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I wish you luck, but no thanks. I liked WHF as a temporally-static setting, the fact its replacement is an ongoing storyline is one of the main reasons I dislike it so much.

I do wonder why it is that so many projects that purport to "preserve" WHF are so dead-set on changing it.

Best of luck in your endeavours!

 Yodhrin wrote:
I do wonder why it is that so many projects that purport to "preserve" WHF are so dead-set on changing it.

Easy, one just have to see it from a creative standpoint, and abandon all sense of following an official line overly much:

- One of the highest forms of compliment is improvement upon what has come before. To pick up the torch and run further with it. As to improvement, think more in terms of intentions than perceived results (because we're looking into the human mind here), although the latter is also important.

- Warhammer Fantasy was never an official canon, as no truly rich setting ever is. It's a common smörgåsbord setting for lots of people who have their own favourite concepts and themes, which becomes abundantly clear once that common setting is pulled away from them. Then their various inclinations will become obvious in what happens next, as we are observing. Many hands and minds of varying visions laboured to build Warhammer up. Many hands and minds will labour to rebuild it after varying visions.

- Even those sticking to a past status quo (Oldhammer movement and Eighth Edition For Life) and understandably swearing by a static rich setting, will nevertheless develop their own new additions to it. Not to further an overarching storyline, but to make the static setting richer still. Often with lots of smaller stories. It's their labour of love and tribute to the greatness that was.

Once one realize this, it's easy to grasp what is happening, because creativity is the true driving force in these matters, which are by their nature creative, and creativity is by its own nature not rigid:

- Static older versions of the setting will still come up with their own stuff. A, shall we say, creative outsider might draw the distinction here, at respectful and non-intrusive additions to what came before, but although this is in operation it is not what's driving the fundamentally freewheeling creative mind.

- Continuance of the Old World after the End Times will appeal to others, who like the idea of shaking up their well-beloved setting.

- New and separate settings will pay homage to the legacy of Warhammer, and give it a place in a living and supported setting, but they will still do their own thing and improve upon the inherited models, even while doing so largely true to the spirit of Warhammer Fantasy setting design.

A company running their official line will have an interest in keeping everybody more or less on board, whether it be by static or story-changing setting, but the varied community will not. They'll go their own ways.

Enjoy the new playing field of fantasy wargaming, and do not discard anything just because it isn't Old World, but be open to drink from many different sources.

Cheers

Nah I think I'll just stick to the source I already like, thanks. People have been managing to add to WHF without advancing the timeline for years, and some of us will continue to do so. Guess we're just not as "creative"

 Yodhrin wrote:
Nah I think I'll just stick to the source I already like, thanks. People have been managing to add to WHF without advancing the timeline for years, and some of us will continue to do so. Guess we're just not as "creative"

Not to mention the... quality that is usually associated with those attempts by fans to advance the story line.

My play group and I aren’t really interested in jumping into a new system and we are trying to build our own lore ourselves. I’m currently working on a brief summary of the current state of each faction that takes inspiration from the end times without destroying the world and trying to keep true to the original canon. From there we plan to advance the storyline with our own skirmishes and campaigns. Between the 4 of us we nearly have every major faction, missing only Empire (May change soon), bretonnia, beastmen, and ogres (May change soon). Wood Elves are currently being built up.

Maybe in a couple years we’ll try out one of these spiritual successor rule sets but currently we are happy with 8th and may be more inclined to try 6th at some point.

Nice, I personally have enough to field a 5,000 point army of all but Dark Elves and Orcs and Goblins, which a pair of friends want to help me with so I have all the armies with lots of choices for units and characters. But I am firmly rooted in 6th with no intention of going to any other edition.

 brr-icy wrote:
Nice, I personally have enough to field a 5,000 point army of all but Dark Elves and Orcs and Goblins, which a pair of friends want to help me with so I have all the armies with lots of choices for units and characters. But I am firmly rooted in 6th with no intention of going to any other edition.

I’m guessing you’ve been in this hobby since around or maybe before 6th as well. I say that not as a slant to the edition just that I think my group has done pretty well considering we are all 2 years into the hobby. One day I may collect all factions but I’m building up slowly. So far I have High, Dark elves, Lizardmen, warriors of chaos, and Skaven with around 3k for each give or take. Not all built and painted but it’s getting there.

I got in around 4th, collected solely Undead into Vampire Counts until 6th, then branched out into Tomb Kings and started skaven near the end of 6th. They announced 7th, I gave up until the year before last. Been building the other armies in the last year and a half. Mine aren't all painted, but they're getting there. Tomb Kings, Skaven, Ogres, Bretonnians, Empire, Lizardmen, and 99% of the Vampire Counts are done.

 brr-icy wrote:
Nice, I personally have enough to field a 5,000 point army of all but Dark Elves and Orcs and Goblins, which a pair of friends want to help me with so I have all the armies with lots of choices for units and characters. But I am firmly rooted in 6th with no intention of going to any other edition.

Haha nice, here it is just the other way round. I have about 9000 points of Greenskins, 5000 Points of Dark Elves.

I am currently building up High Elves to about 4000 points, have some 2500 points of Beasts of Chaos, and 2000 points of Dwarves.
No Empire, (just some boxes I indend to give to a friend who plays it), no Vamps or Undead safe for some leftover models of heavy armour skeletons with halberds which I use for D&D occassionally.

Empire was a chore to paint lol. I really didn't like them much. The only thing that got me through them was using them as a Sylvannian army so they can be levies for my Vampires.

Sylvannia, that's cool.

"Sire, the Helbardiers are complaining about the putrid smell of the "irregular" troops beside them."
"Tell them to keep their whining down, or I will see to it that they will join the "irregular troops" themselves."