Skink:
Well, what to say? This completes all the factions of the Old World.
According to rumors, from here the game will go south including Skaven & Tomb Kings, then it will go East to include Ogres and… Chaos Dwarfs.
Because SEGA confirmed that the game will have playable Chaos Dwarfs. Now, I genuinely hope that they will be a “generic” Dawi Zharr faction, and not the Legion of Azgorh, but it’s waaaay too early to know.
Slavemaster Hod:
At some point it’s got to go west to High Elves, Dark Elves and Lizardmen.
Skink:
At some point it's got to go west to High Elves, Dark Elves and Lizardmen.Basically the game it's going to be a trilogy. After Ogres & Chaos Dwarfs they are going to release the second episode, which will have Ulthuan, Naggaroth, and Lustria, then the third one, which will be all Chaos centric. At least, those are the rumors! Although the guy who spread them has been 100% right until now...
Slavemaster Hod
Slavemaster Hod:
I like the sound of that. I could just get all the first one, and have enough playing for the rest of my life, and not have to get the next two (not the biggest fan of elves, and while I like Chaos, it might just seem overkill at that point).At some point it's got to go west to High Elves, Dark Elves and Lizardmen.Basically the game it's going to be a trilogy. After Ogres & Chaos Dwarfs they are going to release the second episode, which will have Ulthuan, Naggaroth, and Lustria, then the third one, which will be all Chaos centric. At least, those are the rumors! Although the guy who spread them has been 100% right until now...
Slavemaster Hod
Skink
Admiral:
Excellent news. An almost fully fleshed-out Warhammer Total War game will be wondrous. Just wondrous. Especially if modders can add in things like Kislev, Araby, Estalia, Cathay, Ind as well as Zoats, pygmy Halflings and so on. Even if the modding tools are limited, a very large and polished base game could make for the ultimate strategy game I’ve been looking for, for years on end.
Fingers crossed and hats off to the Total Warhammer showing so far! :hat off
Skink:
Check this out. I, uh… Never imagined the Forest Dragon to look like that :D. But he is cool, I guess??? Also, SEGA should give a raise to whomever had the idea of giving elven deers that prancing/jumping animation. That. Looks. INSANELY. Good.
Slavemaster Hod:
I really like how different each of the new races is. This game as surpassed Civ V as the most addictive game I’ve ever played. I could waste a week playing without eating, sleeping or relieving myself.
Bloodbeard:
The day they sell a complete package on steam I’ll have to get a new computer.
Admiral:
The day they sell a complete package on steam I'll have to get a new computer.Hear, hear. Same story here.
Bloodbeard
Carcearion:
Oooh man these guys look great! I have been waiting for ages for this game to come on sale on steam but it just isnt happening, and now they have introduced another favorite faction of mine! When they released beastmen I almost broke and whent for it (thats the next army I have lined up! I have pretty much the whole army purchased as well but I refuse to open a box until I have finished painting my Chaos Dwarves).
Also I think the forest dragon looks great, dragons with antlers is nothing new, its a good look I think.
Fuggit Khan:
not the biggest fan of elves, and while I like Chaos, it might just seem overkill at that point.My thoughts exactly (elves, boo! hiss! with respects to our Admiral ;))
Slavemaster Hod
tjub:
Yeah, Ill need this game… 
Slavemaster Hod:
I just spent (almost) the entire weekend play a Beastmen campaign. I really love the tweaks they did to each campaign, like for the Beastment, there are no cities, your army is your city. It is just what I’ve always wanted - very little up keep and just lots of battling. I cannot wait until we get our CDs.
Slavemaster Hod:
Well, I broke down and Pre-Ordered it. Why wait (and lose one dollar), I knew I was going to want them when the Free Bretonnia DLC came out anyway… and they do look fun.
Firehammer:
Still funny, how thousands of new potential customers get hyped for the old Warhammer setting, go to a Games Workshop store and learn, that GW has utterly destroyed the setting months before the Total War release. Now that’s a marketing desaster!
Bitterman:
Still funny, how thousands of new potential customers get hyped for the old Warhammer setting, go to a Games Workshop store and learn, that GW has utterly destroyed the setting months before the Total War release. Now that's a marketing desaster!Not just new ones. I played W:TW and was hugely inspired by being able to crush the Empire as Archaon, watched my ranked-up units of warriors fighting all the battles and slaying all the heroes I've read about for the past 25 years or more. Amazing. Brilliant. Fantastic. So good, in fact, that I should go and buy a new Warriors of Chaos army and play loads of games of Warhammer!
Firehammer
Skink:
Still funny, how thousands of new potential customers get hyped for the old Warhammer setting, go to a Games Workshop store and learn, that GW has utterly destroyed the setting months before the Total War release. Now that's a marketing desaster!Not really. GW has risen its revenue dramatically over the last year. I visited GW stores in Warsaw, Berlin, Cologne, Milan, and all of them were full of people playing AoS. The managers said that the game picked up slowing but is steadily gaining a following.
Firehammer
Bitterman:
Not really. GW has risen its revenue dramatically over the last year. I visited GW stores in Warsaw, Berlin, Cologne, Milan, and all of them were full of people playing AoS. The managers said that the game picked up slowing but is steadily gaining a following.So last year when they released AoS, their profits were down (yet again). This year when they released Blood Bowl, Adeptus Mechanicus, Custodes, and Sisters of Silence, and did all the other things players have been begging for for years like a return to the monthly White Dwarf, a web presence, and engaging with the community... and (on thread topic!) Total War: Warhammer has generated millions in royalties... and their profits (for the first half of the year) are up... and you conclude that this must be thanks to Age of Sigmar? Interesting.
Personally, I love the old Warhammer setting and for me it is still alive, but as a marketing student I believe that releasing AoS was pure genius.
Skink
Skink:
Well ok, I rushed to conclusions there ;) . Anyway yeah, I have seen people playing AoS outside of GW! We are, like, 20 something players here at a club near Cologne, and 4 or 5 play AoS!Not really. GW has risen its revenue dramatically over the last year. I visited GW stores in Warsaw, Berlin, Cologne, Milan, and all of them were full of people playing AoS. The managers said that the game picked up slowing but is steadily gaining a following.So last year when they released AoS, their profits were down (yet again). This year when they released Blood Bowl, Adeptus Mechanicus, Custodes, and Sisters of Silence, and did all the other things players have been begging for for years like a return to the monthly White Dwarf, a web presence, and engaging with the community... and (on thread topic!) Total War: Warhammer has generated millions in royalties... and their profits (for the first half of the year) are up... and you conclude that this must be thanks to Age of Sigmar? Interesting.
Personally, I love the old Warhammer setting and for me it is still alive, but as a marketing student I believe that releasing AoS was pure genius.
Skink
Question: have you ever seen AoS played outside a GW? I haven't, not since the first week. Outside the core fanbase who'll play anything with the GW logo on it, it's dead and buried.
Bitterman
Murkwood:
The next game could make for some nice naval battles with the Dark/High Elves. Not sure if CA want to go down that route though.