As my painting and modelling mojo has taken a dive of the last few weeks I thought I would take the opportunity instead to waffle on about changes and. yes to be honest, excitement about the soon to be released Age of Sigmar (AoS).
There has been a steadily increasing stream of rumours and scares and now actual photos of the upcoming release and I have had a roller coaster of thoughts over whether its good, bad or somewhere in between.
Now until we actually see the full release and all the trimmings we wont really know but with what I have seen so far it does spell the end for Warhammer as we know it and the end of an amazingly detailed and lovingly crafted Fantasy World.
I will be immensely sad to see it go and also sad to see the end of many of the races of the Warhammer world which now seem likely to die out with the new AoS as well as many of the models that we have come to love over years and many iterations.
Some of the models that I am hearing rumoured to simple disappear are some great great models and the lose to the miniature world of these and the sure to be more that follow as AoS drifts further and further from the Old World as I have no doubt it will, is going to be huge.
The new models look very interesting, until I have one in my had I will try and with hold final judgement but while they look immensely well detailed I am just not convinced by them. This may be because I dont yet have any buy-in to their history and background so hopefully time will tell on that.
Thoughts of an ONLY skirmish style game and the total lose of a regimental, larger (not huge) style battle game leaves me cold I must admit. As an entry game to the larger thing? brilliant and I can see it working but as the whole thing?? certainly cant see it yet but time will tell.
I am not a fan of the "mazeballs power hero bash" style which I am hearing may be the case with the other "minions" jsut there to make the Heros seem even more powerful when they stomp them on the way to the enemy hero.
I will keep my eyes on it as I can see that some good models will come out of it and who knows it may be that it really is a dawn of a new age (of sigmar).
Well there are also a lot of positive rumours like free rules and all the model ranges staying available. But with rumours being rumours we have to take everything with a dose of salt. Best thing to do is sit and wait till the darn thing drops. I hope GW is going to blow our socks off. And from what I've seen of the leaks, the new models are definitely food for conversions!
ReplyDeleteColour me excited!
I think there will be interesting times and interesting models in the months to come whichever way things are going!
ReplyDeleteI can just also see they will slowly lead to phasing out the old world style and it will just be sad to see it go. I guess its like getting to the last chapter of a book you really loved and knowing there is no sequel.
Not a fan of the Sigmar Marines so far but I am holding out hope for some great new models as GW has done some amazing work in the last year!