Abaddon vs Thanos vs Megatron (losers edition)

[Eldan]

The inclusion of Cathay and promotion of Kislev was also because of user metrics.

Basically, most people play the "good guy" factions. The most popular factions in TW1 and 2 are the Empire and High Elves, but the only remaining factions with army books are Daemons of Chaos, Ogre Kingdoms, and Chaos Dwarfs. So they wanted to repeat the pattern of having two good factions at launch, and needed to reach beyond what the tabletop had represented in order to do so.

Huh. That surprises me. That's not at all how I saw it happen in the tabletop. I knew one high elf player and one imperial player, but six or seven chaos warrior players. Dark elves and vampires were also really popular.

Guess the metrics are different among non-tabletoppers.

[GloatingSwine]

It probably depends how old you are as well. I played when I was in school and things leaned Chaos and Undead heavy in our group. (For t'was the days of 4th edition where it was a single Undead list).

I played Skaven.

[lord_khaine]

Yeah im also confused about the idea of people playing the good guys.
Back when i played in 2nd ed. We had a decent amount of chaos players (because they were OP).
And then else a wide spread of everything else.

[The Glyphstone]

When I was in HS, our club had one High Elf player and one Dwarf player (brothers, actually), one Chaos player, one Tomb Kings/Dark Elves player, and one Orcs+Goblins player (myself). So yeah, definitely weighted-average towards 'bad guy' armies there as well.

[GloatingSwine]

Yeah im also confused about the idea of people playing the good guys.
Back when i played in 2nd ed. We had a decent amount of chaos players (because they were OP).
And then else a wide spread of everything else.

It's how things shake out in Total War, and you can see it from the rate of people earning achievements. The rough order of popularity based on how many people have finished a campaign or even done 10 researches for the game 2 factions is High Elves > Lizardmen > Tomb Kings > Dark Elves > Skaven > Vampire Coast.