Using minis from a wide variety of different companies is something I have always done and since the closest ‘official’ GW store is many hours drive away, that was never a problem. I’m also not a stickler for base size – or shape, for that matter – the beer, pretzel and common sense approach works just fine for me and has since the days of pitting 1/72 scale Airfix guys against Elastolin knights on the floor in the 1970s……

If someone doesn’t want to play me because my figures aren’t the ‘official’ ones  – or from older editions of game system X – oh well.

I can get on board with the idea of WHtOW being set several hundreds of years before the timeline of WHFB,  I like the announcement teaser that we will supposedly be able to use our existing figures – which I was going to do anyway, see above – and that they will allegedly combine rules from ALL previous editions. Which also means 1-4…I hope……

I have a very nice Wood Elf chariot (Harlequin/Black Tree Design), the original fluff says Wood Elves can have chariots, so why not. I even have the original Marauder/Citadel Elf chariot – before the ‘Sundering’ – unpainted and in the box, lead all the way. I want to paint and use it.

My Empire army has Dwarfs, Halflings and Ogres in it, original fluff says ok, so did editions prior to 6th. I even have a couple of Ogres in Landsknecht outfits with matchlock muskets, not sure who made those. I want to use them.

The list goes on.

I do realize that the chances that whatever the re-issue will be is unlikely to be anywhere close to anything GW made before 2000, but I’m willing to be pleasantly surprised……