Check out what different books we could be getting for Warhammer: The Previous World in 2025.
It’s a busy time for Warhammer: The Previous World and it’s followers. This weekend see Wooden Elves launched in addition to Beastmen going up for pre-order. We additionally know that Grand Cathay is coming someday this yr. That’s 5 armies in a single yr, which is loads, as many as we bought all of final yr! Nonetheless 4 of them shall be out within the first half of the yr. All this leaves us questioning what could be popping out later this yr, and are we getting extra issues? So at the moment lets check out among the choices.
Simply When Is Grand Cathay Coming
After Beastmen the following, and solely different, introduced military to be coming is Grand Cathay. Nonetheless we don’t know when they’ll arrive. Nonetheless we are able to make some guesses. GW usually doesn’t announce issues all that far prematurely, just a few months at most. That is further true after they showcase a ton of, or potential all of, a military with the announcement. The quantity they’ve proven of Cathay implies it’s able to go. We might be fairly certain they’re coming this yr. On condition that they have been introduced in March and how briskly GW has been placing out armies, I believe we are able to make an excellent guess that they are going to be by the tip of August, and extra seemingly sooner. If that is true, we’ll have gotten 5 armies in 7-8 months and sure have one other 4-5 months to get one thing else out.
How A lot Extra Might We Get?
So may we nonetheless get extra stuff by the tip of the yr? And the reply is clearly, sure! In reality in the event that they hold this tempo we may get one other 3-4 books out by the tip of the yr. I doubt it will occur, however a person can dream proper? As a substitute I believe we usually tend to see two extra books come out. Peppered in there I wouldn’t be shocked if we bought just a few extra waves of releases for the armies which are already out. Nonetheless all of us ought to anticipate a decelerate in mannequin releases. The core armies that had huge mannequin ranges are out now, or quickly shall be, and which means a lot of the stuff to come back out from right here on out shall be new.
What Books Would possibly We See?
Now we have to guess at what may come, however GW has given us a few very tiny hints within the current Wooden Elf article.
There are two very attention-grabbing issues on this quote. The obvious, which lots of people clocked, is that there not less than another Arcane Journal after Grand Cathay that’s deliberate and supposedly attention-grabbing. Now this isn’t actually surprising to most of us. And so they have talked loads these days about how they just like the Arcane Journal system. Nonetheless it’s the primary a part of the quote which is extra attention-grabbing to me.
To date all of the Arcane Journals have centered on a single military that’s releasing and increasing it. Every military has gotten one. Nonetheless this quote, about Woodland Spirts of Wardancers getting an Military of Infamy in a future Arcane Journal is basically cool. This means we’ll see much more Armies of Infamy for the core factions and that future Arcane Journals will add to the armies much more. That is actually cool and opens up lots of floor with the Journals to be a couple of marketing campaign and never simply a military.
The Massive Choices
So due to that tease we are able to guess there’s a good likelihood we’ll get one other Arcane Journal this yr, and there are actually two sorts it may fall into. The primary one is for a brand new military, very like the present ones. The choices listed below are actually both to usher in one of many Legends Armies or add Kislev. If I needed to wager, I’d put my cash on Kislev. It’s extra tied to the story they usually teased it at the beginning of Previous World, very like Cathay, and it might be a model new military. As for Legends as a lot as we’d need them GW has stated they aren’t taking place. In fact they stated the identical factor about Kislev and Cathay at the beginning of this yr and we all know that was a lie, not less than with reference to Cathay.
The opposite choice we’d get is a marketing campaign Arcane Journal specializing in some occasions that brings in a number of armies. This may be actually cool as it’d transfer the story ahead and add much more to the armies we now have (extra Armies of Infamy plz). It may very well be centered on the Border Princes and Settra. It may also concentrate on Beastmen who’ve featured in lots of the Journal missions, or possibly on the rise of Chaos within the north. All of those are ripe for exploration. This may even be a great way so as to add in additional missions and even narrative play stuff. My actual hope after all is that we’ll get each this yr, Kislev and a marketing campaign e book. However time will inform!
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