There seems to be quite a lot of lore sat behind this game and I know absolutely nothing about the Warhammer world at all.

Are there any good books that could give me a decent background to the world of warhammer at all? Preferable something that I can just get off amazon as I get twitchy walking past games workshop, I'm still convinced that they are some sort of peado farm...

It can't be too engrossing though incase I turn into Cal and start trying to convince everyone we should go to an RP server

beware that you're about to enter a realm that is as anal about fluff as some of those bad trekkie fellas you see @ conventions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer_Fantasy_(setting)

That's got a good introduction and overview. I'd only dip in if I were you - the game setting is literally massive.

You've got the following races:

Elves (High Elves, Wood Elves, Dark Elves high elves ponce about cities, wood elves ponce about in the woods and dark elves ponce about stabbing people)

Orcs & Goblins (Fucktons of tribes of the buggers, spread throughout the old world, some live in former Dwarf Cities which is the root of the Orcs & Goblins vs Dwarfs thing)

Dwarfs (couple of mobs of these boys - mainly live close to the mountains where the orcs live. There are chaos dwarves who've fallen to the dark side so to speak - but they're rare)

Empire - based around germany - humans - lots of the fuckers.

Bretonnia - based around the french - humans - lots of the fuckers

Slann - lizard men - live in Lustria (South America - equatorial regions of the warhammer world)

kislevites (Vikings / kossovans) feckers who live in ze north of the warhammer world - humans - lots of the fuckers

Skaven - Ratmen - they live under ground and can pop up everywhere - evil little fuckers they are

Undead (have necromancer, will raise undead) - again - can rise up anywhere and everywhere

Chaos...

Chaos is huge - just about every destruction race has worked with or for chaos over the years. In Warhammer Online they use Tzeentch I think. The main reason for this is that the various chaos followers are as likely to fight each other as anyone else.

Tzeentch (lord of change) is the chaos god of magic.
Nurgle (Pestillence) Chaos god of disease - hates tzeentch and vice versa
Khorne is the chaos god of blood and murder - his followers tend to have fuck all magic but hit like freight trains
Slaanesh - depravity and perversion - fast and sexeh! Hate Khorne and vice versa

The game world is dark. The good guys are zealots, the bad guys are mass-murdering monsters. The whole premise is that good are failing, with every incursion the forces of destruction seem to get stronger and do more damage. If you've read the wheel of time - think the borderlands and the blight for the Chaos Wastes and the regions of the empire that are subsumed.

It's a pretty good setting tbh - it's definitely all about conflict and war and quite armageddon-esque

M

Book list, not sure if its all but looks to be a lot of them

Armies
If you go to the main page u can get more info about each one, their are usually links to articles and some free lore if you poke around on them.

The War of the Beard is one of the main storylines and covers a lot of the background around dwarfs and elf’s.

http://uk.games-workshop.com/warhammer/brief-guide/1 <<another good place to start too.

The mark of chaos game that came out not long ago is a nice little play and will give u an idea of the feeling of the warhamer world too, or at least the into videos if u find them on the net will.

But theirs a log of good books and well thought out lore, and well amusing parts too.
Goblin shamans heads exploding if they don’t cast their spell right or build up to much power, ork and goblins fighting each other if their leader die’s.

Tbh if I had to pick a race to learn about it would be the orks their by far the funniest.
Dwarfs to follow as their lore can be quite harsh at times, Gortex and Felix being an interesting little read.

And I’m going to stop here; I used to be one of … well them… I’m not going to risk to much time looking at it anymore I might end up going over to the dark said again..

http://www.warpedia.net/Main_Page << just found that

it's too late for me!! run away!!




M

Nice face detailing... I’m trying to resist going to find mine out and post..
As I know I have at least 12 phoenix guard and 5 white lions and some long fangs I never got around to finishing off...

After seeing the posts here, it's not Cal you should worry about I think...

heh goose its not all i bad.

I have around 5 army in total ranging from 1k-3k an still play.

i play these lot

Warhammer - 1 army
Warhammer40k - 2 armys
Bloodbowl - 1 team.
Warmaster - 1 army.

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Lots of money spent

I have 12,000 points of chaos dwarves!
Then a Vampire Counts army
and a chaos undivided army (i just wanted the models)
and a tyranid army
a blood bowl team (dwarves)
a small, half-finished empire army - got bored of them, but lotsa guns
and an escher gang, heavily modified

Fuck yeah, we're a bunch of sad cocks, aren't we?

I blame Neileeeee tbh

Having just returned from an 9 hour company funded drinking session, none of your posts are making sense, but your effort is welcomed.

I'l read them properly in the morning, thanks for taking the time.

EN (it's in the aim)

I'm frightened....



Dude this sounds cool, but after rather a stupid amount of beer, I'm seeing the words and all I'm hearing is this

I damn joo lager 4 I R jinxed...