The peal of
brass bells portends the explosive arrival of the Vermindoom. Blight City has
burst into the Realm of Fire, and the Hour or Ruin is upon us. The new edition
of Warhammer Age of Sigmar is nearly here, and it’s arriving with a huge launch
box: Skaventide.
What’s in
the Box?
The
Skaventide is sweeping across the Mortal Realms – and the faithful Stormcast
Eternals of the Hallowed Knights are first into the fray. This gigantic box is
the biggest Warhammer Age of Sigmar launch set yet, and it’s packed to the brim
with books and miniatures.
The box is
divided into two sides coming in at 1,200 points. There are 24 Stormcast
Eternals, reforged warriors and grizzled veterans of a thousand conflicts, and
50 Skaven, swarming horrors who fight with overwhelming numbers, foul magics,
and madcap technology.
The
Stormcast Eternals
Created by
Sigmar himself to reclaim the Mortal Realms from the forces of Chaos, each
Stormcast Eternal is a heroic soul snatched from the God of Death and Reforged
into an immortal warrior upon the Anvil of Apotheosis. Sigmar’s lie was that
this immortality would not have consequences – it is as much a curse as a boon,
for each fresh death and Reforging hammers out more flaws, it also whittles
away a little more of their soul.The Skaven threat is so dire, however, that
Sigmar has been forced to throw open the Ruination Chamber and press back into
service those warriors on the brink of losing themselves completely. All are
willing to fight, as the hour is simply too dire.
The Skaven
The Skaven
are treacherous ratmen congenitally willing to stab even their closest ally in
the back if it would bring them one claw closer to power. Nevertheless, after
an audacious series of cunning rituals, the Skaven have managed to crash the
nightmarish sub-dimension of Blight City into the Mortal Realms, and are now
pouring forth in never-before seen numbers as the Great Horned Rat takes his
rightful place among the Chaos pantheon.
What Else
Is in the Box?
These
forces are the core of two fantastic armies, and both sides of the box can be
fashioned into Spearhead forces: the Vigilant Brotherhood and the Gnawfeast
Clawpack.
The box
contains all the terrain, card decks, and double-sided boards you need to play
fast, tense games of Spearhead. You get the 144-page hardback Spearhead: Fire
and Jade book, which contains the rules for 25 separate Spearhead boxes, the
Spearhead battlepack, and the Core Rules all in one neat package. The terrain
sprue even comes with 3” and 6” range rulers you can snap together – so all you
need to get going is a handful of six-sided dice!
On top of
all that, there’s the 272-page Warhammer Age of Sigmar Core Book. This weighty
grimoire contains masses of lore and background information about the Mortal
Realms and their inhabitants, alongside reams of gorgeous art and atmospheric
photography of miniatures painted by the ’Eavy Metal team. It includes the Core
Rules, the battlepacks for Matched Play (First Blood), and Path to Glory
(Ascension), a rules glossary, a Citadel Terrain List, and copyable Path to
Glory and Army rosters.
And the
goodies don’t stop there. For Matched Play aficionados there’s a 17-card General’s
Handbook deck which provides the Season Rules and battleplan cards for the
General’s Handbook Season 2024-25, so you can start honing your tournament
skills from minute zero
