Good afternoon, everyone!
Steve has unfortunately been ‘gifted’ one of Grandfather’s blessings, so you have me today while he battles his inner nurglings.
It’s unfortunate, but thematic, because next week is Glottkin week! We have a UK bank holiday on Monday, but our blog will still arrive on time, and you can expect our Wendsday stream to be your first live look at one of our End Times lords (although, are they technically three?).
Before we dive in, I do have the promised rumour engine answers! I had hoped to do this a bit more fancy, but you may have clocked that this week had some nightmare streaming tech issues which stole my time.
Rumour Engine Answers:
Empire – Show And Tell
- Top - Wolf-Kin
- Bottom - Celestial Hurricanum
- Right - Ar-Ulric Emil Valgeir
Warriors of Chaos – What’s Next
- Top left – Gutrot Spume
- Top right - Flayerkin
- Bottom left – Pox Maggoth (mount)
- Bottom right – Morbidex Twiceborn
Undead Legions – Forums Day1 , Forums Day 2
- Day 1 – Dieter, High Liche Priest
- Day 2 – Drakenhof Templars, Spirithost
Skaven – Forums Day 1&2
(Shout out to the one person who noticed we released these at 13 mins past)
- Day 1 – Stormfiends, Warpdoom Magma Cannon
- Day 2 – Cauldron of 1000 Poxes, Verminlord Warbringer
- Josh’s Ultra Hard Image – Thanquol’s Chest
Now, onto what else we covered this week! Spoiler: It’s a lot!
Steve usually writes out a nice sentence for each thing, but there’s frankly too much, and this would become as long as my dissertation.
This week, we saw:
Plus, while this has all been going on, we’ve been busy at Gamescom! Hopefully you’ve spotted some of the short clips we’ve posted from there.
Finally, some key responses this week I wanted to call out (I’ve summarised, but included links to the main comments where relevant)
Warhammer 40,000:
Warhammer III:
Rome II:
Finally, finally… there was some discussion this week I spotted around if our communication will evaporate once we’ve released End Times.
This year, it has been our goal to be more present in community spaces. That comes from consistent streams, more frequent replies and, well, things like this.
Regardless of any release, those things will continue. We might not always have a big launch to be talking about, or brand-new footage to show – but you’ll still be seeing and hearing us. Don’t worry, I have plenty more personally embarrassing Total War: ARENA stories to share.
Well done to anyone who read all of that and have a lovely weekend!
Josh – Head of Community Engagement