Summary
- Warhammer The Old World has stumbled with lack of new models and slow releases.
- Total War: Warhammer 3 showcases exciting models and updates, like Landships and Toad Dragons, missing from The Old World.
- Games Workshop should take notes from Total War on releasing consistent updates and big showstopper models for The Old World.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Warhammer The Old World seems to have stumbled at the first hurdle. After an excellent opening salvo of Tomb Kings and Bretonnians returning to the battlefield after years of absence, The Old World has been left to fe𓆉nd for itself. And it’s not fending particularly well.
The Old World is intended to be a specialist game, and that means it was never expected to have as much cultural significance as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Warhammer 40K, but it’s fallen out of the wargaming conversation immediately. The Horus Heresy, which has had a slew of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:new Solar Auxilia kits in recent months, is positioned as a similarly niche game, and it𒀰’s all anyone seems to be talking about, even in ci💞rcles like mine which don’t care for Heresy-era shenanigans. The Old World, in comparison, is nowhere to be seen.
The Old World needed similar support.🌠 Sure, we’ve had some incredibly expensive Orc rereleases, but we’re still waiting for most of the armies to get any kind of support🌊. Was there a Dwarf release? I can’t even remember.
That’s a part of the problem. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Games Workshop seems to have forgotten to shout about its newest system. It may write a little blog post for each new arrival, but that’s it. It feels like the company is embarrassed that it hasn’t got anything new to 𝓰show, and that the rereleases of old models are arriving too slowly to form any sort of momentum.
The Old ཧWorld really needed a packed first year to get off the ground. It needed lots of new models, promoted very 🌱loudly. The two returning factions were a big deal, but other than putting everything back onto square bases, what have Old World fans had to sink their teeth into?
Here’s where 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Total War comes in. In 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Warhammer Fantasy’s absence, Total War has been flying the Old World’s flag in the video game sphere. As well as focusing on the tabletop races, it has added Kislev and Cathay races from the lore, and recruited a slew of unique characters to bring its taꦆctical battles to life.
Games Workshop initially announced tha𝄹t it♈ was using Total War concept art to bring and to the tabletop, but it seems to have . That’s a shame because they would have made the perfect second wave of Old World kits.
Even though Games Workshop seems to have turned its back on those two races, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Total War: Warhammer 3 knows a thing or two about exciting centrepieces. As part of its extensiv💝e DLC catalogue (seriously, there’s about £250 worth of the stuff), it’s in🌱cluded everything from Great Drills of the Chaos Dwarfs to the Ice Dragons of Norsca.
The latest pie꧒ce of DLC, Thrones of Decay, adds a bunch of new stuff to the game – as it should for a total of £22.47. The biggest updates add to the Empire, Dwarfs, and Nurgle, with each getting new characters, new units, and new campaigns to undertake. It took me a good while to get to grips with everything on offer, and after initially being sceptical about the price, the time I spent with the new DLC alone was more than worth the cost of entry.
While the narrative campaigns are a brilliant tool for breathing new life into a predominately single-player video game, it doesn’t quite work on the tabletop. People just don’t like to play Warhammer campaigns – at least not in any t൩abletop gaming c𓃲ircle I’ve been a part of. What they do like are big new models to build and paint.
Total War smashes it here, too. In the latest update alone,ꦬ the Dwarfs get the zeppelin-like Thunderbarge, new characters like Garagrim Ironfist, and Slayer Pirates. That’s massive vehicl🌼es, cool characters, and pirates. What more could you ask for?
On the Chaotic side of things, we finally get to see Toad Dragons, a gruesome hyb꧅rid of amphibian and drake corrupted by Nurgle. They’re joined by Plague Ogres and plenty of characters, but my heart is drawn to the Empire.
For the humans of Total War: Warhammer 3, we can now build the impressive Marienburg Landship and Steam Tank. If there’s anything that would persuade my Mechanicus-lovin🌜g ass away from the 41st Millennium, it would be a Landship. I’ve always loved this model, and while others pined after Carmine Dragons on Warhammer Forge, I spent my nights thinking about boatꦛs with wheels.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Creative Assembly knows something Games Workshop has forgotten: new releases need big, new models to get players excited. And, while the Thunderbarge has never ha♏d an official model from Games Workshop, Toad Dragons and Landships are relics of Warhammer past. These are the exact sort of models that players wanted to return with The Old World, when instead we’re getting some overpriced Orcs. I would empty my bank account for a Landship, and so would a lot of Empire players.
Games Workshop needs to look to its video game counterpart to see how to push The Old World. It needs consistent updates, plenty of new stuff (even if that’s ol꧟d classics making a return), and big showstoppers to mark the new releases. As it stands, The Old World has none of that, so until Workshop resurrects Warhammer Forge, or at least folds the Landship into the generic Warhammer website, I’ll keep using it on the virtual battlefield instead.
