MULTI Warhammer: Age of Sigmar

Quietly buried in an investor relations note, Frontier Developments has announced that it has acquired the license to develop a real-time strategy game based on the Warhammer Age of Sigmar setting from Games Workshop. Age of Sigmar is the current fantasy tabletop miniatures game from Games Workshop, having supplanted Warhammer Fantasy Battles in 2015, with a second edition in 2018, and is one of the most popular miniatures games in the world. Frontier has exclusive rights to develop and publish an RTS for both PC and consoles based on Age of Sigmar, and plans to release a game in fiscal year 2023, that is, the business year ending May 31, 2023. So, that’s a ways away then.

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The Age of Sigmar setting is pretty well-suited to the classic models of the RTS because its units are already divided into four factions: Order, Chaos, Death, and Destruction. Each of those has a variety of units from both classic fantasy races and Age of Sigmar-specific ones, and those units do battle across a variety of different planes of existence called the Mortal Realms. It’s a pretty clear setup for a four-faction RTS with different maps, each using unique terrain.

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