Back to the World that Was

I haven't played Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. There, I've said it. When the End Times blew up the Old World of Warhammer, a setting that had been developed over 30 years, and the new 9th edition came with a complete reboot, new system, new setting, new basing, some of the same characters, i drifted away from Warhammer Fantasy. This wasn't an easy decision, since over the decades I'd played with Undead, High Elves, Orcs and Goblins, Chaos Warriors, Beastmen, Daemons of Chaos, Skaven and  Empire, but the idea of having to reorganise all those armies and transfer often brittle old models to new round bases felt like far, far too much work.

I'm sitting here, in my games room, with said Empire army filling 2 80×30cm shelves of tightly packed, neatly serried ranks, and a couple of large crates full of unpainted Fantasy models. With Age of Sigmar in the ascendancy i was unsure if my mighty regiments would ever see the table again, or if they were doomed to sit forever upon the shelf, gathering dust, as relics of a bygone age and yet another game that was. Where for years I'd paint up a few regiments or detachments and a few characters, at least, in an average year, since 2015 I've painted only a small unit of 10 spearmen and a handful of ancient character and monster models. 

Today I was looking on-line for rules for the humble pot mortar in the modern game, since I'm assembling a battery of Halfling Hot-Pots, and the mortar seemed most likely to have appropriate rules, since the halflings and their signature artillery piece have been without rules since 6th edition dropped in 2000.

While hunting for such, eventually finding it, sort-of, in the Warscroll Builder on the Warhammer Community site, i came across something that took me by surprise:

The Old World is coming back as a setting!

It'll be years until it does, but it's coming back. My knights, engineers, artillery and such shall see the table again! My flugelpferd shall take to the air once more! Elise von Krieglitz-Untgern shall ride forth amidst her bodyguard of Rottschild Knights and my Priests of Taal shall urge the faithful forward yet again!

I may be a little excited. I may also be struggling to restrain myself from tearing into the boxes of Empire models that need a modern paint job, and diving into touching up the detail on the hundreds i already have painted. I know that it's going to be years until the Old World returns, but a part of me wants to have everything shiny, fresh, and ready, primed for battle in case the system unexpectedly drops early, after all, tomorrow could.

I'm a little excited, in case that wasn't obvious. 

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