BlightWar

[WestRider]

Blightwar: New Rules, New Models, and more!

A new age of war is dawning in the Mortal Realms, and Nurgle is rising…

Blightwar is the latest boxed set for Warhammer Age of Sigmar, designed to allow you to re-enact the battles between the forces of Nurgle and the Stormcast Eternals desperately trying to stop them. As well as two armies – one from the Daemons of Nurgle, the other from the Vanguard Chambers of the Stormcast Eternals – the box contains loads of battleplans, background continuing the story of the Age of Sigmar, exclusive miniatures and even new rules.

What kind of rules? In addition to warscroll battalions, there are warscrolls for two brand new characters and new allegiance abilities for Nurgle armies. If you’re a Nurgle player, these new mechanics are a fun, thematic and powerful bonus to your force – as you fight, Nurgle’s endless cycle of renewal and decay will grind on with powerful effects.

Leading the forces for each side are two new characters.

Neave Blacktalon is a new kind of Stormcast Eternal, of the Knights-Zephyros. Armed with Whirlwind Axes, Neave can cut down characters in a flurry of blows, or she can weaken them at range with her Boltstorm Pistol – she’s a powerful new option for any Stormcast Eternals army.

On the other side, Horticulous Slimux commands the forces of Nurgle. Slimux is Nurgle’s Grand Cultivator, helping to seed and maintain the plagued gardens of his realm and beyond. On the tabletop, Horticulous has several powerful benefits that improve your Nurgle units, and he’s more than capable of holding his own in close combat.

Make sure to come back next week to get your hands on these great models and new rules by pre-ordering Blightwar.

[WestRider]

I am such a fan of the two new characters here. Want to make a straw hat for Horticulous. I can use all the rest of the Nurgle, too, so I might actually have to pick this set up, and either find a buyer for most of the Stormcast or figure out something to convert them into.

[Threejacks]

Looks like I will be Nurgling in AoS now too!

 

[Guest]

Been looking for a good slug mount for Pathfinder...

[Nathanvoodoo]

On 8/20/2017 at 4:22 PM, Threejacks said:

Looks like I will be Nurgling in AoS now too!

 

I was gonna ask you if you wanted to split the box- since I think I need that snail rider...

[pretre]

 

If anyone assembles her with helmet, I could use the unhelmeted head.

[pretre]

Blightwar brings powerful new allegiance abilities for Nurgle armies, finally bringing the Plague God up to par with his brethren with a unique and unsual ability.

The Cycle of Corruption represents the shifting tides of Nurgle’s power, as he – and his followers – endlessly cycle between decay and regrowth. At the beginning of the first battle round, the Nurgle player rolls a dice to determine where the Cycle of Corruption begins – from this point on, the cycle moves clockwise every turn, bring new benefits to the Nurgle army or penalties to their enemies:

With seven stages on the cycle (perfect for the Plague God!), you’ll see most of them during the game – canny Nurgle generals will want to base their strategy about what they can expect in later turns – perhaps taking a charge before Fecund Vigor takes effect, or herding the units of enemy together before hitting them with Rampant Disease.

You’ll be able to get your hands on this new allegiance ability in Blightwar, alongside Horticulous Slimux, a host of Nurgle Daemon models, and much more – pre order your copy today.

[scottshoemaker]

While I like new rules and stuff, they had better be careful to not 7th Ed 40k this game (too many options scattered across many sources)

[Threejacks]

6 hours ago, scottshoemaker said:

While I like new rules and stuff, they had better be careful to not 7th Ed 40k this game (too many options scattered across many sources)

   There is only two sources for army ability info in the game,,the Generals Handbook and the army Battletomes.Your army of choice will use one or the other.Yes this Nurgle feature added with this new set is an additional source,though im sure this will be rolled into a formal Battletome for Nurgle at some point,possibly soon.And you can count on any additions to armies that takes place over the next year to be compiled in GH2018:)

 AoS is far from ever having the issues past editions of 40k have had with mushrooming special rule spam,just using the app alone a person can purchase all the information for their armies ala carte or full digital battletomes and have all needed info and rules all in one place.For me,,ive gotten so used to the App in AoS that its hard for me to get into the new 40k even,,I want my APP!!