Warhammer Fantasy was kept alive thanks to Total War Warhammer and by extension Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Now its back as the Old World😎.

I hope we get more lore for tilea, estalia and the border princes

It always baffled me that they didn’t foresee Warhammer Fantasy getting a huge popularity boost from one of the best selling rts franchises of all time. The end times and age of sigmar just seem weirdly timed and like GW didn’t have a finger on the pulse

The fact that we will know almost everything about Warhammer fantasy's history up to aos is insane

It’s also worth keeping in mind the Vermintide games as well as Total War. People really seemed to latch on to the Ubersreik Five and their adventures against the skaven

I'm hoping for some of the dark horses of the franchise to shine; Tilea, Estalia, the Border Princes, Albion, and the life. Maybe if we are lucky we'll get to see some untouched Solland lore.

Cathay is coming to the old world just not now but a bit later.

i hope they eventually do a "what if" scenario where the end times dont happen, and they make new models for all the old characters like karl franz, gotrek and felix, grimgor, tyrion and teclis, etc. or at least make new models and let people run them as legends.

Just wanted to say that as someone who consumes daily amounts of Warhammer KZfaq content, and a massive, massive fan of The Black Library.. that you are fast becoming one of my top Warhammer KZfaqrs, and I'm excited to see your channel grow!

The team working on The Old World has already said that Cathay IS going to be introduced in The Old World. It just isn't going to be available at the launch of the game. But the book for it has already been written and the Total War Warhammer III Cathay is based on it.

Ikit Claw successfully took Skavenblight for clan Skryre during the 2nd Skaven civil war during this period. Fantasy wasn't really supported and there were far too many old models across facions with some such as the Bretonians being entirely neglected.

The one thing I've been most curious about is change in technology ...for example are the knights still in full plate or have they regressed to chainmail and are handgunners of various factions going to use longbows and crossbows instead since the setting it going back in time by like 200-300 years? Or will they still have same technology because there ''high middle ages'' lasted way longer than our real world one.

Fantasy Battle always had better characters than 40k. Maybe not as deep and fleshed out like the Primarchs but they are certainly more charismatic. I'd pick Gelt, Settra or Saltzpyre over any of the Primarchs any day of the week.

Love your channel

"No Teclis"... You sure about that?

WHFB was my entry into warhammer and where it all started. Loved playing some regimental warfare on the floor. Floorfare!

Great video, I've been interested in the Old World lore and I'm only really familiar with some of the Gotrek and Felix stuff, but it doesn't really get into too much of the deeper stuff.

I want to get into Warhammer Old World because I love it's lore over whatever AOS is doing and I think it's more immersive and interesting that 40k especially now but I struggle to find motivation to get into Old World because I know how it ends and it sours the experience for me , because I know the world going going to end because of some Merry Sue dickhead and then be replaced with what's basically a 40k reskin. I hope I can get over that fact because I want to see this series do well.

I hope we get expansions on factions like araby and Ind ect

Those massive fantasy battles on KZfaq are fantastic..

For someone new to Warhammer fantasy lore, you told a very good yarn!~

Talks about Tileans: shows Estalians. Just nitpicking here, great video. It made me beyond excited for the setting and I hope we'll get new BL books for it!

2:07 in fairness to him there are worst names to be given in warhammer. Malus darkblades last name literally translates to bad quality sword in druchii society as Dark meant basically badly made(which is ironic consider they were the dark elves).

I hope they keep it mid fantasy in tone and don't try and force AoS style stuff into the old world... but I am in general quite excited. I always wanted to get into warhammer fantasy but never did.

Hey, not just reminiscent of the 3rd century crisis; Looking at you Cardinal Richelieu.

What also pushed GW to put the kibosh on Warhammer Fantasy Battles was that they got the rights to the Lord of the Rings universe and started publishing Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game.

To complement the not well selling of WFB, the game was 30 years old, there where no real range refresh with upscale minis (unlike primaris or else) so many veteran players didn't need to renew their collections and in general games struggled to seduce new blood because of self concurrence with Lord of the rings who was coming on screens and tabletop.

Great video. Hope you give Fantasy more coverage. Cheers

Im pretty sure that Cathay has been confirmed to be in the old world. Also I thought that the old world was referring to "old" as in, before aos, as much as "old world" the continent.

Liking to encourage more warhammer fantasy comparison videos!

Teclis should come in during the great war against chaos, if I'm not mistaken after that he founded the colleges of magic.

There's a veeeery small chance for a young thorgrim. Which I hope we will get

LFTBL: NEWS FLASH! The Old World takes place in the time of The Three Emperors! Me: I'd never have thought that two and a half years ago...

😂😂😂bro that SpongeBob reference great stuff

I would absolutely adore to get some Araby and maybe even some Estalia units

Teclis was around then

To be honest, I only wait for the Old World because of Kislev - their models will be perfect for kitbashing proper Vostroyans.

00:03 This is quirky goodness

This really reinforces my belief that they’re going to go Empire vs Empire in the launch box, just like Age of Darkness (aka HH2). Generic men at arms & cavalry that you can paint up how you like. Two different general minis (great sword vs sword & board). Maybe throw in a steam tank & a dude on a hippogriff.

All armies and units that were in 8th edition will make a return in the old world.

I do hope to see more of Marienburg.

I'm a bit unsure about this. Cool moment of history, but I just think it is a huge mistake to not lean into the success of the Total War game, especially when it's bringing new people in. Gonna be disappointing for a few to get in with Total war and find out the lord or faction they liked isn't there.

Can’t wait for this

Glory to MIddenheim

The less Nehekara the better. Oh wow Egyptian skeletons so unique and interesting. We totally have never heard of those before.

Where is the map @3:28 from?

Neat

Man I hope GW don't drop it 6 month after launch...

The Old World looks tempting...but no Skaven :*(

I really, really want to get invested into Warhammer Fantasy lore (hell, even Age of Sigmar I would love to get into), specially because I'm more of a Fantasy fan than a Sci-Fi one (despite still enjoying Warhammer 40K). But I couldn't find any good introductory video to the lore of the setting, only videos that talked about big events and battles of the lore, but with no proper context (if anyone reading the comments see this, please share here, I would gladly check it out). I hope that, with the release of The Old World and people getting interested in learning more about the setting (from beginning, middle and end), this could incentivize people into introducing the setting to newbies, like me.

I remember hearing you saying your fantasy videos don't do as good. Well, +1 view then, this is great.

Yesssss come on empire of man!

I'd like maybe the Norsca.

Skavenblight will-shall rise again!

I hope we get the great cannon back for the empire, I miss my hunking great cannon. Yeah they have the hell storm and hell fire in age of sigmar, but they just never felt the same as that juice great cannon or morter. I can (grudging) forgo the handgunners if GW opt's not to have them back, but please GW bring back the great cannon with the old world, please.

I think it would be easier to just use a program like NinjaRipper to extract the in-game models from Total Warhammer to create new minis.

Teclis was there...

I hope we can play ogres kingdoms

Moar Warhammer Fantasy/Old World! MOAR

Yo wtf? Where's Gorbad Ironclaw at?

Greed and bad rules finished 8th edition really saying fantasy wasn't selling enough is a joke not just because the sheer volume of models needed but all the army books for each faction even if you never got the faction you got their book so you could read up on their rules! Forcing Hordes onto newer players would no doubt have chased of many would be players also 1 regiment of 50-100 models was essential to be able to even stand your ground in a battle! I'm not sure how many 8th players will come back after how GW did some amazing characters dirty (cough...tyrion.. cough) I'm wanting to give it a go but the clear lack of support from GW has me cautious with my and my kids warchest time and reviews will tell I guess!

When I played Fantasy it was back in the early to mid 2000s. First came across AoS on a Games Day years ago, GW presenting proudly their new Stormcasts and I wasn't interested at all in fantasy Space Marines. So seeing my childhood return is nice for sure.

So its old old old world!?

:)

WHF being saved by Total War is exaggeration Yes you may feel like it, looking from your direction, but RPG was being developed constantly. If you want to play the game competetively, by tournament rules you need to use GW figures, so no knockoffs, no 3D printing. Not to mention that 8th edition brought canonical end to the setting, which only made players upset (because it genuinely sucked - so no wonder they did not buy figures. Infact - GW wanted to end WHF WAAAAY earlier. Huge event in which people could personally participate was released, and campaign was booted, to clash good with evil. Archaon took his hordes and raided south, but ... problem was that Empire got adventage. Submitted battle outcomes (people played in stores, and submitted wins and loses contributed to the final outcome) made law and order thrive and GW could not destroy the Empire the way they wanted. Second edition of WFRP campaign begins in Middenheim devastated by invasion. Hope you'll research the matter and release some new, better version with correct informations because many many things are misinterpreted.

Just hope they do not bring Araby as an army. Got enough of those le....s in Europe already, started to hate them since 2015!

Age of sigmar models so unique? They are literally space marines. The models are crap.

I want to see your opinion with the recent news and how disappointing it ended up being.