Reply To: If you were in charge of GW now

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@redvers My response to that would be that the Fantasy rules always needed an overhaul NOT the setting and that was a fatal mistake. As to AoS’s “success” how can that be ascertained when GW released a huge amount of super-saving boxed sets along with AoS with savings and value that not even Mantic has provided, no one has. These boxed sets were often classic armies too. Couple that with the “easy to learn” rules Id’ say many people were not “coming along” for the ride but enjoying playing or painting Warhammer Fantasy at good reasonable prices. As for increase in people playing AoS, well it’s a lower model count. I’d simply say look at 40K 8th’s success: nothing changed but the rules. The streamlined rules (which were a bit more advanced, sophisticated than AoS) were what caused their success coupled with bringing up classic favourites.

A lot of AoS’s other successes are not related to AoS: for example endless magic spells, the famous Night Haunt release are just re-hashes of Fantasy from the past – they are not new AoS creations or ideas.

Of course I may well be wrong. But my point can only be proven over time: will AoS have the same historical impression in regards to fiction and media as Warhammer Fantasy? or will it be just another “fantasy” game that no one will remember like most fantasy produced today.

I don’t believe GW have killed off Warhammer Fantasy. I don’t think Warhammer Legends is an olive branch: I think it’s an emergency place holder for the future. Again, why are GW re-publishing so many old Warhammer Fantasy novels? That’s odd surely. Unless they’ve noticed something.

Make a movie on Age of Sigmar and it’s identical to Warcraft or any other modern fantasy world.

Make a movie on Warhammer Fantasy and nothing on earth is like it. That’s what keeps people locked their whole lives. Time will tell, but imo some in GW have at least considered this but they are pre-occupied with copyrighting everything and replacing everything with plastic (designed to be incompatible with third party add-ons).