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The Warhammer world is a place riven by relentless warfare and the corrupting power of dark magic. It’s a place where vile creatures and titanic monsters roam the lands, where vast armies of evil warriors unleash slaughter upon their victims and only the unceasing valour of the forces of Order prevent the whole world slipping away into chaos and death.Amidst this tapestry of conflict and carnage are races fair and foul, warriors chivalrous and brutal. These are the combatants who fight for dominance of the world. From the blasted north come warmongering tribes of Chaos Warriors, armour-clad barbarians who have thrown their lot in with the Dark Gods of Chaos. In the Badlands gather the greenskinned marauders known as the Orcs and Goblins, vicious, brutal creatures whose insatiable lust for war grows almost as quickly as their vast numbers. Beneath the cities of the civilised realms nestle the repulsive ratmen, subhuman creatures whose machinations spread disease and distrust – these are the Skaven and they wish only to destroy and dominate all others. Even the forests of the Old World are not safe, for the trees themselves are things of malign presence and the Beastmen dwell within, the children of Chaos – braying beasts who crave slaughter and the chance to enact their savagery on the civilised races.
The Warhammer world is a place where you must bury your dead deeply, for Necromancers and Vampires raise the legions of undeath in their war against the living. Far away in the south the legendary kings of a long-dead kingdom now awaken, leaving their vast tomb cities to wage war upon all under the sun, their skeletal legions a chilling parody of their once glittering majesty.
All these examples of horror are enough to cause weaker hearts to quail, but there are those who resist the darkness, kingdoms and realms that fight for survival. The Empire, greatest of all the nations of Men musters regiments of brave soldiers. Armed with faith in Sigmar, their warrior god, and with tempered steel and black powder weapons they defend their lands. South and east of the Empire lies Bretonnia, a land of chivalry and noble tradition. There, bold knights harken the call of their mighty king and ride out to crusade against the monsters of the Old World. Dwarfs, in their mountain strongholds, are as unyielding as the stone around them as they battle above and below the ground. Loyal allies, but terrible enemies, the Dwarfs are brave-hearted and steadfast as they protect their once-great realm.
In far-off lands the Elves fight out their bitter blood feud against one another – a mighty civilisation that spanned the continents but is now riven with strife and betrayal. Perhaps the greatest warriors in all the world, their numbers are now few and too many of those that remain are lost each day in the unending war between Ulthuan and Naggaroth.
This is a world where victory and death rest upon a knife-edge and the fate of the world, be it damnation or salvation, will soon be decided.
Warhammer, the Game of Fantasy Battles will be released in July. The preparation for this date has been a time of great excitement here in the Studio as we have lavished detail, care and attention onto the rulebook and the fantastic Citadel miniatures range that it accompanies.
Now is the time to gather your regiments, paint your armies and prepare for a battle like never before. If you have a Warhammer army, dust it off and finish up those last few models. If you’ve always been tempted to collect a force there really has never been a better time to start! Warhammer is coming and it’s going to be great.
This is all from the newsletter GW sent out. So july 10th a new edition of warhammer will be relased. So far we are very light on details, what we know so far is that there will be large changes to the magic system and the way certain units rank up. They are also reintroducing the % system. So nolonger will people spend over half there points on just uber lords and heroes, core units will play a larger roll. I am happy about this but alot of people arnt. I was always put off a bit by WFB due to its Herohammer nature. I dont like spending alot of points on each unit, I just cant have a Lord that is around 700 points in a 2000 pt army, it just feels wrong to me, but each to there own.
We also know the starter set will include Skaven and High Elfs.
The main bit of news I am happy about is the book is going to be 528 pages. Now the current book is only 270 so there is an extra 258 pages. Alot of rumours about what will be including, such as Ravening Hordes style lists or rules for sieges, navel battles etc.
It could also just be more fluff and hobby bits. But I think it will be missions,in 7th edition WFB only has one type of mission pitched battle, GW said they would like to fix this, and right now the rumour is the book will include 15 missions.
I think I may use the lauch of this new edition to make a WFB army. I do own 3000pts of empire I got cheap but I havent touch them and I am looking to sell.
Right now non of the WFB armies really stand out for me.
The thing I find odd is that the Beasts of Chaos book just came out, so there cant be to many large changes to the rules or this book would be pointless. Now before 5th edition W40k came out we saw a few strange rules in the newer books such as Daemons which only made sense when the new edition came out, I dont think there are any of those in the beast book.
Back in 4th edition the first Vampire Counts book came out then 4 months later 5th edition WFB and then GW brought out a 5th VC book a month later which pissed alot people off.
So will be intresting to see how the new edition balances the books as right now WFB is pretty much unplayable if you dont play DOC,VC or DE.
