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Warning! Wall of text and rambling! 
As we know, last year GW sadly stopped its support of WAR, despite pleas from the community. Perhaps now we have a little more insight into some of the other factors (besides EA and licenses etc etc) that have influenced this decision, i.e. WAR does not fit with what GW want to do with WHFB.
It seems that despite 8th edition of Fantasy being popular (to the best of my knowledge; nearly everyone I know, have spoken to or who I have read comments from, likes it), GW are going to drastically change what we know and love in the Warhammer World. Some of these changes have begun already in the ET and from initial reactions it seems that a lot of people do not like what has been done to the races, characters and “feel” of the whole Warhammer word, including in the background rewrite, changes and additions, and in terms of rules. However apparently, it’s going to get worse for those of us who think like this.
The latest bunch of rumours released this week suggest that it really is the End Times for the Warhammer world as we know it; the rumours (I don’t know if they are true and I’m not endorsing them, I’m just discussing them…) suggest that the Warhammer World will be completely destroyed. This may come to pass possibly, as some say sources say, by a collision of the moons Mannslieb and Morrslieb and/or them crashing to earth. Rumours say that GW has designed a new setting for WHFB, in an attempt to reboot the whole thing. It is also believed that in this new era there will only be six factions (Chaos, Elves, “Humans”, Greenskins, Undead and Skaven) existing on little “bubbles” of reality floating on a sea of chaos in the warp, with battles focused now solely on collisions between these pockets of reality.
Some people say this is just crazy guesswork and “trolling” but in next weeks’ White Dwarf there is an interesting passage from ET: Thanquol:
“I have seen this world’s demise. Morrslieb, the accursed orb, waxes large. Impossibly large. The moon will fall, the oceans will boil, the mountains will break. To the stars some will go, but the stars themselves will abandon this world”
So maybe the rumours aren’t that crazy after all?
If this is to be the whole new setting, it sounds a bit odd to me (on paper); who knows what’s really going to happen though (and how good it might be) and whether the rumours are true of not? However, it seems most people dislike this new setting and many seem unwilling at this stage to support it, so it got me thinking… we all love WAR/RoR for the game itself but many of us love it for the world too. If GW does decide to destroy the Fantasy setting as we know it, then they will in time stop producing specific themed support for it (books, art, affiliated minis etc). As such, RoR represents a perfect way of preserving the Warhammer world, which some of us have been part of for decades! It provides a fixed and important portal through which we can always enter to walk the streets of Altdorf, kill Druchii in front of the Alter of Khaine or bash stunteez in the shadow of Thunder Mountain! Thinking of this reminded me of what some of the old Mythic WAR developers said about wanting to see the game preserved somehow.
Everyone’s contributions to RoR, from the player base to the devs are amazing and collectively everyone is doing a great job in keeping WAR and the Warhammer world alive, lets keep it up, everyone do what they can to help and keep the Wwwaaaaggghhhhhs! going!
(A rumour round up can be found, for example, in http://natfka.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/9t ... ng-on.html
As we know, last year GW sadly stopped its support of WAR, despite pleas from the community. Perhaps now we have a little more insight into some of the other factors (besides EA and licenses etc etc) that have influenced this decision, i.e. WAR does not fit with what GW want to do with WHFB.
It seems that despite 8th edition of Fantasy being popular (to the best of my knowledge; nearly everyone I know, have spoken to or who I have read comments from, likes it), GW are going to drastically change what we know and love in the Warhammer World. Some of these changes have begun already in the ET and from initial reactions it seems that a lot of people do not like what has been done to the races, characters and “feel” of the whole Warhammer word, including in the background rewrite, changes and additions, and in terms of rules. However apparently, it’s going to get worse for those of us who think like this.
The latest bunch of rumours released this week suggest that it really is the End Times for the Warhammer world as we know it; the rumours (I don’t know if they are true and I’m not endorsing them, I’m just discussing them…) suggest that the Warhammer World will be completely destroyed. This may come to pass possibly, as some say sources say, by a collision of the moons Mannslieb and Morrslieb and/or them crashing to earth. Rumours say that GW has designed a new setting for WHFB, in an attempt to reboot the whole thing. It is also believed that in this new era there will only be six factions (Chaos, Elves, “Humans”, Greenskins, Undead and Skaven) existing on little “bubbles” of reality floating on a sea of chaos in the warp, with battles focused now solely on collisions between these pockets of reality.
Some people say this is just crazy guesswork and “trolling” but in next weeks’ White Dwarf there is an interesting passage from ET: Thanquol:
“I have seen this world’s demise. Morrslieb, the accursed orb, waxes large. Impossibly large. The moon will fall, the oceans will boil, the mountains will break. To the stars some will go, but the stars themselves will abandon this world”
So maybe the rumours aren’t that crazy after all?
If this is to be the whole new setting, it sounds a bit odd to me (on paper); who knows what’s really going to happen though (and how good it might be) and whether the rumours are true of not? However, it seems most people dislike this new setting and many seem unwilling at this stage to support it, so it got me thinking… we all love WAR/RoR for the game itself but many of us love it for the world too. If GW does decide to destroy the Fantasy setting as we know it, then they will in time stop producing specific themed support for it (books, art, affiliated minis etc). As such, RoR represents a perfect way of preserving the Warhammer world, which some of us have been part of for decades! It provides a fixed and important portal through which we can always enter to walk the streets of Altdorf, kill Druchii in front of the Alter of Khaine or bash stunteez in the shadow of Thunder Mountain! Thinking of this reminded me of what some of the old Mythic WAR developers said about wanting to see the game preserved somehow.
Everyone’s contributions to RoR, from the player base to the devs are amazing and collectively everyone is doing a great job in keeping WAR and the Warhammer world alive, lets keep it up, everyone do what they can to help and keep the Wwwaaaaggghhhhhs! going!
(A rumour round up can be found, for example, in http://natfka.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/9t ... ng-on.html
