The Warhammer Age Of Sigmar Dawning Soon For Games Workshop
June 7, 2015 by brennon
Games Workshop have popped up a rather interesting little teaser in a few stores and the leaked image can be spotted after the link HERE. Do you think you'll be getting revved up for the Warhammer Fantasy revival at the beginning of July? I am quite excited!
Now we're assuming that this is going to be a reboot of the modern day Warhammer Fantasy world but what about if it really was a Horus Heresy type situation? With the Old World destroyed could we see them going back to where it all began?
As much as I would love that to be the case I don't think it will be. According to the rumours we're getting a main rulebook, an army book for good and evil and then a new skirmish level way of playing.
Will you be checking this out?
"According to the rumours we're getting a main rulebook, an army book for good and evil and then a new skirmish level way of playing..."
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Whut? I’ve been out of the loop for a “few” years, but did WFB have some sort of reboot or such?
Over the past few months there has been an ongoing campaign called The End Times which basically tore apart the existing Old World and sent it into a vortex of Chaos. There were only a few survivors…
Basically they destroyed the Old World and are probably going to remake it this Summer in a new guise.
BoW Ben
One survivor floating in space holding onto a magic ball ….. oh and a few lizard floating in bubbles
I’m kind of excited..this could draw me back into Fantasy. Especially if it turns out to be more of a smaller scale or skirmish kind of game.
Or not.
Then maybe Frostgrave will. 🙂
Ditto. With 6k points worth of grey Empire plastic sat there for a few years waiting for a very long rainy day, the incentive to start building it in small chunks, on round bases, may be too much to resist.
After the complete destruction of the old world, in what went from a good book, to poor unengaging garbage in Archeon (Still not read it fully – its that bad) GW effective proved a complete disconnect for me. Now we will have a reboot with a %^&*poor story behind it to justify keeping any plastic sections of the model range, and there is no good way to do that in my mind. So GW are in the position where I have no excitement for this release for the first time in 6 editions. When I am passing a GW will… Read more »
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I hope Warhammer Roleplay returns too.. hopefully not in that crappy FFG edition..
If the recent past is any indication, here’s what we’ll get: a few hundred dollars worth of rule books that will be out of date in a year, and inferior, hideously expensive miniatures on round bases that will entirely supersede any figures that are out there now (glass half full: at least they’ll be getting rid of the recent dwarf, high elf, and wood elf releases). I can’t be thrilled about this.
so they are turning warhammer into mordhiem?
I’m not really excited about this, but I still have a glimmer of interest. I have loved the Warhammer setting (mainly years ago when it was lower fantasy and more suited as a setting for a roleplaying game) and love the figures (again, those that fitted my vision of the game). But I’ve long been totally fed up with the game rules and the way GW market the hobby to customers. I do still buy GW figures – fantasy and 40K – but no longer with a view to using them in games using GW rules. A total reboot was… Read more »
What I fail to see, understand, comprehend, etc. is the marketing logic behind this. If a company is planning a full scale relaunch/reboot of a major product line that necessitated a complete annihilation of its decades of lore, it is business 101 for said company to ensure that maximum anticipation/excitement is achieved in the lead up to launch. To keep your primary customer base guessing (as a byproduct vice a designed teasing-type plan) is business “logic” that I just don’t get. I suspect that is, instead, indicative of a lack of faith/vision in what they feel their product is or… Read more »
GW have long shown that they aren’t totally sure how people get excited about their new releases. They tend to show off cryptic youtube videos saying “Something is going to be released soon!!!” and it turns out to be something we might have read on one of the big rumor forums a month ago. I guess there’s something to showing off the shinies and taking money for them at the same time. I know I’ve seen minis in previews and lost my excitement for them by the time they were available for purchase. So maybe that’s their plan. On the… Read more »
I am very excited for this. I have always loved the GW fantasy world but never got in to the game because of the scale….but now there is talk about a smaller scale fantasy game………now is definatley the time for me to get stuck in.
The fluff was PERFECT and fine.
It was always the rules that needed rebooting, not the story.
That being said, the rumour is Age of Sigmar is a stand-alone game, not Warhammer 9th edition….
Really- Age of Sigmar is a stand alone (probably limited edition) board game? Do the rumors say that they might be dropping WFB entirely, or that we’re simply waiting longer than we expected for the 9th edition re-boot? What I mean is, that would mean this year will almost certainly have seen the release of a new Space Marine codex, a new edition of Warhammer Fantasy Battle, and at least two LE stand alone board games (Age of Sigmar and Assassinorum). And it isn’t like it’s Christmas time anything yet, so there may be more. These are all things that… Read more »
Its a desperate move to keep the whfb ip alive in some form, and why should they treat it any differently than 40k? They dont do any kind of research and wear blinders while surfing the internet so they are most likely looking at fixing dropping sales by sueing some poor childrens book author for releasing a book called “Spacey the wolf meets the emperor”.
There is still so little info about that it is impossible to say what is going to happen with 9th edition, or even if Age of Sigmar is 9th or a stand alone game, or even if Age of Sigmar relates to the original life of the founder of the Empire, or the rumoured post-End Times scenario with a human culture ruled by a reincarnated Sigmar complete with anti-chaos warrior templar types with holy powers. The speculation should be alleviated some what come July, but until then we are still in the dark, and it is too early to either… Read more »
Very true, had not consider it a back to the beginning possibility, However unfortunately think that is unlikely and we will end up with some complete bottom leakage for fluff.
Sadly though if there will be anything beyond the new shiny will not be known in July, time to talk to community GW.
I’m actually quite excited. I’ve always liked the fact that WFB existed, but haven’t really engaged with it since 2nd edition and possibly a bit of third.
It’s fun to see them try something bold. Why not? A lot of the product lines were looking pretty stale (although the last rulebook was a rather wonderful artefact if nothing else).
Frankly, right now I wouldn’t trust GW to turn out a good new game. Look at the excrescences they foisted on the world in the form of Dreadfleet and the latests Assassinorum game. Overpriced rubbish.
They may pull it out the bag, but frankly I don’t hold much hope.
Dreadfleet died because of lack of support it has a lot of fans and isn’t a bad game in itself.
As for Assassinorum. It is light but fun.
The GW hate for their prices is entirely justified.
The hate for the quality of their products… is not.