Warhammer Next Week: Age of Sigmar Starter Sets Galore
It’s an avalanche of starter sets for Age of Sigmar next week. But which starter set is right for you? Find out next week!
Is there anything Games Workshop loves more than a Starter Set box? I don’t think that’s the case. Because every starter set comes with a world of possibilities. The promise of a long-stretching hobby with craft and gameplay enough to steal away into your free time like a raccoon into an open trash can. In a starter set, the grey plastic holds the promise of potential.
If every starter set represents possibility, then you want to makesu re you get the right one. But which one should you get? The introductory set? The starter set? The ultimate starter set? All of these are options for the new Age of Sigmar. Because GW loves starter sets so much they ran out of names to call their starter sets. All this, plus some new WarCry stuff in next week’s pre-orders.
Age of Sigmar Starter Sets
If you want to “get started” with the Age of Sigmar now that there’s a new edition out in the wild, let me tell you, this is gonna be your week. As part of next week’s pre-orders you’ll have no less than seven different ways to get started.
Starting with the Introductory Set. The Introductory Set coms with 5 Stormcast Liberators and 20 Clanrats, as well as a hobby kit consisting of clippers, 6 paints, and a starter brush. Alongside those, guidebooks that tell you how to play, how to paint, and of course all the dice you’ll need, a ruler, and a game mat all in one easy box.
But don’t mistake the Introductory Set for the Starter Set. The Starter Set is different on account of it being for more “experienced” tabletop gamers. Which means more minis, less hobby kit stuff (because you already have it, presumably). So instead, you get a Lord Veritant with Gryph-crow, 3 Prosecutors, and 5 Liberators, matched up against a Grey Seer, Warlock Engineer, 3 rat Ogors, and 20 Clanrats. Along with all that, you get a 64 page starter set handbook, doule-sided gaming mat, and 10 dice.
And neither of those should be mistaken for the Ultimate Starter Set, which features two complete Spearhead armies (which mostly means the Stormcast get a Lord-Vigilant on Gryph-stalker and the Skaven get a Clawlord on Gnaw-beast), as well as the Spearhead: Fire and Jade book, which contains rules for every Spearhead set you can currently buy.
But if those starter boxes aren’t enough, don’t worry. There’s also the two new hobby starter sets, which come with either 3 Liberators or 5 Clanrats, as well as six paints and a starter brush.
And then there’s Getting Started with Warhammer Age of Sigmar. This 88-page magazine comes complete with a Liberator and Clanrat, ready to put together.
Don’t forget about Warcry
Also, next week, Warcry gets the Briar and Bone expansion, which takes Warcry deep into the Gnarlwood with two new warbands, the Teratic Cohort, which is Bonereapers who failed Nagash and have been formed into “lower constructs” and the Twistweald, a group of Sylvaneth infested with parasitic plants that enrage and empower them. Along with the new warbands, you’ll also find a Ravening Gnarloak, a new book, and all the cards and such you’ll need to play.
You can also find standalone versions of the miniatures in the Pyre and Flood set, with the Lumineth’s Ydrilan Riverblades and the Pyregheists now being available in their own distinct boxes.
And last, but not least. the Idol of the Old Ones terrain. This piece of the Seraphon temple-ship Eye of Chotec is one of the many statues that have been scattered across the Gnarlwood, sources of treasure and deadly energy beams alike.
All this next week
