Thanks for the vote of confidence ..... BUT ....
I just need to correct you a little bit.
Hastings dealt in facts ... he was correct 99% of the time.
I have always death in scraps of information that I try and put together like the pieces of a jigsaw ... except I am missing most of the pieces and have no picture to work from.
As a result their are some solid facts .... (I didn't just pluck "The End Times" and Glotkin out of thin air) but their is also an awful lot of guesswork based on incomplete information.
Anyone buying or selling armies based on anything I have to say is on dodgy ground.
But what I make of the scraps I have picked up is that the next edition will be based in the post 'End times' Warhammer world ... with the timeline advanced a good bit and after much of the world and the people as we know them have been wiped away.
However, the whole thing about combined armies into a few books could all be scraps of info about the End times books we are seeing now and Warhammer in the future will continue as if none of this has ever happened. Like it did after the Storm of Chaos.
Either scenario fits the scraps of info I have been talking about for the last 18 months.
Even the Chaos Vs Humans box set. Could be the next edition. Could be some sort of 'End Times' box set.
What do I know? Remaining firmly stuck between the old guard rumormonger and loony bin catagory as I am.