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 Gallahad wrote:
Alright guys, hot take:
Warcry is currently more popular than AOS (more people playing/buying).

Based on...?

I think that anyone who likes AOS also likes Warcry, but there seem to be a lot of people that don't like AOS who do like/play/buy Warcry (myself included).

Needs numbers

Do you agree or disagree? Give me your anecdata.

Disagree. Your conclusion is based on nothing. Even if you're right, you have no way of knowing that.

I interpret GW announcing years in advance the return of Warhammer Fantasy as a sign of AOS weakness.

It seems more valid to intrepret it as a sign of strength, that they don't see internal competition three years from now as likely to hurt AoS sales. (And I say that as someone who's waffling at starting an AoS project partially because of the announcement, because feth rebasing. But more that I want to see pointy elves and giants first.)

 Ghaz wrote:
I feel it's important to note that Warcry has only been out since July 2019, barely six months. GW has already announced three new large miniatures for the game and almost twenty new warbands. It's still too early to write the game off as a loss.

Don't see that anyone reasonable is writing it off as a loss.


But the thing about the new critters and warband's is, they're cross-game sets, which makes them really easy. Order up a limited run of cards and boxes, stuff existing things in it and call it a day. If they're reasonably priced, they'll sell for both games, and no one will know which.

Take the reaction to the chaos ogre card over in the AoS thread- it's fairly negative, but it's a good model for chaos armies, the fact that's it's nominally a warcry model makes no difference.