A Rumoured Map Of The Warhammer Fantasy End Times!
August 26, 2014 by brennon
According to the vast chattering masses on the internet we have a map of The End Times planned out for Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy. So where does it all start? The first step is of course Nagash which is coming to the tabletop this weekend...
The plan, as illustrated above by these lovely pieces of artwork, is to have a book focusing on the armies of Chaos launch in October and this will most likely focus in on Archaon's horde and the villains that will be descending from the Northern Wastes. After that we have a wait till January when the Skaven will pop up. Since they are the ones who masterminded the downfall of Nagash the first time it will be interesting to see what uneasy alliances are formed with the warpstone crazed ratmen.
Last but not least we have a collected book that is going to be coming out in March which helps knit together the other armies embroiled in the conflict - so everyone. From what the new White Dwarf said on Saturday and the mutterings we're hearing on the internet it sounds like we're in for quite the world war with everything ending in calamitous disaster.
With that in mind the next edition of the game is touted for the same kind of slot Warhammer 40,000 had this year. 2015 becomes the year of mighty Warhammer armies then, and I can't wait! Let's hope they don't pull some time travel nonsense.
Are you looking forward to The End Time?
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After that last financial statement a good dose of End Times fluff only seems appropriate.
One can only hope the models live up to the hype for a change, but I’m not holding my breath.
-rolls eyes-
Good thing GW have 40k as the number one miniatures game despite fantasy being pushed out of the top five.
First time in a very long time GW have done anything that tempted me to jump back on board, but despite being a MASSIVE fan of Nagash (pretty much my first miniature many moons ago, and what a miniature) it feels daft to fork out £50 on a book that will presumably immediately become defunct when the new edition of Warhammer comes out. If anybody is more in the know than me and fancies putting a different spin on things I’d be grateful, would be a shame to sit this one out.
Well, then you should never buy anything. As rules, supplements and army books also become defunct when a new rules set is out.
I’d probably see your point if we were two or three years away from a new version of Warhammer, but if 9th edition is expected in less than a year it’s a heavy commitment to buy a book at this sort of price point for maybe nine months of gaming, and I’m keen on the subject material. Unfortunately, GW’s rapidity in terms of version releases makes never buying anything from GW a serious consideration, which is a bit of shame as Warhammer is my first love so to speak.
By “End Times” are we talking another Storm of Chaos, or is this an actual end to give a clean slate for 10th ed?
maybe … could even mean they’re writing new fluff
so they conveniently ” squat ” some of those rumored factions 🙁
I heard some rumblings about them ditching Beastmen, which would royally piss me off (X ~ X)
… either that or they’re just hinting that the company’s totally fckd now 😛
Ditching beastmen? That’s the only thing I’m still buying… when I absolutely have to, to justify sitting in the store and painting, or building bases or terrain for people. Oh well, by the looks of recent sketches Mantic will be coming out with something similar soon, and no doubt the price will be better.
I would imagine ditching Beastmen would mean getting rid of them as a separate army rather than getting rid of them altogether.
hmmm, interesting, there was talk about Bretonnians merging with Empire too …
so maybe if Beastmen were absorbed back again into a combined Chaos army,
and considering how Nagash is forming the combined undead army now,
maybe the end times is going to create larger combined armies now 🙂
… or at least just introduce allies 😉
Merging several armies into wider “factions” wouldn’t be a bad route to go down for 9th ed. Replace rigid army lists with more open faction-building and lower the entry point for the amount of minis you need.
yeah, I’m hoping that’s what they’re going to do now 🙂
could lead to some great narrative campaigns 🙂
… hmmm, (O ,o) ?
whatever happens, as long as it means more Skaven I’m happy 😉
Can’t wait for this, fantasy is my primary game and I’m really keen on adding another small 1000pt army to the burgeoning collection…
Holding on to see what become of the Brettonian rumours, I’m in the mood for painting equestrian parapharnalia! 😛
Yeah! Revamped Skavens. I think I will start saving money for the collectors edition if one comes out.
I hope they don;t retcon this whole idea i want to see the heroes and villians progress. Who lives,dies goes missing etc so when we get new book books in 9th there is a reason to get the books. I like PP books as each on changes the characters and brings something new.If you remember etherion the blind swordsman why did they just get changed back when the book came out? it showed that not nice things happen. But i would love to see nagash vs archron!!
I might pick up a new Warhammer fantasy battle box set so I can have a new force for mantics kings of war!