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I might be late to the part but I just realized that the Old World starts in 2276. In 2297 we have The Affair of the False Grail when Maldred of Mousillon attempts to take the throne. This would be an amazing campaign setting. How we would involve the other factions is for smarter men than I to figure out.

This is great to hear. I’m glad AoS exists but it just doesn’t scratch my war gaming itch. 40K too for that matter. I’m glad GW is in a position of popularity that they’re able to devote resources to games that are a little crunchier and niche. Necromunda and TOW are my main focuses at the moment.

It’s my hope that with the Old World around and older kits becoming available Age of Sigmar can finally be its own thing without relying on nostalgia-bait and WHFB glow up’s.

I’ve been involved with the hobby for more than 20 years and have only played the game once. When I was 13. this doesn’t stop me from making endless lists and buying models for said lists.

For the record I’m fine with female Custodes. Saying they’re ruining the lore or whatever is laughable considering there’s 50-something Horus Heresy books and Primarchs walking around in 40K. The way it seems to me is that the people who are upset see it as a cynical corporate move, and they just don’t have the sense to frame it in adult terms.

Has he been mentioned in the lore already?

I think it’s likely there is going to be a centigor chieftain released if only because that’s the only hero that doesn’t have a mini.

I’m really hoping we’ll see the return of Ghorros Warhoof and Khazrak One-Eye. I’m not sure what the life expectancy is of a Beastman but maybe they could show up

I like that they’re fleshing things out a little more but I have to say I really hate these shield designs. The frames are ridiculous. Strikes me as if it were designed by someone who doesn’t look to history for inspiration but video games.

Would it have been crazy for GW to set the Old World in the alternate Storm of Chaos timeline?

Does Cathay really make sense though? Seems odd for them to be fighting in the Old World and then all of a sudden disappear completely. I guess you could make the argument that they were much like the real world early Ming dynasty around Zheng He’s time and were jetsetting around the world, and once the later Ming dynasty equivalent took over they destroyed their fleet and became isolationists. Well, I guess I just talked myself into it making sense.

Or, eliminate most of these game and focus solely on wargaming. The amount of synergy they try to force across all of their games is maddening

I really hope they save a new Mordheim type game for the Old World.

This would be fantastic. The Pestigors have always been such amazingly designed minis. It’s so surprising they never made a comeback.

That’s pretty much what they do currently. The army boxes come with the battletome, tokens, cards, and what usually becomes the vanguard box. I would like these boxes to be available for longer though that’s for sure.

My preorder of the CoS box has yet to arrive and I’ve been eyeing some alternate transfers for the shields. Would anyone one be able to measure the diamond center piece for me?

I’m hoping for this too. I also wouldn’t be against them reusing troop WHFB units that are still in AoS. this is mostly because I plan on buying a load of Dark Elves soon, but still.

With the current shake up with Forgeworld how do we see The Old World moving forward? Will they be plastic kits like the new Heresy edition?

For some reason the Kairic Acolyte box is driving me insane. It doesn’t seem to marry up with the warscroll options at all. I want to make two units of 10. Simple enough. The warscroll states that you can either choose Blade and shield or two blades but there’s no option for modeling two blades on each model. Is this some sort of remnant of first edition where the warscroll says, “Each unit fights with a variety of weapons”?

Good point, and I can see why the lore progressing is important to some players. Personally, I feel that WHFB and 40K are better as Settings than they are as evolving narratives. I would prefer it if the lore didn’t progress at all really. We all know that nothing completely earth shattering will happen to any of the factions because they generally have to go ahead unchanged for the sake of the player base. There’s a big risk, in my estimation, of lore exhaustion and campaign bloat on the horizon. Broken Realms, Psychic Awakenig, Thondia and the new seasons of war scheme, the War Zones in 40K. It all seems like an endless March toward nothing in particular. I love narrative gameplay but I like to create my own self contained stories and I don’t like them to be reliant on some grander scheme of realm shaping importance. If that makes sense.

A fanatical crusade to civilize the mortal realms is much more narratively interesting then a city of beaten down survivors making their way in the world. There’s no momentum there. The Dawnbringers have a goal and that goes a long way to cement an army’s personality and visual coherency. It will give the faction an influence on the narrative, and hopefully future novels, where they aren’t just a setting where things happen.

Transparency in this case would risk a lot of blowback considering they probably don’t even know when they’ll have anything released. I’d rather they stick to releasing everything as they are with no defined dates, which has already caused issues for them with the fan base throughout the pandemic. i realize they have a roadmap for 40K, but that is their flagship game after all and is understandably their top priority.

I take your point but is it really Games workshops responsibility? Radicals of all varieties latch on to so many different things and that doesn’t make the original product evil because bad actors decide to adopt it. You can’t police every persons thoughts all over the world.

It used to be a lot more obvious but around 3rd edition 40K they seemed to really lean into the grim darkness and left the satirical humor behind. It also doesn’t help their case that the Space Marines are consistently portrayed as heroes. Having said that I don’t think it’s necessary for a company to take a moral or political stand. They obviously have every right to if they so choose but not for a second have I ever felt, and I can’t see how anyone could, that GW created these settings as a way to show a world that they would want to be a reality. It just seems silly that they would need to state that.

Good catch. I really wish we knew a little bit more about this one. I’m not a huge fan of the Kruleboyz but this model really does it for me.