In your case, what are your favorite ways to engage with the Fantasy side of Warhammer? Whether you're painting miniatures, diving into the stories of characters through the lore, or strategizing in tabletop battles, lets us know in the comments. Be sure to check out the video description for the links of interest mentioned in the video. This episode was a little different from what we are used to, but it was such a delight to make! Special thanks to Adam for his awesome narration for this video. We both had a great time with this one. Thanks a lot for watching! Another video is coming in the next couple of days. It is going to be about a story/battle set in the tumultuous region of the Border Princes. See you on the next one!
Total Warhammer of course, but I've been working through the novels too. Read all of the Vampire Genevieve and now I'm halfway through Gotrek and Felix
Lore and the Total War games. I'm more of a 40k guy, but almost entirely lore, though I do collect and paint small forces, I have never played a table top game my life even warhammer! . I have a small force of Blood Angels, Orks and Soritas and was really practising my painting before finishing my BA force and buying Custodes and a Sisters of Silence forces until the femstodes ruining my passion for it all. I still deeply love it but I'm not giving GW anymore money. Continual price hikes, removed ranges, commercialism, corporatism, and now the politicalisation, lore, and fan attacks. Fuck them!
Eh in my personal opinion lotr is the best fantasy setting but warhammer fantasy is almost tied with it and I've just started getting into it so that may change when I delve deeper
Same, I was never that interested in Warhammer as a kid most of my exposure was to 40K. It was only with the comming of Total Warhammer that I saw how great and silly fantasy is
Right? Imagine what GW managers felt when Total War and Vermintide brought an influx of thousands of new fans to Warhammer Fantasy, but they already had destroyed the whole setting and were trying to sell those silly Sigmarines 😂
For me, although it has some flaws, Storm of Chaos is still more the canon for me, every main character still acts according to motives and characteristics built for decades, no sudden Messiah Malekith, no sudden real Sigmar and Elven Gods, gods should be belief forged into image by Chaos, even Sigmar the God and Elven, Dwarven or Ogre pantheons. That’s the pinnicle of the setting, mortals fighting Chaos but still use Winds of Magic and worship Gods made out of Chaos itself to make it worse. And most of all, no delete of real life cultural inspiration which will make the setting familiar and alien at the same time, that’s the attraction for me. There are still so many futures can be told, Skaven invasion, other three sons of Great Kurgan, conflicts among the surviving Empire, Ulthuan and Dwarf Holds, or exploring of Kuresh, Cathay, Ind, Nippon and even the Monkey King. I will continue to enjoy the setting through Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th edition, the world of Warhammer still lives on in my heart.
tldr: It's alive as long as there are people following it, playing it etc. Even if TOW didn't happen(it's a momentous show of "yes, we can!"), it would still be alive. Who cares what some company thinks? And why should we care about it. Especially in the 2020s.
Fantasy was my favorite tabletop game and when it ended with End Times I was kind lost and haven’t been part of a community like it since. No tournaments or clubs. I kept a good chunk of my Orcs And Goblins sitting in storage. Took them out this winter and have put together a sizable army. (Sold my painted Empire and Dark Elves years ago.) It was just my Orcs have always had a soft spot in my heart and I couldn’t let them go even though they weren’t that good in 8th. Now my Black Orcs have gathered together the weaker ones and are ready to bring WAAAGH! to the Old World! I’m also ready to sell off my other games to get either a new army or set up the perfect gaming table I’ve always dreamed of. Either way I have the game I’ve always loved back from the dead thanks to the Necromantic Gods at GW. Honestly I haven’t gamed since the pandemic and have almost given up on the hobby. It took the Old World to bring me back. Happy Gaming ya gits! WAAAGH!
@Arbiterjim yeah and 40k has Dawn of war (series), boltgun, the space trader game, Gladius, space marine, Gothic fleet, Darktide (I think that's what its called) with even more coming like speed freaks. It's just funny to say Fantasy has such higher and more quality games then 40k (plus Tacticus is a great game)
@@stumpe9662 Tacticus is trash, Dawn of War 1 & 2 were good, the rest suck. Boltgun and Space Marine were good. Battlefleet Gothic was middling. Good spectacle, meh gameplay. Gladius was just boring and Darktide was just a worse Vermintide
@Arbiterjim mate there are like 6 expansions for dawn of war 1 and multiple for 2 as well. And let's not bring up the bad fantasy games too, I still feel gross playing that Age of Sigmar game. But even then, there are still more good 40k games then bad. Idk if I can say the same for fantasy
I never got into fantasy until watched those total war warhammer videos from arch. Then i read gortrek and felix. The setting had so much grit and cynacism but not so much to be a total downer and felt so rich. Must've sucked being there for the end times with everything so rushed. Also skaven.
Similar path to me, the trailers for the first total war game got me into looking at it, did a game faction lore dive, found 40k, went full 40k lore nerd instantly after seeing Arch, and 40k theories. Then, slowly started to watch the odd fantasy lore video and now I'm on a fantasy deep dive after the who femstodes thing.
(Sorry for commenting multiple times as I watch the video, I just get super excited when people talk about my favorite setting) Ignore the garbage decision of the End Times. It was GW getting annoyed and being a petulant child with the fanbase. Age of Sigmar is fine (even if it's 40kantasy) but never let Fantasy leave your heart as the first and best
I'm a huge fan, and was really annoyed when GW destroyed the fantasy world. Age of sigma is not for me. I'm in a group of approx 40 people in my local area where we try to meet up once a month for games. There's a lot of us still playing and where we keep it alive. Most of us have been playing for 30yrs. GW were idiots to break it down. I understand there is a comeback but it needs to be massive.
I have every rulebook and armybook for every faction in 8th edition. As long as 3d prints become more common, there will always be a warhammer fantasy battles.
I have sworn an eternal grudge against GW in 2014, and I swore before mirror and God that I will never let Warhammer Fantasy die! Be it by Vermintide, novels, or any other way. At the same time, I admit Age of Sigmar has a potential, and I would settle for Warhammer Fantasy becoming a 9th realm in some way, but don’t really care how they do it as long as its destruction is retconned
1000% facts I have 2 kids and you have to balance time with kids, family, community, school, work and more. You won't hobby daily but you can weekly. Communication with your spouse/partner is key.
I was interested in Warhammer Fantasy, tabletop, as a teenager. I never had anyone to play with, though, and so lost interest. This was renewed as an adult when Total War: Warhammer was released; I've played more of the TW: Warhammer series than almost any other game. I've further gotten into the tabletop (played 9th Age and now Old World), painting and also reading books of the lore. It's much more immersive than I thought. The books are also better written than I was expecting.
I never actually played the boatd game but ive always loved the setying. Currently enjoying the Gotrek and Felix series. I love the lore so this chnnel and the podcast Laying Down the lore are some of my favourites. Also Bannerlord has a great warhammer mod that allows you to play as a few factions and the cities are cracking.
Honestly it might be a good thing gw stopped fantasy after then end times. It means they cant retcon all the good lore with dumb new imortal characters tht hve been there the whole time like in 40k
In certain forms. The Old World and new stuff in TW:W3 are very obviously neutered and "marketing first," like anything modern GW. However, there are plenty more interested eyes digging through the old gold. New fans are always welcome as long as they conform to the hobby and not the other way around. For anyone who wants Warhammer Fantasy proper I definitely recommend 5e and 6e. Lots and lots of great literature, supplements, art, and minis still hanging around.
ive seen Warhammer before, they have alot of PC games in the early 90s but out of boredom from WoW I played WAR online and it completely blew me away, I started reading books, consuming countless hours of lore video here in youtube just to learn more about the world. I played that game countless hours, probably the best MMORPG I've played. it was pretty sad when I read up Endtimes its pretty sad the heroes you know and love just go out like that, some in a pathetic way.
Amazing video, well done! I absolutely love WH Fantasy/The old world. I've tried to get invested in AoS as well with both lore and all the stuff happening with the the new edition but it's just not the same.
@@justwannabehappy6735 eh not really. Tons of similarities in tone and style. Mostly just a difference in setting and named characters. Instead of chaos attacking order it’s now the opposite.
@@justwannabehappy6735 I mean yes the gameplay between AoS and OW is wildly different. One is a modern skirmish game the other is rank and flank. But for tone and style it’s basically the same. GW just renamed everything so they could copyright it and killed 80% of the fan favorite chars. The models have old school molds v modern ones in AoS
The fact that they don't even make the novels anymore is so annoying. Only way it's still around tha I'm aware of is WFRP and that's terrible 😂. It's my setting though, I love it
Don't buy THE LORD OF THE LANCE. Awful book, if you want a good bretonnia book series buy the Knights of Bretonnia books (first being Knight Errant) by Josh Reynolds
Clickbait title... Figured I'd be more excited for the return to fantasy (so happy AoS proved to be the mistake it was), but GW recent mistake upon mistake and all their woke antics have put me off their products. If they change course I might consider investing again, but not now.
Advertising for Blood Bowl 3, Vermintide and Mordheim... Lol. Those dead services are going to be killed by GW the same way they did with the setting. Just like they already did for Warhammer Online. At least the latter got Return of Reckoning servers back up thanks to hackers. I've learned my lesson and wont spent a dime on anything GW related. Been like that for five years.
Even though I’m not a player or collector I feel this was swept 🧹 under the rug fast I remember the pre order mishap but that’s about it I feel 40k as a universe is just more interesting and talk about more than fantasy is. Even though fantasy has my all time favorite character Sigvald the Magnificent I still feel it’s not hyped up.
