And then Total War: Warhammer become a smash hit and introduce a lot of people to WF just when they were winding down production of the modals.
Fantasy had been dead for more than a year before Total War released. The upcoming release of The Old World is probably partly to cash in on all the new people, and partly to try and attract the people who left the hobby when Fantasy died. I doubt it'll be a serious attempt to revive the setting though. I believe it'll be more akin to the Horus Heresy Forgeworld stuff, and won't contradict the End Times. Could make for an interesting angle if they push into that fully, and let you do stuff like make Teclis duel Caledor or have Aenarion cross swords with Abhorash.
that's what I said.
Poor Abhorash.
Games Workshop make their own models. Indeed, they consider making and selling models their primary business. And "a year plus however long corporate have been planning this" is more than enough time to halt production. Especially as the models weren't selling well.
from the financial statements released in 2016.
They massagers aren't even in Kislev yet.
Honestly, I just feel like he gets overhyped by the fandom? Like, I've been in conversations where people seem to think Abhorash is the greatest warrior that ever lived, and it's like, he hasn't done much? Hasn't actually fought against any character that mattered?
A) None of that means they don't own those things.
Abhorash is an interesting one. The fandom does tend to play him up, because he appears in lore, often touted as the greatest warrior who ever lived. He especially gets kudos for the founding of the Blood Knights, with the general assumption being that he must be a better warrior than all of them. His only actual combat outside of the dragon that I recall is a duel against Gilles le Breton. Which he lost. Which is doubly bad because Gilles wasn't even the best fighter among the Companions, if memory serves.
He may not be the greatest warrior in the world but he has clearly hired the greatest marketing consultant.
We are going to be taking 5 actions this turn, I think.
I cannot speak for everyone else, but in my case is because I want to talk with Worst Slayer and Snorri Nosebitter before they cross the Despair Event Horizon... I am not thinking about how useful will it be talking with someone, I have chosen the guys I find more interesting.
I want to help talk him through the whole "Vlag thinks he's a chaos trick" thing, since he seems pretty sad about that.
So this has been on our character sheet presumably since we catalogued those coins from the K8P vault, but I've only just noticed it. I must confess I rather hope that this incredibly niche subject actually comes in handy some day, though damned if I know how.
