Warhammer The Old World OT chat.

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chaos0xomega wrote:

Just Tony wrote:

They did it at this time solely to knock the steam out of Kings Of War releasing 3rd Edition.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

My pet theory is it was to scare off Kings of War, 9th Age, Oathmark and any other game thinking of claiming the Rank and File audience.

I'm forever going to play whack-a-mole with this. Kings of War 3rd ed. was released about 6 weeks prior to the Old World being announced, and was announced about 8 months prior. Pretty sure Oathmark didn't even exist yet at the time. 9th Age is a bunch of sad nerds playing WHFB wondering why GW would forsake them as they push their 100% non-GW army that they've had since 6th edition across the table. A lot of the people playing these games are bitter and toxic grogs who have sworn off GW forever after the End Times and aren't coming back anyway.

GW isn't knocking the steam out of anything or scaring off anyone announcing a game that by their own admission was still 3-5 years away from release. GW is basically Thanos going "I don't even know who you are" when it comes to the existence of these games.

https://www.manticgames.com/news/kings-of-war-uncharted-empires-now-available-to-pre-order/

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/11/15/old-world-new-warhammer/

Overall 3rd edition was released earlier, however the TOW announcement came during the preorder period and just over a week before the actual release of Uncharted Empires, a KOW expansion book that contains army lists for armies that, at the time, Mantic really didn't have ranges for, or at least full ranges in some cases. These armies existed to port existing WHFB armies to KoW, initially. You're not really going to be able to convince me the timing was pure coincidence, that GW just decided that was the time to announce a project 3 years out with no info, and not just GW trying to say "wait a few years and you can use our models in our game again!"