Reply To: Warhammer Fantasy Battle….'returns'??

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Well the appeal for most Mordhiem players isn’t so much the game but the setting itself (at the time of release it took a darker turn and went back to a very “Blancheian” aesthetic). AoS is a more high fantasy setting and is more fantastical (and already has a couple of Warband games released). Because Mordhiem would be a limited release (in the scope of minis needed to be sculpted) I see this as the most likely option from GW. The only other one would be some awful boardgame (like Betrayal at Calth), and as any old world minis probably wouldn’t automatically appeal to players who already have AoS armies (or they don’t really cross over in “looks” compared to AoS (High Fantasy vs Quasi-Historical)).

It was also the first game that had the Perry Twins doing “real humans” (or they didn’t all have the heroic cleft chin and muscles), you had old, fat, thin and just plain ugly minis (which was another change from the WFB minis at the time). Although it’s more normal now to see this, at the time it was a bit groundbreaking…