What have you done with
@Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl ?!?
I know an imposter when I see one!!!
Don't get me wrong, I still dislike Vampire Counts and Sisters of Battle intensely and wouldn't give them house room, but I've simply realised that no amount of hatred from me will make them disappear, and that even if it did, I would be no better than GW ditching Squats, Tomb Kings, Bretonnia and Chaos Dwarfs - I'd still be shitting on and alienating fanbases, just for factions that I personally don't like. The end result would still be resentment, anger and discord. Why sink to that level when you can give everyone the miniatures they want and please all the different fanbases? Everyone deserve the right to be able to play the army they want to play, and get an equal amount of support for that army, and it's only by both keeping armies they have already put a lot into and resurrecting those they didn't give enough of a chance that GW can redeem themselves for their past mistakes and prove that they have turned over a new leaf.
Achieving a truly strong, masculine mindset as a man is all about being assertive, i.e. being willing to defend and advocate your views while simultaneously allowing others to do the same (so long as they respect your right to do so), and by advocating the replacement of Vampire Counts with Tomb Kings and Empire with Bretonnia in the past I have been petty and vindictive, seeking vengeance simply by fighting fire with fire. Stepping on others for personal gain, or even simply advocating it, is feeble beta behaviour, and it's high time I purged the last of such weakness from myself. I am better than that.
Talking of impostors:
AoS rumors are that the Chaos Dwarfs will be making a return sometime "soon". Oathbreakers, is what I think they are calling them.
The mighty
@NIGHTBRINGER, Grail Knight of 8th Edition, researching AoS Rumours? Whatever next!
In all seriousness, tell me more. Where did you first hear about this?
If this is true then my theory that GW were simply ditching the Forge World range to replace it with a plastic one may well come true!
If I can't field my Chaos Dwarfs and Tomb Kings, it's an instant deal breaker for me. Doesn't matter how good the rest of the game/rules are.
I agree that faction inclusion is much more important than the ruleset.
So long as TOW remains faithful to 6th, 7th and 8th Ed Fantasy in pretty much any combination (as long as it doesn't involve the Horde rule
), which is likely given they've confirmed square bases are back and TOW is effectively 9th Edition, the ruleset doesn't matter. On the other hand GW's choices as to which factions they want to include will dictate whether they've truly repented for all the past mistakes they have made, and will reveal to us their attitude toward TOW. If they bring Bretonnia, Tomb Kings, Chaos Dwarfs and others back (at least largely in plastic with just special characters and big monsters being Forge World), then all shall be forgiven, as it will be clear that they do care and want to bring Fantasy back, just the way it was. It is certainly getting more likely given Squats are returning in 40K (now that that's happening, pretty much anything is possible), and I really want it to happen. I want to be able to return to a GW that had the same potential as the GW of my childhood, before Fantasy was killed off and before 40K became a bloatfest. If not, though, then it will show they've learnt less than I anticipated, and it's unlikely I'd get involved with TOW.
What makes me wonder about TOW is that it's supposed to be set a long time before the End Times garbage happened. I've heard people speculating that a lot of characters and even factions may not be present at all in the game just due to the time period.
GW have already revealed that the time period TOW will be set in is during the reign of King Louen Orcslayer of Bretonnia, and the War of the Three Emperors in the Empire, so it's not too far back in the past for any of the existing factions to make an appearance - they all emerged/were created long before this era.
I'm wondering if they're going to be releasing Cathay models now that they've been added to Total Warhammer, as well as if it will be feasible to use round-based minis in the game for us AoS players who want to try it out...
Without a doubt GW will likely be releasing Cathay models, given they share the position of being protagonist factions in Warhammer III Total War with Kislev, and also given the Chinese fanbase will be a pretty big one, so there's great money-making potential to be had there. Though the fate of the Kislev range may well be less certain given that GW have now stopped shipping to Russia to boycott Putin...
