New Art Previews Pop Up For Warhammer: The Old World
October 17, 2022 by brennon
It has been a rather long time since we heard anything about Warhammer: The Old World, the BIG project by Games Workshop to bring The World That Was back to the tabletop. Well, last week, we got a look at more artwork for The Old World. Maybe not such a good idea that some folks burned their High Elf armies I guess...
Bretonnian Peasant Archer // Warhammer: The Old World
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From what the team have been saying, they have been designing miniatures, painting, writing lore, doodling illustrations and working on graphic design. It all sounds like they have been doing quite a lot behind the scenes and the game is going in the right direction. The artwork is certainly hitting all the right notes, managing to tick those grimdark boxes.
Bretonnian Knight // Warhammer: The Old World
The first of the art pieces have been focused on the Bretonnians. For example, you have the Peasant Archer (above) in the colours of Lord Gastille, Red Hand Of Brionne. You also have this splendid-looking Knight Of The Realm who also finds themselves fighting for Lord Gastille. I like that they've kept the grubby-yet-regal look to a lot of the designs so it captures that classic Medieval feel of the Bretonnians.
Following on from the Bretonnians, we also had some artwork for another one of the "squatted" armies of The End Times. The Tomb Kings are back out in force with Chariots and more.
Tomb Kings Chariot // Warhammer: The Old World
What's interesting about what Games Workshop has said is that they are working away on plenty of new miniatures. Now, we knew that was happening anyway when it came to the likes of Kislev and Cathay but it will be interesting to see how many new miniature designs pop up within the well-trod factions of The Old World.
Are we going to see entirely refreshed ranges for the armies of Warhammer: The Old World or use of the previously released line in plastic and (Made To Order) metal? Perhaps we're going to get a mix of the two?
Not to be outdone, we also got a great look at this fabulous Orc Boar Boy who is charging into the action. A wonderful look at the classic Orc in all his glory.
Orc Boar Boy // Warhammer: The Old World
It's nice to see that the aesthetic of those well-known Old World armies hasn't been changed or updated too much. We've seen a lot of changes to the look of Kislev and the like but it feels like the likes of The Empire, Bretonnia, Orcs and such have all retained much of what people liked about them back in the day.
An Updated Map!
We also got an updated map for The Old World showing off what we can expect when it comes to the scope of the game.
Updated Map // Warhammer: The Old World
With Total War: Warhammer expanding the reaches of the map throughout its three games, it makes sense that we'd get a much more detailed look at places as far-reaching as The Bad Lands and The Border Princes to name two locations.
The Old World also takes place during a time period before the height of The Empire as folks knew it from the end of 8th Edition. So, there is a lot of scope for them to do a bit more world-building and introduce us to new armies, characters and more.
A lot of work has gone into The Old World so far and I think next year, we're going to be seeing more and more news. I doubt miniatures will be popping up for a looooong while but hopefully, we will get a bit more information on the time period and the mechanics they have chosen to go with.
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"...hopefully, we will get a bit more information on the time period and the mechanics they have chosen to go with"
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That archer will cut of his nose….
I’m worried he’ll knacker himself if he runs and that hammer starts a swinging 😀
He’s been watching Hunger games
Some beautify artwork that’s very much in the classic style, shame they still refuse to give that artists credit 🙁
Thats actually eased by doubts somewhat, the bretonian archer and knight are very much in the classic style and fit in well with the old “true to real world” feel warhammer had. I was very woried that they would space marine up everything like they did in age of sigmar, though im sure we will eventually see an excess of wavy capes, pointing men and foot on tactical rock when we do finally see some figures.
I used to be a big fan of Bretonnians, in fact when I returned to the hobby in 2009 I started to collect a Bretonnian army. I waited 6 years for an updated army list and instead, Games Workshop binned off WFB for Age of Sigmar leaving me with a Bretonnian army and no game. By that time, my eyes were already open to the possibility that Warhammer was not the be all and end all of wargaming and rather than burn my army for a Youtube vid, I did the responsible thing – FOAPKOW! (F*ck Off And Play Kings… Read more »
Great looking art.
I’m sure it will be a worthy nostalgia trip for some, but there are so many fantasy miniatures options these days I don’t know who will pay double/triple the price for models you could get from Mantic (or others) just to support the evil empire of GW.
It depends on whether you like the aesthetic of those other manufacturers. Having said that the Old World having human factions based on either 14th to 16th century ‘real world’ history has always made picking up those armies easy from the likes of Perry Miniatures, Foundry, Steel Fist, Claymore etc etc.
The Bretonnian start collecting box back in the day was £50 and for that you got 8 knights (or was it 6?), 20 men at arms, 14 archers and a Pegasus knight. If you are prepared to pay a few quid more, £90 will get you 12 knights, 48 mixed infantry (build ’em as archers are men at arms) and 4 Pegasus knights from FireForge Games. Sure, it’s £40 more (although the AoS start collecting boxes are now £65 and there’s a lot less in them) but you get more than double the number of models. And that’s using fantasy… Read more »
I was wondering if there was still stuff happening for the Old World. Very good to see the artwork and that they’re sticking to what made it immersive, at least for me.
Yup, there are plenty of new games out there like ASOIAF and Saga Age of Magic but I’ll happily return to the Old World with my big thick nostalgia googles on. Now to hope they get something sorted before I get too old.
Quite a few of my games group are looking forward to this. Myself I can’t help thinking they are going to be disappointed.
I would be more impressed with sculpts or even some design work on the game mechanics.
I cannot wait to see how GW messes this up. Whatever they come up with, it’s not going to be what people expect.
I took “The studio illustrators have been hard at work rendering classic and new miniatures into full-colour artwork. ” to mean that we’ll be seeing some of the original WFB minis returning. I’d be surprised if they replaced the orc boar boyz as they were solid sculpts.
? Reset the clock ?
Nice artwork but I’m really not holding my breath until they post something more concrete like miniatures or how the game will play. It seems like this has been going really slowly and we’ve had these little updates for quite some time now. Im guessing it must be a small team working on it.
Saw a Bretonnian army in place over the weekend, looked great, thought about getting one for myself, although with all the 3rd parties out there, I can ge tone for a fraction of what GW would cost me.
Fireforge Games and Conquest Games will get you pretty much everything GW used to sell you in larger quantities and cheaper prices. Hell, I built an army for Saga which has 24 peasant archers, 12 peasant spearmen, 24 foot knights, 8 mounted men at arms, 1 mounted general, 1 mounted priest and 1 mounted sorceress, all of it from either Footsore or Perry Miniatures. Total cost was just over £100 and it’s ALL metal – anyone reckon they would get a plastic Bretonnian army for that price? Imagine how much I would have got had I just bought plastic historical… Read more »
I can’t get over how long it’s taking them to re-establish an IP that already exists and had been developed over 30 years. What precisely is taking this long? It certainly didn’t take this long for them to blow the world up! Personally I have come to expect that any ‘Old Worlde’ announcement will coincide with a Kings of War release. I guess they just mistimed the KoW Red book release by a week….
that’s my impression
Its rank and flank with a pricetag punch. I agree with other commentary on the nostalgia being likely the impetua for sales. It’d be nice to have a Tomb Kings army but there is much more to be done with One Page Rules.
I really can’t see them bringing back WFB, it would make their catalogue line items EXPLODE (and be a swine for stores to stock, unless they decided to drop the entire AoS line….which I don’t see them doing). They dropped WFB because it was felt that the price point for entry with an army was too high. And that their “target audience” (School Kids) wouldn’t have the patience to sit down and paint 100s of minis. I know they keep saying they have sculptors working on it, but they’ve not given any hints (other than saying they are 28mm) or… Read more »
I can totally see them bringing it back and running it like they did with Horus Heresy for so long. As a niche game predominantly supported by Forgeworld, perhaps with some of the old WFB kits reboxed for “the old world”. I think they realised under Rowntree, with the success of Total War: Warhammer, the surge in popularity of Kings of War and the continued interest and fan support of “the 9th age”, that there is still a big interest in the old world and WFB. I don’t think GW will be too bothered about the size of the catalogue,… Read more »
Sure nice artwork. If those translate or are representative for the game miniatures great. However, 4 pictures and a map that’s been around for a few years now, after months of silence is just that one notch above nothing they could do.