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I would love to be wrong.

I think Araby, like, just using the materials from Warmaster, but, like, updating it to match the modern canon.

I feel like... would actually be very very easy to do just literally especially if they were working with creative assembly who could bring like their level of research chops and historical knowledge and all of the research and work that they've done for their games for like especially like their medieval era games like my god they could they could make something beautiful beautiful But unfortunately, I would say odds of Araby being released, I would currently put it probably like 1%.

I don't think it's impossible, only because of the Warmaster range.

If we didn't already have the Warmaster range, I would say zero.

Absolute zero.

But because the Warmaster range exists...

Araby showing up in some form or fashion, I am willing to put it a 1% chance with the dearest, dearest hopes.

Ah, glorious.

Apart from that, though, there is a Warmaster tournament coming up as well.

That is...

I got confirmation... uh imagery for today which i can see that you got i have

Another issue that can come up is when five different people have five different ideas about what should the community edition be.

So Warmaster, for example, I think one of them is the main one, but there are at least two or three variants.

And for Epic, so Epic 40K, I know of, I think, three major, major community editions, let's just say, that is just the game forked in different directions if you use free software, open software terms.

And then you have a very fragmented community in a way where people have to agree first on which version of the rules they even play.

Welcome to Warmaster Podcast Episode 222 with Paul and Barry.

Oh, hello listeners.

All the twos.

That's what

you probably should do.

We were talking last night when we were talking and I was saying that Warmaster is like that Rocky film where it's not how hard you can hit but it's how hard you can get hit and keep coming back.

That's how winning is done.

Because you could really have got tilted at that point when you put 17 attacks in and you take six

Yes, we are.

So Abaddon is the Warmaster, and he was the first captain under Horus.

And he blamed Horus for the failure of the Siege of Terra, and wants to one-up him.

He wants to do it properly, and he knows it's going to take thousands of years to properly destroy the Imperium and rot it down to its core in a way that suits his wants and desires.

So Toby is somebody that I only met relatively recently.

I mean, he really was a fixture on the Warmaster scene for, I don't know, a couple of years? Yeah.

I mean, every event I went to, he was there virtually.

Yeah, yeah.

And I was like, and it felt like, yeah, I enjoyed it just as much as playing, I don't know, the normal size game, I guess, if that's the right term.

So, yeah.

But like with Warmaster, it never...

Events have always been 2,000 points on individual games because I'm guessing that Warmaster was written at a time where GW wasn't driven just by sales.

Next one we have Mordheim or

Warmaster.

Oh, fuck.

So I never really paid attention to Mordheim when it first came out.

I didn't really pay attention to Warmaster when it first came out.

This is a dangerous avenue of thought for me.

Would you give me one of the years?

The two legions frequently fought alongside one another in major compliance actions, where the Death Guard's relentless infantry assaults complemented the aggressive spearhead tactics of the Sons of Horus.

This longstanding trust made Mortarion one of Horus' most reliable allies, and when the Warmaster declared his rebellion, the Death Guard followed him with little hesitation, bound as much by loyalty to their Primarch as by their confidence in Horus' leadership.

I didn't know they were close.

Me neither, and I read all their books.

For the Death Guard, the Second Battle of Prospero was intended to secure the White Scars through diplomacy rather than conquest.

Mortarion believed that the warrior lodges would deliver Jaghatai Khan to Horus' cause.

But the Khan rejected his brother's arguments and remained loyal to the Emperor, but the White Scars united against the Warmaster.

Mortarion withdrew rather than that, rather than waste his legions, uh, legion in a costly engagement.