Slann
Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl
Eleventh Spawning
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As with everything in the Warhammer universe for me, I read their lore and was hooked. I love the idea of the ancient Egyptian armies rising from the sands and bringing their own brand of justice. Plus, what's not to like about good-guy undead! (kind of... well at least not completely evil... fine, they're on the fence, but they can ally with the good guys so there)
I personally think Tomb Kings are on the same level of good-guy-ness as Lizardmen and Wood Elves - all three want to defend their kingdoms from anyone who'd despoil them and ensure that order is preserved. The Tomb Kings couldn't help being undead, that was Nagash's fault and he was an arseling. As it happens the legend known as Alcadizaar the Conqueror (with the help of some random Skaven) managed to ruin his entire career in return so an eye for an eye. Lizardmen I can understand as being put into Order because of the Slann carrying out the will of the Old Ones, but I don't really know why GW made Tomb Kings neutral and Wood Elves good, because both of them have some awesome leaders and some nasty ones - both of them should be one or the other really. In fact I'd say Tomb Kings should be moved to Order and Ogres to Destruction because the latter eat everyone, which can't really be viewed in any way as nice. That's eliminate the additional complication of adding neutral allies and streamline the game a bit.
That can't be pleasant, I wish you luck - there really are some pirates out there.
If they did that, I think it would be completely contrary to what they want to achieve. Since GW first announced it, I've always seen TOW as being intended to appeal to two specific playerbases that their current range doesn't yet attract:
- Those players who started Fantasy in the Good Old Days and were repulsed from GW when the transition to AoS came round and have never come back, continuing to play their favourite edition of Fantasy at home and with mates in defiance
- Those people who have fallen in love with the Warhammer Fantasy world through Warhammer: Total War and were annoyed when they first went to GW and found that Warhammer Fantasy no longer existed as a game.
Indeed they've already made a stupid move with this obsession with making new models for TOW through Forge World, as that will put off a substantial quantity of Target Audience 2 (and some of Target Audience 1 for that matter) who either don't want to or can't afford to pay Forge World's crazy prices for kits that don't even have much customisation to them. Messing with the factions too much I think would thus be another especially large nail in the coffin, if not THE last nail in the coffin, as considerable quantities of Target Audiences 1 and 2 would both be put off completely and TOW would just not be worth developing because of the costs outweighing revenue from those few people who do want to play.
I'd be on board with that completely. I too have often complained at GW's obsession with profit over playability and favouring the powergamer over the thematic player. If it was a perfect world where money didn't matter, I would love creating a new version of Warhammer Fantasy that dropped the Horde rule off a cliff, made Cannons less broken, introduced new factions that fit with lore while keeping existing ones going, made all armies Middle Tier, and released every single unit type that wasn't already in plastic in plastic. That would be god-tier. However, today's world is the world of the Ferengi - honour doesn't seem to matter in the eyes of many, only profit. If we launched an insurrection at GW HQ and took it over according to our plans, we'd probably die out at some point because we didn't sell enough Stormcast and Primaris Space Marines.
"WHO CARES?" We'd say, "At least we died with honour."
But that doesn't change the fact that our company would still be dead, which'd suck, and we'd have to quote Marvin the Martian:
(they are, with Daemons of Khorne, the other army I am steadily collecting)
