Boom goes the Warhammer Fantasy Dynamite. GW is revamping an old game in a new way. Check out the latest game announcement coming to the Fantasy setting.
After a quake-making announcement on Warhammer: Age of Sigmar’s facebook on square bases coming back, the curtain has finally been drawn back revealing a new game announced from Warhammer Community.
Warhammer: The Old World Announced
It looks like now that Age of Sigmar is well underway, the GW team has decided on taking a step back into the past and revamping an older medieval fantasy setting that’s loaded to the brim with lore. Warhammer: The Old World will be taking place back before the efforts of Archaon brought about the End Times!
As 30k tells of events/lore that happened leading up to the 40k setting, Warhammer’s The Old World will be a setting before Age of Sigmar- with square bases.
The Old World is to Warhammer Age of Sigmar, as the Horus Heresy is to Warhammer 40,000. The bedrock of lore from which mortals rose to godhood and legends were forged. And like the Horus Heresy, seeing those mythic heroes in action has an undeniable appeal, as does re-creating the glorious armies of a previous epoch – an exciting proposition for hobbyists and gamers alike. And now, we have a dedicated team in the Warhammer Studio beginning the work of bringing all that awesome back to the tabletop.
It Won’t Be Here For a While
Note the appearance of Albion top left
The old world looks to be coming back! This was what the world looked like back before Archaon had all of existence sucked into the warp and spat back out as Mortal Realms. And while this is definitely a big announcement, GW also mentioned that this won’t be coming to pass any time soon.
In the deepest dungeons of the Warhammer Studio, the counsel of the wise have convened, ancient forges have been re-lit and work has already begun. So far… we’ve made the logo.
Next up, everything else.
You get the idea – this is a long way off. Years. More than two. Like three or more. Definitely not soon.
Keeping things transparent with the community of hobbyists, it’s exciting to see a new revamp of the game that’ll brush the dust off of some incredible lore. With that said, it’s looking like it’ll be a while before we see any real solid advancements made to the setting.
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