AoS: General’s Handbook 2017 Official Announcement
It’s official! The Age of Sigmar General’s Handbook 2017 edition is coming out later this year!
There is no denying the impact the General’s Handbook had on Age of Sigmar. Introduced the 3 ways to play and added much needed points to the game. This structure helped to give players some guidelines to work with so they could build armies and play on a roughly equal footing. But the General’s Handbook was always meant to be the first of many!
We saw the picture yesterday but now it’s been confirmed. Age of Sigmar is getting a NEW General’s Handbook for 2017 and it’s got a ton of cool stuff in addition to updates to points for every faction in the game.
All three ways to play are getting some great new toys to play with:
Open Play
For open play, the multiplayer rules have been massively expanded, and now include Triumph & Treachery – devious rules for mid-game betrayals.
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That’s right – the old school Triumph & Treachery options are coming back with an AoS twist!
Narrative Play
Narrative players are about to get really spoilt. With Path to Glory soon to become its own stand-alone expansion, this section has been freed up for a huge amount of new content in the 2017 edition. Highlights include rules for siege warfare in the Mortal Realms and Time of War battlefield rules for locations in every realm (even the one’s we haven’t been to yet!).
Sieges are coming to AoS and we’re getting new Time of War battlefield rules? Color me interested… Also expanded info for each realm? Yes please!
Matched Play
Matched play is set to get plenty of updates too. These include new Battleplans, new rules of one, and updated points for units in every faction in the Mortal Realms.
We knew the points would be tweaked – but now I’m wondering what these new rules of one will be! On top of the new battleplans, we’re also going to see new Allegiance Abilities.
These are much expanded from those four Grand Alliance army-traits from the previous General’s Handbook. The new book will cover Allegiance Abilities for the likes of Fyreslayers, Seraphon, Slaaneshi hosts, Nighthaunts and over a dozen others.
Sweet! Hopefully each faction will be able to get a bit of their character back with these expanded Allegiance Abilities. It sounds like GW might be giving folks more reasons to take themed lists again.
Read the full announcement HERE
Overall this is sounding like a great book to pick-up for any fan of AoS. One more piece of good news is that this book will be available as “an affordable paperback” like the previous book. I’m really liking this new trend from GW – lower the barriers to play so folks can dive in and game! As far as release date that’s still up in the air – all we know is that it’s coming out later this year.
Who’s excited about the General’s Handbook 2017 edition?
