Review: Gates of Ayzr

REVIEW: GATES OF AYZR

 

 

So this has been on my reading stand for the last couple of days. Released on the launch of the Age of Sigmar box set. This is the latest book from Black Library and their first in the new Warhammer setting.

WIP: Age of Sigmar Liberator

Started work on the Liberator this morning from WD 75.

I am about 50% of the way through and this has been my first attempt at painting an entire model with gold armour. I am not sure it is bright enough but I have about 2 more highlight layers to work on before the armour is done. I am fairly certain that once I armour pad and shield colour is on it will make the gold pop out more.

Should have this finished by the end of the week. Pop back to see the finished model

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MUSINGS: AGE OF SIGMAR

 

So there are now only 2 days till release for Age of Sigmar. 

Am I excited?

HELL YES

To be honest I was not 100% sure why. 

I mean I have not been this excited about a release for miniatures for a long time. I think that comes from being the wrong side of 40 and having seen far to much that little comes as a surprise.

WIP: Kastelan Robots

Finally got some personal hobby time and laid some more paint on the Kastelan Robots.

Rather than Mars I have chosen the Tech planet of Stygies VIII.

The red armour is taking a lot longer than I expected around 10 very thin layers to build up the deep chrome colour. I will try and get some better shots but the lighting it not showing to the best.

Hopefully will have these done in the next week, more detailed shots to follow

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AGE OF SIGMAR

 

Last week saw Games Workshop announced the future of Warhammer.......

AGE OF SIGMAR 

In the build up there had been the usual rumour mongering of what the changes will be, might be, could be, direct from source, 100% official or just plain made up marching through the internet like Archeon on his summer holidays.

I pretty much took all of these with a pinch of salt, smiled, laughed, cried and banged my head on the table at most of the comments and played the long game of waiting for the release from GW.

Finally last week GW unveiled Age of Sigmar. 

Personally worth the wait. 

The release consisted of the usual core box game, 3 paints, 1 spray can, 2 themed carry cases and a hardback novel detailing the background of the Age of Sigmar. They are all up for pre-order now and will be released on the 11th of July.

The nice surprise was the rules. Instead of this being a tome of the ages that cannot safely be used above a table brimming with wonderful paints and sculpts. It is free 4 page download. click here for the download

 Along with free downloads of all the current Warscrolls for your armies.

I have spent most of the week reading through the rules and having a few solo tabletop battles with my Ogres and Undead. The rules are quick, simple and easy to pick up.

I know that the internet warriors have split into their camps of its great and its bobbins, and i find myself in the camp of its great below are my reasons why:

It gives me total freedom of what to collect: In the days of army books and collecting whole armies there were armies that did nothing for me. However there were figures in the range that I wanted to get. 

More figures to paint and enjoy

Themed basing and Warscrolls

It opens up a narrative with my opponent. Gone are the days of how many points do you want to play. It will now be so my forces of the dead are gathering their might, how will the stunties defeat them.

Quick games or long slow games.

So I am now on countdown to the release so I can pick up my box set. 

As soon as I have the box I will do an unboxing and some close ups of the models 

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