Miscellaneous Warhammer Thread

[lordroel]

Jul 20, 2020 1:26:02 GMT Zyobot said:

Now this one's much less grimdark than what's usually par for the setting. But just to throw some more humor into the mix:

40k Gods Portayed By Spongebob

Not going to like this, unless it was in the Frivolous Miscellaneous Warhammer Thread.

[Zyobot]

Jul 20, 2020 4:08:58 GMT lordroel said:

Jul 20, 2020 1:26:02 GMT Zyobot said:

Now this one's much less grimdark than what's usually par for the setting. But just to throw some more humor into the mix:

40k Gods Portayed By Spongebob

Not going to like this, unless it was in the Frivolous Miscellaneous Warhammer Thread.

Noted. I suppose you'd like me to refrain from posting more of these Warhammer 40K portrayals by Spongebob, then?

[lordroel]

Jul 20, 2020 17:03:43 GMT Zyobot said:

Jul 20, 2020 4:08:58 GMT lordroel said:

Not going to like this, unless it was in the Frivolous Miscellaneous Warhammer Thread.

Noted. I suppose you'd like me to refrain from posting more of these Warhammer 40K portrayals by Spongebob, then?

Hé is on my list of most annoying characters ever made, so yes if it is possible, more warhammer, less sponge bob.

[Zyobot]

Jul 20, 2020 17:22:18 GMT lordroel said:

Jul 20, 2020 17:03:43 GMT Zyobot said:

Noted. I suppose you'd like me to refrain from posting more of these Warhammer 40K portrayals by Spongebob, then?

Hé is on my list of most annoying characters ever made, so yes if it is possible, more warhammer, less sponge bob.

Understood; in which case, I suppose that 'Ork Klans Portrayed By Spongebob' is off the list, then. To post something appropriately serious and epic this time, though:

BFG2 - Fall of Cadia

[lordroel]

Jul 20, 2020 17:25:01 GMT Zyobot said:

Jul 20, 2020 17:22:18 GMT lordroel said:

Hé is on my list of most annoying characters ever made, so yes if it is possible, more warhammer, less sponge bob.

Understood; in which case, I suppose that 'Ork Klans Portrayed By Spongebob' is off the list, then. To post something appropriately serious and epic this time, though:

BFG2 - Fall of Cadia

Epic always counters a Sponge Bob, nice.

[Zyobot]

Just imagine this happening to you out of the blue. Because within the Warhammer 40K universe, I'm pretty sure it's an everyday occurrence throughout the Imperium of Man.

Warhammer 40K Mechanicus Animation

[Zyobot]

Here's another game-play update for the ninth edition.

HUGE Terrain Improvements in 9th Edition Warhammer 40K

[lordroel]

Jul 23, 2020 2:53:26 GMT Zyobot said:

Here's another game-play update for the ninth edition.

HUGE Terrain Improvements in 9th Edition Warhammer 40K

I would love to have the Warhammer figure but i fear they are not going to look nice as i am a bad painter.

[Zyobot]

Jul 23, 2020 3:52:30 GMT lordroel said:

Jul 23, 2020 2:53:26 GMT Zyobot said:

Here's another game-play update for the ninth edition.

HUGE Terrain Improvements in 9th Edition Warhammer 40K

I would love to have the Warhammer figure but i fear they are not going to look nice as i am a bad painter.

That's too bad. For me, I've floated the idea of buying a couple of figurines and some game-play guides for myself, though costliness and the speed at which said interest vanishes has prevented me from committing as of late. Never mind the fact that as of right now, I don't know who else I could potentially play with.

For more content, though, here's another ninth edition update that breaks down the new mechanics and whatnot.

BIG Changes in Army Building in 9th Edition Warhammer 40K

[stevep]

Jul 23, 2020 16:54:12 GMT Zyobot said:

Jul 23, 2020 3:52:30 GMT lordroel said:

I would love to have the Warhammer figure but i fear they are not going to look nice as i am a bad painter.

That's too bad. For me, I've floated the idea of buying a couple of figurines and some game-play guides for myself, though costliness and the speed at which said interest vanishes has prevented me from committing as of late. Never mind the fact that as of right now, I don't know who else I could potentially play with.

For more content, though, here's another ninth edition update that breaks down the new mechanics and whatnot.

BIG Changes in Army Building in 9th Edition Warhammer 40K

  Zyobot,

  I presume your aware there are on-line options?  At least for the Fantasy WH, not sure about the 40K one.  If your not committed to table top gaming, which can be expensive there is a TW [Total War] version, see Total_War:_Warhammer_II for more details, although that seems to allow only a few player races.  Looking at the previous WHTW that does allow different races but again with a relatively limited number of player options.  Plus as general with Warhammer other options if your prepared to pay for them.

  I'm mainly interested in LotR based TW at the moment but at least some of the people posting videos of that are playing WH as well so if you have a look you can find YouTube campaigns which might show you more about the gameplay.

  Steve

[lordroel]

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[simon darkshade]

I've been giving some thought of late to a re-imagining or alternate version of the Warhammer Fantasy 'Old World' setting.

For me, the grimdark tone and frequent voyages into self parody detracted from what was a very good idea. Apart from these meta-issues, my overall views are:

- It combines fantasy and Earth parallels very well, but in some areas goes overboard
- The 'European' portion of The Old World seems rather too small
- Apart from The Empire, the other countries are, at best, an afterthought
- It can be very much characterised as at the low end of high fantasy
- The grimdark atmosphere is very much rooted in the 1980s. There is no triumph to be had, only a slow, inevitable loss to the forces of Chaos
- The elves are close to irrelevant, the dwarves a shadow of their former might, dragons an afterthought and the likes of trolls and ogres simply jokes
- The Renaissance/late Medieval mixture of technology and social developments is promising
- 'North America' is simply turned into a nightmare realm of the Dark Elves

My changes, or 'The Olde World'

- Not a Grimdark setting, nor a Noblebright one, but Nobledark: The world is incredibly dangerous and twisted, but there is good and it can win through the efforts of the valiant and heroic. Not everyone is cynical or corrupt.
- A larger Europe area containing more distinct countries/states
- The Great Ocean is much, much wider
- The Empire has 12 separate lands
- Mordheim not being hit by a comet
- Sylvania not completely ruled by vampires
- Albion is remodelled as an Arthurian/medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom, rather than a blasted barbaric wasteland
- The Wasteland becomes a more expansive analogue of the Low Countries and a player in its own right; very much inspired by the Early Modern Netherlands of @. More of the initial Westerland.
- Norsca is not completely chaotic, but is a mixture of chaotic barbarian tribes in the north and good kingdoms in the south and on the coast
- Sticking up towards Norsca is the Kingdom of Daneland, a rugged yet rich peninsula that is a combination of the Hanseatic League and medieval Denmark
- An analogue to Switzerland in a noble, democratic principality stuck between Bretonnia and the Empire
- The Border Princes become a closer analogue to South Eastern Europe/the Balkans, with some specific states
- As well as Estalia and Tilea (Spain and Italy), there is a kingdom which is the remnant of a fallen empire, Hellasium. It is an equivalent to the Byzantine Empire, with the once thriving city of Magnapolis a shadow of its former glory
- Across a narrow strait lies Hattusa, or a version of Anatolia. It is beset on its eastern border by the Badlands
- Between Hattusa, the Badlands and Nehekhara is a small, fertile area ruled by Crusaders; I'm yet to come up with a name, but something similar to Outremer could work
- Araby takes on a far more powerful and sophisticated character
- Ind, Nippon and Cathay are far more detailed and powerful
- A vast uncivilised waste lies north of the Darklands, Barbaricum, populated by human tribes not all corrupted by Chaos. They are a mix of good, evil and large amounts of neutral/self interested. Parallels to Conan.
- The Eastern Steppes are ruled by Hobgoblin Khanate and other groups.
- North of that are the Northlands, occupied by the Kurgans and other classical Warhammer Chaos Warrior/barbarian groups
- The Chaos Wastes are separated from Barbaricum and Norsca by an icy sea
- A much bigger Mesoamerica between Lustria and the northern continent of the New World

I'll expand further as I develop the ideas.

[jbg]

New member here.

Hi Simon and Lordroel.

I was involved at the dawn of 40K/Warhammer.

Then there was very little backstory. I suspect it was the first generation of the gaming rules. It was a combination of a table game, with appropriate scenery, and something interesting for model makers. I am more in the latter category with those I gamed with split between the two. So it transpired that I have a large, tooled up, Space Wolves army and a Warhammer Chaos Dwarves army. IMHO opinion the latter is crap. Their best troops were hobgoblins….they were re based for Hordes of the Things.

Stored away here are Eldar, Space Orks, Tyrannids, High Elves, Orks and goblins. And lots of terrain, buildings etc.

I am going to have to go back to all the backstory links etc here as that was really missing in the early days.

Jonathan

[lordroel]

Dec 13, 2021 3:44:14 GMT jbg said:

New member here.

Hi Simon and Lordroel.

I was involved at the dawn of 40K/Warhammer.

Then there was very little backstory. I suspect it was the first generation of the gaming rules. It was a combination of a table game, with appropriate scenery, and something interesting for model makers. I am more in the latter category with those I gamed with split between the two. So it transpired that I have a large, tooled up, Space Wolves army and a Warhammer Chaos Dwarves army. IMHO opinion the latter is crap. Their best troops were hobgoblins….they were re based for Hordes of the Things.

Stored away here are Eldar, Space Orks, Tyrannids, High Elves, Orks and goblins. And lots of terrain, buildings etc.

I am going to have to go back to all the backstory links etc here as that was really missing in the early days.

Jonathan

Welcome aboard jbg .

Love Warhammer but the only shop that sold them in my town closed a couple of years ago, thus also the only place you can play it, so i never could start with it, plus i do not think i can paint the figures well enough they look nice.

[simon darkshade]

I’ve never played Warhammer Fantasy or 40k. My exposure to the world came via Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay in 1992 and subsequent reading of some of the novels. I had heard of 40k from gaming catalogues, but in the pre Internet days there was no way to expand on that knowledge short of buying the games.

In late 1995, the bottom fell out of the gaming market in SA very, very quickly. A bookstore went from carrying a large shelf of RPGs and AD&D material to nothing, the two dedicated games stores shut, newsagents dropped Dragon Magazine seemingly overnight and all without any real explanation. I now know that CCGs like Magic had a quite deadly effect on the industry and ended up killing a number of major companies. So no hint of Warhammer for a few years.

In 2001, I got my first Internet enabled computer and was able to look things up, including Warhammer. I got a gist of what WFB was about and found out a little more about 40K. I later heard about it more while working, but to this day, have still never played it.

I guess that is why my interest is a bit more “story based” than derived from WFB.