Reply To: The Old World

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@onlyonepinman – I have been involved in miniature wargaming, on and off,  since I was a kid in the early 1970s, have seen many game systems, editions, companies and miniature lines come and go and seen scale creep happen often: from company to company, year to year, one edition of game system so-and-so to the next, sometimes even within the same edition – which is precisely wwhat I suspect will happen with WHtOW.

If the game tanks, they’ll keep it afloat for a few years, re-release 8th edition minis to keep the old farts who did buy into it from leaving unwelcome messages on GW boards and then quietly drop it back down the memory hole whence it came, joining all the other ‘specialist’ games.

But if it SELLS WELL, minis will get bigger, if only to fill the empty space on the much larger bases. Btw, ranking figures up wasn’t a problem when rank-and-file troopers actually looked like rank-and-file troopers, not a random assortment of folks engaged in a bar brawl.

Let’s say the next army gettin’ some GW love after the BritFrenchies and WalklikeadeadEgyptians are the fake Germans, aka ‘Empire’, which would make some sense. Those shiny, brand-spankin’ new Halberdiers will not be 25mm (measuring from sole to crown of head, like you’re s’posed to) or ‘heroic’ 25 (aka 28) or 28-to-eye-level (aka 32), they’ll  be 35. To eye level.

I don’t know of any physician, militray or otherwise, who measures someone’s height to eye level, but that’s a whole other story.

Anyway, they’ll be bigger. Maybe it’s because Sauerbraten makes ’em grow taller than frog legs.

Well… can’t have Empire soldiers tower over CHAOS WARRIORS (GW’s mostestest belovedest of all) now, can we ? Therefore, CHAOS WARRIORS might be ‘heroic’ 35s (meaning 38)…and so on.

Since it is highly unlikely that they’ll make any minis I actually want  to buy – haven’t bought more than a handful of NEW Citadel minis since about 2000 or so – maybe I’ll just start using my Holger Eriksson rubber molds to cast me an army of 40 mm (traditional toy soldier scale) Karoliner to use as ‘Empire’…….

Take that, CHAOS WARRIORS……