Not a fan of the "From the moment we’d established what the Empire was and what Chaos was, we’d destined Archaon to ascend and destroy that setting", partially because Archaon is a fucking stupid character and End Times is garbage that's begging from being retconned out of existence, but also because I can't believe that GW would have planned something that much in advance.

Another bit of the article that I don't like is "but what about technologies that exist now that would have been forgotten by the time of Karl Franz???" with their most immediate concern being "steam tanks aren't rare!!!" which is giving into some of the worst nerd impulses to make something special commonplace and [rant devolves into Star Wars nerd rage]

Featuring such innovative newness never before played as

<reads smudged ink on sweaty hand>

The same shitty base building from Fallout 4! And

<reads further>

A spaceflight model that has been outdated for [Today's Date] - [Freelancer (PC) Release Date] years! And and and! NEVER BEFORE PLAYED

<nothing further to read, sweats profusely>

You can meet a past version of yourself in new game plus!

...

WHAT DO YOU MEAN MORROWIND DID THAT IN 2001 WHEN YOU MEET THE FAILED INCARNATIONS OF THE NEREVARINE?! WHAT-

<is pulled off stage with prejudice>

Most bad games barely coax around 1,000-2,000 words out of me!

nice argument but i’ve already made an image macro portraying me as the handsome peter gabriel steam train computer composite and you as the greyscale digitally warped shoe sniffers

metal and plastic kit

This is probably the metal horses (and maybe the chariot) and plastic, much-later designed Settra, an extremely bizarre decision born out of some ancient budgeting reason.

Those horses look like shit and that's before you account for the fact that metal is somehow worse than resin to work with.

But that's going to be how weird The Old World will be up until the point where they start updating core units to more modern sculpts if/when the game proves commercially viable in an edition or two.

Nope.

I have since been informed (by @clockler) that Settra and the chariot are:

• in metal
• from 2010.

THE HORSES ARE PLASTIC. AND FROM 1993.