The Mythic developers have been having a little fun with the blogosphere over the last two weeks, sending out clippers and movies hinting at what might be coming down the pipe for Warhammer Online. Despite the teasing, it looks like fan supposition about what these gag gifts mean was entirely accurate. Today we’ve been walking through a discussion we had with Mythic’s Jeff Hickman, and he confirmed that the Dwarf Slayer and Orc Choppa are indeed going to WAR.

In fact, the very first event in the Call to Arms live event expansion will be Bitter Rivals, an event much like the one that introduced the Blackguard and Knight of the Blazing Sun to the game late last year. Join us below the cut as we talk to Jeff about the new classes, the event that will introduce them, and how Bitter Rivals differs from the much-beloved Heavy Metal live event.

Warhammer Executive Producer Jeff Hickman: The first part of our Call to Arms event is something we’re calling “Bitter Rivals” … it’s similar in function to the Heavy Metal event. That event was very well received by the players, and this one is going to play out similarly. We didn’t want to deviate a whole bunch from Heavy Metal, but there are a bunch of little things we’re doing in Bitter Rivals that make it feel different than our last class introduction.

One of the biggest successes of Heavy Metal was the preview of the Reikland Steam Tank Factory scenario. We put it in, and then we took it back out. We have another new scenario we’re going to preview for everybody during Bitter Rivals, and it’s called Twisting Tower. It’s a scenario that takes place in the Chaos Wastes. The opposite of Reikland. It’s a scenario you’ll be able to play during the event, and then will probably go away for at least a little while after the event ends.