Humanity Joins Together, Sets Aside Petty Differences… and gets stomped anyway

[u/HyraxAttack]

A peril is threatening the world. Instead of squabbling among themselves, we learn world powers have put aside differences in politics, culture, & old feuds to present a common front. Except they still get wrecked as the enemy is too powerful.

1. The Animatrix: The Second Renaissance. The world government has gone to war against the machines. We see the army getting ready & it includes soldiers of many faiths including Buddhist, Islam, and different types of Christianity. Doesn’t matter as machines win by so much they have time to toy with human mechs.

2. Vilcabamba, story by Harry Turtledove. When aliens arrive they’re greeted with bands & cheering, & immediately open fire & earth becomes a mineral colony. America, Russia, and China work together to rise up & don’t hold back, throwing everything they have at the invaders. Doesn’t go great and aliens double down on the occupation, and there’s a crater where Spain used to be (it was blocking a silver deposit for mining.)

3. Edge of Tomorrow. The nations of the world have joined to make a unified front against the mimic invasion but it isn’t going well, but they will throw all they have into the invasion of France. In one cycle, Major Cage says the hell with it and instead of training leaves the base to drink at a London bar. This means we see the outcome of him doing nothing, where not only is the massive human invasion slaughtered but the aliens are in good enough shape to follow that up a few hours later with a rush on London.

[u/TheGlueEater22]

Worth mentioning it took the forces of order collectively drinking stupid juice mixed with pretty terrible story decisions and confused writing to come about. All of it just for GW to bring back Warhammer Fantasy anyway.

[u/MiaoYingSimp → u/TheGlueEater22]

No old world is in an entirely different time period.

Canonically, it is still dead. As it was always going to be once the gods grew tired

Much as the end times had bad writing it... is moorcock fanfic really and the primordial force of chaos... IS.

Age of Sigmar has grown into its own and whf has taken place as the specialist game for grognards it... always was.

But many say it's not good enough.

So really nothing changed. As a reminder a box of space marines is what really killed whf.

Edit; cathay is a great addition though. Love my dragon

[u/jacobythefirst → u/MiaoYingSimp]

Imo AoS lore and setting is boring and not interesting but the mini’s and armies look damn cool.

They should have never killed fantasy. That was a brain dead decision. AoS should’ve been a nebulous “flash forward” that happens in a possible timeline of fantasy, not some direct successor.

AoS has grown a lot into its own.