1st edition was released on July 4th, 2015. Happy birthday AoS.
What a journey it has been.

>>96011405 (OP)
People said it physically released on 11th, so you're 1 week early

>zero acknowledgement from GW whatsoever
Is there a bigger death flag for the game?

>>96011548
Why would there be? GW want to quietly forget the awkward embarrassment that was Slopmar and swiftly move on.

But come on now, GW should really mark the occasion in some way. How about by putting out some fun, whacky little rules mandating half the characters in the game can only execute their abilities if the person playing the army sings Happy Birthday, or does a little celebratory dance, or brings a home-baked cake with ten candles on and blows them out? Haha naw, that'd be too ridiculous, no serious company would ever write rules like that haha...

S

It's absolutely baffling that not only did AoS 1E not launch with points, but also that people were defending this as a better system. For almost a full year people were either guesstimating matchups or using Azyr comp.
Needless to say once the GHB dropped with GW-approved points, everyone suddenly decided that points were a good idea after all.

>>96011719
> GW want to quietly forget

yeaaaahhh thats why they released 2 new army expansions in the last week, and another 2 army expansions earlier this year each themselves the size of an old world army.

surely they just must want to dustbin the game, thats why they keep releasing models for it.

>>96011821
>that people were defending this as a better system

rank and flank is just THAT repulsive. no one actually wants to play rectangle simulator and they were desperate for a 40k style round based ruleset to use their fantasy models in.

>>96011526
That was indeed the case.

Fuck you anon and fuck Shitmar this game was supposed to be fucking dead by now how the fuck has this shit been around for 10 fucking years

>>96012035
good minis, fun easy to learn rules, creative original armies

everything that warhammer fantasy wasnt.

>>96011924
who buys this crap?

>>96012043
how come the worst takes either come with a frog or reddit double spacing? is this some kind of trolling?

>>96012061
more people than bought warhammer fantasy thats for sure

>>96012066
>oh no i dont actually have anything to say
>better call him reddit

desperation

>>96012043
>good minis, fun easy to learn rules, creative original armies
Yeah no. Gay lore, gay setting without the charm of its predecessor, heavy high fantasy instead of the fantasy kitchen sink that was WHFB and its historical nature, and only some of the minis are good looking.

The rules may be good but they are stuck in a shit setting.

>>96012178
>instead of the fantasy kitchen sink that was WHFB and its historical natur
Anon, Fantasy is back, you can go play it now instead of seething about AoS for yet another decade
You ARE playing your beloved Warhammer Fantasy Battles now that it received a new surge of popularity, right?

>>96012201
Well yeah. It's great it's back.
All there needs to be done is them not referencing the Warhammer World as The World That Was, make AoS a WHAT IF!? Chaos won and instead moved the story onward with stuff like Karl dying and someone else taking over (that was in fact one plot point in older Warhammer where Karl Franz and Boris Todbringer perished, with one of Toddy's sons taking over as Emperor and marrying Elector Countess Emanuelle von Leibzig).
Or the Dwarfs actually finding a way to reawaken the Rune Golems. That would be a massive plot point as now the Dwarfs would be more offensive due to them having literal gigantic constructs to bolster their ranks.

>>96012082
how many peanuts does gw give you to argue online about aos?

>>96012043
>creative original armies
AoS is the antithesis of creative and original. the lizardmen for example are the same exact guys from fantasy.

>>96014232
>AoS is the antithesis of creative and original.
Understatement.
Not only the Lizzies barely changed, we have not!Space Marine in it, Ogres also barely changed, Orcs and Goblins are barely the same except Orcs now look worse...it's literally inorganic.

>the old rehashed factions feel old and rehashed
grogtard brilliance knows no bounds

>>96014232
>>96015869
>half the new kits feature some Star Wars element with energy weapon skinks, mind control chip dinosaurs or sci-fi throne Slann build, all while heavily featuring black exterior with neon glowing insides colour sheme
I can tell none of you fags were lizard fans if you can't tell the difference between the magitech new sculpts and unga bunga old sculpts

>>96015971
There where always sort of meant to be magic tech though Kroq-Gar had an ironman gauntlet

>>96015971
>I can tell none of you fags were lizard fans if you can't tell the difference between the magitech new sculpts and unga bunga old sculpts
Lizardmen already had magitek in the form of stuff like the various God Engines installed on the backs of their dinosaurs or Kroq-Gar's prosthetic.
Those were always more magic than tech.
You are not fooling anyone here.

>>96017508
>>96017751
>End times sculpts aren't proto-AoS when i feel like it, but when you point out some of them were shit they're AoS and not kino rino wfb

Ive been there since day one.
I went for the khorne guys (actually forgot their first name, Bloodbound?). Really enjoyed the basics but understood a lot of the problems already. Tried to play balanced games but my local store(a gw where back in the day they were fine with people hanging around and playing/painting in store) but all the kiddies were just smashing all the strongest warscrolls from each faction together to win.
Still enjoyed it though, i was a big supporter of the "funny" rules as they just made games fun as people were carrying hand mirrors for sigvald, a guy installed a voice box in konrad's base and would play voice clips. a lady with long hair who played dwarves would wrap hair around her face to use as a beard. Then there was that 1 guy who tried to power game it by taking 2 d6, having one with all faces being 6 and the other being 7s and just turn one win then use this as a reason as to why the funny rules were bad but refused any sensible arguments.
Still managed to keep aos 1st ed alive in my store all on my own.
Then the general's handbook came out and instantly the game just got so much better just from points values and some armies getting extra army rules.
and then 2nd edition came out and aos reached its peak both rules wise and lore wise.
I have a fully painted(but not based) nighthaunt army and at one point i will actually go through my immensely big backlog... (Kharadron, kruleboys, bonereapers plus i need to refresh my 1st ed ironjawz and blades of khorne armies) and this is not including all the other wargames i play like infinity, trench crusade and im currently looking at malifeaux... plus i wanna get into 3d printing for more miniatures...
help me i have a plastic crack and resin cocaine problem.

>>96017786
Most were good, some were not that good, none of them were bad.
Only things I hate about ET is the story, the character assassinations and some characters not getting the proper treatment they should've gotten (it was the perfect opportunity to make Abhorash playable).

>>96012043
>creative original armies
>warriors of chaos
>skaven
>dwarf slayers
>chaos warriors in different colours
>dark elves
>wood elves
>giants
>lizardmen
>ogres
>vampire counts
>orks
>other orks
>high elves
>night goblins
The only ones that even come remotely close to original are idoneth.

FEC are just taken out the vamp count range
Ossiarch ripped off from tomb kings
Kharadons from dwarves
Shitcast eternals are you obligatory what if we made fantasy space marines

>>96017958
Lol cope

>>96017960
>>>>>>r/signarxism

>>96017958
>Shitcast eternals are you obligatory what if we made fantasy space marines
I would've liked the Stormcast if most of them didn't have the goofy death masks (only the most high-ranking of them having those), had better proportioned armors and finally being the good counterpart to Rubric Marines in this setting.

But nope. We have them being not only stupid looking, but also they are demigods with the females having atrocious hairstyles.

>>96012201
TOW is not WHFB, it's a Flanderized reinterpretation of WHFB in line with AoS-minded DEI bullshit, fucksake the first novel they put out for it had magical girl pegasus-riding Bretonnian Ladyknights that use fucking *bows*. The simple fact is GW chose to kill WHFB and replace it with shit for fags, and the fact they're now selling more shit for fags in a WHF skinsuit will never change that, or the fact that they continually re-assert and re-affirm that yes, WHFB *does* end and *does* lead directly to AoS. If a restaraunt tells you they're always going to finish the meal they serve you with a plate of fresh turds why would you keep going there?

>>96017971
All meals eventually end in fresh turds anon.

>>96017965
>thinking people outside of your reddit bubble understand specific subreddit jokes
You have to go back

>>96011924
It's over, you lost, go home

>>96011928
Yah obviously that's why they *pfff, that's why th *snort, that's why it was sell *hnnk selling *pffffft SELLING FAST *HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>96012079
Yeah that's why it was the only product ever discounted in GW's history, even at 60% off it was sitting on shelves. It is literally the disney star wars of wargaming

>>96012178
>>96012201
Oh yeah and remember the onlky big game that ever came out for it had to be given away at $0.50 in a humble bundle and it STILL got zero average players, Alan Nomerit really smashed it out of the park with his LOL/Chinese gacha game setting, except even chinks didn't want it. Smegmartards have no answer to the fact the setting is the worst in fantasy and has zero fans, even they don't like it

>>96012201
>>You ARE playing your beloved Warhammer Fantasy Battles now that it received a new surge of popularity, right?
Yeah, a lot of people are. Every non-GW store is basically stocking it exclusively with no age of fisher-price at all

>>96011924
No one buys this crap anon. They have even stopped sending new releases to official GW stores at this point. This is just more good money spent after bad money spent.

>>96018187
That place has been memed about for years here

>>96018584
>i've been trying to astroturf my reddit memes for years chud!
Cool, but i'm not gonna give a fuck what you're doing on reddit. You're free to go there if you're that dedicated to it

>>96018587
NTA but you're a retard. /r/sigmarxism is a well known bastion of faggotry on this board, whether one uses Reddit or not.

>>96018763
>sigmarxism is a well known bastion of faggotry on this board
Maybe for terminally online people.

>>96018763
>hecking reddit is /tg/ culture, every fa/tg/uy knows their subreddits by heart!
Stop humilating yourself

>>96018220
Even the Chinese dislike AoS?
Wouldn't be surprised.

>>96018196
"This time it'll be over, j-just wait!"

>>96015869
>Orcs now look worse...it's literally inorganic.
This is a balled face lie. Old school Orcs look utterly dog-shit. Just compare the new Orc shaman to the Kruleboyz one.

Whats the matter with all these TOW and WHF trolls?? haha. Mad because your game was killed and now GW is charging you triple for ugly metal models with 10 polygons?

I hope we get more minis monday, or maybe they will keep them for the Reveal Event.

>>96017938
>the character assassinations
Fucking literally, in Thorgrim's case. Good lord, I feel sorry for Dwarf fans.

>>96017967
Shit taste confirmed.

>>96018220
That game was shit house. Of course no one played it.
If it was TW:AoS and that shitty game was fantasy, guess what, the video game numbers would have been the exact same regarding the game, just flipped in regards to the setting.

As far as miniatures goes, AoS sells far more than Fantasy ever did and is currently outselling TOW. Why are TOWtrannies incapable of accepting facts?

If it was Age Of Morathi instead, would anyone have complained?

>>96017967
>IT WAS OK WHEN GELT AND BLOOD ANGELS DID IT
Nah Stormcast officialy mog Space Marines and I'm tired of pretending otherwise

>>96021252
>>96021894
>Old school Orcs look utterly dog-shit.
>Liking not!Space Marines, but fantasy.
Opinions automatically discarded.

>>96023093
Gelt's mask was to hide whatever disfigurement he got the same way Doctor Doom does you ignorant twat. That's not a death mask.
>Mentioning Blood Angels
1. It's Death Masks that look like Sanguinius and there is spiritual reason for that.
2. They don't wear it as fucking standard as every single Stormcast, but only the likes of their greatest and deadliest do like Dante and every Sanguinary Guard. And both are the highest echelons of their command structure.

And yes. When Gelt and Blood Angels do the mask parts, then it's OK because they do it better, are all in small doses to make the characters and models unique, and finally stand out from among the basic ones.
Stormcasts don't have this since every single one of them wears one, thus none of them is unique. It they limited those to only their upper echelons of command, then it would've been fine.

>>96023272
>That's not a death mask.
Yeh and Stomcast all wear deaht masks. Because they're all dead. That's one of the most basic elements of their lore signaled by the basic element of their model design.

>>96023290
You can't be dead if you are rezzed.
Sorry but the fact that they come back as demigod warriors kinda defeats the purpose of it.
Unless the significance of their death masks is that the more they die the more dead personality-wise they become.

>>96023297
>You can't be dead if you are rezzed.
Tell that to literally every undead. A zombie at least gets to keep his own organs and technically still be himself, just cold, shortly after death

>>96023312
No. An undead is raised, not resurrected (or in slang MMO lingo: rezzed). That's the difference here.
Any rando can become an undead, but Stormcasts being the fantasy Space Marines equivalents but with both genders, requires you to either be a badass to a certain degree in your mortal life or to pull off something so damn heroic in your mortal life Sigmar notices it and reforges you.

>>96025342
What is supposed to be a difference between a random Necromancer enslaving you after death vs Sigmar enslaving you after death, other then standard necromancer's pawn smells like shit and stormcast smells like ozone?

>>96025371
Stormcasts still have meat on them, are lively, and as long as they didn't get themselves killed a shitload of times, still have personalities. When one gets reforged into a Sigmarine then they are back from the realm of the dead into being alive again. That + they can enjoy the mortal stuff again while they are not having a job from Sigmar at the moment.

Most undead don't even have minds and personalities. Those that do have, have most of the time the latter part dimmed out.
And even then it all depends on how you raise them.
Tomb Kings had all their undead have their minds intact, hence why they could use bows while Vampire Counts never had a ranged undead unit...Vampire Coast undead are the result of the Vampire Counts style raising being botched in a way where the zombie pirates still retained their minds and personalities to the point of being able to use guns and even enjoy a drink.
It's all how you raise them in the end.

>>96025491
Vampire has both meat on his bones and free will.
Stormcast doesn't have ownership of his own soul and thus his will is subujgated to Sigmar, who might give them some freedom, but ultimatly can order them to do whatever and they can't Heresy on him.

>>96025532
>Vampire has both meat on his bones and free will.
Meat yeah, but how cold it is?
While I don't keep much tabs on AoS for a fuckton of reasons, vampires have free will when Nagash isn't around. And we all know what happened when they didn't help him (proti: there is a good reason for all those weaknesses they have).