Is the Warhammer Online game in any way an attempt to be a translation of the table-top war game?

ComputerandVideoGames.com has posted a preview of the upcoming Warhammer Online Age of Reckoning.

Stood in a large hall, surrounded by empty tables where hundreds of undersized battles have been decided with hundreds of handfuls of dice, I ask Games Workshop's licensing manager Erik Mogensen a question that I know is a stupid one, but I feel I should ask. Is the Warhammer Online game in any way an attempt to be a translation of the table-top war game?

"Not at all. It's not about the table-top game, it's about the IP".

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