‘Warhammer: The Old World’ – Five More Armies Of Infamy We Want To See

Take a look at some new Armies of Infamy options we’d love, and hope to see in Warhammer: The Old World.

GW is doing a great job at expanding and building out the game.  To me one of the coolest things GW did in Old World is introduce the ideas of Armies of Infamy. These are a great way to expand the game and add in flavor. So far pretty much every expansion book has included one or more of these armies. Some have been relatively simple and small, while others have really been whole unique armies, such as Renegade Crowns. With all the core armies out and no current news about what’s coming after the upcoming Grand Cathay book, we can at least guess that we will get some more Armies of Infamy in the future. So today I want to take a look at few armies of Infamy we’d really like to see added to the game in future expansions.

 5. The Cult Of Ulric – Empire of Man

While Sigmar is the main god of the Empire, he is not the only god. One of the other major gods, maybe second behind Sigmar, is Ulric. Ulric is the god of war, winter and wolves and worshipped most prominently in Middenland and Middenhiem. The White Wolf and his followers are fierce and deadly and tend to represent a less organized but not less deadly part of the Empire. This is a classic alternate Empire build as there were rules for both the cult and a number of special units at points in the past. We’ve love to see them come back to the tabletop. We kind of got a little taste of this with the White Wolf Knightly order rules and Tuetogen Guard. Seeing this expanded would be just great.

4. Border Prince Vampires – Tomb Kings/ Brets / Empire

How about a sneaky way to bring VC back into the game? We’ll you don’t HAVE to do a full army, an Army of Infamy could actually do this. With like one or two new units and then just pulling units from a couple other armies, TK, Brets, Crowns and Empire, I think you could build a pretty good kind of Vampire army. This wouldn’t be your classic Vampire Counts full undead army. No this would be the army of some minor vampire from the Border Princes that uses a mix of undead and mortal troops. Dirty peasants, skeletons, fallen knights, etc.. I bet you could build a pretty cool list this way without a ton of work. They did something quite similar with the Renegade Crowns and it really shows what you can accomplish with a solid Army of Infamy.

3. The Treekin List – Wood Elves

This one is really a no-brainer. Wood Elfs are split into two parts, the flesh-elf part and the woody-tree-people part. They’ve had the option to take armies like this before, and it makes sense. Treemen, Treekin, Dryads, and the like making up a whole army is a great idea. It can also look very visually stunning. Neither of the current Wood Elves AoIs really lean into this and its a clear gap int he army.  Out of anything on this list I think this is by far the most likely one for us to get.

2. Da ‘Ard Boyz – Orcs & Goblins

Now yeah, Orcs do already have two Armies of Infamy, and they are both OK. But it’s a little sad that they, and the army in general, doesn’t really focus on Orcs. One of the armies is all Trolls, and the other is more about Boars and Chariots than Orcs. What about poor Orc infantry? I’d really love to see an Army of Infamy that built on and focused around Orc infantry bringing back a classic Horde army that isn’t all about fanatics. I think GW doesn’t want to focus to much on Savage Orcs these days, or at least not calling them that since its a bit problematic. But any army of Warpaint Orcs? Or a bunch of Ard Boyz? I dunno that’s just cool and very classic Fantasy and I’d love to see something like that.

1. Hosts of the Dark Gods

We all know it’s coming. The whole Old World timeline is building up to the Chaos Invasion and the Great War Against Chaos. So at some point we have to get a big unified Chaos force. Now you can already kind of do stuff combing some Warriors of Chaos and Beastmen, but that leaves out Deamons. This seems like a no brainer at some point that will allow you to take some WoC, some Beasts and some Deamons in the same combined force to field a true horde. I think the biggest challenge won’t be putting the armies together, but figuring out how to limit it so its not just “take all the best options from these three armies.” I wouldn’t be surprised if we just got some kind of generic Lessor Daemon unit that you could dedicate to one of the gods. This would be an easy way to get some demonic forces in without having to put as many units into such an AoI.

Let us know what Armies of Infamy you’d like to see, down in the comments! 

Author: Abe Apfel

Abe is that rare thing, an Austin local born and raised here. Though he keeps on moving around, DC, Japan, ETC., he always seems to find his way back eventually. Abe has decades of experience with a wide range of tabletop and RPG games, from historicals, to Star Wars to D&D and 40K. He has been contributing to BOLS since almost the start, back when he worked at and then owned a local gaming store. He used to be big into the competitive Warhammer tournament scene but age has mellowed him and he now appreciates a good casual match. He currently covers Warhammer: The Old World, as well as all things Star Wars, with occasional dabbling in other topics. Abe mourned over loss of WFB for its entire hiatus, but has been reborn like a gaming phoenix with Warhammer: The Old World.