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

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Yup the rules we never that good, but it was the minis that captured our attention. Even although the Empire was just Landsknechts, GW put a spin on them to make them a bit more “fantasy”. If they were to do Warmaster again with 10mm figs, I’d be all over it, however although GW has dabbled in the past with non 28mm figs they never seem to stick around on those scales for long without dropping it eventually.

I do still see a Mordhiem reboot as the most likely candidate, following exactly the same release schedule as NuNecromunda (release a box of 10 minis (2X single sprue), and rules for that gang in a separate book, and “tactics” cards after release of the starter set). It’s worked for them recently, and they’ve been able to maximise “additional” product to go along with the minis (so it’s a sales pattern that seems to work).

Anything “mass battle” would be a serious amount of sculpts needed (ie they could service the whole of Mordhiem with the amount of sculpts needed for a single WFB army), so I doubt they’ll go back and redo everything. But basically the main GW IPs (40K and AoS) aren’t “good” games rulewise, they are a mess and you need an entire bookshelf to obtain all the rules (with contradict each codex release all the time), even with the current book releases, your seeing rules handed out piecemeal for multiple factions (so everyone has to buy). GW is all about the minis, it’s never been the game (I’m sure the only reason most ppl play GW games is because they’ve not been exposed to other gaming rules). And it’s weird, because I know I can get some really nice historical Landsknecht minis (which was the inspiration for the Empire), but they’ll never be “Empire” minis in my mind (such is the conditioning that GW has done to me over 30 odd years). I’m happy to proxy with other game systems, but with GW armies it’s all or nothing.

But it’s interesting to note that CA who did Total War were offered both backgrounds for the Warhammer computer game, but they chose the Old World over AoS. I wonder how many gamers it’s drawn in that see Warhammer as the “Old World” still and wonder what this AoS stuff is when they find the game behind the computer version. They buggered it up with AoS, kicked the WFB community in the teeth (and never looked back), so I doubt many would “return” to a possible reboot of WFB anyway (just new gamers). But then we Grognards DO love to grumble, then do things we swore we wouldn’t anyway 😀