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I can see from thumbnails of the 30ish heroes available for Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower that there are a lot of Dwarves, Chaos, and Space Marines, as well as a healthy sprinkling of other races. I didn't see any Empire characters. The Imperial Nobleman and the Witch Hunter are probably my favorite heroes from the original. Does anyone know if there is/will be anything like that in the new game?

Excelsior War Priest is probably the closest to Empire as you'll get for the moment

Well that is really disappointing. There's like 5 troll slayers but not a single character from the central faction of the game?

The Empire doesn't exist anymore. There wouldn't be any Empire heroes and the central faction of the game is now Sigmarites.

Rules for the Battlemage (Empire Wizard) came with Direct GW preorders - but aren't available in the app just yet.

Almost all the plastic clamppack heroes got rules in the app, except all the Empire plastic heroes. Perhaps a sign that although they survived the great cull of Order, (to be reborn as the "Freeguild") GW does not see them as an integral faction moving forward.

 Bottle wrote:
Rules for the Battlemage (Empire Wizard) came with Direct GW preorders - but aren't available in the app just yet.

Almost all the plastic clamppack heroes got rules in the app, except all the Empire plastic heroes. Perhaps a sign that although they survived the great cull of Order, (to be reborn as the "Freeguild") GW does not see them as an integral faction moving forward.

That's a bit of good news. I really really want to get Silver Tower but aesthetically the Empire stuff is my favorite. It's frustrating to wait 20 years and all my favorite things about the Old World aren't in it. I suppose it won't be too long before some unofficial rules surface somewhere. Thanks!

The battlemage is on BGG. I made a hero card based on the poorly taken picture. If you go to the forums then look in variants