Introducing the 20-odd armies warring for domination of the Mortal Realms, this guide features digestible summaries of each army’s most interesting features and possible attractions to the budding player or collector, and handily distils – for your delectation – their overall schtick, both in the lore and on the tabletop. You might be enamoured with a couple and dive further into their army specifics – or conclude which factions are definitely not your thing, swearing never to gaze upon their sprues again.īefore diving in, it’s useful to know what to consider when picking an army.

Well, banish your fears to the fourteen winds: we’ll walk you through everything you need to know. Amongst all the sigmarite plate armour, elemental sorcery, and questionable tentacular appendages, it’s easy to feel lost – unsure of where to begin or which army you might like to collect. They’re numerous and large, and the fact that many avoid, or splice together, typical fantasy tropes, can make them that much harder to quickly pick up. Set against a dense fantasy world that stretches across aeons and contains an overflowing cast of characters, it can be hard work getting to grips with the armies of Warhammer Age of Sigmar.