Except GW released Warhammer Community articles, directly stating: "We have no plans for supporting these factions, if you want continued support buy another faction". This could be bureaucratese, masking the desire to do more later, but it's odd to so directly tell the customer: "No, your army isn't valid, buy something else."

They must pass through the flames to prove themselves worthy of being the Phoenix King.

Dont worry they''ll eventually release the fantasy models for old world. GW is not stupid.

Totally agree. Units like witch elves and Har Ganeth Executioners oddly don’t seem to benefit from this rule, in fact no units do because who want to strike the opponent with a single hand weapon. I sent an email to TOW FAQ asking for clarification. This rule would be perfect if it was when using non-magical weapons in combat instead of just a hand weapon.

Sadly, Jeremy doesn't have his own channel but I will try to get him back on here more frequently!

It's actually the reverse. It's been very clear that the TOW team doesn't want AoS to take a bite of their sales. That's why they insist you play core factions even though there's obviously going to be a lot of people who buy Seraphon, Soulblight Gravelords, and Skaven minitures when they release and those sales don't go to TOW they go to AoS. Realistically why would the AoS team care which game you're using to play their minis as long as they're the ones getting sales. I'm not saying this as a diss on TOW if games like Necromunda and Horus Heresy can get by when they're so overshadowed by 40k it's not even funny ofc AoS and TOW will be able to coexist especially seeing as how different the settings and gameplay are. But it's very nonsensical to look at the legacy faction issue as anything but TOW teams decision.

@@gstellar96 I’m not so sure. Imagine if GW announced plans to bring back every army with shiny new miniatures and full support for tournaments and then, three months later, they release a new box set with a whole new bunch of Stormcast in it vs another force that has no equivalent in the Old World. Might you not worry you’re shiny box of hammer wielding warriors that you’ve printed several million copies of if just going to be excess stock while everyone waits for Dark Elves?

@@christophergough5366 No? For a variety of reasons. 1. Even with reusing old sculpts it's already very clear that the TOW team isn't equipped to release 16 ranges with new mini support in a timely manner at least not at a race that would outpace AoS in releasing new minis. Why would I wait for TOW to release old Skaven minis and 1-2 new minitures when I know AoS is gonna do their refresh right around the corner? 2. They're very different games and settings. It shouldn't be shocking to hear that there's people who enjoy AoS game, setting, and factions more than Warhammer fantasy (yes that includes Stormcast). So there's just people who would indeed buy that box set because they like playing AoS more than fantasy and again that's not a diss at fantasy I'm glad both exist because they both serve a different function in the landscape of tabletop wargames. 3. The minitures themselves. AoS and TOW have very distinct styles and we can already see that with the new minitures which I Indeed like especially Bretonnia which the knights still hold up, the peasents though? Say what you will about nostalgia, charm, or soul one of the main appeals about AoS is their high quality miniatures. And as someone who does have a dog in the legacy factions debacle since I want to field Chaos Dwarfs if you asked me which team I would prefer to get the range from I would much rather prefer it be the AoS team than TOW one. Granted I would probably fold to whoever did them first but I would be much happier with a new beautiful AoS range and I would be content with the forge world ones retrained for TOW.

That's the exact reason why I'm turned off by AoS. Their style is overdesigned akin to Anime/Warcraft more than Fantasy Warhammer (even high fantasy...).

AOS is already dead.