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AllSeeingSkink wrote:


It takes a lot of impetus to get into a new rank and file game.

It's not a zero sum thing though, it's not like you have to go all in with two armies without making an informed choice (seems like KS hype train culture has blinded us a bit to that fact). The models and general aesthetic either grab you or they don't, there are tons of good batreps on youtube and if the core system is a concern the rank&file games translate especially well into some cardboard cutout bases to give it a try.

And as far as TOW goes I don't understand why anyone would risk making a fool of themselves by so desperately wanting to form a comprehensive opinion on it at this stage. However much you might know of the history of Warmaster (and how well it sold at your FLGS) or Fantasy's editions, the fact is we still don't know even the scale of the new model line. Of course GW isn't helping by blowing hot air into the balloon once a year ... Personally I just hope it's done more like AT where it is a loving modern interpretation of a beloved classic and less like Necromunda.


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 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

Maybe it is just an attempt to outflank possible challengers?

IIRC the announcment came out just as Mantic published KoW 3.0 (and they, in turn, ran that "you don't have to wait years for an awesone rank&file game" teaser), so the theory isn't entirely far-fetched.
Add the disgruntled and loud WHF community, the successful 3rd party rank&file model Kickstarters, the Total War franchise and the overall "second life" that the Old World got in other computer games, BB and the new pen&paper RPG edition and all of a sudden the project doesn't seem commercially unviable. I completely understand why GW would want to be back behind the helm of the thing that spawned so many succesful products.

Now that would have made me very happy indeed! Going from Tuomas' thoughts expressed on the matter though (Mordheim was a culmination of particularly favourable circumstances and liberties afforded by GW at the time, it is a self-contained, finished thing, ...), a new game, perhaps with some recognisable DNA, would seem more likely, especially if it was not GW that rounded them up.