Well. So they seem to confuse me even more now? But they seem somewhat like the rubrics if you think if there made from remade souls
Something which might interest people. Josh Reynolds, a Black Library author heavily involved in both the End Times and Age of Sigmar novels, was asked about the Sigmarines criticisms surrounding the game. He gave an interesting answer. It's not one I entirely agree with, but there's a deal of sense behind it and it does help to show the thought he's putting into them at least. "Well, for starters, Space Marines are chosen as children, tortured by SCIENCE!, and then drafted into an eternity of being monastic murder machines whose sole purpose is to hold up the crumbling foundations of an omnicidal dystopia in the name of a rotting carcass that eats psykers like chiclets. They're emotionally stunted orphans who were brainwashed and weaponized before being unleashed on a galaxy where EVERYTHING is trying to kill them. They never even had a chance to be people before someone turned them into a gun instead. Stormcast, on the other hand, are dead heroes, chosen for their valour and faith, resurrected and sent to free the Mortal Realms from the abominations currently running the show, on behalf of a benevolent god-king. They're traumatized heroes who had lives, personalities and histories prior to being crammed into primary colored hulkbuster armor and filled full of lightning so that they could go save their descendants from the eldritch horrors of a nightmare dimension. They endure death after death, losing a bit more of their soul each time, in order to prevent anyone else from suffering the fate which befell them. One group are so far removed from humanity as to be utterly alien. The other group are so human it causes them pain. One group feels little in the way of emotion, the other group feels emotion as strongly as they did before death. One group hates and fears the alien. The other group allies regularly with space-lizards, skeletors and green monster-men. One group is the personification of the grim future in which they live. The other is a thing born of hope. The similarities are cosmetic: big guys in easily paintable armor sell better than little dudes with fiddly bits. But the context for those cosmetic similarities is quite different. Think of it this way...Space Marines are Batman and Stormcast are Captain America. Both are super-heroes, both wear costumes, both punch bad guys, both save people. But they ain't the same, are they?"
I stumbled unexpectedly, on this thread at Warseer, where people are talking about how AOS is going in their locale.. Someone went to the effort of making this detailed image of the world, showing in green where AOS is getting positive feedback and red where it is getting negative, garnished from those people who put in details of their locale. Interesting stuff! http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?413794-AoS-How-it-s-doing-Geographically
yeah no love lost here. the ceo and the board of games workshop should be and and after that open their and stuff a barbedwired powerfist in their i will lose my "shirt" if they do the same thing with wh40k. don't get me wrong, i like change and fluidity in story telling but what they did with fantasy is the biggest facepalm ever. totally not cool with their business practices either...crazy prizes. makes you think how out of touch they are with the customer..it's not a hobby anymore it has become a hardcore capitalistic money machine. i'm surprised they aren't demanding gold instead of money for their models and that ridiculous chaos fortress that costs more than two top of the line smartphones. just no words..
Did you see the fortress...? It takes up a 4'x4' area on a gaming table with THICK plastic and 2-3 stories tall for most of the pieces. I, personally, would never buy it but come on...
Looking at the new Tau fortress thing, and looking back at the Space Marine Chapter, I think we can all agree that the silly Chaos fortress is not AoS' fault, as much as it would be easy to blame it. I have gotten around to playing AoS with a gentlemen's agreement, and it's, well, it's not Fantasy Battles but it's not the coming of the Antichrist either. I'm still saddened by the loss of official support for Fantasy Battles, yes, and I wouldn't play AoS again unless my group collectively decides that it's the best thing since sliced bread (our general response was to say 'meh' and go back to our preferred skirmish systems). To preach to the choir and state the obvious, the problem lies more with the fact of the radical change of the IP than the system itself, at least in my opinion. Just, you know, trying to throw out a neutral response here.
Age of Sigmar are dumping stocks! If your keen to get it, you can get it at like a marked down price of 40%! http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B010TUEMOA/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new
