Still remember as a 12 year kid reading Tuomas’ White Dwarf article, “The Bigger They Are…” all about dealing with the big scary units and characters that had become so prevalent at the time. It’s a testament to the talent that Mordheim is still such a well loved game and that 6th edition WFB is still played by so many.

Holy Crap!!!!! This man made me the chaos worshiping degenerate I am today. Thank you from the bottom of my abysal black heart. Tuomas, you are a gift.

I remember Tuomas from the games workshop magazines and I liked his work

Tuomas Pirinen. The man, the myth, the legend.

thank you both for the time and the stream!

My favourite ever game - thank you Tuomas and Mira this is incredible.

Always such great fun listing to / watching Tuomas talk enthusiastically about Warhammer, Mordheim and Tolkien. I remember feeling great pride back in my youth as a fellow Finn, when I heard Tuomas had joined GW and especially when I first learned of the new game Mordheim. Being a huge fan of Necromunda for a few years, Mordheim was a dream come true. And it still is.

This lovely man was an inspiration and a role model for me to become a professional Game Designer/Dev. And moreover, to feel free to create, to tweak, to experiment, to dare ! Thank you so much Tuomas 🙏

Necromunda I remember really fondly - was awesome - there was the store in Reading where people would gather at and play and paint.

Such a great guy :) always a pleasure listening to Mr. Pirinen talk. Great interviewer too! 🤘

This is so cool! I remember Tuomas from WD (with his very long hair, which was the style at the time) when I was in my early teens. I was wondering what happened to him when I didn't see him in the magazine anymore. Glad to see he's doing well. Interesting chat, thanks

Great interview and loved hearing about the inspiration that Tuomas had when bringing Mordheim to life. Making me want to break out the old book (which is falling apart!) and give it another read. Loved the little aside on Middle-earth at the end there (one of my mega passions haha) with some interesting insights - I see that he talks about it quite a bit on Twitter on and off which is cool :) Looking forward to more videos!

I was 23 when it came out 23 years ago! So funny, I met Tuomas once and he is really a cool guy. Had a great talk with him. I had the great honor to help design some warbands and also work with some great people on the Lustria, Khemri and Karak Azghal settings for Mordheim.

This was an amazing interview! Thanks Mira!

Really insightful, just an awesome vid. And as a warhammer fan of 30 years, its so great to be able to see and feel the enthusiasm that gave birth to the origins,and arguably best times of the warhammer universe. Thank you 😊

Mira it is an absolute pleasure for me vicariously to watch you uncover bits of old lore. Your channel evokes nostalgia from my early days when it was all new, and I don't think I can overstate the value I get from these vids in terms of good feels. Thankyou for your endeavours and best of luck growing the channel, though I doubt you'll be needing it. Good times!

Thank you for the interview! Old school miniatures and games all the way for me. Thank you Tuomas for all you did with GW for us!

This was a great interview. Nobody ever seems to talk about Necromunda even though Mordheim has blown up in popularity recently, Necromunda never seems to get credited as a precursor. [I'm writing this before I am have finished the interview, maybe you will discuss it here] It is also a tabletop skirmish game set in a single dystopian city in the Warhammer universe. It also involves building a warband who you gain experience, injuries, equipment and money. It seems to have essentially the same core DNA as Mordheim. I've thing that I thought was great about Necromunda is that they didn't try to produce "40k the skirmish game". They had a totally different set of factions that made sense within the setting. This made the world much more immersive and interesting. I have never played Mordheim and I haven't played Necromunda since i was a teenager. I don't doubt that Mordheim is a better game but I feel like Necromunda shootout get some credit.

Lol I didn't noticed that GW creators were archaeologists. It means I may still have future in wargaming ;)

Awesome interview, and what a cool guy Tuomas is! Looking forward to more Mordheim content.

Toumas is right, the fun stuff is rules :) I'm one of those people who write a Mordheim spinoff and balancing a slim core with space to include fun stuff is the ultimate challenge!

So cool, great interview!

What a cool dude and really interesting interview. I love finding out about how games were created and the whole subcultures that surround them. Keep up the good content Mira (Please do Necromunda next, or Blood Bowl lol)

What an awesome interview. Thank you.

Can't wait to see this... Watching the clock. I hope there are some tough questions in there about what he'd fix or change if he brought it out today, away from GWs control.

Great interview!

City of the Damned! Bless the Shadow Lord and all of his Brethren

Subscribed. A content creator that can get a great game designer on her channel has a bright future. I have been following his work even before he worked at GW and was releasing the Longsword tactics treatises.

I thought there would have been some Roadside Picnic influence aside from Y2K. I guess not.

Really enjoyed this. Thanks!

Besides chopping his hair off, that guy looks like he hasn't aged a day since the 90s!

Pirinen is the man. I think deep down he was disgusted with GW's treadmill philosophy on needing more and more models to play as the editions went on. Also the fact that rules began to be spread over a growing number of books, which you're expected to buy all of.

The worst hardship suffered by the creators of the Amazon Lord Of The Rings show is when someone gets their order wrong at Starbucks. Not really comparable to the trenches of WW1.

Oh nice! :)

I can also vouch for 6th Ed WHFB as the best. Grim-dark, gritty. Nice power level and balance and decent sized armies. After that, the power creep got insane, the armies too big, too much high fantasy, huge monsters and so on.. The hordes rule just ruined it and made the armies look really boring....