Total War: Warhammer is coming

[Solmyr]

Warhammer was never known for its realistic armaments.

[Threviel]

I get it on table top, but they can fix those limitations in a computer game.

[Josquius]

Proper warhammer fantasy had a pretty decent balance of realism to rule of cool.
Age of sigmar...Christ that's awful.

[Valmy]

Proper warhammer fantasy had a pretty decent balance of realism to rule of cool.
Age of sigmar...Christ that's awful.

The Total War version is not the Age of Sigmar though, right?

[Solmyr]

The Total War version kinda mixes and matches from a bunch of tabletop versions. Some from WFB, some from WFRP, some newly invented just for this series (with GW's blessing). Upcoming Chaos god armies in TW3 may well borrow stuff from Age of Sigmar.

[The Brain]

GW is kinda going to bring back some of the Warhammer world in tabletop form I understand, but they only talk of the Old World so apparently not all of it.

[Jacob]

GW is kinda going to bring back some of the Warhammer world in tabletop form I understand, but they only talk of the Old World so apparently not all of it.

I don't know if it's going to be enough to pull me back in. I'm finding that GW's aesthetic has continually evolved in a different direction than mine in the last decade. Oathmark is more my speed these days.

[The Brain]

GW is kinda going to bring back some of the Warhammer world in tabletop form I understand, but they only talk of the Old World so apparently not all of it.

I don't know if it's going to be enough to pull me back in. I'm finding that GW's aesthetic has continually evolved in a different direction than mine in the last decade. Oathmark is more my speed these days.

Especially since it's gonna be an extra dumbed down version. "We can't have French references in Bretonnia, silly!"

[Josquius]

GW is kinda going to bring back some of the Warhammer world in tabletop form I understand, but they only talk of the Old World so apparently not all of it.

I hadn't heard this.
Age of sigmar has fell flat and they realised killing one of their main game was dumb?

[Threviel]

Yeah, I loved the fantasy setting. Age of Sigmar leaves me cold an uninterested.

[Syt]

Isn't 40k like 100 times more popular than the fantasy one, anyways?

[Threviel]

Yeah, but that is also a great setting.

From what I gather the whole Age of Sigmar crap was so that they could copyright the race names, no more generic dwarves and elves, with copyrighted names more money could be made.

Behind the scenes I also guess, without any basis, that fantasy was losing them money and it was Age of Sigmar or give it up.

[jimmy olsen]

GW is kinda going to bring back some of the Warhammer world in tabletop form I understand, but they only talk of the Old World so apparently not all of it.

I hadn't heard this.
Age of sigmar has fell flat and they realised killing one of their main game was dumb?

Age of Sigmar is selling well, but the new CEO does think that killing WFB was dumb. Especially given the sales of Vermintide and Total Warhammer.

[Solmyr]

Also Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is in its fourth edition currently and seems to be doing well. And of course many people still play the second edition (we don't talk about the third).

[Threviel]

Also reading Tolkien and then being able to have an Orc, Dwarven or Elven army is a great introduction to drag new players in and then introduce them to the rest of the lore.

Reading Tolkien and then having a Aelfari or whatever army is just nothing. And won't drag anyone in to read the underwhelming lore.

This is what did it for me, huge Tolkien nerd, Shadow of the Horned Rat was the first game I bought for PC, bought Warhammer box with a friend, painted an elven army and then discovered 40k. Played Dark Omen to death and have been buying lots of GW digital stuff. I doubt much of that would have happened without elves in the Warhammer universe.