Yup seems that way. So time line wise it will be all the way up to the time of Magnus the Pious.

Gut feeling is a) skirmish ala Mordheim and Empire in Flames but I feel more likely is b) Warmaster scale.

I knew GW would fail and foul this up. They can’t help themselves.

@doctorether I suspect they have failed by not giving everyone everything they want.  Or by not cancelling Age of Sigmar and relaunching Warhammer Fantasy Battle exactly as it was in 2015.  Maybe.

Also, I do not think we will see anything at Warmaster Scale.  It never really seemed to me that it got too much love and, of all the specialist games, it’s the one I see the least people calling for. Could it be Mordheim, or have a Mordheim tie in?  Maybe. But I suspect we’re going to see a rank and flank style game at £28mm.  Obviously just my opinion and pure speculation at this point, I just can’t really see GW diving back into the small miniature scale market beyond Adeptus Titanicus

I’d certainly be buying a new version of Warmaster if that is their chosen direction but like a few others I think it it more likely that they go 28mm in some format.  28mm is their default position and Warmaster always felt like a bit of a vanity project for both designer and sculptors, none of whom are still at GW.  It is a great game and 20 years later still has an active community but perhaps not the sort to attract a commercial return in the manner of Bloodbowl.

Mordheim still seems highly likely for a relaunch at some point, whether tied to this project or not.  Lots of love out there for it and GW can see that similar games (Frostgrave) still have significant traction.  At the Plymouth show last week the biggest and best display table had a game of Ghost Archipelago on it.  I can easily see that sort of attention being lavished on Mordheim should it return.  Mighty Empires is also there as an option as we haven’t seen a version of that in a while.  I’m sure they won’t do this but I’d like to see a combined scales approach where we can run faction campaigns in Might Empires, fight grand battles in Warmaster and then get some narrative action in 28mm.

If this is the period where ‘Mordheim’ as a game is set then the WFB ‘re-launch’ kind of makes sense.
It might be how WarCry and Age of Sigmar share models.
They could use Mordheim as a starterset/introduction to the ‘classic’ WFB setting …

They never said it would be a mass battle system, did they ?

I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t do square bases after all …
it’s at least 2 years of development, lots of things can change.

Heck … it might even get canceled.

a ‘defective’ rule set that’s earning them a ton of revenue isn’t quite that ‘defective’.

Those ‘wounds’ only exist in your imagination, because you keep rubbing them every time you see GW do something that isn’t aimed at you and that manages to make them (a lot of) money.

If anything the only thing ‘wrong’ with AoS was that it was released before it was ready, but that’s has been fixed.
No one forced you to switch versions or stop playing WFB.
It’s not like this is a computer game where the ‘old ‘ versions are unplayable as soon as a new patch is released.
Never mind that with 9th Age you’ve already got the ‘classic’ WFB … (which isn’t attracting the following it ought to if people actually wanted that sort of thing).

A mere re-skin of AoS would not need 2+ years of development.
Never mind that it’s never ever going to satisfy the whiny beeps who saw their precious fantasy world replaced by something more successful and easier to get into.

I think if anything GW is hoping people have forgotten about what WFB was so they can create a new game without having to stay true to the original rules and background.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they declared all of the ‘old’ fluff to be invalid like Disney did to the expanded universe stuff for Star Wars …

So keep scratching that wound … it’s only going to fester and make Nurgle happy.

btw : of course they’re obsessed with copyright, trademarks and such … they’re business, not a charity.