GW News: SKAVEN VICTORY! #NewAoS

Am I the only one still content with 8th edition?

 

I like 8th. I play 8th. I'm actively disseminating 8th (see other Hobby thread). I'm hoping TOW is a comeback on 8th as it would get more people into it.

This is the way.

 

I'm a little less optimistic of TOW. We shall see though.

 

I'm mostly content with 8th except for the power imbalances between some armies (especially Bretonnia and Tomb Kings who can't be fixed with official rules, the former because GW gave them nothing in End Times that could help and the latter because they already got their 8th book which just happened to be painfully underpowered)

I'm not holding out much hope for it.

The very best they could do is if they rereleased all the plastics canned during the AoS era, make plastic characters and scenery and released all the rulebooks and army books through mainstream GW, and just made new faction units through Forge World (the model they've used for Middle Earth), and that's a pretty long shot.

But as you say we'll just have to wait and see.

 

Eesh... I'm kind of thankful that my local gaming group is willing to invest in defunct titles like Warhammer Ancient Battles. I don't think we would have gotten into historical tabletop wargaming last year if we strictly only played supported official games.

 

True, but it required trying to get models for Warhammer Ancient Battles via Victrix and Warlord Games that led our group to discover such gems as Black Seas, Hail Caesar! and Bolt Action. While we didn't find Hail Caesar! to be to our liking (for a game that isn't reliant on model count, it ironically required more models to play than WHAB), we took to Black Seas with zeal and will be getting into Bolt Action in the new year.

Still, it's always a treat to see Rick Priestley's name pop up a lot in the rulebooks.

 

So slaanesh is just flat out getting a new tome. I think this makes them the faction to be updated the quickest within all of AoS? Even SCE went more than two years before they got their second tome, and that was mostly just to combine the dracoth tome with the regular tome instead of a complete update.

 

yeah thats pritty dumb and kinda a slap in the face to fations like cities ogers and us that had to wait 5+ years to get theirs. and they don't even need to get one they could just update them in the next broken realms book

 

I mean, sure. But it makes me wonder why they didn't just postpone the release of the first tome. Especially considering that Covid probably delayed this release somewhat. If you're going to release this big an update this quickly, why not just do it right the first time?

 

A Slaanesh release next to a Dark Eldar release.

Some pointy ears are real angry, but the exalted steed and Slaangors look amazing.

 

i have a feeling that less will. a lot of people who played slanesh did it for the power the book provided and then they got triple nurfed out of existence. slaneesh has never been all that populer and with the resent goings on i think many will be cautious and slow to pick it up.

 

None of em are halfnaked though looking at the video just a bit of cleavage and the occasional leg.

Also, nota terribly interesting box imho. Especially the sororita's part seems awefull. 1 tank, 1 squad and 1 hero?