Warhammer Fest -- The Old World Updates
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2023 5:53 pm
Hi all --
If you haven't been keeping up with The Old World updates, a few new ones came out today:
From Old World Q&A (Twitter Source and stream):
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If you haven't been keeping up with The Old World updates, a few new ones came out today:
From Old World Q&A (Twitter Source and stream):
- The Old World won't have a "starter set", like Horus Heresy doesn't have a starter set; starter sets include stuff like boards, and get-started books that assume you have not played a Warhammer game before;
- There will be boxes/vanguard/start collecting boxes for getting into new armies;
- The game will be set in the Old World; it will be at the Time of the Three Emperors, just before the Great War against Chaos;
- The factions that are fighting in the Old World at that time are the ones that will be focused on;
- The rules will come in part as online resources for all armies as well as new books for the included factions in the setting;
- Every 8th Edition Army will be playable in The Old World; focus on the featured Old World armies;
- Unclear what that means for armies like Chaos Dwarves;
- The first 2 armies to get attention will be Britannia vs Tomb Kings; returning models and new models for both;
- There is new concept art shared on the stream; peasant bowmen, blessing, Ushabti miniature, carrion, Necrosphinx, map of the old world with all the factions shown;
- No release-date shared; just mentioned that it is "a ways out"; unclear if that is end of this year or early next;
- Miniatures will be Plastic, Forgeworld Resin, and METAL;
- Someone else is reporting that Chaos Dwarves will be playable and have rules, but will not receive new models in the foreseeable future;
- ALL models that existed in 8th will have rules for them (including End Time models), but they may not be the same as before (i.e. Karl Franz versus a generic General on Griffon);
- Monstrous Arcanum not included in this, but if players want it, they will evaluate demand;
- Empire will have an emphasis on Warrior Priests;
- No updates on Mortheim, even though lots of questions about it;
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