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It’s set a few hundred years prior to the original, but it’s still WHFB.

Why they picked Tomb Kings and Bretonnia for the starter set(s), I’ll never know, it cannot possibly have had anything to do with background/fluff.

Empire civil war, Empire vs. Chaos or ye olde Empie vs. Orcs would have made more sense, but what do I know  – I’m not a Nomad Investments shareholder…..Just someone who’s played miniature games since about 1973.

Persoanlly, I still think that annihilating WHFB was a HUGE mistake and should have been corrected in one of two ways:

The absolutely best thing they ould have done would have been to issue a public apology to players and customers worldwide and borrow an explanation from the world of soap operas. Grey Seer Splinter indulged in way too much warpstone one fine evening in the sewers and the resulting horrible nightmares were what we have come to know as The Bland Times and The A$$ of Sickmar. But since it was all just a really, really bad dream (‘It’s ok, Heather, you were just in a coma all of last season….’), everything’s back to normal now, the Old World didn’t explode, Karl Franz still sits on the throne of the Empire, Leon Leoncoeur runs Bretonnia, there are Vampires and Skaven and stuff. As you were.

Option B would have been to go back even further into the ‘history’ of the Old World, to the time before the Elven split and release a basic set of Elves vs. Dwarves at the time of The Great Betrayal.

No Empire, no Bretonnia, Humans exist only as scattered semi-primitive tribes- some of them enslaved by the Slann- there are PLENTY of Dragons everywhere, Chaos is just a distant shadow around the edges, Skaven don’t have anything to gnaw on because Humans haven’t started to build huge trash piles yet, and not a single Skeleton has ever left Khemri.

Very much the OLD world, very High Fantasy and refreshingly different.

I might have even pre-ordered such a box set, sight unseen.