Red Dwarfs, Battle March inspiration, and a surprising Chaos rules tease in The Old World
We had one of those very good hobby-chat moments this week: it started with fiery orange Dwarfs, drifted into terrain inspiration, and ended with us staring at new Warriors of Chaos rules and going: wait, what?
Full ginger Dwarfs mode
end3r kicked things off by dropping a glorious shot of Dwarfs from Warhammer: The Old World painted in full orange-heavy style. Technically, as he immediately noted, it was a Slayer Host — but come on, that absolutely still counts.
Our immediate reaction was basically the same as Michał’s: mega cool. Then, naturally, came the classic hobby escalation: “very cool, but we’ve seen cooler”. We respect that energy. We also respect end3r’s instant and correct response: pics or it didn’t happen. That is the law.
A bit later, Staś tracked down the source and it turned out these Dwarfs came from a Warhammer Community article where the people working on The Old World show off their own Battle March armies.
And honestly, that article is worth a look. There are quite a few really nice forces in there, and it’s exactly the sort of thing that can nudge us from “that’s neat” to “right, now we need another army/project/painting queue problem”.
Of course, we could not let the official article pass without a little bit of friendly skepticism. The opening line says that while working on the supplement, the studio played a lot of games around the office and more than a few people got inspired to join in. Which, as Staś pointed out, sounds suspiciously like fiction — because everyone knows nobody at GW has ever actually played TOW. Pure literary invention, clearly. As end3r put it: a work of fiction designed to sell more plastic.
Terrain temptation: river and bridge
The discussion then veered into another very important Old World topic: good-looking battlefield pieces. Staś tossed over a Reddit link showing a Battle March river and bridge setup as a possible example of the sort of thing Michał had in mind.
The verdict? Very cool — but also the kind of cool that makes us want to build something ourselves rather than just print it. And honestly, we get that completely. There is a special satisfaction in putting together a river, bridge, or full table element by hand, even if it takes longer and even if it means yet another side project sneaking onto the hobby pile.
Wait, Chaos gets what now?
Then the conversation took a sharp turn into rules-land. Staś spotted something in the new Arcane Journal / Almanack material for Warriors of Chaos and immediately hit us with the correct reaction: wait, what? Apparently there are some genuinely new mechanics in there.
That came from this Warhammer Community article:
We are not going to pretend we had a full deep-dive rules breakdown in chat right there, because we didn’t. The main mood was surprise that this looks like more than just a dry repackaging of existing ideas. If the supplement is actually introducing interesting mechanical twists for Warriors of Chaos, then that’s immediately more exciting than just “here are some units, now buy the book”.
The vibe right now
So the current state of affairs is:
- orange Slayer-style Dwarfs still look fantastic,
- the Battle March army showcase is dangerously inspiring,
- nice river-and-bridge terrain makes us want to build stuff,
- and Chaos may be getting some unexpectedly spicy rules.
Which is a pretty good summary of why The Old World remains such a fun hobby space for us. One minute we’re joking about GW marketing copy, the next minute we’re planning terrain builds and side-eyeing a new supplement.
If nothing else, this little exchange definitely did its job: it made us want to paint, build, and dig through more TOW stuff. So, in that sense, yes — the fiction is working.