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Post by SartosanVampire on Dec 1, 2022 21:34:13 GMT
The Warhammer Community team accidentally reposted the initial Old World announcement again recently - the even squares come back around image. On the announcement page/email for Warhammer Fest 2023 the caption was "Be there or be square", so I'm guessing this is a strong hint at Old World info in summer.
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Post by DiscoQing on Dec 1, 2022 21:36:21 GMT
Should've been: "Be there & be square"
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Post by johngg on Dec 7, 2022 11:33:41 GMT
...The rulebook has been put together and playtested, which is a good sign of progress... I had missed this! but I am happy... Positive progress!!!
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Post by lordofskullpass on Jan 11, 2023 17:20:11 GMT
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Post by Mallo on Jan 11, 2023 18:30:03 GMT
Well another unsurprising map update and nothing of substance. Honestly, I find these pathetic. They read to me as: "Please don't forget we exist and might one day do something, so don't buy into other fantasy games in the meantime!" They are digging their heels in hard with this 'the ends time still happened, no really they did" narrative they keep spinning on these articles. Now I know I'm a heretic and I actually liked AoS (At least until into the 2nd edition), but I totally get why people are still so negative on the updated setting when we get rubbish like this pumped out by GW. I don't mean to be so negative, I try to avoid complaining about these things as much as I can. But seriously, was this worth them putting out? I feel I know less about the new game now than before I did before I read it!
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Post by DiscoQing on Jan 11, 2023 18:31:30 GMT
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Post by Darnok on Jan 11, 2023 19:55:37 GMT
I am in two minds about this one...
On the one hand it is a confirmation of what has been either known or mostly speculated before: set close to the Great War, roughly 200 years in the past of the previous "present day", Empire civil war, a variety of other factions stated as antagonists other than Chaos (O&G, Beastmen, Undead). It also slightly expands on the situation in the Empire, which is nice.
On the othr hand, it is a frustratingly little amount of actually new information. Most of it repeats what we already know about, other parts are nothing but marketing speak, and the new info can be summarised as "some more maps, a bit of generic new artwork". This feels like breadcrumbs to a starving man!
The complete lack of hints at any sort of timeframe for the actual game to drop, or any model info is... not at all helping, to put it mildly.
To end on a more positive note: this pushes me slightly further towards doing my Empire in Talabecland colours. Solid cross-compatibility confirmed, and the scheme just feels nostalgic and oldhammery to me anyway. Curious to see if I like some colour test results.
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Post by DiscoQing on Jan 11, 2023 20:18:09 GMT
GW: "This is not a retcon!, the world did die! It's kaput, finito, bereft of life. The old world has passed on, it is no more! It has ceased to be! Expired and gone to meet its maker! It's a stiff! May it rest in peace! It kicked the bucket, shuffled off its own mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-OLD WORLD!!"
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Post by sedge on Jan 11, 2023 21:10:40 GMT
Lovely artwork, but otherwise it's just a placeholder update.
"It’s important to remember, though, that even though the setting is returning, these events still happened, and that the Old World was destroyed." was an unnecessary twist of the knife.
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Post by Grimfang Gogulk on Jan 11, 2023 21:32:57 GMT
yeah they can stick that BS up their bottoms.
Weedy gitz.
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Post by Darnok on Jan 11, 2023 22:26:25 GMT
While not really news, they confirmed without a shadow of a doubt that TOW is set some time before the Great Chaoswar - so the Schools of Magic are not even remotely established. Meaning that Empire mages might (and should) get some lore of magic of their own. Think "Lore of Low Magic" or something, with a mix of things that would later be seperated into the eight main lores.
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Post by sedge on Jan 11, 2023 22:28:31 GMT
Yeah, the most interesting thing from the timeline is considering what impact it'll have on models released. Special characters will all be different for the shorter lived races. Empire might get different units for the different realms, which could be really interesting.
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Post by Darnok on Jan 11, 2023 22:37:16 GMT
Not sure on different units, at least not from the get-go. Think more Horus Heresy: a common pool of models/units, differentiated mostly by colours and characters.
I would be shocked to not see some variation over time though.
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Post by Luigino on Jan 12, 2023 1:09:53 GMT
Yeah, the most interesting thing from the timeline is considering what impact it'll have on models released. Special characters will all be different for the shorter lived races. Empire might get different units for the different realms, which could be really interesting. It will have next to no impact. Lore and in-universe chronological consistency is not even a thought for them. And why should it be? They'll do whatever they believe will sell them more models
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Post by Grimfang Gogulk on Jan 12, 2023 1:24:34 GMT
Yupp.. Atleast greenskins will be greenskins.. Orcs - ded ´ard an´ propa´, Gobbos, weedy gitz. Trolls will be less than clever.. ..and Stunties will have gold and ale to loot. Not been recorded in dat tome for some time, need to work on that! So what was this timeline again? For some reason I thought it was around Mordheim, the comet there - but no?
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