I know little about age of Sigmar lore, and just keep finding myself rather too uninterested to learn more. How’s the general state of that lore actually, does it measure up to classic fantasy warhamster by now?
Also, happen to have painted anything recently?
I'm not super up to date on the lore tbh, I've heard good things about some of the novels, Nagash is still kind of a chump. An awesome chump, but still a chump. The undead are all pretty cool, dwarves are a mixed bag, Cities of Sigmar, which is basically the legacy army faction has decent fluff as essentially being the normal humans/dwarves/elves just trying to survive in a world gone mad, the elves are mostly pretty neat but I like the idea of the Idoneth. Chaos is much bigger as a faction lorewise, more cultures and philosophies falling under it's banner which is always interesting. Stormcast exist, and other than being basically grimdark einherjar there's not much to say about them.
I think the only race that's still meant to be really left out in the lore is the ogres, not much has been done with them as far as I know.
I do
really like the lore for the Flesheater Courts, formerly the ghouls in the Old World. Insane vampires and cannibals are always fun and the new take has more freedom in the concept than the Strigoi did. They're both more fun and more grim than their old counterpart in my opinion.
AoS still has really strong 80s vibes, like a grimdark version of He-Man with less homoerotic designs, and it's definitely less grounded than WHF was. It's like a power metal album cover but as a setting.
I do have a few Black Templars I've painted, but it's late here atm, so I'll see about posting them tomorrow.
Only half the gork and or Mork is represented here. Where's the kunningboyz?
They have poisoned weapons and hobgoblins, they are about as kunnin as greenskins get.
Also I think their main god at this time might be Kragnos, a centauroid god native to the realms. With him being added to the pantheon there's three destruction gods I'm aware of. Behemat (deceased) the progenitor of giants, Gorkamorka the twin headed god of the greenskins, and Kragnos the End of Empires.