The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Dr. The Viking]

Personally I'm more tempted by the AoS RPG because it's something new and it'll help flesh out the game world more.

Yeah I think this one is a winner.

The old dark world has been sent into the ring too many times.

Give me something fresh and crazy.

[thenamelessdead]

AoS is a silly world where all is in chaos and turmoil and the only things that live are killing machines though. Isn't it? Doesn't sound like a place for RPG!

Like the BB Elves, they are definitely one of the best of the new teams. They actually suit GW's dynamism at all costs approach.

[stone-cold-lead]

AoS is a silly world where all is in chaos and turmoil and the only things that live are killing machines though. Isn't it? Doesn't sound like a place for RPG!

The world wasn't terribly well fleshed out to begin with but GW have begun to create a more living and breathing world through Warhammer Quest and the cities/alliances sets. The RPG is exactly what could add to that. It's early days still so there's loads to add and it gives players/GMs a lot of space to get creative themselves, far more so perhaps than with the World that Was. Bear in mind as well that the original WFRP was released long before the Old World had been codified into the now familiar setting.

[nic-e]

AoS is a silly world where all is in chaos and turmoil and the only things that live are killing machines though. Isn't it? Doesn't sound like a place for RPG!

Like the BB Elves, they are definitely one of the best of the new teams. They actually suit GW's dynamism at all costs approach.

Yes and no.

After the death of the old world, sigmar and the souls of many great heros/gods floated in the void as chaos consumed itself.

Eventually the winds of magic formed realms. Near infinite plains that embodied their forming winds. the spirits of life,races long dead and new races born into these realms soon sprang up, populating each realm. Sigmar saw this and from his celestial home he built an empire.
Eventually chaos returned, seeing these new realms in the void, archaon ,now grand marshall of the chaos gods, ploughed over the empire of sigmar and the alliance he had formed with the new gods of death, life and destruction.
Sigmar retreated and locked himself in azyr, the celestial realm.

This started the age of chaos, where everything fell slowly to chaos or was forced into hiding for millennia.

the setting of Age of Aigmar starts at the end of the age of chaos, When sigmar has completed work on his new army to march against the dominant powers of archaon and his forces and take back the realms, using and ancinet realmgates built by various races and peoples in days long gone.

We are noew a few hundred years in, as the summer campaigns and campaign books each pushed the narrative a few decades forward.
Cities have been built by pioneers from aigmars realm, old alliances have been reformed between the godess of life and sigmar. Those who were in hiding have started to come forward and huge areas have been conquered and exist in a delicate state of peace as chaos is pushed back.

the reason age of sigmar feels empty is because it's NEW and it's HUGE. Gone is the single map with its unchanging borders. An overnight raid by a chaos warlord seeking glory could push the frontier of order back hundreds of miles, or a captured realmgate could mean the building of a new city of life in the middle of the land of death.
There's endless scope for exploration and fun, with the freedom for all kinds of bizarre moorcock style fantasy.

[Andrew May]

Could make a nice brat gang for Necromunda too.

I'm doing some ridiculous conversions for a Brat gang atm. 

[boneio]

the reason age of sigmar feels empty is because it's NEW and it's HUGE. Gone is the single map with its unchanging borders. An overnight raid by a chaos warlord seeking glory could push the frontier of order back hundreds of miles, or a captured realmgate could mean the building of a new city of life in the middle of the land of death.

That's why it doesn't work for me. With what appears to be an infinite world and no distinct, detailed histories which match a clear geography, there are no stakes. Anything can change at any time so there's no inherent drama. Just continual war. Yawn.

That said, given a decade of lore writing that might change. And the aos lore I have read has the feeling of an Epic in the true sense of the word, so I'm not dismissing it - it's just not grounded enough for me.

[Andrew Rae]

I'm doing some ridiculous conversions for a Brat gang atm. 

Photos, man. Photos!

[Vanvlak]

Is it just me who measures his age in the wargaming hobby by the number of Blood Angels codices issued? I must be six, at least. 

[stone-cold-lead]

That's why it doesn't work for me. With what appears to be an infinite world and no distinct, detailed histories which match a clear geography, there are no stakes. Anything can change at any time so there's no inherent drama. Just continual war. Yawn.

That said, given a decade of lore writing that might change. And the aos lore I have read has the feeling of an Epic in the true sense of the word, so I'm not dismissing it - it's just not grounded enough for me.

It just needs time. It's only been a couple of years so there's plenty of world building to do. I think some people though really like the lack of a fully formed game world and prefer the freedom to put their own spin on it, just like early Warhammer. I'm looking forward to seeing some of the blanks and vagaries filled in a bit more though.

[Dr Mathias]

Is it just me who measures his age in the wargaming hobby by the number of Blood Angels codices issued? I must be six, at least. 

I remember the day I was born!

[Andrew May]

Photos, man. Photos!

Emailed.

[nic-e]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MofgqGcXsRI&feature=youtu.be

Games workshop let the guys from Miniwargaming on youtube do a video behind the scenes at warhammer world. Pretty funny, and there's a sneak peak at the new beast of nurgle.

I got the december white dwarf today and my god it's packed with stuff! BAttle reports for AoS , 40k, necromunda, and the lord of the rings, content on shadespire, spacehulk, warghammer quest, necromunda, blnachistu , armies on parade...free stuff too.

[tomrommel1]

hilarious

[stone-cold-lead]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MofgqGcXsRI&feature=youtu.be

Games workshop let the guys from Miniwargaming on youtube do a video behind the scenes at warhammer world. Pretty funny, and there's a sneak peak at the new beast of nurgle.

I got the december white dwarf today and my god it's packed with stuff! BAttle reports for AoS , 40k, necromunda, and the lord of the rings, content on shadespire, spacehulk, warghammer quest, necromunda, blnachistu , armies on parade...free stuff too.

That beast of nurgle looks like it might be a throwback to the original (and best) model.

It was rather nice to see the Space Hulk rules for hybrids in WD. Might put to rest the expectations of those who think Deathwing and Genestealer should get boxed sets (not happening!).

[zemjw]

Now not buying that humble bundle of the WHFRPG stuff comes back to bite me like a redback spider!

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