I’ll admit to not being the biggest Games Workshop expert out there, having mainly dabbled in their Warhammer 40k Universe. But fellow BGQ reviewer and all-around good guy George is probably the biggest Warhammer: Age of Sigmar addict I know.
He’s constantly telling me how much better Sigmar is than 40k. Whatever! Scifi > Fantasy. Everyone knows that. But, lest it be said that I don’t have an open mind, when the Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Beginners Set showed up from Games Workshop, I figured this was a good chance to try out the system and see what makes it tick.
This Beginner’s Set comes with a 30-page handbook, plastic ruler, 20 Clanrat miniatures, and 5 Stormcast Eternal minis. Before you can play, you first need to assemble the miniatures.
But as daunting as that sounds, Games Workshop has gotten miniature assembly down to a science, and these pushfit minis were a breeze to assemble (no glue required).
When it comes to gaming minis, Games Workshop is still in a tier all to themselves. The basics of Age of Sigmar (at least in this Beginner’s Set) is that you have a team of warriors trying to control 5 objectives on them map.