Age of Sigmar: 3 Hopes for the Warhammer Day Preview
Big Age of Sigmar stuff is coming to this weekend’s Warhammer Day. Here’s what we can read between the lines.
It’s that time again, this weekend heralds Warhammer Day and a brand new Warhammer Preview. In addition to the teasers we’ve already seen for the new Warcry set, we’ll see some new kits for almost every Games Workshop property. While we can’t glean too much from the silhouettes, the rumor mill has been turning and a lot of exciting stuff has fallen out the other side, so it’s sure to be an exciting show. Here are three things I really hope we see in the new Preview, in order of how likely they are.
Full Warcry Reveal
While we’ve already seen two of the big heroes from the new Red Harvest box, we still don’t have a lot of information about the two warbands, or what the Red Harvest will entail. Since the Monday preview hinted that we would see the remainder of the Warcry factions before the end of the month, and the Preview just happens to fall on the penultimate day of October, it seems pretty clear that the plan is to do a big reveal for the preview.
My hope is that it is a Catacombs style release, a box set with a new playstyle, new terrain, and both of the new warbands ready to throw down, mostly so I can get my hands on those terrifying spider warriors to unleash in my next skirmish game.
New Battlebox
The holiday season is fast approaching, which would be the perfect time to release a new dual-army battlebox for the new edition. The rumor floating around the internet is that said box will see the tribal forces of the Spiderfangs Grots face off against the wild warriors of the Beasts of Chaos, complete with updated rules (and perhaps new battletomes).
As an avid Beasts of Chaos player and dabbler in Spiderfang Gloomspite, this would be a phenomenal reveal, but even if the forces are different it’s high time for the first battlebox of 3.0 to usher in the new edition.
New Chaos Faction
A while ago, Games Workshop promised a brand new Chaos faction would be the third major release of 3.0, and the time has come to make good on that promise. While it’s possible they were just trolling and the new release is the Warcry updates, I find that a bit unlikely and it was probably just the various delays worldwide that have kept Chaos under wraps so long. Still holding out hope that the cries for Chaos Duardin will be answered (even though I don’t play them myself) and we can finally see Hellcannons on the field again. I suppose we’ll find out this Saturday.
What are you hoping for in the preview?
