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7th was Age of Darkness. Warhammer is Age of Sigmar. Could this new mold of 40k be... Age of Guilliman?

With any luck, the age of 40k actually being playable for the first time since the end of 5th edition.

Some suggestions I could think of.

Warhammer 40.000; Age of Guilliman
Warhammer 40.000; Age of the Primarchs
Warhammer 40.000; Age of the Dominatus Crusade
Warhammer 40.000; A New Hope
Warhammer 40.000; The Empire Strikes Back
Warhammer 40.000; Age of the Emperor
Warhammer 40.000; Age of Chaos Ascendant
Warhammer 40.000; Age of Ultramar Ascendant
Warhammer 40.000; Age of New Heresy
Warhammer 40.000; Age of Deeper Darkness
Warhammer 40.000; Age of Culling

Age of psychic powers

Warhammer 40, 000: Age of Copy/Paste.

Age of thank God 7th is dead.
Age of we playtested all armies at the same time.

I thought about Age of the Primarchs as well =]

 Lord Xcapobl wrote:
Warhammer 40.000; Age of the Emperor

I've never really heard 7th (or any edition before) being called "Age of". Now I'm not saying I'm the great herald who knows of every little joke across the board, but it doesn't seem like it was a common thing to call any of the previous editions "Age of" since there wasn't really any reason to.

I have seen a lot of people referring to 8th edition as "Age of the Emperor", but with a negative connotation.

It's essentially being said as a derogatory term. There are people who feel that the game is moving away from its Warhammer 40,000 roots and it's becoming Warhammer: Age of the Emperor.

Age of two- electric boogaloo.

 Talamare wrote:

 Lord Xcapobl wrote:
Warhammer 40.000; Age of the Emperor

I've never really heard 7th (or any edition before) being called "Age of". Now I'm not saying I'm the great herald who knows of every little joke across the board, but it doesn't seem like it was a common thing to call any of the previous editions "Age of" since there wasn't really any reason to.

I have seen a lot of people referring to 8th edition as "Age of the Emperor", but with a negative connotation.

It's essentially being said as a derogatory term. There are people who feel that the game is moving away from its Warhammer 40,000 roots and it's becoming Warhammer: Age of the Emperor.

As someone who loved 5th and 6th, but couldn't stand 7th, and recently loved the AoS game system, I fully welcome the 8th as a coming back to the roots. If the name was to be Age of the Emperor, it would be a great sign. But regarding the story so far, I don't think the Emperor will have anything to do with it. The age of darkeness is set. Now dawns the age of Guilliman!

Warhammer 40K: Death of the Rules Bloat.

It makes me giggle to see so much salt over the "dumbing down of the core rules for simpletons to be able to play" when over 25 years ago, the foundation for the exact rules those same people are defending got talked about exactly the same way, it's just 95% of the current players think "way back in the day" means 5th edition at most, but more likely 6th.

Death of bloats? Nah bloat isn't going anywhere. It just changes location.

 Talamare wrote:
I have seen a lot of people referring to 8th edition as "Age of the Emperor", but with a negative connotation.

It's essentially being said as a derogatory term. There are people who feel that the game is moving away from its Warhammer 40,000 roots and it's becoming Warhammer: Age of the Emperor.

Time to break that habit of the negative connotation. I realize the Emperor will likely have very little to do with the coming edition. I do not expect the fluff to radically charge to the point where the Emperor is killed, turns out to be a perpetual, and starts his own crusade following the one from Guilliman. Nor do I expect Guilliman to somehow save the Emperor without killing him, and then detaching him from the Golden Throne to start his crusade just as well. To me, the Warhammer 40K setting has always been about that status quo, the 'one minute to midnight' feel of dread.

Likewise, to keep the tone of the thread lighthearted, I interjected not one, but two Star Wars references, which were, oddly enough, rather appropriate. There is enough negativity on the boards as is.

On to Warhammer 40.000; Age of Frivolous and Joyous Warfare.
(Insert non-offensive 'Hello Kitty' reference in Space Marines and Necrons at your leisure here.)



Cheers.

Like I said, remember that 7th edition is the 5th build of the "simpler edition for stupid people" that made people ragequit around 1998, insisting it was the beginning of a quick end for WH40k and GW.

Maybe 8th edition will​ be 40K: the Edition that makes me want to play a current edition again.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Warhammer 40K: Death of the Rules Bloat.

Mhwh ahh hahha ha ha. Ehm sure rules bloat guys will totally not be disappointingly having to look trough multiple digital tomes in an argument about unit specific special rules that are interfering with each other.

However I do hope that the whole "rules bloat" meme dies a silent death in this edition.

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I might start calling it 40: The Squiggoth age.
Since all transports are now Squiggothified : )

Warhammer 40000: Warm Blanket

Age of Emperor.
A tribute to the AoSification of 40k.

Warhammer 40k: Who knew that the fandom was this whiny and I think AOSification (Which is correct and not correct) would be great #FightMe #WoaMamaThatHeresy #GWDon'tF#$%Up 8E

Also........

 NenkotaMoon wrote:
Warhammer 40k: Who knew that the fandom was this whiny and I think AOSification (Which is correct and not correct) would be great #FightMe #WoaMamaThatHeresy #GWDon'tF#$%Up 8E

Also........

Spoiler:

Killer Queen has already touched this spoiler post, Bites Za Dusto!!!!

One can say objectively that the transition from WHFB to AOS alienated a large portion of the fanbase at release.

It would make sense that some people are concerned that this major transition will do the same to 40k.

#make40kSigmarAgain

Pancakey wrote:

One can say objectively that the transition from WHFB to AOS alienated a large portion of the fanbase at release.

It would make sense that some people are concerned that this major transition will do the same to 40k.

Feelings of alienation during the release of AoS were very justified, especially due to the shoddy communication and community engagement. However, simply taking the AoS release as a snapshot in time and trying to apply it to 8th edition 40k without the context of the intervening years is a poor way of qualifying the negative rhetoric some people are throwing around. Just the amount of GW's announcements and engagement alone are a black and white difference from how they did business one year ago, let alone during the WHFB End Times and AoS. I'm not kidding myself; this is GW and they have an extremely poor record when it comes to the management of their actual game systems. However, it's pretty easy to claim improvement when things are already as bad as they can get

While I agree with you last statement, I don't think the botched release of AOS had anything to do with community engagement.

Pancakey wrote:
While I agree with you last statement, I don't think the botched release of AOS had anything to do with community engagement.

Well, they killed WHFB and replaced it with an entirely new game system pretty much out of the blue without telling anyone, and they did it with barely any consideration for what the WHFB community wanted to see in a game. AoS at its release was clearly not what a majority of people were interested in playing, especially since it didn't include a transparent system for playing balanced armies against each other! However, they have incorporated a huge amount of feedback into AoS and turned it from an object of loathing into something that is widely accepted and enjoyed. I would argue that it was exactly because they showed no interest in engagement with the player base and their desires that the release of AoS turned out so badly.

Their behavior leading up to the release of 8th edition 40k has been totally unprecedented, at least for GW. They claim to have developed the rules and unit balance based on extensive play-testing conducted by independent groups of the most involved and experienced tournament organizers and players, which means that 8th will already be based on community feedback on the first day of its release. They are revealing many of the core mechanics in advance and being transparent about the fact that this is a full reboot of the rules, as opposed to simply dropping a new game out of thin air and telling everyone to buy it or get lost. Perhaps most importantly, they claim that game will have a living rule set going into the future, and that they will fully support it with regular tweaks and adjustments just as they are doing with AoS. That alone is a far cry from their previous practice of infrequently piling ill-formed rules on top of previously shaky foundations that made the game into an ever expanding mess of bloat and power creep because they couldn't be bothered to engage in actual game design or support.

I'd say that the botched release of AoS, and the prospective failure or success of 8th edition 40k, has everything to do with community engagement.

If 7E hasn't alienated the fanbase

I hope it doesn't end up getting called The bland edition.

 loki old fart wrote:
I hope it doesn't end up getting called The bland edition.

Well, so far it certainly is the edition of blandly vague and unqualified negative comments

 Haechi wrote:
7th was Age of Darkness. Warhammer is Age of Sigmar. Could this new mold of 40k be... Age of Guilliman?

Age of Gork (no! Mork! Ow!) No question!...?

Pancakey wrote:
While I agree with you last statement, I don't think the botched release of AOS had anything to do with community engagement.

I know the other guy alreafy called you out on this one but I have to as well. The botched release of AoS is thr ONLY reason for the community engagement.

They tried to tell people want they wanted, same as they'd been doing for years and their community rebelled and the lost an absolute gak ton of money and no small amount of independent stockists because of it. It was a wake up call straight to the nads.

Everything good that's happened in GW for the pasr 2 years owes itself to the sacrifice of WHFB. Fantasy died for our sins.

Warhammer 40,000: Age of Nietzsche (God is dead edition).

 Dakka Wolf wrote:
Warhammer 40, 000: Age of Copy/Paste.

Wins thread!