Hi All,As we sit around and wait for updates to roll out about the Old World release I thought I would start to examine the old Warhammer Fantasy armies and their current state. My thought experiment for each of these articles is: If I was a new player who wanted to collect this army? What…
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How the Setting Impacts the Stories Told in the Old World and in the Age of Sigmar
One of the more interesting things to watch unfold is to see how GW has tried to develop the lore of Age of Sigmar. In the seven years since its release GW has tried to fill out the shell of its world through a staggering amount of development of its key characters. They have introduced…
Marching Towards the Old World – Age of Sigmar
Hi All,This will be my final article in the series examining the editions of Warhammer Fantasy and what facets could be applied to the upcoming Old World release. I know this will be controversial for several reasons: Age of Sigmar’s launch was a dumpster fire, from the rules to the lore and some people (justifiably…
Marching Towards the Old World – 8th Edition
Hi All,This is one of the more conflicting parts of the series for me. On the one hand, this edition was the one that killed Warhammer Fantasy. There are glaring issues with the rules as they were written, and it is easy to see a few are thinly-veiled cash grabs. Additionally, the army book balance…
Marching Towards the Old World: 7th Edition
Hi All, this is the second installment of our series as we look at what aspects of the older Warhammer Fantasy Editions should be adapted in the new Old World game. We are moving on from 6th edition to 7th. This is actually the first edition of fantasy I played, starting out with the brand…
Requiescat in Pace – An Argument for Playing “Dead” Games
I feel like that for some players starting out in 40k, or Age of Sigmar, is only the first step on a bizarre road that leads them down a rabbit hole of games. Everything starts out normally, (well as normal as us gamers are) with your standard tabletop options, maybe branching out into Kill Team,…
Managing Expectations
I’ve always had a strange relationship to WHFB. I learned to play 7th edition in college with a buddy and I would squeeze in a couple games a year. In the following years games would be hard to come by, to say nothing of narrative or competitive events. This was partially due to my own…
The Old World: Ice Guard of Kislev
Some exciting news about Warhammer: The Old World!