Originally Posted by 75hastings69 View Post
I'm going to add to this thread, in a way that doesn't really add anything, but sadly that's the nature of rumours, no one is right or wrong if they are honestly passing on stuff they've heard, if they're just making it up on the other hand (like the fantasy allied contingent rubbish)......

Some time back in late 2010/early 2011 I was told WFB was due for a huge shakeup, it was felt that it had become almost too generic fantasy and not "warhammer" enough, and YES there was talk about cancelling it as a range altogether! However as there was still the possibility of making £ back of the plastic kits it was decided a "reboot" was for the best. Harry and I both discussed this both privately AND openly on these forums, discussing moving the timeline forward and killing off lots of characters, it looks like this is coming to pass, so here's what else I recall .....

Unpopular armies (brets I'm looking at you) would not be directly supported anymore, more likely folded into a new "good guys" type army book, so you could theoretically still run a bret army, but don't expect any new models for a long while. I seem to recall there would be 3 books, but this may actually turn out to be the end time books.

The "vision" for WFB was still to be a massed battle game, do you honestly think GW wants you to buy 1 box of troop x, y or z for a skirmish game, when they can sell 5 boxes for just 1 unit? My understanding was that WFB would change, but not to a skirmish game, it would become more "open" in so much as army composition would basically let you use your collection of WFB minis for your games. However I did hear something about round bases that fitted into square bases some time after, so take from that what you will.