THIS GAMING LIFE EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN

I write this at the beginning of January. Games Workshop, that wellknown purveyor of space-pixies and what-not, is just about to relaunch the classic Warhammer Fantasy Battles game in the guise of ‘The Old World', which fans are abbreviating to TOW. These soulless abbreviations have always raised the hackles. Once upon a time, I would spend many a happy hour coming up with perfectly credible titles for products that yielded obscene or scurrilous acronyms, only to be thwarted by eagle-eyed colleagues who knew me rather too well. But I digress.

By Rick Priestley

Warhammer: The Old World – and let's give it its full title – is not just a relaunch of a familiar game, but a return to the classic Warhammer format after an absence of nearly nine years. In 2015, Games Workshop took it upon themselves to destroy the Warhammer setting, supposedly for good, in a campaign they called The End Times. This heralded the exit of the old Warhammer game and paved the way for the new Age of Sigmar take on fantasy – a modern, whizzy all-action tabletop affair featuring all sorts of superheroes and monsters in comic book style. I think. To be honest, I could not bring myself to look. And so, the Warhammer world – and the whole concept of the mass-battle fantasy game – was consigned…

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