Editing Warhammer: The Old World (section)

===Suddenly [[Kislev]]===
[[File:TOW Kislev.jpg|thumb|right|400px|The realm of the Ice Queen, returns.]]
Insert 'Then the Winged Hussars arrived' meme here.

In a move people hoped for but didn't really expect, GW announced that Kislev would be getting an army again, with updates to units like winged lancers and Ungol horse archers to be expected, as well as new units. One of these new units, or perhaps a hero choice, are the Ice Guard, presumably a wing of Kislev's [[Ice Witch]]es.

This has been a [[Skub|slightly controversial]] announcement as the units' early concept art doesn't quite match the expectations of Warhammer Fantasy's generally-grounded art style (at least compared to [[Age of Sigmar|other games]]). Plus the idea of magically-enchanted weapons being used by entire units (albeit for an elite guard) is a bit of a weird thing to see outside of the [[High Elves (Warhammer Fantasy)|three]] [[Dark Elves (Warhammer Fantasy)|Elven]] [[Wood Elves (Warhammer Fantasy)|factions]] or [[Bretonnia|grail knights]], although the degenerate [[Ogre Kingdoms|yhetees]] set somewhat of a precedent for magic ice-weapons in particular. Oh, and [[/pol/|/pol/tards]] and [[SJW|tumblrite snowflakes]] started arguing because they were [[-4 Str|women]] (ignoring the fact every magic user in Kislev is one) but that was to be expected and doesn't factor in because neither of them are going to buy models anyway. Time will tell how this unit is properly received when the models actually come out.

The announcement also plays nicely into the idea that the Old World will be seeing the Age of Three Emperors and the Great War against [[Chaos]] as it's starting point, due to Kislevs involvement in fighting Chaos and the effect the period had on the countries history. Not to mention the technological stagnation of Kislev means that wherever in the timeline future parts of TOW take place in, Kislev will remain relevant if the Empire is involved.

With a second showcase of concept art revealing bear cavalry (with the direct implication that bears will also be character mount options), Kislev may in fact be one of the starter factions. While it's very early to be speculating about starter boxes, a starter set with Kislev fighting the Warriors of Chaos would be a really nice box to see.

'''Update 1''': On the 3rd of February, 2021 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAr7yUlM0Po/ Total War Warhammer 3 was announced with Kislev being one of the starting races]. In it we see both the new Ice Guard and Bear Cav, and a [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/02/03/watch-kislev-battle-a-bloodthirster-in-the-first-trailer-for-total-war-warhammer-iii/ post on the Warhammer community] confirmed that Creative Assembly had been working with GW and using the concept art of both these units for the game. This had been theorised before the trailers release, but the confirmation now means that Total Warhammer 3 will act as a sort of marketing device for TOW, and that units we see in game will most likely be introduced to TOW as well. [[Cathay]] was also confirmed for the game meaning that it may also be introduced to ToW as an army as well, which would be a very interesting turn of events. Also the Ice Guard look a lot better than they did in the Concept art so yay, the models will likely look better as well.

'''Update 2''': As of the 13th of May, a poor-resolution map of Kislev's borders in TOW has been unveiled. The capital's heraldry bears (hue) the name "Romanoff", which may refer either to Alexis Romanoff who was the Tzar of Kislev during the Great War against Chaos, or his predecessor, likely a grandfather or great grandfather with newer information available. In addition the Kislevite borders now stretch all the way across Zorn Uzkul to the edge of the "Nation of the Hobgobla-Khans", indicating that the older fluff of the Kislevite colonies are being reintroduced in some way. This is also impressive as it makes Kislev much larger than its previous record, when the Wheatlands were canon in older editions. The safe bet is that when the TOW storyline comes up to the Great War Against Chaos, the colonial oblasts will burn first.