#Warhammer 40k the gathering storm how to#
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Age of Sigmar is a setting that is nearly devoid of gunpowder and instead relies on more 14th century tech with selective 15th century elements (like full plate armor), the same milieu that D&D settings default to. Warhammer Fantasy is a 16th-ish century setting where gunpowder is present and easily available to those factions who want it, but firearm technology hasnвЂ™t yet become so dominant as to make obsolete the infantry/cavalry/ranged trifecta that defined combat since the invention of the chariot, so knights and pikemen and such were still a valuable part of a field army. It gets worse than that, though, because Age of SigmarВ had basically nothing in it for a Warhammer Fantasy fan. If you have to rebuild half your army (or more) to keep up with the new lore, well, jumping ship to Infinity or Warmahordes is just as difficult but has the added benefit of stabbing at GW from HellвЂ™s heart. Telling players to scrap some or all of their army and start over to gel with the new lore and minis is a really big ask and even if you have an ironclad reason for doing it, a lot of people will probably be too resentful to go along with it, and either keep playing with their old army or play another game entirely. Blowing a huge hole in any component of the armies people build is a terrible idea, because building an army is what you do in Warhammer Fantasy. If you blow all of that up, youвЂ™ve blown a huge hole in the lore people make for their armies. Everyone with a Warhammer Fantasy army has the lore theyвЂ™ve made up, character relationships theyвЂ™ve invented, a story, and that story is all deeply tied to the Old World of Warhammer. Unlike Jar Jar Binks, whose presence the prequel movies could have survived if they were otherwise executed competently (granted, it would be really weird for a competent screenwriter and director to leave Jar Jar in, but if for some reason they did the movies still could have been good if everything else worked), the demolition of the setting may have been enough all by itself to make Age of Sigmar a bad idea. So, criticism of Age of Sigmar has coalesced around the most obvious wrong thing that happened: They blew up the setting. Ever since PlinkettвЂ™s prequel reviews went viral in the Star Wars communityВ people have had a much deeper reserve of things to say about the prequel movies than just вЂњJar Jar sucked, midichlorians are dumb.вЂќ Audiences pick up on a lot of things subconsciously that make an experience much better or worse even though they canвЂ™t actually explain back to you what those things were after the fact. As a much older example, everyone hates Jar Jar Binks and for good reason, but he didnвЂ™t single-handedly destroy the prequel movies.

#Warhammer 40k the gathering storm how to#

Everyone hates Age of Sigmar вЂ“ I am about 40% sure that literally everyone who has ever defended it has been a paid shill of Games Workshop вЂ“ but most people donвЂ™t really know how to articulate why and tend to latch onto superficial details. So letвЂ™s start where things first started going to Hell in a big way: The Age of Sigmar. The plot was driven by the need to push new models, a protagonist faction gets sidelined to make the Ultramarines look badass, an antagonist faction gets sidelined to make Chaos look badass, the whole thing reads like someoneвЂ™s made-up parody of how much things wouldвЂ™ve gone to shit if Games Workshop had let Matt Ward write the return of Roboute Guilliman like he allegedly wanted to clear back in fifth edition (including the actual return of Roboute Guilliman). It was like a parody of the worst of all 40k writing. IвЂ™ve had some serious concerns about the direction things are going and the recent leak of the resolution of Hive Fleet LeviathanвЂ™s attack on Baal has confirmed every bad thing IвЂ™d suspected might be in the pipeline. So, fuck everything about the Gathering Storm. IвЂ™m going to jump in under the assumption that people have the basic Warhammer familiarity to know what things like the Age of Sigmar and who the Tyranids and Blood Angels are and why those two donвЂ™t get along so well these days, so if you have no idea what any of that means and youвЂ™re just here for a good rant, you will probably be lost. Anyone whoвЂ™s read the title of this post will not be surprised to learn that I am not super keen on it.

The Gathering Storm is the latest meta-plot arc in Warhammer 40k, booting up the story after its lain dormant for something like a decade.