People may already know about this but yesterday while i was surfing the web i found out that there is going to be an online warhammer game. It looks like it plays a lot like WOW so i was wondering if anyone else has some news on the game.

Yes. As EA and stratics work closely together...

http://www.stratics.com/content/portals/warhammer/

We have EAs official forrums for Ultima Online and The Sims Online. I'm guessing we'll be having them for Warhammer as well.

Thanks i was wondering becuase im a fan of good rts and mmorpgs and i have several warhammer rts and wow is based off of rts so im kinda hopeful.

There is a lot of info out there on WarHammer. Just gotta look =) IT's put out by EAGames

I'm also looking forward to it, it looks like it will be a great game. I expect it will be much better then WoW in PVP department since the guys from Mythic did a great job in Age Of Camelot (or so I heard)

K, im in school right now though so everything under the sun is blocked so i cant really check on it becuase its blocked so any clue when the tentative release date is?

Current State of War

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR) is being developed by EA Mythic, makers of Dark Age of Camelot, which is now in it's 5th year. The goal? A hobby experience that takes Mythic's specialty, RvR, and puts it firmly in the land of Warhammer, by Games Workshop.

The backstory is that your world is constantly at war. The orcs and goblins (greenskins) have taken over the historical land of the dwarfs. The high elves and dark elves have never gotten along anyway, so why should they here? And of course, the human empire and the armies of chaos fight a constant battle.

My first view of the game this time around is amazing. Plumes of black smoke rise in the distance. Obviously something over there needs my attention! On my way to investigate there are farmers running around. Ducking, weaving, crying over lost farmsteads and general confusion abound. I've been in game all of 10 seconds. This is gonna be AWESOME! We'll get into more of the good stuff later. For now, the rest of the overview!

Each alliance has armies of 3 different racial pairings. The Alliance (humans), the Dark Elves, the High Elves, the Dwarfs, Chaos, and the Greenskins are all paired so that each has a hereditary enemy within a mapped area. In addition, they're matched in a 3 vs 3, Order vs Destruction alliance.

While all of this can be a bit much to think about, in the end it's easy! See someone who is not on your alliances short list of allies? KILL IT!

Graphics

The character models fit perfectly into the world. They move well, have twitches when they're standing still, and you can tell by looking at the models what someone's class is. The particle effects are well done, and truly wonderful to behold. The feeling of being in a war filled world certainly permeates the background.

The scenarios that we took part in, Gates of Ekrund and Marsh Temple were both very well themed, my only concern with what we were able to look at is pathing issues, and it's still way to early to worry about.

One of the coolest features I saw while "hands-on"? An in game tool titled "The Tomb of Knowledge" allows you to see your group stats for the past scenario finished and your lifetime stats in RvR. Want to prove you're the best over time? You can send your friends your Tomb of Knowledge page, and they'll see your in game stats as well!

In RvR, it can be hard to tell from afar if your opponent is someone you really want to go up against. In WAR, your greenskin gets bigger, your dwarfs beard grows, your magus' disc gets bigger, and your human gets cooler looking gear. It's a great way to judge just based on a "20 foot" rule whether you want to fight or run.

No system requirements have been released yet, and the game is slated for a last quarter 2007 release.

All I gotta say is this:


" I dunno 'bout you boyz....but I's feel a Waaugh comin on...."


*<3's WH orcs. ^^ *

My 2 cents.

As an avid Warhammer player, and old school Warhammer Fantasy Roleplayer (versions 1 and 2) as well as a supporter of the FIRST attempt at a Warhammer MMORPG, I have to say this about the Warhammer: Age of Reckoning game.

It's going to rape the setting.

It's going to take the setting and turn it into WoW for Warhammer players. It'll take what I know and love about a unique genre, and it's going to shit it out of a corporate orifice.

I thank you.

That makes me fell warm and fuzzy inside because when i go to college in the fall i am going to pick up 1 mmorgp and play it for my 4 years of college i was going to play wow but then i saw warhammer. I mean wow is a good mmo but man warhammer universe over all just kicks the shit out of warcraft universe.

I'm not saying that it will happen to you, but please, be careful about managing your time between school and a game. MMO's can be extremely, EXTREMELY addictive...I was actually dropped for a semester because I spent all of my second semester of frosh year glued to WoW ><;

If you can stay in school and pwn in WHO then more power to you, but please, be careful. Getting screwed outta college by a game is not fun

But yeah...if Warhammer 40k online ever comes out (or is ever created for that matter), I would quit life as it is. No questions. No second thoughts. I will starve to death before I would stop playing that game.

Bah. You're no better than the dwarves, you filthy, smelly creatures.

The Druchii shall show you how to make war.

I really can't wait until they release this game. I especially enjoy the fact that W.A.R is actually focused around PvP instead of PvE, I just hope that EA Mythic keeps their promises so one doesn't have to do the silly grinding like in WoW, this coming from a former WoW-player.

By ze by, go Druchii! ^^

It'll either work really, really well or it will be horrible.

Fingers are crossed for really, really well.

I am hoping for really good mmo also i just they pull it together in time.

Of course it does, Warhammer has been around longer than any Blizzard game series.

It's also aimed at something completely different. Warcraft was aimed at making a game; story came later.

Warhammer is aimed at being awesome.

rofl

*Cries*

This game is going to destroy an entire generation of possible Warhammer players.

Then again, keep in mind that any publicity is good. Some people may decide to look into the source material for the game.

Of course, if it's as kickass as it seems it might possibly be, we'll just hear about a lot of deaths caused by the game.

If someone starves themself to death because of Warhammer, I will personally paint a Miniature and laugh. Laugh like the world was watching me.

I like to have a little giggle for all our fallen comrades.

I freak out my opponents in Warhammer by wheeling out a little miniature hearse every time a character dies.

I'm not allowed to have that much respect for my fallen foes. I'll get a stern talking to by my Chapter Master.

That old fuddy duddy? What's his problem, his black carapace tied in too tight?

Not unless he's switched Chapters without telling us.

What chapter DO you hail from, anyway?

The Ultramarines. I kinda thought that was obvious.

A Smurf?

A freaking Smurf?

A seven foot tall smurf who is part of what more or less entirely stopped Hive Fleet Behemoth from carving through the Imperium.

You mean the Snack wars?

Original Geneseed, eh?

Thousand Sons, myself. You know, the Emperor's lapdogs (Space Wolves) actually betrayed us first, before the Horus Heresy. Don't believe me? HERE

So...your Primach disobeyed a direct order from the Emperor of Humanity, and you think YOU'RE in the right?

All I'm saying is you hit me first.

Only because we were doing what we were told.

Unlike a CERTAIN Primarch I could name.

Magnus the Red was a traitor long before Horus. Leman Russ was a loyal son of the Emperor despite his occasional lack of discipline. It is a shame that his chapter has decided to depart from the structuring of the Chapter set out by Roboute Guilliman.


Please, feel free to point our a single instance when you Guardsmen have made a single stand even a tenth of the importance of ours.

The Cadian Gate?
The Armeggedon Wars (all 3)?
Behind every Astarte operation there have been Guardsmen making the shove.

And beside all Guardsmen successes there have been the Adeptus Astartes, standing strong.

When you have born the brunt of a Hive Fleet without support, then we'll talk.

Verbose, when the Ultramarines can stop a Black Crusade before it leaves the Cadian System (without Inquisitors, that's cheating) you can compare yourself to ballscratch.

We weakened them for you.

And support from a Chaos Sorcery who is, in part, responsible for the blowing up of my home planet.

How...strange.

Maybe if you want to try coming by Macragge, we'll talk.


They turn on each other all the time.

But really, how many of you have fought Tyranids before? Because they're not so cuddly as Chaos.

I try to keep well, well away from anything with more eyes than limbs.

Same reason I avoid SOME mutants.

I tend to find that a focussed sniping at the big ones, with massed artillery shell at the small fleshy ones tends to work well against 'Nids. But, yeah, as a general rule I'd rather fight Chaos than Tyranids. I doff my hat at your mass feeding of Hive Fleed Behemoth.

What DID you do with all that dead material?

Did you just set it on fire?

I imagined how casually a Space Marine would say that to a Guardsman and it made me laugh IRL.

Not so much. The 'nids, they don't leave all that much biomass behind really. Eat their own dead, donchaknow.

Oh, and as bad as the big ones are? 32 Hormogaunts get 96 S3 attacks on the charge (at WS3). S4 if they buy a reasonably cheap biomorph.

I know. I've fought them. I tend to throw sentinels at the big squads of little 'uns, just to slow them down. But yeah, I've found that 10 snipers works WONDERS against 'Nids. Not much can survive 10 hits hitting on 2+ and wounding on 4s or better, no matter how good their armour.

*Has taken down a Hive Tyrant in a single round of shooting*

32 Hormogaunts get 96 S3 attacks on the charge (at WS3). S4 if they buy a reasonably cheap biomorph.

OMG my brain just exploded. This is why I play text RP and PC warhammer ONLY

Oh yeah, you should see the toys some of the big ones get. A decked out Carnifex will tear a Land Raider apart like it was paper.

I've seen a single unit carve it's way through an IG unit, only to be countercharged by RATLINGS and slaughtered.

40k is a game of fast death.

I saw (didn't play) a game where three units of HoD (Hormogaunts of Death) were dropped by close combat in round two without taking a single casualty, while six standard genestealers destroyed two close combat units and a tank. It was high-larious.

Not for the men in the tank, I'll wager.

Not high-larious at all.