u/Lazereye57

I want to make a board where various civilians like women and children are being protected by order factions like Bretonnia/empire/wood elves/high elves/dwarfs against a village raid from factions like Beastmen/greenskins/Chaos.

It is both for a thematic feel but also if it is a objective based game where the order faction loose if all villagers are killed

It is easy enough to make male villagers of any race/species since there are plenty of male figure parts to chose from. But for anything more than that it gets a bit difficult if you want to portray an authentic village population with people of both genders in all ages.

I love that Warhammer fantasy is back, it is genuinely one of my all time favourite settings. I am already planning on buying my third old world army once my new apartment have been set up.

But ever since it's announcement the fact that it is a prequel honestly rubs me the wrong way. It feels like a half measure to be honest.

One of the main things that drew me to fantasy was it's lore, novel's and characters.

So I hoped if they brought it back it would either be in an alternative timeline where the end times were averted or they didn't happen at all.

But by making it a prequel not only is it guaranteed that the End Times will still happen, but we are now in a much less interesting point in the timeline.

All characters with a mortal lifespan (Karl Franz, Grimgore, Thranquel, Katarin, etc) have not even been born yet and what we do know about this current timeline is incredibly bare bones.

I had hoped they would release more once The Old World was out to fill out this mostly blank canvas, like a new book series. But so far I don't feel like there have been that much aside from flushing out newer factions like Cathay which Total War Warhammer 3 already kinda did for them.

Outside of characters like Magnus the Pious I struggle to think of many other big interesting characters with a mortal lifespans that live in this age.

For people who are purely here for the tabletop game and models this is fine, but for me who wants some more meat on the bone for this world it still feels kinda lacking.

Like most others I have been extremely depressed and honestly a bit devastated after the crushing news that one of the most faithful iterations of Warcraft's original vibe and world is going to shut down.

Like many others I have heard project Epoch might be a good alternative for turtle refugees while many from my guild is thinking of starting TBC classic.

Personally I will probably never give a cent to blizzard ever again and project Epoch and rumors of a new turtle server just makes me go in a "Don't do that, don't give me hope" mode.

So instead I have gone back to play Warhammer Online on the private server "Return of Reckoning" which has been running since around 2014 and which I have been playing on and off for over 10 years now. Uniquely with this server is that it actually have a green light of permission to be run by EA themselves as long as it isn't monotized.

It's honestly been a blast to return to the server. But since I know there are many fellow turtles without a home right looking for a new home I would like to offer anyone who is interested but intimidated by this game to play together where I will jump on discord with you and talk you through aspects of the game that you might find intimidating or confusing.

Since it is a PvP focused mmo where you hit the ground running and can jump into the fray the moment you log into the game if you wish.

For those that might be interested send me a DM and I will set up a discord server.

It is definitely a very different experience, but nothing will never truly replace Turtle WoW 🐢