Warhammer Fantasy General /wfg/

>tfw the filthy gaijin's best weapon is 5 times as heavy, slow, and STILL can't pierce armor or aim well enough to deal crippling wounds with a single strike

Isn't Nippon an island? Would it even have Beastmen outside of the occasional turnskin? Is this why it is able to produce such high quality steel?

I'unno. Maybe there's a huge deposit of fricking gromril there that they're using and won't tell the dorfs about. We know so little about the place that it's possible.

Well real Japan had a shortage of metal, so the stuff they did make they got really good at making. That and the Romantic idea of the samurai as these sword wielding super warriors was popularized. Japanese swords aren't really better than anyone else's, and it's very much the same story as everywhere else as far as weapons go: swords are your small arms that are good in a pinch, but you don't want to rely on them as your primary weapon when bows and spears are much better. Bitches love ceremonial badges of office though.

Old World Armory, yes.

It's from The WFRP Companion

>Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
>GW

Should've at least posted the description from Ogre Kingdoms armybook.

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After I saw this last night, I decided to go back to 1 in order to get all the text dialogue from Vladdy Daddy's quests, only for an update to drop this morning that invalidated all my mods and fucked all my saves. I'm not going to go through all the quests again, I can tell you that, so does anyone have more pictures of the quest steps?

Christ, that was dumb. I had to work to get my players to accept that no, you can't get fucking Impact with no drawbacks.

Tell that to the Elven Great Axe

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Can someone explain to me, what features of the various elves GW stole from the meli-whatchacallit elves from the Elric saga? I get the Tolkien references the various writers and army books throw around, but even after reading about the Elric elves in a wiki it just eludes me.

Cathay is litterally an old name for China.
To be a weeb it has to be about Nippon which is litterally a way of writing Japan in japanese.

0/10 would watch btfo himself again

So what do you give it to balance it out?

This I'm willing to accept, since it's basically a magical weapon and outside all rational availability.

>crafted by the skilled smiths of Cathay and Nippon

Melnibonéans. Their traits are a bit split between dark and high elves, so you can think of Melnibonéans like the elves never split up. Island based nation, with a lot of magic and riches. Dragons living on that nation, mostly sleeping and occasionally waking up so that cool heroes can ride on them. Fading, past glory. Of course this also means less dragons. Helmets with dragon wings or shaped like dragons. Heroes doing drugs because their body is actually kinda weak. Slavery. Some really nasty practices of which torture is one of the most the tamest things. These are more dark elf traits, as well as making pacts with chaos. Though chaos is different in Elrics world.

I love how Cathay has literal "thousand-folded" blades in the Tamurkhan book.

I miss Alan Bligh.

Different person, but I just gave it Tiring.

Elric of Melnibone was a weakling who had to use drugs and a magic sword to get fit, similar to Teclis. Also he's a wizard.

The people are basically a collection of edgy elf stereotypes, which have become stereotypes because everyone uses them and bitching about the originator is kind of fruitless at this point because fantasy is an originality bankrupt genre

Chaos isn't really that different. Magic spewing chaos gods who mutate people for shits and giggles before devouring the world in a cacophony of weird shit.

Hell, it fits entirely in to Moorcocks chaos due to the whole "some gods are super powerful in one world but weak shits in others".

Give me a moment I can get them all for you

Still waiting on news for the Mortal Empires campaign for Total War.

My wild speculations tells me that it will be atleast a month if not more before that shit is released. Allthough probably not too long time as Norsca won't be in it at 'launch'.

Which is a shame because Norsca was fun.

The most amusing thing about the Book of Five Rings was that Miyamoto Musashi wrote that the best weapon you could have was a gun. The bow was good as a horseback weapon, and had the advantage that you could adjust your shots afterwards.

Still has Cathay in the desc. And if Nippon is basically Japan, then it's still Chinese since a lot of the good shit produced by Japan came from Japan trying to out-Chinese China.

The exotic value alone will make it valuable, combined with techniques that notAsia may use to preserve the sharpness of the blade that notEuro swords don't have. And I don't mean to say it like weebshit is superior, but that they have access to things that weren't discovered by their western counterparts.

Like this compound discovered in the tomb of Emperor Qin that coated ancient Chinese swords to prevent rusting thousands of years. before anyone else discovered it. Maybe Cathayan blades have this same compound so it doesn't have to rely on magic to keep itself in pristine shape.

Well yeah, the gun was a new fangled thing that was super awesome for the Japanese. It was basically the first westaboo.

Anyone else has a crush on this masked dark elf cutie general from total war 2?

I just wanna pop in and say that Chaos in TW2 is the biggest load of shit
>Playing Morathi
>Naturally, Chaos shitter pops up
>Send the Morathi army (With the Hydra, three Darkshards, and four Dreadspears), on top ofa slightly wounded army about 3/4 her size
>Figure by numbers alone I outflank and can out-Morale the enemy
>They have two units of Chosen
>Out of all of their units
>Out of the Chaos Spawn
>Out of the Chaos Trolls
>Out of their Lord himself
>These fucking Chosen are utterly fucking retarded
>They don't break
>They shrug off the Hydra's fire with their health bar not even moving
>These two fucking units of Chosen turn what at the very least should have been an even fight into a decisive loss
Fuck Chaos.

WHITELIONED.com

>laughing Skaven.jpg

The masketta elf?

>55734370
you are supposed to use crossbowmen and debuff them
look at how cute she is, I wish I was her slave

hah

Here you go. All of Vlad's Quests text Dialogue, Chapter objective text Dialogue, and Isabella's Quest Dialogue

this one

Chosen are the strongest infantry in the series. They fuck Saruas. They fuck swordmasters. They fuck greatsword. Their Chaos's only saving grace., because the faction is very lacking in comparison to Norsca otherwise.

Can someone post a screencap of her from battle view?

You've gone above and beyond, user. Vladdy Daddy thanks you!

I looked over their stats in the rematch. They have more Leadership than a fucking Hydra.

chosen job to swordmasters.

When you just run an army of chosen and meme cannons and laugh as they break upon you like water on rocks

I wish I could get WHITELIONED too

I was thinking about how people got mad that katanas in d&d 5e have the same stats as longswords, and how surely Warhammer would correctly portray the deadly accuracy that the blade possesses in reality. I'm glad that Games Workshop is a company that values historical accuracy.

just request somebody to draw a pic of her in the drawfag thread user

now that the dust has settled can we agree that AoS is a flop and WHFB 9th Edition is coming within the next two years?

>I'm glad that Games Workshop is a company that values historical accuracy
They have a 16th century HRE expy in which nobody uses a pike.

link pls

Well, there are certainly pikes. Just not in the Empire

desu pike and shot warfare always seemed kinda lame to me. It's not visceral enough for warhammer

reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/6w13kc/is_this_the_female_dreadlord_model/
Found

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First for Stannis, who -much like the Old World- is still alive in my heart.

The Melniwhatchacallit are a dark-haired frail looking race of slavers that have an empire based on torture and slavery. They believe themselves to be the grandest thing ever, are incredibly proud and arrogant, quite frail, dragon-riding, and are simply 10/10 fit for dark elves.

Like, Dark Elves are melni-I-don't-care with just another name.

>knights

See, that has drawbacks. Two hands to wield, literally priceless to anyone who's not a Elf living on Ulthuan, and liable to provoke all sorts of trouble with its unfamiliar and foreign design. Whereas the Best quality axe is hardly hard to find, lets you use a shield for the free and better Parry, and raises no brows. Still wouldn't let just any player get their hands on one, though.

Best quality hand axes get armor-piercing. They can share that with picks.

monsters don't have much leadership in the game.hydras are specialist troops that can disrupt enemy lines, devastate enemy concentrations with fire and are otherwise coolguys.

At that point, you've just made a flair. A regular flail.

Its not that Best quality weapons shouldn't have an extra little perk, its that Impact is not a "little" perk.

FYI lads, MWG are doing some 6th ed battle reports for a bit. I know they divide opinion on here but it's a fantasy time machine and I'm 13 again. Probably mentioned already but I just found out so maybe you didn't know either

Rules matter less than how much of a tool they are acting like.

3rd ed best ed

I wonder how the metal thing on the underjaw was attached and if it did hurt the poor dinosaur.

Delves probably like their dinos in pain. Makes 'em angrier on the charge.

Got ya covered.

Post your favorite unit, either from the tabletop or TW:W.

Here's mine. I preferred the old look for the Executioners but over the years the new ones have grown on me. I always try to run a Khaine themed list, whether or not it's good for the situation.

There's so many, but these big mad cunts and their handheld cannons get my current vote.

meme armies

So what's the deal with Norsca, what about it would make it hard to put into Mortal Empires?

Pretty sure they start farther North than the other factions, and a lot of their area is gonna be cut out like the Southern parts of Lustria.

It was developed late in 1's cycle, after 2's code had started to diverge noticably. Essentially, they're having to rebuild it for the new game starting last month, instead of starting last year like the other factions.

Lileath is a slut

Khaine themed list sounds awesome.

At some point CA said they intended to include anyone who had an actual army, and Kislev had a full one up until the Storm of Chaos. Excluding them would be a strange choice.

3 is going to need some sort of 'normal' faction, you can't have just 4 flavors of Linkin Park fans and a bunch of giant fat chinks.

Norsca has some unique mechanics, namely monster hunting, which means either they cut that part of the faction out, or they delay launching them with everyone else. Their devotion to the gods mechanic was also tied to Archeon showing up, so how that will function outside of the old world campaign is up for redesign. Then there is general faction balance as they were previously built around only taking control of coastal settlements (and those being pretty bare bones) will have to be reworked with the whole "anyone can capture any settlement" thing.

So you can essentially play as High Elves or Wood Elves in WFRP, do there need to be different rules for playing Dark Elves, or are they similar enough?

>At that point, you've just made a flair. A regular flail.

There's a reason you need a special weapon group to use most of the special trait weapons. Either you pay the premium for a Best hand weapon, or deal with the quirks of a specialty weapon.

You might consider giving it Precise instead, which is a rare and very nice trait. You need to crit someone before it comes into play, but once it does it'll pull its weight.

Dark Elves are basically the same genetically

>Kislev had a full one up until the Storm of Chaos
Not really. The Empire in 5th edition had some Kislevite auxiliaries (Winged Lancers and Ungol Horse Archers) and that's about it.
They got a pseudo-army for the Storm of Chaos which wasn't really viable on its own. It just had Kossars as an infantry unit and Boyars as a hero to allow it to work as an allied army. There was also a Warmaster army with a few more bits.

Nonetheless, that's more than Norsca ever had.

senpai, is this porn?

Not a clue. It's just part of my shrugs.

fuck

Audio book for aenarion was really short. 8 chapters. Anyone have the links, or know which directory the other audio book was in? I know theres only like, 3

What the fuck is a 'ground wyvern?'

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Ground Wyvern or Land Wyvern?

Land, I suppose.

Are karak Ziflin always such backstabbing oath breakers?
>be playing bretonia with conquer everything mod
>remove orc from premise
>raze and settle
>ziflin declares war on me
>probably wants grung zint
>smack him around and take blackstone post
>he wants peace
>make him pay me for it and fuck up mousillon
>confederate bit and go help empire friend removing gobs and goats
>liberate another dwarf hold from greenskins and begin brewing dwarf beer
>ziflin again
>wants a non aggression pact
>k
>he declares war immediately after
>he's now hiding in his last hold surrounded by three stacks of brets waiting him out

Granted he couldn't even take blackstone post back, and I'm really just using it as an excuse to take the whole region and turn it into even more of an industrial powerhouse, but still, I thought dwarves were supposed to be trustworthy.

I'm sure there's a 'make Dwarves trustworthy' mod somewhere.

I find in Total War dwarves that if you get in a war with the dwarves it will either never end or it will end and just start up later.

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