newbie friendly this is.
The new GW strategy is the best possible option for everyone.
Oh for goodness sake. You got one. You didn’t like it. Fine. It was free. You didn’t lose anything. Stop using disgusting language, grow up, shut up you cretinous whelp.
Talk about fragile snowflake. If other people having and stating opposing opinions and not liking same thing as you makes you angry then maybe internet isn’t right place for you. You only give sensible people that like AoS bad name with that behavior.
I’m far from ‘fragile’ and not a snowflake I just do not see the point in whining about something that is free, especially when there is so much choice in the market to choose from.
You’re the one limiting yourself and that’s a bit sad. Play something else. Adapt the rules to suit you.
@bubbles15 Ironically, your post was far more offensive than the one @twodeesick put up.
Wow, way to make it personal. Keyboard warriors -_- I think that qualifies you for a blackbelt XD
Go home XD
I think you need to go into the corner and have a time out and come back when you can play nicely.
2 years? I’m sure it’s more like 3 as AoA was released in 2015. 3 years is broadly in line with recent trends in versions
>Are any of you happy with a 2 year (well, 3 but who’s counting) turn round on core rule editions?
I don’t mind when the rules are free, update away.
You’re feeling offended because GW have decided to expand upon their product do you actually play any miniatures games?? Flames of War release new editions Privateer Press release new editions, GW released a statement explaining why they had chosen to do this it was not unscheduled, they felt that with the advent of the Generals Handbook and newer races changing the way the games played they felt it was time to give the rules a clean up, makes sense they would also see it as an opportunity to expand a universe which is really quite limited by adding in new elements to make it more interesting, GW have by and large always provided a quality product(s) so I fail to see what you’re moaning about there.
I’m not oddended. Just tied of the constant rules churn that has become accepted as the norm. It fucks me right off that rules can’t be written with the intention of being finite as possible. I feel that scheduling a 2 to 3 year core rule update only provides space for poorly tested and slap dash rules.
I’ve been playing wargames for over 20 years thank you very much. Do I play games? Pft
But nothing is ever set in stone and sorry but after 20 years your should be used to the constant change of rules if they followed your logic their games works end up being either stagnant or completely broken, personally I like that they change the rules to keep up with the game it means that it evolves and grows as a format I hated the idea of AoS when it came out (still do in some ways) and while I don’t always agree with the way GW have done things they’ve always tried to keep they’re products fresh not however they’re doing it by listening to us as gamers rather the voices in their heads. And it doesn’t make for slap dash rules this is a product which is still in its infancy, so the rules they had originally were fine for the starting races, but as they add more it was always going to be a case that those new additions stretched the envelope for what you could do and changed the game in new ways and that’s good, one of fantasy biggest pitfalls was it was stagnant, and they had resorted to a system of one-upmanship to get around that which was ridiculous, AoS has helped them reinvent they’re games and make them “new” but that doesn’t mean that it’s going to be set in stone and it never has done nor will it ever be, having near perfect rules right from the outset just means there’s no scope for expanding the game without massive investment, and it sets a precedent that the game is never going to be any better than when it first came out, I know what you mean but your thought pattern is flawed, my only personal gripe with AoS is that they didn’t invest enough time in getting the races and the lore established initially but I do feel that they have taken steps to resolve that now.
@spicymchaggisjig12345 I would even say there’s no such thing as a perfect rules set so games are always going to change and evolve
Agreed but that doesn’t mean accepting it on such a high turnover. My though process is not flawed, neither am I a cretinous whelp or just moaning got the sake of it. I would rather gave a more efifibed product that has had a more considered approach with appropriate testing that will last much longer than the current status quo. It’s an opinion. You don’t have to prove it wrong or otherwise.
There have been four versions of Flames of War in about 5 years. Games change. This is a good thing.
I don’t understand what you want. It seems the usual ‘it’s got to be perfect for me, how I want it because I want it and anything else isn’t play tested/competitive/good/suits my whim’.
What it sounds like – and I apologise for my comment as I was in a foul mood and tired of whining about free stuff – is the pointless petulance. There’s Godslayer in the big banner ad. Download the rules for Mythic battles Pantheon (we’re getting a version 2 of that after a year as well). Play Warmachine. Play Malifaux. Just enjoy it, and stop throwing your ego along with your dice. Life’s too damned short.
*have a more refined*
Sausage fingers 😛
Ok so accepting that other people have been flinging mud around, I haven’t and so I would like to ask what sort of frequency would be acceptable for a rules update. I mean I think we can all agree that rules do need to be updated, even if all they’re doing is including FAQ answers and errata into them. I would also be interested to know what games you play and how frequently those rules are updated. I do think that there’s different expectations among different types of Wargamers as to what sort of maintenance a set of rules requires; for example generally speaking I think Fantasy and Sci-Fi gamers probably expect more frequent updates than do people who play historical games.
This is all well and good but does it also mean that every other army that has been neglected by GW is going to get some love as well? kharadron for example, or sylvaneth both of these armies have been left untouched since they were first released and both of them are in need of some overdue attention especially when you consider that Aelves are now in full swing and the Sigmarines have 3 or else 4 different “chambers” feels like GW are still kind of halfarsing this venture to me but time will tell if I’m wrong.
Must not give in… Must not give in… Must not give in.. Must not….. err what was I fighting again.. Oooh look NitghtHaunts XD
That sister is promising for the eest of the range.
Nighthaunt stuff looks really nice. Stormcast are well stormcast, not my taste. Early indications are the rules changes won’t address what I dislike about the system. The magic stuff, not doing it for me. New terrain bits look nice though.
Other stuff, bb dark elves look great. Orcs cheerleaders are amazing. Titanicus looks really nice, but I don’t want another game with massive minis so probably a pass.
BB Dark Elves? Orc Cheerleaders? Where did you see those, if I may ask?
@dubbidubbi just search #warhammerfest on twitter you’ll see everything
Tales of the tabletop skirmisher and 2 p’s in a pod facebook groups
The stormcaster would look good as a priest with a bit of work.
Lovin the new sister of battle.
I think a second edition is definitely a good idea. For all that I was disappointed that GW didn’t try to fix the Old World / Warhammer, and didn’t much like the way they ended it, I was hopeful that a new game (i.e. Age of Sigmar) would allow them to do a more high fantasy game with larger models in an interesting way that the previous game had not. I was more willing than many to approach the new game with an open mind.
And was very disappointed with the (lack of) setting and with the gameplay of the intro game.
I’m sceptical that a new edition which must remain compatible with the current army books can fix what I don’t like about the game, but we’ll see. It’s certainly a good opportunity for them to make quite a lot of positive changes, and I will give it another go.
And most of the new models look great!
God damnit I’m gonna be so fucking poor.
Fantastic news about Titanicus and those minis just look phenomenal. Loving the new Sister too and the direction in design that it indicates, especially the strong continuity with the old range. I’m just in the process of building an SoB force now from the old metal minis and I’d forgotten how lovely and detailed they were (IMHO).
Now do I base my old Sisters on raised up plinth 32mm bases as this one looks to be placed or stay with the old school 25mm and crack out the goblin green and sand as someone mentioned the other day for nostalgia. A nice dilemma to have for an SoB fan given the years of disappointment and uncertainty.
I like the nightgaunt. Spell effects are a good idea.
Sigmarines: yawn.
Hopefully they can make it so Age of Sigmar can actually be played and not feel like a water down version of 40k. I been playing GW games since 2nd 40k. The fact that Fantasy played different then 40k was the selling point for me. And I have my Stronghold of Dwarves and Raider ships of Dark Elves. It was a kick in the teeth to find that all that was now basically worthless. So here to hoping under the helm of the current Ruler of all Games Workshop he can make Fantasy playable to me again and reward my old Oaths of Loyalty.
Rant over SISTERS! TITANS! And then there the retro greatness it looks like of the Rogue Traders. So excited!
So many glorious things!
The Titanicus models and terrain look incredible. I need a lot of this.
But the star is that Sisters of Battle render. It is everything I ever wanted aesthetically from that army, and it is so beautifully sculpted. It is also a giant middle finger to every single third party manufacturer who has tried to copy the design.
That SISTER! Loving a lot there. The face, the scars, the hair, the stance, the reasonably fine details…
If *this* is the new standard I might go lunatic. Especially since this faction before any other is so made for the grainy gritty heterogenous Imperial Grim Dark (TM) by itself already.
Anyone know if the Kopinski-AW is supposed to be Ephrael Stern?
Oh, and crazy Trolls and interesting DE -could use these else where… 😉
Don’t think so, that’s the cover art from ‘Faith and Fire’.
Adeptus Titanicus minis look good; anyone got any idea how they look next to 40k minis? I’m thinking they might make for nice Legio Cybernetica alternatives in regular 40k. 🙂
Also, anyone know if it’ll just be titans, or will we see infantry and tanks somewhere down the line? At the very least I’d expect things like the various Bandblade variants somewhere down the line considering some of those are specifically intended as Titan killers.
I think these would also look great used alongside some of the new Star Wars terrain we’ve seen over the last week or so; I can imagine a scenario where one side is protecting the Shirld Generator terrain piece which is powering a void shield or a scenario where the attackers are trying to destroy some of the turret pieces which represent planetary defence batteries which are preventing a fleet landing troops (unfortunately the turns don’t line up well with BFG otherwise you could have a BFG game running alongside an AT game with the status of the AT game determining what defences a planet has each turn in the BFG game; although I suppose you could adapt it to 40k with the turrets being some artilliary battery and the number of turrets at the end of each AT turn determining how many barrages can be dropped each turn in the 40k game).
@lordofuzkulak
For now it will be only Titans and only Imperial Titans because it is set in the Horus Heresy. But if it is sucessfull GW might do infantry.
About the size, go to the live blog https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/05/11/warhammer-fest-live-blog-2gw-homepage-post-1/
scroll down quite a bit and you will see AT Knights in comparison to the running away human from the Warhammer Fantasy Battles giant kit.
GW really knows how to open up wallets and prepare them for the things that are to come …
Feels like ive been waiting ages for Adeptus Titanicus to arrive and now its nearly hear, I can already feel my wallet crying out. Have to admit though that even though I’m not an AoS player those magic effects are really tempting me.
“the Sacrosanct Chamber ”
LOL
jog on
Sigmar really needs to learn he can’t’ solve all his problems by hurling new types of Stormcast Eternals at it…
‘The Hell I Can’t!!’
Sorry, but that bit in the anouncment trailer really gave me a laugh.
Some new pictures in the live blog:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/05/11/warhammer-fest-live-blog-2gw-homepage-post-1/
the sisters look very promising, always been one of the best looking armies in 40k.
adeptus titanicus is going to look cool no question and it’s only going to get more tempting when those epic heresy armies presumably arrive. i’m going to be really interested to see how it compares to dropzone commander 2nd edition.
i’m a fan of the BB sculpts generally and i’ve always had a soft spot for the dark elves. they’ve done a fine job with the sculpts, possibly my favorite looking team after the skaven. now if FW support it with some characterful sculpts to break it up, as they did with the skaven, then they might just take the top spot.
2nd editions come fairly quick on the heels of 1st editions as often as not.editions should slow down after that in all honesty but that first real stress test has seen more than a few go to a swift 2nd edition.
Age of Sigmar has always seemed like a work in progress, no real definitive direction from the off. It’s found its feet over the coarse though due to a mix of GW listening these days and a community that wanted GW fantasy setting to come good. I think they’ve been fortunate though as both CMON and FFG failed to capitalise on the slow start by GW. they have found themselves in a good position and i think bringing 2nd edition to the table a little earlier than planned is a smart move. i think they know what they want from the game now and i fully expect Age of Sigmar 2nd edition to be a much improved game.
the spell effects are very cool.
I am looking forward to the new Sisters of Battle. The new render is amazing. The sooner they are released the better. Is it possible with all of the old games that GW is re-releasing that Mordheim is not too far off? One can hope
Titanicus is where my geek pound will be going, it looks great 😀 .
“tired and tested hammer”?
oh man, they are doing everything right, I’m impressed. Blood Bowl is going full speed as it always deserved, Titanicus is what I was waiting for years, I’m still pissed they invalidated my hundreds of epic models with this change of scale but if the rules are good nobody can block me from playing it also in 6mm so that’s all good.
Interesting the AoS stuff, I am not interested but lately, I was reading bits and pieces of the new setting, it is too high fantasy for my taste and I didn’t understand anything about the geography of the world, if it even was a world or just an excuse to fight with big monsters in high fantasy landscapes. Yes, I missed the gritty low medieval old world with its taverns, decadent cities, and scary woodlands.
But now it seems they want to flesh out a bit more the new setting with maps, more information about who lives in these realms and how not only who’s fighting what. It could be interesting. They really want to push the Stormcast as Fantasy space marines, they are and will be still for a long time in every starter set. Same as everyone as at least one space marine in his collection they want everyone to have at least one stormcast. It might be a good move. I still don’t like them, in particular, the helmet and the metallic color scheme, what hooked me in the past with the Space Marine was the beaked helmet and the diversity of the chapters colors.
I have to say I am very impressed by how GW managed to completely change for the better in such short time, I believe this means the company was ready for that since a while and it was just the management to hold it off. Glad to see they’re going back to be number one again. Good stuff
Age of Sigmar has gone full Darby Ogill – Banchee 😮 (the most terrifying scene in all cinema)
Wow… I’m stunned by the new nighthaunt models. They were able to take an army of malevolent bed sheets and give it genuine character. Well done 😀
A lot of really cool things for a lot of types of players. The coming months shall be very interesting indeed.
I enjoyed seeing the new Death, the current sculpts are great and always felt could do more and wow they did more! Black coach is stunning!
As a Destruction player it will be nice to get some rules updated in AoS2, hopefully we’ll benefit a little from that although its definitely disappointing to see MORE Stormcast when others have been waiting so much longer for an update (Moonclan! More Squigs are needed in these realms :-)) That being said they do looks good, I like the one ‘hoovering up souls’
*coughs*apothecary*coughs*sigmarines*coughs*
Oh sorry about that don’t know what happened there. The “the hell I can’t” was really funny though
Plastic sisters of battle are going to be simply stunning if the others look even half as good as that, I know it seems a weird thing to say but they are for me the most 40k looking army of the lot… does that make sense?… maybe 😀
Has anyone else seen the new building models for Adeptus Titanicus and thought they look very much like the Space Marine buildings? Yes, maybe a homage to the originals. But the flat roofs that an epic scale base would nicely fit on. I wonder if GW did this with a view to following up Adeptus Titanicus with a new version of Space Marine, which was set in the Horus Heresy, should the August release prove successful. I would love a new version of Epic 40K!