It has been real quiet. It was roughly this time (February 25, 2025) when they did the big ISS video and announcement. I am hopeful for something tomorrow.
Didnt they said that this year, because of the anniversary, every 25th day of the month, it will be big news about Corvus games?
I am pretty sure it was every 25th month of the year there would be an announcement. You probably just got mixed up there. Easy mistake to make.
People who do play Warcrow, I guess. No, I don't (my bandwidth - and budget, I guess - can really support only one miniature game currently, and this game is Infinity). However, I admire the design and style of Warcrow models. Plus, supposedly, Warcrow exceeded expectations regarding sales. The fact nobody in my local meta plays Warcrow does not mean the same is true everywhere. So before you get so categorical about paying the bills, I'd love to see you present some hard data. Some evidence. When it comes to CB releasing new models, new rules and new information about their plans - they always had issues with that. My personal memory reaches back to mid-N2, and I don't recall it being any better (OK, they kept a tighter, more predictable relase schedule - it was uncommon to see a major factiion not getting a release 3 months in a row - but then again, they had way less armies in the game back then). But it aint the end of the world nowadays, either.
Nobody in your local meta plays Warcrow. Nobody in my local meta play warcrow. Nobody in the various national telegram and whatssapp groups i am plays warcrow. Nobody in the podcasts i hear plays Warcrow. Nobody in most of the CB related internet groups plays Warcrow... So, Who plays warcrow?
If there is going to be an Infinity Announcement, hopefully it happens on Friday. The lack of any chatter makes me think they are doing something like they did with Next Wave with a full Influencer push. But that might only be wishful thinking.
Our local group plays Warcrow, has a tourney on tap for next weekend, and there’s likely to be Warcrow at multiple US events this year.
Anecdotally, I spend about as much on Warcrow as I do on Infinity, over the last 6 months. Warcrow has the advantage that everything is new, so everything is marketable to long-time infinity players that have full collections.
If they are aiming for Infinity players, they're doing it wrong. Infinity players wanted Infinity, just in fantasy setting (Eldfall Chronicles, for example), not this Aristeia spin off. If im a CB client, i will spend money in the game i already have and with a community to play with, not in a new product than can flop in a few years, leaving me with worthless figures (ahem, Xwing, Shatterpoint) And it took them so long to release their game, that GW relaunched Old World, stealing a great portion of their clients
Again, anecdotally, but as an Infinity player, I think Warcrow supplements it nicely - it is a smaller (both on tabletop and in modelcount) game, with fewer actions over the course of the game. I would not want to return to large-scale rank-and-file games, I don't want to paint a hundred models just to get started again. The mechanical DNA of the game, in the very tight action economy and the stress-to-reactivate mechanics seem very familiar to Infinity. I can see myself playing both Infinity (for heavy, crunchy, sc-fi games) and Warcrow (for lighter, faster, fantasy games). I could not see myself getting back into Oldhammer or similar. The closest competitor for my fantasy itch would be something like Warcry.
I am pretty sure that I am in those messaging groups you mention. And I play Warcrow. And at least other person from my local 10 player Warcrow community I am pretty sure he is in at least one of those groups. Warcrow is a fantastic game, and a perfect successor for my old 'Confrontation' needs.
but with oldhammer, you certainly know that you have already a comunity ready to play. And that happens in many places. people play GW, Magic or nothing. In my area, it happened with infinity, it happened with Xwing, it happened with Shatterpoint. Im in a 100K city, and im the only one playing something that is not GW. About Warcrow, some Infinity players i usually meet in tournaments, tried Warcrow. No one got really interested. They defined the game as boring, filled with silly decisions and uninteresting in both rules and lore, plus the low count on factions and units for that factions... And 3 guys saying I play warcrow here in the forums are equivalent to... i dont know, 5% of the infinity playerbase?
Now do you, if the game - and models for it - were effectively "dead, never to return" for 9 years? People might have been playing "GW" for those 9 years, but a 40k player is not the same as WFB / "oldhammer" player. Different lore, different models, different mechnaics. Same for AoS. Same for Underworlds. And Killteam. Show me where that big bad Warcrow touched you, poor thing... Seriously, man, why are you so jaded about it? People play what they want to play. I absolutely do consider GW to be a waste of time, but there are loads of folks who enjoy their games. Bah, in my community there is a group of folks who enjoy Battletech. Do they hurt anybody with their hobby? No. So let them be. Same with Warcrow.
Please, can we stop talking about Warcrow in the Infinity news thread? I keep checking this thread and getting disappointed.
