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Hi there!

Curious what people's thoughts are… Not sure how to set up a poll but if someone could I think it would be interesting to see

No intention myself of going back to that era, or those rules.
(might buy some figures that look nice for other game systems)

I really wish that they had just used Warmaster in 28 mm! THAT would've been fantastic!

I don't know if I'll play it much, but I'll probably buy and paint an army (currently thinking Orcs and Goblins). The Old World has a powerful nostalgia pull for me, just looking at those ranked up squares and rectangles does something for me that the AOS skirmish style doesn't. I have 2 AoS armies, to be clear, it's just a different vibe.

It'll be interesting seeing if people take it up; I think there's a fair few people who would be interested in rank and flank. As I get older, it's nice to not have to move lots of fiddly models around. I like that GW is keeping the rules in one place and relatively simple, I hope they don't make it a living game like AoS or 40k where things are constantly being added to, updated, restarted, etc..

The local Oldhammer/9th Age/KoW community seems to be intending to switch over en masse.

I'm waiting for the release of Dwarves to decide whether to jump in, which will let me see if the game has staying power.

I personally just hope that in 5 years time they will roll out a new edition of Warmaster ala Legions Imperialis.

I'll be playing it, I already have a Goblin army (needs to be rebased) and a Warriors of Chaos army (I bought a large collection of NIB chaos warriors models for AoS right before they started the range refresh for Slaves to Darkness, I ended up just sitting on the old sculpts not sure what to do with them, but now I'll be using the old models for TOW and the new models for AoS). Bought Bretonnian and Tomb Kings armies with the launch, and depending on what happens with chaos dwarves in AoS I may end up repurposing my Legion of Azgorh army as a TOW legacy army.

Possibly. Not for a while but that's because the army I'm interested isn't available yet(and no interest hunting down on ebay). However once high elves comes out I'll see what sort of box they get and how much army would cost.

Locally there seems to be players more than enough so it's not lack of those that stops. Just lack of models.

I don't even know if I'll be able to find anyone to play with (there's enough stores nearby it shouldn't be too hard), but I'm stupid enough to buy into it anyway.

I fully intend to. I still have my Empire, Chaos and Skaven armies from before on square bases as I never moved to rounds. (For AOS I decided to go with something new in Kharadron.) I need to source some adapter movement trays as I have no intention of rebasing anything.

Of course, using my old stuff isn't helping the game succeed sales wise. There are some things I want to add to each of these that I never got previously, so I'm looking forward to potential model re-releases.

I also have some armies I've always wanted to do but never got around to. The main one is Wood Elves, so I expect that most of my model purchases will be that, but I've always had notions of doing some others like Tomb Kings, Dark Elves or Vampire Counts.

Maybe? Opponents/place to play is a bigger obstacle than anything else.

I could do Empire or Bret exiles with minimal to no extra purchases and a bit of rebasing. (I never actually based my old empire army properly in the first place, thanks teenage me)

And similar with either Chaos force (though I'd probably want more monsters for Beasts).

(re-)painting time could be an issue, however. A lot of its real bad, and a very...odd... mismatch of cities and states. Talabecland, Nuln, what was probably supposed to be Altdorf and a blue & green that looks decent but isn't associated with anything.

I'm planning on doing a map-based narrative campaign with people from the Blood Bowl group that I run. One of the FLGS is my area is getting hard Into it with at least a dozen people. I'm planning on playing in their league as well. I am not sure about tournaments yet.

I slowly gathered GW wood elves kits over the past few years about have enough for a 2K army now using the new base sizes. I'll probably leave my WoC army on their old bases for legacy purposes (but really because I don't want to do any more rebasing).

If it has a little success locally (i.e. 3 or 4 players that I could play with get in), I will probably build a small Beastmen or Undead army.

I do not know if I will play it or not.

I will rebase my Bret Knights, and Bestigors as i think they will look better on 30mm bases, but my Ungors and men at arms will stay on 20mm.

I will see what develops in the community.

I want to see a few games in person, and see the rules myself, before I make any decisions. There's some stuff I have real problems with that has come out in the rumors, but if they work out okay IN MY OPINION then I might be convinced to come around.

But the sheer price of it is not making it easy.

Took a glance out of curiosity for ebay prices. Sheesh. The fact stuff coming soon from GW hasn't made prices any saner

Not often when I think GW prices as the reasonable ones...

...yeah. Not hunting down ebay for models and just wait for GW ones.

(oh and those prices would have been BEFORE postage. Couple purchaces from ebay and postage alone would buy me GW kit or two...)

Funnily enough on Tradera (like swedish ebay) Empire models have been much cheaper than they were a couple of years ago. I bought and sold stuff 2-4 years ago for about twice what they have been selling for the last 3 months. Already have everything I want for my Empire army and sold off everything I don't need so had not checked prices in a while so when a friend asked me for fair prices on some empire stuff he had that he wanted to sell I quoted him prices that almost got him laughed at. I wondered why and then had to do a quick look.

Probably a lot of people who with TOW are looking through their piles of shame and unfinished armies and putting what they don't want or need up for sale. Since Empire was in a starter and quite popular a ton of people have unfinished Empire armies to get rid off and now when adults buy everything at once for whatever army they actually want to play. More people with some empire models than people who actually want to complete their Empire armies at this point. That is my guess.

Absolutely playing TOW. Fantasy is my favorite game of all time, and our community is one of the oldest and most stable I’ve known. My 7 main fantasy gamer friends have been playing since the 90’s, we play regularly, and travel often for events so we can support the games and community


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I do not know if I will play it or not.

I will rebase my Bret Knights, and Bestigors as i think they will look better on 30mm bases, but my Ungors and men at arms will stay on 20mm.

I will see what develops in the community.

Just get conversion trays. If you aren’t playing in tournaments, it doesn’t matter anyway, really, but it’s simple and effective.

Added a poll to the OP.

In due course, I will be.

I’m stoked to see it back, and I’m sure I’ll grab the rule book sooner rather than later. But between Age of Darkness, Legions Imperialis and 40K I’ve a fairly full plate hobby wise.

That being said, whilst Brets and Bones haven’t solidly grabbed my attention, let’s be honest. Few of us are anymore than a single distraction away from rejigging plans

Not impossible but I'm more likely to pick up Hobgoblin first.

I promised myself back in high school I would buy a bretonnia army once they got a rules update, so I finally bought a bretonnia army!

Possibly, in time I will although a lot depends on how it plays. I'll watch and wait.
I'll be concentrating on LI for a while along with AOD. It took a lot to convince me to play AOS after they blew up the Old World so for once I'm not rushing in.

I'd like to, but as a single parent I need to have a certain level of confidence in it before I throw $ at it so I'll wait until the gameplay/balance has shaken out..... but also because I'm leaning into doing that project that I've always wanted to do (Beastmen), rather than rebuying a comfortingly familiar one (TK or HE - since I have a lot of Elves and Undead in other games).

If someone in my group brings the rules I'd give it a shot. However, my old school Chaos army plays so fast and fun in KoW and Age of Fantasy, just don't see the upside in what is essentially going back in time to chunked-up rules from a decade ago.

Found local players already.

I am going to reduce my investment in Legions Imperialis, and build an army for ToW.

Considering that WFB was the first game that got me into tabletop miniatures in the first place, and I love the Tomb Kings; yes.

If nothing else, the nostalgia gets me. The game looks great! Pre-ordered and ready for it!

Age of Sigmar is far more attractive, but I'm looking to dabble in some Bretonnian Full Tilt between other games, and optimistic that The Old World is going to lead to the return of Mordheim, classic Warhammer Quest and especially Warmaster. Afterall, The Horus Heresy enjoys no less than four(ish) games right now...

Are we still counting Aeronautica Imperialis and Adeptus Titanicus as being separate games from Legions Imperialis? I know they are certainly separate rulesets, but it seems that GW is treating them as a single product line (everythings getting repackaged into LI boxes) with 3 different ways to play.

chaos0xomega wrote:
Are we still counting Aeronautica Imperialis and Adeptus Titanicus as being separate games from Legions Imperialis? I know they are certainly separate rulesets, but it seems that GW is treating them as a single product line (everythings getting repackaged into LI boxes) with 3 different ways to play.

For the time being yes, they are separate games, with all three sharing the same model range. The Titan and Knight kits now come with Terminals and cards, so its killing 2 birds with 1 stone. Aeronautica is still being supported with the recently released 6-pack of dial bases, and I'm guessing that both Titanicus and Aeronautica will get new releases later in the year - a campaign book and starter set, respectively...

I did not say this...I am not here...

Aeronautica is as good as gone. You can still play the rules but the only updated ones will be for the units in LI.
The only kits remaining are those that are in LI and all the 40k units or 40k factions have had their kits removed from the range.

Not at all. Almost everything about 8th that drove me out of the game seems to be back, some doubly so, so I'll be sticking with 6th. I'll be following the news threads to see if some kits become available that will help me finish out my 6th Ed. armies, but that's where it stops.

I have to fill in undecided because I have never found a single player in my area for 40k and.or AOs either so..
but atleast a local store just made a contract to start selling WH products again so who knows.