Given GW and CAвЂ™s continuing collaboration, it came as little surprise to see these brand-new troops in Warhammer 3вЂ™s announcement trailer, and the most obvious implication of CAвЂ™s new game is that this should work the other way around. That article showed off a concept for a new Kislevite unit: the Ice Guard. Total WarhammerвЂ™s army lists have always closely mirrored their tabletop forms Total War developer Creative Assembly (CA) confirms that the new content is вЂњlegitвЂќ, co-created with GW directly, while GWвЂ™s Old World project lead Andy Hoare hails CA as вЂњvery familiar with Warhammer, very respectful of it, they entirely understand it, so weвЂ™re all talking the same languageвЂќ.

Now the third in that trilogy has been unveiled, will explore factions and territory never before seen in Warhammer, and, as ever, carries GWвЂ™s seal of approval. ItвЂ™s also likely that the runaway success of videogames like Total War: Warhammer (which that announcement names) also helped prod GW to resurrect the so-called вЂworld-that-wasвЂ™. Lifted by the rising tide of a global nerd renaissance and the runaway success of Warhammer Fantasy Battles (WFB)вЂ™s replacement, Age of Sigmar, a resurgent Geedubs announced Warhammer: The Old World in November 2019 вЂ“ a new game in the destroyed setting, to be to Age of Sigmar as the Horus Heresy is to Warhammer 40K.

This was odd timing, because it was roughly a year after Games Workshop (GW) canceled the complex, expensive, unprofitable game upon which it was based вЂ“ and blew up its setting in the process. The first Total War: Warhammer released in May 2016.

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