GW will release pictures of stuff every Thursday during April so that tells me that the release is a long way off. I should really be exited for it, but I don’t feel anything. Its is to far off to be exited and all that was released was more or less information that have been leaked months before.
There are however some concerns. Has the tone changed?
What makes Horus Heresy special is the story’s. The grim, bleak collapse of the imperium. The Greek tragedy on an epic scale. Death and destruction on a level unimagined. Demi gods walking the earth, brother killing brother. It is a sad story, tragic in many ways. The rules are there to emphasis this. To help tell the story. And the models should reflect both story and the setting. Now don’t get me wrong the trailer is really cool and have all those elements in it. Go check it out! (it is Fn epic!) But I still feel this revel is missing a story element that would make us hyped for where the story’s is heading. We know where it ends, sure. Why should we care? Why should we care for Horus Heresy 2.0? What is the point of a new edition if the core is the same? I mean we the fans know the leaks, we have an idea for what will be different. But GW is acting as if Horus Heresy 2.0 is news to everyone. It is not. What is your selling point here?
That’s my initial reactions. Ash waste looks cool. I am happy Horus Heresy isn’t dead. However, I am a little reserved for its continuations. Nothing in this reveal reassured me that Games Workshop understands its costumers or what the Horus Heresy is about. I hope I am wrong.
If games workshop was a car manufacturer, and I was a car enthusiast. Then I now know that 2 new cars are coming out, sometime between now and later. I mean this is what GWs business is based about, right? It’s a games/miniature company, why would we be surprised, chocked, thankful or impressed by GW when they release what the company claims is there core business?
And just to emphasis this once more. I am not an entitled gamer. The truth is simple. If new necromunda and new Horus Heresy isn’t up to the quality I expect I will simply not buy it. I will not call for a boycott or cry out my sadness on the internet. I will simply save my money.
And the reason for me writing this on my blog is simply because this blog is a hobby blog and I try to cover things that interested me. And necromunda and horus heresy fundamentally interest me.
On an interesting note, my initial reaction speaks loudly about how GW have been doing the past years. I mean, isn’t it strange that I am concerned about products from a company that originally created those products to begin with? I mean why is it that I don’t trust GW to know their own IP? Why is it that I am concerned about a company not being able to supply their customers with the products they are know for?
And you know, maybe that is it. There might not be anything wrong with todays reveals. It all might be greatness all over. It might be bad experiences from the past that colours this reveal for me. I hope it is my cynical mind that will not accept that GW is making what we all have been waiting for. Time will tell.
Until then. Go check out all reveals on GWs community page. If the news doesn’t impress maybe the artwork, trailers and models will, I can say that some of the designs shown today is really cool.
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/03/24/warhammer-preview-online-adepticon-all-the-massive-reveals-are-right-here/
