>DARNOK ON WARSEER
>The official part first: "Age of Sigmar" is the first box set in the "remake" of Warhammer, with the first pre-orders up on the 4th of July, to be released on the 11th.
>The most recent of my bird singings:
>Concerning models:
>humans much larger in scale than standard WHFB humans
>not just more bulky and differently proportioned, but I mean the models themselves stand taller, they're just a different scale as WHFB humans (each about the size of a Terminator)
>about the model compatibility, and they just went like "yeah well if someone really wants to use their old armies they can, but we didn't intend the new models and old models to be compatible, we think larger models are the way forward, blah blah"
>Concerning rules:
>it's really for small battles and not as deep and strategic like LOTR was
>very simplified, seems intended for short quick beer & pretzel games, lots of random and little strategy
>no way you can use it for existing warhammer armies, so with the scale difference and incompatible rules I don't think there's any point in rebasing your existing collection
>'post it note' size of the rulebook is pretty much accurate
>very much revolves around your commander, which has elaborate special rules
>rest of the squads feels much as filler for the commanders to smash up and feel good about
no info yet about anything planned for really large-scale battles
>This box set is not the full deal though. There will be a "big rulebook" coming shortly afterwards. That one should cover larger battles, I have yet to hear anything definite on it though (unless I missed something ).
>POSTED BY HARRY:
>Oh .. this is just the tip of a very large pile of ... I mean iceburg. There is a a lot of stuff backed up ready for release. Did you mean weeks or months?
>I would expect to see nothing but more Humans and Chaos stuff for a couple of months along with a bunch of terrain (so folks can build 'new look' tables) and then the Skaven stuff to hit.
