Hello everyone !!

This is the first of a series of review of the new AOS2 material.
These reviews should cover (in no particular order) and could take 5 to 10 days to make all (depending on the drive)
Considering the amount of info already revealed by warhammer community and the uptodate ageofsigmar.com i will not spend too much time on the things previously covered.

Index :
-Rule book fluff
-Rule book gaming
-Soul war fluff and rules
-Nighthaunt models
-Sacrosanct chamber
-Malign Sorcery.
-Matched Play in a nutshell (there is a lot to say)
-Factions change.

There is a lot to talk about so let's jump !

Introduction

The rule book is present in the soul war box or as a single item. It's hard cover with 320 pages and 220 pages about worlds, factions, myths and legends.
It's a fabulous Rulebook.

Fluff in the new rule book

220 pages of illustrations, story, maps...it's establish the setting for the new edition and cover pretty much everything that happened in the different books and the aftermath of the Necroquake.

The first section is about the Tales of AEONS (the story of the worlds) the second is about the differents factions of the mortals realm. Both section are ~100 pages.

Tale of Aeons

Again 2 sections here : The storyline (age of myth, chaos, Sigmar) and 45 pages on the different realms.

The story line

Age of Myth

It's the shortest but the coolest, it's 11 full page color illustration with text snippets on the creation of everything !
It's on a cosmology scale with a touch of humanity ^^

Age of Chaos

In the age of chaos the narration focus on Sigmar demise with the breaking of the Pantheon, the battle of Burning Skies.

The section is, while interesting is quite short (less than 10 pages)

Age of Sigmar

The biggest of the 3 sections. Retrace the recent history since the return of Sigmar !
-Stormcast return
-War in the land of life
-Godbeast
-8 points war
-Creations of differents cities
-Info about Teclis and Malerion traveling between the lands of Light and Dark (in Uhl Gysh)

Raven clan in the fluff, Atia going to be happy ;)

-A few more pages about Necroquake and Magic unchained are present too but i prefer to not post them yet for spoil reason (i am not sure they spoil, but i need to check what i know and what a normal reader know ^^)

The realms !

Second aspect of the fluff presented in the book is the geography and details on the 8 realms !
For most of the main realms you get a map and 1 to 4 pages of fluff and backstory + some arts. Some realm like Ulgu and Hysh are less explained (i guess to keep the mystery). page 78-118.

Favorite part of the book, instantly ignited a RPG fire to play in the mortal realms ! (i would have liked more pages)

Factions of the Mortal realms

All the faction are here (no TK or Bret). Off course the biggest faction get the greater number of pages (hello Stormcasts) but it's very well made and really give a great insight of the different factions !!!

Conclusion

Time to conclude the Fluff part of the review !
I hope you liked it as i liked reading this book. It's and awesome Core Book, so good it's sad AOS wasn't at this stage when they released it 3 years ago (already 3 years ? damn time passed so fast) !

This book is a definitive must have for grasping the magnitude of the Mortal Realms.

GG GW !

/cheers.
bob.

Hello everyone !!

The new web site is full of video made by the warhammer community team featuring Becca Scott !!

https://ageofsigmar.com/new-to-aos/overview/

https://ageofsigmar.com/new-to-aos/build/

https://ageofsigmar.com/new-to-aos/paint/

https://ageofsigmar.com/new-to-aos/play/ (the part with becca)

https://twitter.com/thebeccascott.

Very cool stuff !

/cheers.
bob.

(Nda lift in 3 minutes)

Hello everyone !!

www.ageofsigmar.com have been updated with the new aos rules :

https://ageofsigmar.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/AoS_Rules-ENG.pdf

check for yourself what changed !!

click here to discover the realms and see a video of phil talking about the different realms :

https://ageofsigmar.com/realms/

/cheers.
bob.

Hello everyone !!

GW revealed the latest Mortarch !

Lady Olynder, Mortarch of Grief!

Nagash is a being of exceptional power, but cannot be everywhere at once, and apportions his vast energies between the Mortarchs. Olynder is the most recently chosen of these dark lieutenants, gathering the previously disparate forces of the Nighthaunt into a terrifying spectral legion who fight at the spear tip of Nagash’s latest assault on the Mortal Realms.

In life, Olynder was a plotter and schemer who showed false remorse to improve her standing – now, in death, she is the possessor of a misery so deep and black it projects from her in vast, deadly waves. For most, to face her in battle is to lose hope and accept the inevitability of death – while those few with the will to stand before her are quickly obliterated by her deathly magics, or torn apart by spectral attendants.

We’ll be seeing more of Lady Olynder – and her Nighthaunt armies – soon, with Soul Wars being the tip of the (terrifying, definitely haunted) iceberg…

In game she's around twice the cost of a Deathrunner ;)

/cheers.
bob.

Hello everyone !!

Super interesting story happening in a space ship :D

The stellarium was a whirring mass of concentric stone circles. It occupied a chamber as wide and open as a city square, orbited by glowing spheres and cascades of vibrant colour. The glorious expanse of the aetheric void was depicted in such maddening complexity that only the ancient minds of the slann could truly comprehend it.

Maq’uat was a Starpriest, a humble skink servant of these god-like beings, and such matters were far beyond his inquisitive mind. Yet even he could tell that something momentous and terrifying was occurring.

Stars were withering in the void. This was no violently beautiful act of celestial law in effect, no natural cycle of existence coming gracefully to a close.

This was murder. Slow and purposeful, and carried out on a cosmic scale.

https://malignportents.com/story/dying-star/

/cheers.
bob.

BTW : Our NDA lift on the 14june at 5pm british summer time. (hyyyype)

Hello everyone !!

Rumor engine day !
Obviously plastic 40k skaven !

/cheers.
bob.

(click on the image to launch the video)

Hello everyone !!

Video of the new campaign.
It's store cooperative.
Launch the 16 with a new website here :
www.everbrinkcampaign.co.uk (no up yet)

/cheers.
bob.

Hello everyone !!

Next week on pre order :

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soul Wars Boxed Game 125€
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Core Book
Malign Sorcery 45£
General’s Handbook 2018
Combat Gauge
Scenery Dice
Command and Status Dice
Objective Markers
Wound Counters
Stormcast Eternals Castigators with Gryph-hound
Stormcast Eternals Sequitors
Nighthaunt Glaivewraith Stalkers
Nighthaunt Myrmourn Banshees
New Technical paints: Nighthaunt Gloom and Hexwraith Flame

Hypeeee !

/cheers.
bob.

Hello everyone !!

More image about Season2 space marines.
Blood angel terminators, but i am not sure there are chapter markings on the model !

/cheers.
bob.

Hello everyone !

Some info from the Stormcast about 2018GH start at 2.50min for the GH

/cheers.
bob.

Quick transcripts :

Still 3 ways to play

Open
Open war generator improved.
Another set of deployment options, objectives, sudden death.
More balance options.
Aerial battle : Overhead or stratospheric.
-Overhead : 2 levels of fights (air and ground)

Narrative
-42 new rules you can add to your game, campaign.
Dawn attack, Chaos ascendant,…
It's like a tool box you can use to customise your narrative games.

Gathering of Might (Rules for super big games)
Apo scale.
Everyone pile in and fight at the same time.
Battleplan
One spell per caster.

Matched
Lots of the old matched play rules are in the core rules.
12 battlesplanes.
Streamlining of some deployment conundrum.

+

Conquest unbound (also aviable for free)
Allegiance abilities change
Scenery rules
Loaaads of points change.
Summoning rules change cost are included the war scrolls.