Lore question to The End Times

Gernot

Gernot

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Hi guys!

I was into Warhammer Fantasy back in the 6th edition, and recently started collecting again. I was not following the lore in the 7th and 8th edition. What I know is that in the end of the 8th edition, the Old World was destroyed in an event following The End Times. But what I don't get: The End Times were already a thing back in the 6th edition, featured with the Storm Of Chaos book. So what happened? Did Archaon loose in the 6th edition, then backed up, and decided to try again in the 8th? Or is the event really the same, and it went through three editions? Thanks for your insights! : )
 
I think you may have misunderstood this forum... for many people here the creation of the Old World would be considered new-school!
 
I remember being a bit unimpressed with changes after 4th ed.. If the Old world was gutted, then the Empire and Bretonnia would be done..so.. all the action would now be changed to take place in the new world to the west? stupid..

and wait.. 8th edition is now oldhammer? bloody hell.. what version are they on now?
 
8th edition is not oldhammer, not even slightly. Unfortunately some people think everything OOP is oldhammer. I believe AoS is now on 3rd edition? 9th Age still struggling on. I guess you could say Warhammer: Old World coming up would be official 9th or 10th edition, but it's unlikely to be a true version of Warhammer and certainly not anything resembling the early editions in flavour.
 
Didn't they scrap warhammer to replace it with Age of something? didn't know they carried on with both..

.. i just give up with Games workshop games these days. they even seam to have turned space hulk into a card game.. anyway.. getting a bit unrelated now i think ^_^;
 
Gw weren't pleased with how the player driven Storm of Chaos campaign ended. So they pretty much retconned it in 7th or 8th edition and brought on the new end times in which the world imploded creating Age of Sigmar...
I personally consider every retcon made by GW from 6th edition and onward to be bad fan fiction. My group is happy enough to let the old world be shaped by our own pens and dice.
 
Tullaris":20yf3zl5 said:
Gw weren't pleased with how the player driven Storm of Chaos campaign ended. So they pretty much retconned it in 7th or 8th edition and brought on the new end times in which the world imploded creating Age of Sigmar...
I personally consider every retcon made by GW from 6th edition and onward to be bad fan fiction. My group is happy enough to let the old world be shaped by our own pens and dice.
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Thank you so much for the answer! Much appreciated!

For the haters: The General Discussions forum says "Discuss anything related to miniature games not covered in other forums", so my question was very much within the scope.
 
Gernot":1uqsph2h said:
For the haters: The General Discussions forum says "Discuss anything related to miniature games not covered in other forums", so my question was very much within the scope.
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There is no hate being shown here - some of the older members of the forum, including one of the founding members, were simply pointing out that there is very little interest in anything newer than 4th ed here. If you look at the original posts here you will notice that the emphasis of the forum was on the earliest editions of Warhammer when the emphasis of the game was slightly different.
 
Tullaris":1xfl5w14 said:
I personally consider every retcon made by GW from 6th edition and onward to be bad fan fiction.
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I pretty much consider any fiction produced by GW to be bad fan fiction! :lol:

And no, no hate. Just that if you want to discuss 6th-8th edition this probably isn't the forum for you.
 
6th edition and 40k 3rd ed is middlehammer. Too bad there's no larger community for middlehammer since it was my "native" 40k and whfb. Like before it became all about excluding people with super expensive exclusive books like IMPERIAL ARMOUR VOLUME ONE - IMPERIAL GUARD & IMPERIAL NAVY.
 
Depends. We always call it Warhammer. Said before, even I did collect some of 6th edition, everything changed with WD layout and the layout of army books. That nice illustrations were gone or used here and there. Artistic style has changed. Same thing happened with that "OldHammer" with WD layout and "army books", illustration has changed and all that. It's little bit off to look decade as reference but it should be exact year more less. I think. I mean, in 4th edition army books there is plenty of older miniatures from the 80s. Just like in 6th edition that's got plenty of 5th edition miniatures. Depends how you look at it. Painting style also changed in GW, with that, must say, ridiculous paint jobs. Unrecognizable for any Warhammer fan. What I saw, in Oldhammer days painting was more like romantic and close to real in sense of ragged clothing, mud, rust and all that. Details and all that. In 4th and 5th it was more clean technical painting and all the details clearly pop out. But, my word, 6th edition, I mean. Don't want to bash to much, it's clean, technical and all that but at least dull and unimaginative.

When I first saw WD cover with LOTR bloke I almost fainted lol disaster.
 
AranaszarSzuur":2pyrq2o1 said:
6th edition and 40k 3rd ed is middlehammer. Too bad there's no larger community for middlehammer since it was my "native" 40k and whfb. Like before it became all about excluding people with super expensive exclusive books like IMPERIAL ARMOUR VOLUME ONE - IMPERIAL GUARD & IMPERIAL NAVY.
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I'd call 6th edition newhammer. It may be 20ish years old but it functions pretty much the same as later editions, while it broke drastically from 5th edition.
 
^Ironically, a friend and I just sent an Imperial Army detachment on a crusade to clean a hulk. We used RT rules. Worked surprisingly well.
 
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