SO How Is Age Of Sigmar 4.0 Doing??

In this episode we talk about AOS several months post launch and how its doing in the shop.

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[EvilBearWargames]

wish combat patrol was as nice as spearhead

[earnestwanderer]

It wouldn’t take much to be better than Combat Patrol. So imbalanced. I want Spearhead to be successful because it’s pretty much as deep as I want to get into anything.

[donchaiminster]

I’m the guy Jay describes. Played some other GW stuff, never touched AoS. The Skaventide trailer piqued my interest but the details about Spearhead sealed the deal and I picked up the launch box. I love playing Spearhead and we’ve had three other guys in our Necromunda group pick up Spearheads to join.

[oneeyedwonderer]

Aos is basically dead where i live, the few players that had armies but didnt play much jumped onto the old world .

[dominicmetzger]

Already sold more kill team hivestorm than age of sigmar 4th locally

[PhoenixExcess]

I would say spearhead is a great way to get into the hobby and get people on tables throwing dice and moving models. But in my local group it’s actually not great for getting people into the full game. Too many things are different, army rules are completely different, so many “modules” aren’t there in spear head, profiles are completely different, etc. It’s honestly like teaching two different game systems trying to get someone from spearhead to full AoS.

[BearerWill]

I am just now getting into AoS after sometime playing 40K. Got FyreSlayers and Hedonites of Slaanesh. Beautiful models!!! I just hope AoS continues to get good.

[DocPhantoms]

To the point at about 10 mins of complimentary spearheads leading to a full army: para bellum currently does that with their starters and it's fantastic. the old starter and the new starter for a given army are designed to be complimentary instead of redundant

[SolidusPL]

in our local area, AoS is starting to fall out, a lot of people go to OW

[andrewcook]

I think the 40K 10th ed tagline that Jay was searching for was " Simplified, not simple."

[horusthewarmaster]

In the first weekend of October we have MOAB in Sydney (Australia) and I’ll be interested to see the AoS turnout because it feels like Old World has sucked all the air out of the fantasy room.

[lancetan]

Really loving 4th edition so far and enjoying spearhead as a side game. :)

[Rsma]

Glad to hear AOS is doing well for you guys and your area but for my area it has been a total bust. It was a big change for what felt like not much gain a lot of the players felt and now no one plays AOS even the AOS die hards. Arguably AOS 4th was a bigger gain for 40k in my area then AOS as they all just migrated to that as they didn't want to leave the GW ecosystem and well everyone already plays 40k. Everyone agrees the models are great but great models alone are not enough to gain interest into a game system as many game systems can attest to. I'd love to AOS thrive in the area again but I'm looking at selling my armies off as it has just completely died an ignominious death.

[PaulBushell-we]

Still playing AoS, though in the process of building Dark Elves for an Old World army. I think some of the problems AoS faces are: the rate of change is too much for some people, the army building tool and faction rules are being locked behind a paywall plus needing to buy the battle tome, the total package is getting a bit too expensive. 40K has these problems too. However 40K has a well established lore which carries it through a lot of the negative stuff. AoS lore is it's weakest link.

The lore and stories were actually not too bad in AoS 2, but that was using a lot of old characters from WFB days. The current lore is rather bland and seems to be more of a thinly veiled marketing exercise than anything else. I would say this is due to the corporate goons watering everything down to be inoffensive and palatable for everyone while focusing the effort on what matters to them (marketing). This is just corporate culture in general, not a GW specific problem. GW's best IP will be the long established lore from before the sales team took the reins. And the problem for AoS is that it was created long after that time was over.

[tanen]

I’ve been wanting to try AoS for a while now. The models have tempted me for a long time. I’m an old gamer and was out of the hobby for a few editions of 40K. I’ve got back into it and bought some 40K models but 40K isn’t what I remembered. I am still painting the models but the constant updates and changes.
Skaventide finally pushed me into AoS, I’m going to buy the set this week, whenever I can get to my lgs. I’m excited to give it a try it seems like the general consensus is positive for spearhead and that’s what I’d like to start with.
Is the full AoS 4.0 a solid game? Can I get a good gauge of 4.0 through spearhead?

[iainclark]

Locally, Skaventide was a bit of a bust, but we’ve had a spike in AOS play with two successful local events. Spearhead, though, has not generated much interest at the two FLGS. Folks like to build their armies

[redsven]

Spearhead, did appeal but the need for a 42 quid box means I have not touched it, reviews I value are too mixed to buy on a chance.

Combat patrol was the only reason I looked at 10th, and I have brought 3 combat patrols. Now we are playing with the idea of 500 point games, no interest in large games of 40k but smaller games seem to work for us. More than kill team that we found, after getting past the old book, was pretty mediocre

[rcdemoral]

I like the idea of this. I want the models to paint and like the idea of playing - I won't play 40k again since it's so play not fun, but I did like 1st Ed sigmar. Bought my first spearhead and hoping to join a league soon.

[aaronabel]

AoS is definitely moving off the shelves and being played, especially spearhead!

[jamesfisher]

I play spearhead about once a week. Never played AoS before this and I love it. Planning my second force now (skaven from skaventide).