GW Teases 3 New AoS Faction & Measuring Rules

By Wesley Floyd | June 6th, 2018 | Categories: Age of Sigmar, Tabletop Gaming News & Rumors

We’ve got a lot to talk about today. With 3 factions rules being teased by GW, and the new measuring rules for AoS 2.0, this will be chock full of good stuff.

Warhammer Community gave us theses preview late last week, and ealier today!

Dispossessed in 2.0

The new edition bodes well for all duardin, and the Dispossessed are no exception. Like their allies in the Fyreslayers and Kharadron Overlords, the Dispossessed have received some very welcome points reductions across a wide range of units, from Longbeards to Ironbreakers and even Irondrakes – your war throng just got bigger.

Ironbreakers will be a Battleline unit for a full Dispossessed army. Ironbreakers are notoriously tanky. With being able to reroll saves if they didn’t run or charge and ignore -1 rend, they’ll be sticking around a while.

Rune Priests

In the new edition, Rune Priests will be able to unbind 2 enemy spells a turn and they are +2 to their roll. It would be a good idea to pack any of these guys into your army as allies. It will force the enemy to keep his wizards as far back as possible.

There won’t be any endless spells for this faction, but you can ally in a wizard from the Sarcosanct Chamber if you wanted.

Grots in 2.0

There’s loads of fun in store for grots players of all types, with the Moonclan Grots, in particular, benefiting from the new rules around Heroes. Being able to keep your squishier Shamans and Grot Warbossessafe from missile fire is one thing, but stacking up command abilities is another entirely. Here’s one that’s bound to give your opponent a game they remember for a long time…

Even though grots are little, doubling damage can be brutal. You don’t want to get caught in a swarm of these guys. It’ll be like death by a thousand papercuts.

Squig hoppers will also be very fast objective takers and can barrel into the enemy lines faster than you’d expect.

If you want to ally some classic units for a grot army, the Aleguzzler is getting a nice point drop sitting at only 160 points. And don’t forget about endless spells. Your Moonclan grot shamans can eat a madcap to get +2 to casting and pop out a Purple Sun! You can also use an Umbral Spell portal to launch spells across the map. Just be careful here. Your opponent can send it back to you.

Bonesplitterz in 2.0

The Bonesplitterz are well placed to take advantage of the new edition, with the most powerful bonuses by far going to their Heroes. As well as being even more durable thanks to Look Out, Sir!, the changes to the hero phase are going to be an enormous help…

Having Orks in combat is bad enough. Now they gain the ability to fight TWICE in a turn for free? Stay away from these boys.

If you had to pick one of these command abilities, you’d pick Prophet of da WAAGH! every time. But now that you can buff up one unit with more than one command ability, you’ll be able to attack twice getting an extra attack for each 6. Seems like some overkill.

Bonesplitters Spells

They’re getting their endless spell called the Aetherovid Pendulum. Unlike other endless spells, this can move back and forth in a straight line instead of being able to turn anywhere.

Mork help you if you get touched by it…..