Warhammer: The Old World is a City of Aldorf. From the destruction and chaos, Games Workshop then reforged The World That Was into Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. What hope can there be for the mortal world?- Liber MaleficIn the Warhammer world, four Gods of Chaos battle for supremacy. Affiliate links might occur on this page. The Old World is to Warhammer Age of Sigmar, as the Horus Heresy is to Warhammer 40,000. Army compatibility between Warhammer settings, https://1d4chan.org/index.php?title=Warhammer:_The_Old_World&oldid=722045. Mark This Forum Read View Parent Forum; Search Forum. It was a rank and file tabletop wargame where fantasy armies of orks, dwarfs, elves, undead and humans faced off against each other in regiments on square bases, and it was one of the most popular fantasy games for a full eight editions of its ruleset. I think its a quick glance, the random bident hooks, and the ice bits looking a lot like "random crystal glowy bits wot so you know its magical". Let's start with racial similarities. What those updates have given us, however, are a few hints about what armies will be playable in the game. A great many of the miniatures people now use to play Age of Sigmar, such as most of the Cities of Sigmar models, many of the Death, Destruction and Chaos miniatures, and even monsters like the Treelords or Stormfiends, were originally part of the Fantasy Battles model line. It might seem strange that such a rich and successful franchise doesn’t exist anymore, and the theories about why exactly it was discontinued are countless. But this is GW, and they very commonly miss the obvious and smart thing to do. N-According to Marc Gascoigne the idea of Chaos in Warhammer … Its more the specific style of generic fantasy I find ugly. The Old World started in 1983 as the setting for Warhammer: The Game of Fantasy Battles and continued until 2015. 1) A lot of fantasy players have not forgiven GW for The End Times, and still consider it to be the greatest wrong GW has ever committed on their player base and while some people say that they should just "get over it", spending hundreds of dollars on an army and hobby, getting invested in the universe and then having the company kill/butcher your army, their fluff and the universe and then saying "buy it again" would leave most people feeling angry and betrayed. We can speculate that the game will play a lot like Fantasy Battles, since old Fantasy players seem to be part of the target audience for the game, but the target audience could also be the many players who know the Old World mainly through the video games series Total War:Warhammer, and those players are used to some very large scale battles that might be better suited for a smaller model scale (imagine tiny tiny knights in huge regiments). Even though we know very little about it, it is one of the most anticipated games from GW at the moment, so we have gathered every little bit of info we could find about it in this article. This means that it’s safe to say, even with as little information as we have at the moment, that The Old World will be a game that feels and plays more like Warhammer Fantasy Battles than Age of Sigmar, but it doesn’t sound like they are bringing the old game back as much as creating a new game experience within that rich old universe. Since then, there have been a few more updates about the game, but no reveals of any models or rules, so this confirms that the game still has a long way to go.