Deepkin

Those fireforge dwarfs look awesome. I like the more historical equipment actually, especially the hammerers with 15c pollaxe.

Old World best World, what can I say? I would also accept Bretonnian Stormcast.

Want: Old World. Expect: More mobile games announced. Don't want: AoS 3.0

I'm fairly certain it's the sword being held by one of Radukar the Beasts attendants.

Says who? The realms are vast. Don't impose your limited scope of ideas on a setting not your own.

Looks like a Blanche painting. Not at all like any disney character really. Anyone thinking Disney could sue over that is rather silly.

Instead of a German renaissance steampunk theme like the Empire, they should try something different for AoS humans. Maybe like a more medieval Francophone thing, based on old romances and chansons and Arthurian legend. Lots of fae magic and cavalry charges and oath swearing and so on. Intricate heraldry, big helm crests. A hobbyists dream. Perhaps give them some sort of female figurehead who determines political and martial primacy through the nautical distribution of various bladed implements? For weird AoS factor, give them crazy flying cavalry. Horses mixed with eagles and lions and so on. Wings and hooves and beaks. To emphasize their dedicated training, maybe some sort of rule to represent their ability to maintain formation during charge? Grimdark it up with ratty little peasant followers who carry around relics of revered Stormcast or something, I dunno, who cares they're peasants. Would be cool, I think. A new twist, you know?

Yeah man, it's like how Vampire the Masquerade had vampire bloodlines and then, like, a couple years later we got Warhammer Vampires with distinct bloodlines. Or like how Michael Moorcock had this whole Chaos thing with a crazy many pointed star as its symbol and black-armored, pale-skinned men wielding demonic runeswords as its servants. Or like how Michael Moorcock had decadent, island-dwelling elf-like things with really tall helms that ride dragons. Or like how this guy Tolkien had rune-carving, grumpy mountain-dwelling dwarfs with long beards and a grudge against orcs and elves and enjoyed axes. Or like how Landsknechts in Renaissance Germany had halberds and pikes and greatswords, big hats and bigger pants. It's almost like Warhammer is in general a pastiche of different IPs and ideas shamelessly cribbed from other sources, and it prices its models at an extraordinary premium and profits enormously year-after-year from a brand built off the pastiche of other ideas made by other minds. So when people who, lets be honest, are also just fellow consumers of GW's content, wax poetic on the moral failings of those making pastiches of GW's content, I question the sincerity of those beliefs, if not also their meaningfulness.

What a supremely odd take. And voiced with such vehemence, too. I don't know that GW needs such a mighty defense, they certainly seem to do well on their own. Let the guy making hobbit-Bretonnia live in peace. If you think his stuff is derivative, don't buy it. I don't think many of these indie "GW-adjacent" miniature guys are exactly raking in the cash. Certainly, they don't make enough to warrant such vitriol.

AoS is like World of Warcraft, but with more coherent storytelling. Described.

You opted for Cities of being a Killjoy i see

The new vampire model is definitely Bowie in his Thin White Duke phase, at least to my eye

Huh. Sounds like a thriller of a scenario.

Plot twist, he joins the Ubersreik Five (Ulfenkarn Eight?) and helps them fight the REAL evil after they beat him so hard he becomes their friend.

Vampiric slavic raider, which makes him more like a Viking I guess. Though, vikings were basically fuzzy pirates so it still works.

For anyone who submitted to the Warhammer Horror contest in October, check your emails. Just got informed I am advancing to the second round of the contest. Pretty psyched.

They're a new kind of vampire, not FEC I think. Vrykos vampires or something like that.

They look pretty straight Russian to me. Not seeing much Mongol. Though the two are fairly close in terms of armor aesthetic I guess. Either way, mega hype. Best looking models GW has done in a while.

Basically where I am too. The whole thing is insanely cool, absolutely perfectly aligned with my taste.

I don't know anything about Total Warhammer's popularity in China. I know China is an already large (and still growing) market in video games, and I suspect that's why Three Kingdoms was made, in addition to the considerable cross-market appeal with western gamers who think Romance of the 3 Kingdoms is cool due to exposure to popular games like the Dynasty Warriors series. As in most things, the real reason is multi-factorial. Similar to this decision to input Cathay. Which, judging by the overwhelmingly positive reception I've seen, was a financially sound decision. I do wish Chorfs had been a launch faction, but I do not doubt they will be DLC at least.

Cathay is cool but I can guarantee you a massive part of the decision to make up a whole new roster and characters (the only Cathayan character we ever really got was Dien Chang from Beasts in Velvet, who was just a Tzentch cultist that did kung fu and hated Imperials) was because of the gigantic market that is Chinese gamers. CA, much like GW, wants money. Three Kingdoms was a big hit in China, and Chinese gamers market in general is gigantic.

Chaos dwarfs and ogres are a shoe in. Araby wouldn't surprise me. Estalia and Tilea would make sense too. Inclusion of Cathay is a surprise, but a cool one. Kinda opens up anything really.

One of the winged lancers is riding a horse, to be fair. It does look like GW style artwork. But such can be faked, obv. Kislev is obviously going to be in the third Total Warhammer though, both based on common sense and the teaser they released today, and I can imagine they might include some of the stuff from the upcoming Old World in it. Be a way to get people hyped for models years in advance, if nothing else.

The ice weapons do look kinda dumb. I wouldn't care to firmly speculate on whether FW or GW does it. But if I had to guess. Since FW seems more and more scaled back lately, I wouldn't be surprised if GW proper does it in plastic rather than resin. But either way, I can't imagine they would start a whole new model line in a whole new scale (which they've never produced before and which is not very popular relative to 28-32mm ranges) which by its nature will have less of the intricate detail GW seems to love putting on its model. Again, GW wants your money. They revive the Old World line and its compatible in scale with its descendant AoS and with 40k and they will make money not only off people playing the new Old World game, but also off people buying models for proxies, conversions, etc. They know what's up.

The bladed shield looking thing is reminiscent of fyreslayer shields. The dangly bits are classic warhammer dwarf aesthetic. Possibly fyreslayer second wave? Could also be rumored new mega dwarf faction under Grungni-Thorgrim.