Trivia / Warhammer: Age of Sigmar

• Executive Meddling: Following on the renaming of Imperial Guard to Astra Militarum, all of Warhammer's non-human factions have been renamed so as to be easier to trademark and major character Malekith has been renamed Malerion without an in-universe story for it, other than that he merged with his Black Dragon Seraphon (confusingly also the new faction name of the Lizardmen) with a portmanteau making Malerion.
• Referenced by...: Critical Role used a modified miniature of Nagash for their final battle against Vecna.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Early books had some discrepancies to what the final game actually was:
    • Fyreslayers were initially known as "Red Slayers".
    • Bonesplitterz Wardokks were called "Juju Doks"
    • The Ironblaster was originally mentioned as a Beastclaw Raider unit rather than a Gutbuster one.
    • Promotional pictures implied that Cairn Wraiths and Warrior Priests were changed from being played as standalone heroes to 5-men troops, but the actual rules had them as heroes from the beginning.
  • Age of Sigmar itself was a testbed for 8th edition Warhammer 40k, to see how the community would react to a complete overhaul to both the rules and lore. The less than lukewarm reaction to the first release (with the silly rules and whatnot) ended up causing a lot of things for that to change; specifically not nuking the setting, but still implementing drastic rule changes and including different levels of play.
  • Before the not-Beastclaw Raiders Ogor units got their own Battletome, Gnoblars were just referred as "Grots". Come the Ogor Mawtribes battletome in late 2019, they got their old WHFB name back.

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