What's New Today ...Grand Alliance of Chaos Contents and More

I wonder when The Empire shows up in the AoS lore...

It's here, it's official, the new Grand Alliance: Chaos! As you'd expect, this is huge news and today's post is going to be suitably massive as a result. Read on to find out more about this new book and it's contents.

Via Warhammer TV:

A blight upon the once-verdant mortal realms, the forces of Chaos are a terrifying swarm of murderous killers who fight for the glory of their hideous patrons. Monsters, daemons and mortals are all caught within the spell of Chaos, lured by the promise of glory and bound to destroy. Followers of the four Dark Gods - and the Horned Rat - storm across the lands, slaughtering all in their path with brute strength, revolting disease and sheer animal cunning - though the Stormcast Eternals fight bravely, to turn back this tide is surely beyond the will of even Sigmar...

A truly weighty tome clocking in at over 300 pages, Grand Alliance: Chaos is an absolute must-own artifact for anyone and everyone collecting Warhammer Age of Sigmar Chaos armies; whether concentrating on a single faction, mixing and matching from the range or splitting the pantheon into smaller chunks, this book is everything you need! The ultimate guide to the myriad forces of Chaos it features extensive information on each of the 21 the factions that make up Chaos, Warscrolls for each and every warrior and beast from each faction (a total of 158!), guiding information and diagrams helping you to choose, collect and organise your forces into armies ready for the gaming table - and a number of Warscroll Battalions, collections of Chaos might with their own special rules and abilities.

Grand Alliance: Chaos details the many different factions that make up the mighty hordes of Chaos at the dawn of the Age of Sigmar. From terrifying daemon legions to glory-seeking mortal warbands, scurrying swarms of back-stabbing skaven to rampaging bands of mutants and monsters, the servants of the Chaos Gods are incredibly varied and diverse. 

This book provides an insight into the background and character of each faction, showing how many of them organise themselves for war and describing the reasons that they fight. In this way, Grand Alliance: Chaos provides in-world context for your collection of Citadel Miniatures, and shows you how to mass them into a warband fit to win the regard of the Dark Gods themselves.

The book's index...

Within the pages of this book, you will find a broad range of warscrolls covering all the individual units and characters available to Chaos collectors. You will find a number of warscroll battalions that provide guidelines and exciting in-game bonuses for collecting such formations as a Tallyband of Nurgle or one of the Clans Skyre.

With this eldritch tome in hand, you can gather your grim and evil hordes and lead them to battle against the defenders of the Mortal Realms. The victory of the Chaos Gods is surely at hand, so amass your army of glory-seekers and set out to seek your rewards upon the field of battle.

Related to this release, GW is about to (re)launch the Warriors of Chaos line, now renamed as Slaves to Darkness (for reasons...), and a new "starter" pack called "Lord Heldrath’s Deathtide". Check it out!

Lord Heldrath’s Chaos Deathtide: $180 (about £130)

For those who like the Lore, here are 5 big previews for the new Age of Sigmar Balance of Power Campaign Book.

Via Scanner :

War is coming to the realms of Sigmar, and this new book picks up right where the Quest For Ghal Maraz left off. The Celestant Prime is coming, Allies are rallying to the side of the Stormcasts, and Chaos, well is being typical Chaos it looks like.

Could this be the end for a mighty champion of Sigmar?

Lies and Half-truths!

Keep an eye on UR-Gold!

Slaanesh may or may not be dead, and it looks like someone missed them!

Ultimate Powerrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

So the stage is set for the next episode in the Realm Gate Wars saga. Will Sigmar solidify his battle lines and push forward OR will Chaos once again triumph?

In other news, rumors about a Adeptus Mechanicus (2.0) release are oozing from the warp... apparently with a new codex coming later this year... Here are the rumor's basics:

The Codex

• Look for a Combined Adeptus Mechanicus book to replace the current pair released in 2015.

Models

• New combo Robot kit will make 2 different robot versions.
• New Transport kit.
• New Flyer kit.

Rules

• Knights moving to LoW.
• Mixed chatter regrading specialized Ad-Mech fortifications.

Seems perfectly logical to combine all the codexes in one book, and also adding to the army transport vehicles and flyers, but all the Adeptus Mechanicus and Skitarii releases are just about an year old and some armies from the 40k universe do not even have a paper codex, nor formations or any new models in years... Yes, I'm talking about the Sisters of Battle and a part of me wishes that GW would redesign their army...

Thank you for your time and until the next publication


Joaquim de Oliveira

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"There is no strength in flesh, only weakness."

"There is no constancy in flesh, only decay."

"There is no certainty in flesh but death."

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BoLS (Part1, 2, 3 and 4)