Warhammer - The Old World news and rumors

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**Theophony**

I love Oldhammer, I do not want rules bloat to sell models.

To me, Kings of War really has a lot going for it....except model design. Also, ASOIAF scratches the need for more complexity. If GW was looking for a place to find a happy medium I think between those two games would be great. They will wind up rehashing the old world just to take us old players out behind the wood-shed and put us out of our misery.

**Theophony**

Gert wrote:
Love the lil bug friends.

They were definitely your friend when the metal Blood Bowl Tomb King team came out many years ago. They were the pads that helped make joints big enough to actually glue together

. Especially since they were all metal back then.

**Theophony**

Just Tony wrote:
Bobug wrote:
Or like, you know, just play using your models on the old bases. It's not like James workshop is going to show up and cast your models into the void for a 5mm difference in diameter

Squares a rectangles don't have diameters

Have an exalt

**Theophony**

Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Paymaster Games wrote:
JSG wrote:
Luke82 wrote:
Someone has never met a WHFB player, clearly.

We all buy loads of models that fit the game we play….

If this were true WFB wouldn't have been canned.

WFB was canned to protect their IP and not because of sales. It would be good to remember that.

Uh huh..we already have Peachy who was working there at the time come out and confirm it was sales. Or lack of them. I'd recommend you go check out that video.

Sales slumpped when they started making units boxes of 12-16 per box but needing 30+ for a unit and still charging the same cost. Players moved over to Kings of War or onto new systems. GW needed to protect what they had so they closed it down and went for a terrible rebrand. I doubt you'll get old Grognards like myself to start spending GW prices for a system that won't have good rules, when they can play Kings of War with the same armies for far cheaper. Disposable income or not, WHFB will not have another hayday like it used to have.

**Theophony**

Maybe now that Mantic has show Off their Dark Elves, GW can go ahead and release something and not worry that Mantic will copy it for KOW.

**Theophony**

They aren't going to give away base sizes till after the game shows up because they don't want to lose out on any possible sales. If they were to tell you base sizes now, even if they are totally new sizes, Etsy and the like would have them up for sale in bulk before we even got screen grabs.

**Theophony**

Paymaster Games wrote:
I think lost kingdom makes some fantastic not tomb kings, bit it would require a high 3d printer to get the best out of it.

Anyway the resins look good and with no major flaws. I would prefer that GW cast these kinds of models in metal. GW are quite good at casting in metal and it would not bet that expensive since they already set up for mass production in metal and would likely be cheaper for the long run.

As to the tomb king weapons we saw earlier, I think it may go to a updated 4 edition mummy unit. All of the weapon looked like they went to some kind of foot tomb prince or king, but with the release of the new resin tomb king model and the fact Bretonnia is getting foot knights this kind of makes sence and fits into taking the best from each edition to create a new edition.

I though GW sold off their metal fabrication equipment years ago, I thought it might even have gone to Infinity. It was right before they switched everything to finecrap, I could be wrong about where it went, but the costs of metal and the expansion of their plastics production meant things got cheaper and faster to make in plastics.

Lost kingdom make fantastic .stl files. I love the Chaos Dwarves I have from them.

**Theophony**

Skaven was my first GW army many decades ago. I've always loved the older sculpts above the newer ones. Just started printing out a Skaven Bloodbowl team this week and love the models as they are a throwback to this style.

**Theophony**

I'd Kill for a Moustache like that.

**Theophony**

BorderCountess wrote:
Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Mozzamanx wrote:

There are no nice Elves.

There's a reason for the white robes and pointy hats.

Oh. Oh, my...

Only a problem after labor day in the south.....Oh

I see what you did there.

**Theophony**

ccs wrote:
SgtEeveell wrote:
Nevelon wrote:
Zenithfleet wrote:
Vorian wrote:
The Asrai Beast Keepers, under the "Returning Metal Wood Elf Units" section here: https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/wy2pxyu4/sunday-preview-sorcerous-space-marines-and-forest-sentinels/

Me: Carefully re-read that preview twice before I posted my question, in case the minis were mentioned or pictured there.

Also me: Completely failed to see the minis clearly mentioned and pictured there.

In my defence I think the arrow to scroll through the last WE picture wasn't working when I looked at it the other day ...

Anyway, thanks!

To be fair, it’s very on-brand for Wood Elves to be good at hiding.

I had a 40K game where I hid my Eldar Rangers so well, I forgot about them the whole game and only noticed when I was packing back up.

At the shop a few months back we found a Vindicare Assassin who'd gotten left behind. Poor thing had been waiting patiently for 2 weeks to get a good shot off.
(we know it was 2 weeks because we knew who's mini it was & when they'd last played. )
The funniest thing though is that we know there'd been several games played on that table in-between!

I made a Mantis warrior space marine for a painting competition here years ago. set him up on the game board in the basement. Got sidetracked, and couldn't find him for months. The competition ended...as did 2 others before I found him again. Sneaky Renegades

**Theophony**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
MajorWesJanson wrote:
I feel like when April 1 rolls around, GW will get around to announcing a Classic Cathay MTO

I know you're joking, but they had some Cathay and Nippon figures back around the mid 80s, which I believe was just 10 years ago.

Some classic Samurai, Ninjas and Monks would be cool.

They could do a MTO with old Skaven Gutter runners as they were trained in the ways of the Cathay.

**Theophony**

streetsamurai wrote:
Astmeister wrote:
I was refering to the fact that the old chaos barbarians look terrible and are 20 years old, while the Mantic Northern Tribes people look way better and are cheaper.

Chaos Marauders cost 70 Euro per Box!

I sincerly doubt Mantic is big and threatening enough that GW feels it has to react to its moves.

Also, if Mantic announced in September, then this is the fastest turn around for GW to move production forward that we have ever seen. Finished making new sculpts, mold, manufacture, paint, photograph and make an armybook. This was definitely already on their way. Most likely Mantic heard about GWs schedule and tried to rush theirs out first.

**Theophony**

NAVARRO wrote:
There was an old game named Alkemy that had a faction "Khaliman republic" which had very cool feline miniatures.

Spoiler:

https://alkemy-the-game.com/republique-khalimane/

This done correctly it could be a nice extension to Warhammer.

Years ago I picked up some Alkemy on deep discount from Miniature Market. Had a huge Asian theme army going for cheap. Nice models, good quality resin. They only had 1 or two of the Khaliman boxes at the time.