Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25222488-20151025234507/@comment-26516936-20151107055453

GW were set to do an end times event for 40k to advance the game passed the end of the 4st millennium but last word I heard is they canceled after how badly they stuffed up the Warhammer end times for the fantasy series. Not that there was much wrong with the end times event itself just that what they replaced the old world with was so god awful bad that it has pretty much killed the franchise, I mean I hear sales have fallen into a black hole. They wanted to make the fantasy series more like 40k so they introduced these half assed Stormcast Eternals - think space marines with most of what makes them interesting removed - and made them the centre of the new story - and it didn't work. On top of that the new fluff was such pathetic drivel it looked like it had been thought up by a retarded six year old. And to bang in the final nail the new rules made the game next to unplayable for most gamers.

As a result of all this the Age of Sigmar is already been called the biggest tabletop gaming disaster in history. As you can expect after that mess any thoughts of advancing 40k were immediately binned & we're unlikely to seen any fix put in until 40k is nearly dead. Instead I hear they are going back to the great orc invasion that hit the imperium around 5000 years prior to 40k with the hopes that it will eventually replace The Horus Heresy as that story is approaching it's conclusion & as it's the heresy series that has kept the 40k so strong in recent years GW will need something to replace it with to keep sales up. It won't work of course the whole orc invasions era is much less interesting than the heresy & the orcs as protaganists are far below the traitor legions & their fallen primarchs.

But any way that's the story up to this point GW intended to advance 40k but chickened out after the Age of Sigmar disaster & it's probably a good thing they did, if the moron's who buggered up AoS did the same to 40k there would have been blood in the streets. Hopefully by the next time they try - probably after the orc invasions fails to replace the Horus Heresy successfully - all the idiots who thought up AoS will be rotting in some lime pit somewhere & GW will have brought in some people with an IQ above 75 & maybe even a little common sense to replace them & we will get a decent story progression.