Our local meta is crying out loud for them. It would literally double the playerbase! Dwarves have been neglected for too long. It's about time they make their way onto the battlefield!

Im not sure whats with developers and dwarves for these kind of games. Dwarves are awesome but they seem to be neglected in almost every fantasy game.

Dwarves and Orcs would be an awesome addition to this.

Here here!!! Bring em on in!!! Playing dwarves makes me want to drink beer from a stein!

If they bring in dwarves, please don't give them boom sticks (guns). I hate guns in my fantasy games.

Dwarves might just make me break down and buy into this game. Need to see the sculpts though. The Elves started to make me itch for the game but, well, ... their Elves.

I would guess they're going to do another "bad" guy faction next, but hopefully Dwarves will be after that. Would be awesome. Lord Hawthorne looks kinda dwarfy though, so maybe they'll just get mixed in with Daqan?

15 minutes ago, werdnaegni said:

I would guess they're going to do another "bad" guy faction next, but hopefully Dwarves will be after that. Would be awesome. Lord Hawthorne looks kinda dwarfy though, so maybe they'll just get mixed in with Daqan?

Is that "next" after the Elves or after the Uthuk Y'llan? Because we already know the Uthuk Y'llan are supposed to arrive before the end of the year and they are a bad-guy faction.

1 hour ago, Ywingscum said:

Here here!!! Bring em on in!!! Playing dwarves makes me want to drink beer from a stein!

If they bring in dwarves, please don't give them boom sticks (guns). I hate guns in my fantasy games.

Just a warning, dwarves in this universe have been seen with steam drills and other complex machinery so guns wouldn't be completely out of the realm of possibilities. The drills they have in game are more advanced than what humanity historically had at the time we had the first real firearms. It's fantasy though so that may not matter and we haven't seen an actual gun yet (that I'm aware of) in-universe.

53 minutes ago, Budgernaut said:

Is that "next" after the Elves or after the Uthuk Y'llan? Because we already know the Uthuk Y'llan are supposed to arrive before the end of the year and they are a bad-guy faction.

I meant after whatever is after Elves, which I did not know was Uthuk.

But see, I was right!

49 minutes ago, Willange said:

Just a warning, dwarves in this universe have been seen with steam drills and other complex machinery so guns wouldn't be completely out of the realm of possibilities. The drills they have in game are more advanced than what humanity historically had at the time we had the first real firearms. It's fantasy though so that may not matter and we haven't seen an actual gun yet (that I'm aware of) in-universe.

In that case I can wait looong time for dwarves. Nature> Industry

3 hours ago, Kirin said:

Our local meta is crying out loud for them. It would literally double the playerbase! Dwarves have been neglected for too long. It's about time they make their way onto the battlefield!

I'm a stout supporter of the dwarven initiative.

I'm all for as many factions as they can eventually bring, but I think the game will benefit from broadening the options of the four factions first.

The new heroes and command upgrades are nice and will add variety, but right now we're still making armies with 3 main building blocks per faction. I hope to see that go up before thinking about new factions.

I'd love to see Dwarves and Orcs come next, after the elfies and the demon dudes.

3 hours ago, Ywingscum said:

In that case I can wait looong time for dwarves. Nature> Industry

I hate worlds where a thousand plus years go by and the technology level doesn't change.

Dwarves had some advanced tech back in the First Darkness, it has been ages since, I'd expect them to have SOMETHING to show for it.

Though I think Gnomes are probably the more techy.

As for Nature, since when have Dwarves been identified with Nature? Has always been smithing and enchanting, no?

8 minutes ago, Waywardpaladin said:

I hate worlds where a thousand plus years go by and the technology level doesn't change.

Dwarves had some advanced tech back in the First Darkness, it has been ages since, I'd expect them to have SOMETHING to show for it.

Though I think Gnomes are probably the more techy.

As for Nature, since when have Dwarves been identified with Nature? Has always been smithing and enchanting, no?

Sorry I didn't mean to says dwarves are tied to nature.

I like dwarves, especially lord of the rings style dwarves like Gimli. Fighters, drinkers, waters!!! Rowr!

i don't like gun toting dwarves of industry.

I do prefer Elves in general to dwarves, I like the forest dwelling, arrow shooting style. So my comment was more nature I like, industry I don't.

we all have our preferences. If they come out with machines and guns, I just won't get any. If they come out with axes and crossbows, I will get some.

1 hour ago, Waywardpaladin said:

I hate worlds where a thousand plus years go by and the technology level doesn't change.

well....technically mankind didnt really advance all that much until the mid 1800s. Prior to that it was several decades before ANY advancement was discovered/taken advantage of if not longer.

Prior to the invention and common use of gunpowder, not much really could be advanced more than just refinement of old techniques, such as how to forge a sword or string a bow better than your master could.

Old medieval or older ways was basically pure trial and error with little science involved. Now that we have physics backing our theories, ideas become reality much faster.

1 hour ago, Vineheart01 said:

well....technically mankind didnt really advance all that much until the mid 1800s. Prior to that it was several decades before ANY advancement was discovered/taken advantage of if not longer.

Prior to the invention and common use of gunpowder, not much really could be advanced more than just refinement of old techniques, such as how to forge a sword or string a bow better than your master could.

Old medieval or older ways was basically pure trial and error with little science involved. Now that we have physics backing our theories, ideas become reality much faster.

We went from the technology the humans showed in the first Darkness (Things like catapults, steel, full plate and warhorses) to what we have now in about a thousand years.

Greeks had steam engine long before that, first century AD, and possibly earlier than even that, not that they used it for trains or anything. Chinese had rockets by 1200 AD, and 800 years later we're in outer space.

Even then, we advanced from stone, to bronze, and to steel. This was in a world where civilization was piecemeal and each group inventing these things couldn't communicate with each other.

On Terrinoth, all the humans are very close to each other, and they have access to magic, an energy source that might delay things like energy technology because runes are more accessible, but also can spur technology as you have more available energy. Steam engines driven by Fire Rune casters, for example.

2 hours ago, Ywingscum said:

Sorry I didn't mean to says dwarves are tied to nature.

I like dwarves, especially lord of the rings style dwarves like Gimli. Fighters, drinkers, waters!!! Rowr!

i don't like gun toting dwarves of industry.

I do prefer Elves in general to dwarves, I like the forest dwelling, arrow shooting style. So my comment was more nature I like, industry I don't.

we all have our preferences. If they come out with machines and guns, I just won't get any. If they come out with axes and crossbows, I will get some.

Certainly fair enough, I just don't think the game gains anything by having both the Elves and the Dwarves being "natural" and have NO faction that is "industrial".

Is Corbin from Runebound a dwarf? He would be a great hero for the faction.

Is there a saurian/lizardman race? I would buy 12.

19 minutes ago, TallGiraffe said:

Is there a saurian/lizardman race? I would buy 12.

There are 4-armed, 2-legged frog-men. Does that count? But we haven't seen the Mahkim for a very long time (since the original Diskwars). I think it's unlikely we'll see them in Runewars. I think Orcs of the Broken Plains and the Dunwarr Dwarves are the mostly likely options for new factions, and I don't think FFG can handle supporting more than 6 factions. In fact, I think they'll be taxed at just keeping the first 4 updated.

11 hours ago, Tekwych said:

Dwarves might just make me break down and buy into this game. Need to see the sculpts though. The Elves started to make me itch for the game but, well, ... their Elves.

You're in the same boat as me. I was looking at elves and thought "Hey, they look interesting. Maybe this will be where I'll start playing elves." But then my irrational hatred of elves popped into my brain and says "but they're elves, laddie."

The voice also may or may not have a dwarven accent.

Back on topic though, and it may sound weird, but I hope they look a lot like Warhammer Dwarves before AoS.

3 hours ago, Budgernaut said:

There are 4-armed, 2-legged frog-men. Does that count? But we haven't seen the Mahkim for a very long time (since the original Diskwars). I think it's unlikely we'll see them in Runewars. I think Orcs of the Broken Plains and the Dunwarr Dwarves are the mostly likely options for new factions, and I don't think FFG can handle supporting more than 6 factions. In fact, I think they'll be taxed at just keeping the first 4 updated.

The Mahkim showed up in the Mists of Zanaga expansion for Runebound, so they're still there.

I would very much like Mahkim or Dragonkin at some point.

Mark the date, I'm placing a bet: we'll have at least news of a dwarf hero or character that can ally with Daqan and Latari within 18 months. We won't have a dwarf army for years, if ever.

I can see Dwarves and Gnomes being in the same faction, Dunwarr. I would like to see ORcs too, because I think the Orcs of the Broken Plains would be variant enough to offer their own faction.

9 hours ago, Enfid said:

You're in the same boat as me. I was looking at elves and thought "Hey, they look interesting. Maybe this will be where I'll start playing elves." But then my irrational hatred of elves popped into my brain and says "but they're elves, laddie."

The voice also may or may not have a dwarven accent.

Back on topic though, and it may sound weird, but I hope they look a lot like Warhammer Dwarves before AoS.

Exactly where I stand, what looks like crazy mobility like awesome, but where are the dwarves!

I don't think we'll see more than 4 factions, and the other issue is buy in, if they try to add one too late, people might be too mentally locked in to bother much with it.