The Witcher Cast Is Slowly Becoming Warhammer’s Biggest Ambassadors

Games Workshop finds itself in one thing of an ungainly place because it tries, in methods it has hardly ever been capable of over the a long time regardless of its gaming success, to deliver the worlds of Warhammer and Age of Sigmar to a wider public consciousness. It’s acquired streaming providers, comics, video games, a determined try to cease interesting to fascists: and but by some means the perfect assist is likely to be coming from past the grim darkish future.

Speaking on The Witcher Unlocked, Netflix’s post-show breakdown particular for the second season of its fantasy saga, Henry Cavill as soon as once more mentioned the truth that he’s a large nerd, however extra particularly, a large nerd for Warhammer 40,000, the futuristic iteration of Games Workshop’s fantastical technique tabletop video games. Expected by his colleagues at this level—as fellow co-stars Freya Allan and Anya Chalotra braced themselves with a giggle for the approaching nerd-out—as Cavill started speaking about his ardour for the sport, surprisingly the person behind Geralt of Rivia discovered himself interrupted… by a bard.

Well, by Joey Batey, the person behind stated Bard, who chimed in so as to add that it’s not simply Cavill who’s nerding out about plastic area individuals in his down time. Batey is likewise a very long time fan of the sport, and appears like he’s itching to pitch Cavill’s Adeptes Custodes up towards an incoming power of Necrons—a number of skeletal robots who spent billions of years sleeping on “Tomb Worlds” in stasis earlier than re-awakening to forge their empire anew. Lovely! But except for the duo attempting and failing to persuade their co-stars to hitch them of their tabletop crusades, it’s truthfully form of superb that that is possibly the perfect PR Games Workshop have had in years when it comes to the general public consciousness of the sport.

Don’t get me flawed, GW has been attempting very exhausting to deliver Warhammer to new audiences currently, past the power of the tabletop video games themselves. There’s the plans to show Eisenhorn right into a TV collection, the branching out of its comedian e-book deal to work with Marvel on a number of collection. Sure, Warhammer+ may very a lot be hyper-aimed at followers of Warhammer on the tabletop greater than it’s a wider viewers, however because it establishes itself it looks like a viable platform for Games Workshop to deliver non-gamers on board with because it grows. But none of that’s maybe going to have the attain of one of many greatest motion stars on the planet proper now, and stars of one in every of Netflix’s greatest hits, simply casually speaking in regards to the plans for his or her subsequent military or two (a Warhammer fan can by no means merely simply have one). Maybe they’ll have extra individuals tossing a coin to Games Workshop to hitch them, if solely to grasp what the fuss is all about.

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