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About medieval Warhammer, Warhammer 40k, Horus Heresy, The Hobbit, Warhammer Age of Sigmar and GW Corporation Ten interesting anecdotes that you must know

1. GW's earliest product was not the Warhammer series

GW was just a small workshop at first, and its main product was board games; Interest lost some of its core members, but it survived by retaining many businesses such as Dungeons and Dragons, and gradually became a giant in the sandbox war chess industry. The original GW’s famous White Dwarf magazine was not called White Dwarf either.

The current overall development of the war chess and board game industry is benign, because the market has not yet reached saturation. Computer games, traditional board games, sandbox games, and running groups can expand each other and there is relatively little competition between them. GW is also facing challenges from a series of emerging war games such as PP. GW has taken a series of measures. First, it integrated a series of niche games such as Epic and Gothic Fleet, concentrated resources in the 40k world view on the Warhammer 40k body, and then advanced the medieval timeline to fully unfold the medieval end of time. , advancing the timeline to the age of sigmar. It can be regarded as experiencing the cycle of history and embarking on the path of exploration again.

The new Khorne Nightmare model released on 26.9.15 is suitable for Warhammer Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40k. The pictures and texts have nothing to do with it.

2. Medieval Warhammer and Warhammer 40k were once on the same plane.

Middle Ages Warhammer and Warhammer 40k have a lot of similarities from the Four Gods of Chaos to Witch Hunters and Inquisitors. It is not surprising that they are two products from the same company. In fact, Warhammer 40k is directly derived from the medieval Warhammer. For example, the setting of the Eldar comes from the medieval elves. The Wood Elf is the Harlequin of 40k, the High Elf is the Ark Eldar, and the Dark Elf is the Dark Eldar. There are also implicit hints to each other. For example, in Warhammer 40k, the Dark Eldar claimed to be the most authentic descendants of the Eldar and lived in the most prosperous Eldar empire in the old days. As a result, the Dark Elf Mareth was born at the end of the Middle Ages. Ji is the real Phoenix King. In the early setting, the Middle Ages was a planet in the Warhammer 40k universe, but this setting ended without any success. After the end of the Middle Ages, the new timeline of Age of Sigmar is set a long, long time after the end of the Middle Ages, completely avoiding the intersection with 40k, the new faction division of Age of Sigmar and the four gods. After removing the inappropriate s and replacing it with the rat horned rat, there will be fewer interactions.

The last interesting anecdote is that in Warhammer 40k, he is the great mentor of the Gray Knights, the elite army of the Empire. He is a famous figure and exists like a desktop bug. Everyone loves Drak (domestic players jokingly call him Brother Drag) ) was trapped in the subspace fighting demons and traveling back and forth to various places. In a series of works, it was even hinted that he fought in the Middle Ages. In The End of Time, a "hero wearing silver armor and using firearms appeared to help." , is widely speculated to be Drake.

The new packaging of a series of old models of the Gray Knights that were updated in August 2014

Dragon Brothers

3. Medieval Warhammer once produced similar products War mode games

Except for the Warhammer mod of Medieval 2, GW has indeed authorized the production of a real-time strategy medieval game called Warhammer Mark of Chaos and the expansion pack Warhammer, Enter the Battlefield.

Warhammer: March to the battlefield

Medieval Warhammer mod

Warhammer: March to the battlefield

4. The large-scale model of GW company, What Nicholas the Greenleaf Elf had to say about his embarrassing past

For the famous Lord of the Rings, the film series has successfully made audiences from "The Silmarillion" to "The Hobbit" to "The Lord of the Rings" The Lord of the Rings series became popular culture. GW also used this to produce a series of war chess called "The Hobbit". The rules are quite different from today's AOS, 40k, and whf. It is still one of the main product lines today. Updated following the "hobbit" series of movies some time ago. But unlike GW's expectations, despite a whole year's promotion of White Dwarf magazine and a lot of energy invested in it, The Hobbit eventually became a money-losing project. I learned from the experience, the reason is actually very simple, the face is ugly - the model is too small, resulting in details and operability that are greatly inferior to 40k and medieval, let alone AOS.

Another reason to promote the larger size of GWFW models is that the bigger the models, the more money they make. After commercialization, GW and its subsidiary FW care less and less about the portability of the models, oh, no, It's a model of portability for people who can't afford the military bags they make.

The statuette model of Age of Sigmar is at least the size of the Terminator in Warhammer 40k, larger than the average Space Marine, this is for the sake of detail

The tau empire produced by fw Some models, the Rhino (troop carrier) in the second picture is already slightly larger than a human hand, and the size of other models can be imagined, this is to make money...

The new big devil and drag brother's In contrast, the portability is clear

The model of the Elf Prince shown by the White Dwarf in 2003. Assuming you have seen the movie and have normal aesthetics, will you allow this thing to destroy your male god... ·Not to mention female characters and wizards, I dare not post it... I can’t bear to look at it...