Spoilers: The fourth-edition starter and the 2020 pack; no campaign ending.
A cardboard goblin in the starter
Warhammer Community's 1 February 2023 piece remembers Grom as a cardboard cut-out in the starter set for the fourth edition. He led goblin spearmen against the High Elves of Ulthuan. The piece opposite him was Eltharion the Grim on a gryphon. Grom's model of the scene is a chariot pulled by three wolves, with a standard bearer named Niblet.
The article says some consider him the first true special character. A footnote on the same page says others name Heinrich Kemmler. That is the article's own split. It is not a ruling that one of them holds the title. The chariot, the wolves, and Niblet belong to that starter. They are the tabletop picture the later game still echoes when Grom fights from a chariot.
The Warden and the Paunch
The 7 May 2020 FAQ announces the pack for Eye of the Vortex and Mortal Empires. Eltharion leads Yvresse. Grom leads the Broken Axe Tribe. The two are not in the Vortex race. The FAQ calls them eternal nemeses on a collision course. Release is given as 21 May 2020. In Immortal Empires the ownership route is still that Warhammer II lord pack.
The campaign's own tool is the Cauldron. Ingredients become dishes, and the Troll Hag Food Merchant widens what he can cook. Scrap and Waaagh! remain the race tools underneath. Skarsnik is the other goblin Legendary Lord: Eight Peaks and orc recruitment, not a pot. A dish the player cooks is this campaign's planning. It is not a replay of the fourth-edition starter.
Nemeses, and a war the player still fights
The collision course is the pack's premise. Eye of the Vortex and Mortal Empires were the campaigns named in 2020. Immortal Empires is the later combined map, and the same ownership unlocks Grom there. Where the two lords meet on that map is play. The FAQ does not hand either of them a finished ending.
Grimgor and Azhag come from the first game. Gorbad is the later planner. Wurrzag's free routes include this same Warden and the Paunch pack, which is an ownership fact and not a claim that the prophet shares the cauldron. Grom's battlefield job stays the chariot: hit, leave, and let the infantry hold what he just struck.
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Sources
- 40 years of Warhammer: Grom the Paunch — warhammer-community.com
- The Warden & The Paunch FAQ — totalwar.com
- SEGA Immortal Empires ownership guide — support.sega.com
- The Warden & The Paunch — store.steampowered.com