Image 1 — One of the more distinctive and narrative of the Middlehammer battle reports - Coils of the Serpent. A Lizardmen army surrounds an outnumbered alliance of Skaven and Nurgle. These are still my favourite Lizardmen minis.
Image 2 — One of the more distinctive and narrative of the Middlehammer battle reports - Coils of the Serpent. A Lizardmen army surrounds an outnumbered alliance of Skaven and Nurgle. These are still my favourite Lizardmen minis.
Image 3 — One of the more distinctive and narrative of the Middlehammer battle reports - Coils of the Serpent. A Lizardmen army surrounds an outnumbered alliance of Skaven and Nurgle. These are still my favourite Lizardmen minis.
Image 4 — One of the more distinctive and narrative of the Middlehammer battle reports - Coils of the Serpent. A Lizardmen army surrounds an outnumbered alliance of Skaven and Nurgle. These are still my favourite Lizardmen minis.
Image 5 — One of the more distinctive and narrative of the Middlehammer battle reports - Coils of the Serpent. A Lizardmen army surrounds an outnumbered alliance of Skaven and Nurgle. These are still my favourite Lizardmen minis.
Image 6 — One of the more distinctive and narrative of the Middlehammer battle reports - Coils of the Serpent. A Lizardmen army surrounds an outnumbered alliance of Skaven and Nurgle. These are still my favourite Lizardmen minis.
Image 7 — One of the more distinctive and narrative of the Middlehammer battle reports - Coils of the Serpent. A Lizardmen army surrounds an outnumbered alliance of Skaven and Nurgle. These are still my favourite Lizardmen minis.
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One of the more distinctive and narrative of the Middlehammer battle reports - Coils of the Serpent. A Lizardmen army surrounds an outnumbered alliance of Skaven and Nurgle. These are still my favourite Lizardmen minis.

u/FlandersClaret — 6 days ago
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What is your favourite old school Warhammer diorama? Mine has always been the Lizardman vs Estalians, but the Warhammer Quest one had so much detail. I'd love to see them in real life.

I especially like the Estalian minis from the Empire range. The combat between the Pistolier and the Saurus warrior.

u/FlandersClaret — 20 days ago

The aesthetic of the new Barrow Kingdoms list, whilst mostly Tomb Kings, might point towards those who lived during the Old World's 'bronze age' equivalent. Since it's already established Wights come from ancient barrows, maybe the liche priests of Khemri will raise pre-Sigmar Old-Worlders.

This is probably more of a pipe dream, but we may see some of the old Wight minis be re-released and even maybe, just maybe, some new Undead Wights.

I love this aesthetic because it's the Gothic look of the Vampire Counts or the Egyptian vibes of Khemri, but something that nods towards some kind of ancient past of a fantasy world.

Very John Blanche.

Images are from the 4th edition Undead army book.

u/FlandersClaret — 26 days ago

I've only painted historical wargaming minis, but thought I'd try something I first painted decades ago. Sorry for the poor photography, and the poor attempt at the classic goblin green base.

u/FlandersClaret — 1 month ago

Ostermark, Osterland, Wissenland and Solland (RIP), why do you think you see fewer armies painted up in their livery? Is that they aren't as prominent in the background, or the colours aren't as good as others, like Talabecland.

Does anyone have any Empire armies or units painted in the livery of these provinces? I included a few other lesser seen liveries too, plus Halflings because Halflings are bloody brilliant. Bring back halflings and their glorious hotpot, and the one who had a dartboard for a shield (from the Dogs of War I think).

u/FlandersClaret — 1 month ago
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Kislev - much bigger in The Old World setting than in the 'current' setting of Warhammer. How much did they lose? Sorry if I'm a bit behind everyone else.

I didn't follow the background for 8th, End Times or AoS, but I'm pretty familiar with the background that was all laid down in the 4th ed Middlehammer army books.

As you can see, from the maps from the 90s, Kislev is MUCH smaller than what is shown in the Old World map from the website. I presume the Troll Country was lost in the Great War against Chaos, and turned into waste land. I also presume the same for the Zorn Uzkul and whatever else they seem to claim in the steppes beyond, which the Gospodar originally came from.

I find this 'less-chaos' setting very interesting, and even better in terms of detail around the edges (although all good fantasy maps should leave black spaces).

I've put some rough-ish borders on some of the maps - blue borders and blue circles for settlements belonging to Kislev, Yellow for Dwarfs, Red for Chaos Dwarfs.

Where can I find out more about Kislev in the Old World setting?

Cheers.

u/FlandersClaret — 1 month ago

Faction, Race, Army, Sides, Type? What do you call each army in Warhammer? i.e. what do you call the different armies that you can play in Warhammer?

I was listening to the Yarkshire Gamer podcast recently (as I also do historical gaming for my sins) and Ken gets really wound up when armies in both historical & fantasy/sci-fi games are called 'factions', as that word means something different which is related to smaller groups of a large group, or sometimes different sides in a civil conflict. For example during the time when the Empire was split into three emperors, then each of those was a 'faction' within the Empire civil conflict (although those times went on for so long maybe they were more than just factions ha ha). Or, in the UK, the Labour party has several factions, all Labour but also organised around specific versions of what they believer in - Blue Labour, Soft Left, Socialist Campaign Group etc).

But, when the Dwarfs are battling the Skaven or Night Goblin, then these are not really factions.

The question is, what else do we call them? Race seems good, but only in its old meaning (as in land-race being a group of something being from one area), the more recent meaning informed by America, is not really appropriate or accurate.

Anyway, I have no idea, but wondering what you all think? Any other Yarkshire Gamer listeners?

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u/FlandersClaret — 1 month ago
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OLDHAMMWR SIEGE! Screenshot from the 80s Warhammer Siege featuring beautifully complex rules, beautiful artwork and some erm... Eldar??

The artwork by Ian Miller is some of my favourite warhammer black and white artwork ever printed.

Very cool and very Warhammer.

u/FlandersClaret — 1 month ago

One of my favourite old school Undead characters, from WD198. Back when Necromancers were cool. Who needs Vampires?

Plus the other Undead and Wood Elf characters that appeared in the article, plus a bit of bonus content.

I really love the chattering skull staff, great stuff.

u/FlandersClaret — 1 month ago
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Floating Ulthuan

I've had a High Elf army since 1992, I own every single HE army book (plus every other 4th/5th army book) and I've read a few of the old Black Library books and I was shocked to discover, via a recent Reddit thread, that Ulthuan floats on the sea. It's a magic floating Island, like a giant Black-Ark from those accursed Dark Elves.

I thought I was going senile, so I looked through all my old army books, and no where does it state that Ulthuan floats.

So when did the change occur, or when did people start believing this nugget of fluff that was never printed by GW.

Have I missed something that was published during the End Times, or was it in the those Total War games?

I've turned to my fellow High Elf fans to clarify.

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u/FlandersClaret — 1 month ago
▲ 89 r/Middlehammer+2 crossposts

As per my earlier posts, I thought some of you might be interested in my (very early stages) attempt to stitch together the more detailed maps from 4th & 5th edition.

The plan is to add more detail and do some MS paint wizardry to trace over everything in one unified style, but with all the detail I can manage, before posting it here as a very large image you can all enjoy. Any tips, corrections, ideas etc are more than welcome.

The idea is for it to be Middlehammer style as created by artist Simon Smith, and be as scale accurate as can be reasonable expected for a made up setting with a reassuringly loose grip on consistency (it's background/fluff not lore/canon). I won't be added anything that is not in the books of the era.

And thank you to everyone else who has helped me so far.

u/FlandersClaret — 1 month ago

Is it me, or has Ulthuan moved?

It seems able to move North-South as well as closer to Naggaroth.

The shape of Ulthuan seems stable, but not sure about it's location.

u/FlandersClaret — 1 month ago

Big, Detailed Map! As in, the whole Warhammer World. With the middlehammer map style. Does it exist?

Does anyone know if there is a big old detailed map of the known warhammer world in the art style of the image included? I know the middlehammer army books all contained maps in a similar style to this brilliant bastard, but wondering if anyone combined them into one glorious whole?

As in, the map include here, plus Ulthuan (HE army book), plus Naggaroth (DE), Lustria, New World and Southlands (Lizardman) plus any other bits and bobs??

If not, I'll have to create my own by stitching them altogether in MS Paint because I don't have skills.

u/FlandersClaret — 2 months ago

Some more art from the Middlehammer version of Warhammer Siege.

People seemed to like the last lot I posted, so here are some more.

Not sure about the Woodelf 'fortress' but a theme is a theme.

u/FlandersClaret — 2 months ago