Hello again !!

At last the preview stuff arrived !

AOS skirmish

0) The book :

Very small (40 pages) book for playing warbands in the deserted ShadeSpire.

Fluff: there are 10 pages of fluff about the Katophranes' old city and it's quite interesting.

I) Rules and Warbands

AOS rules + 3 rules of 1 + no summoning + one battleshock test per turn for the whole warband.

Customistion options: the General get to choose 1 of 6 Command aiblities and 1 to 6 artefacts (you can choose grand alliance artefacts too).

Allegiance abilities: Only grand alliance ones.

Units: No 1" formation to respect, banner and musician work 6" around them (only to the same warscroll).

Warband creation :

choose starting renown (25 for campaign is advised)

- Same grand alliance

- 3 models min and 1 hero.

- Ignore min size of warscroll

- You can mix weapon options in a warscroll.

- Only one warscroll of each per warband

- Only one champion per warscroll

- no battalions.

2) Campaign:

The Campaign consist of six missions that are linked together.

The mission rules are really interesting and make the heart of the game. But it's also possible to use older battleplans

(i imagine Ritual could be fun !)

Post game sequence:

- Units lost are healed.

- You roll on the reward table:







- spend extra renown to increase the size of the warband.

3) Extra:

There are rules inside for skirmish matched play and inducement mechanisms for the underdog (in campaign mode).

That concludes our little preview of AOS skirmish.

To be honest at first I was a little sad that some elements where not included (Xp, individual progression of grunts, assist mechanism, cover rules ala shadow war). But Skirmish has the merit of being coherent with AoS and the game looks very fun and exciting.

That said it's not that limited, the warband composition is a full grand alliance and while death and destruction options are quite small, chaos and order should be able combo quite a bit ^^(hello star mace).

The Future: AOS skirmish could be a gold mine for white dwarf with the possibilities to expand the roster with new releases, make a new campaign in different realms, add more post game sequence rules etc

I included all the warscrolls available in the book but I had to redact most of the points values (sorry^^)

/cheers.

bob.