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Warhammer : The Old World.


I am new to the hobby, but always loved Warhammer from a distance since a a kid.

For me, and perhaps a lot of long time hobbyists and purists will disagree, but I’d love if they remade all the old range with new quality sculpts, whilst retaining the old world aesthetic.



Not sure I get the re-releasing of old sculpts? Some of them look terrible….

I believe some are indeed new sculpts? Bretonnia foot knights, look new.

I’m really looking forward to seeing Empire and Elven factions.

I think even the purists would love new updated models. My personal belief is that from conception to release a few things changed with the Old World project and at some stage they decided to make it bigger quicker. So instead of slow grow with two totally new armies (Kisleve and Cathay) they went for a big boom to get a lot of old fans back in and get a lot of the game out on the market in one big go.

So since GW couldn't invest in half a dozen to a dozen full armies they went for stuff they'd got and split out a few new kits between them.

The result is that Old World will likely release way faster than if they'd gone for a totally new range of models; so it will grow fast; hit a mature game state quickly and then will end up like any other main to semi-main GW product line. That is old models will get replaced with new ones; either in drips and drab or in a big udpate and armies will see new things added to them as well.


I think the big new armies, Kisleve and Cathay, will appear either at the end of Old World's release cycle for now; or at the start of a 2.0 release.

I think GW didn't send them out first because its really hard to sell older models if you just released two full, fully new armies with modern sculpts.



And yep Bretonnia foot knights are new as is the pegasus with banner model.

Yeah ok…. Hopefully they do update a good portion of the range.

As GW mini’s now are pretty damn impressive pieces of art really.


Those Foot knights look really good.

I bought the foot knights and they were such a slog to build I considered selling the second half of the box. Gluing 3-part heads together and minute elbow pieces to a shield strap really made me appreciate the men at arms kit in comparison.

At some point the juice just isn’t worth the squeeze with the new artisanal GW minis. The mounted knights of the realm kit looks no worse than the foot knights and is umpteen times more satisfying to build.

Luke82 wrote:
I bought the foot knights and they were such a slog to build I considered selling the second half of the box. Gluing 3-part heads together and minute elbow pieces to a shield strap really made me appreciate the men at arms kit in comparison.

At some point the juice just isn’t worth the squeeze with the new artisanal GW minis. The mounted knights of the realm kit looks no worse than the foot knights and is umpteen times more satisfying to build.

Perry miniature Knights with a bit of basing work well.

Luke82 wrote:
I bought the foot knights and they were such a slog to build I considered selling the second half of the box. Gluing 3-part heads together and minute elbow pieces to a shield strap really made me appreciate the men at arms kit in comparison.

At some point the juice just isn’t worth the squeeze with the new artisanal GW minis. The mounted knights of the realm kit looks no worse than the foot knights and is umpteen times more satisfying to build.

Yeah.. this is disappointing to hear..

As new to the hobby, complicated Assembley is really off putting ..

I recently put a Stormcast Vigilor together. They look great, but it was NOT fun to assemble.

Whereas Frostgrave, Oathmark, Perry, they’re fun to assemble, especially as I can have some freedom with regard to setting my own pose and range of weapon and head options!


It seems like a real oversight by GW.