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Post by bentherat on Dec 3, 2009 10:21:26 GMT -6
Hey guys, here is what is coming down the line. And I'd like to see if anyone would be interested in helping with this.
Kevin Coleman, Matt Birdoff and Myself are debarking on a very enterprising venture. We are going to revive some of the long lost Allied forces of the Warhammer world.
If you don't know who Kevin Coleman is, he has done a lot of work for GW and wrote many of the sub-army lists for GW. He was also the primary author for the new Indy GT army book Dwarfs of Chaos.
Some of the allied army lists to be included would be Fimir, Halflings, Zoats, Pygmies, Cathay, Nippon, and a few more.
We would be doing a small amount of play testing to flush out a list, and print it in Tales of Battle, where we will encourage the readers to playtest them further. When we are done with all of them, we will create an allied contingent army book, with the finalized versions.
If you are interested in helping with the play testing, modeling, painting, etc... let me know. I think this can be a lot of fun.
I know we are 90% dedicated to GT's around here, but it would be nice to do some warhammer not centered around GT's.
If your only Warhammer fun is with GT's, many of the Indy GT's are accepting the Dwarfs of Chaos book this season. If this is done with the same dedication and professionalism, there is no reason the Allied contingent army lists would not be accepted also.
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Post by zao77s on Dec 3, 2009 12:00:25 GMT -6
I wouldn't mind playtesting something like a nippon or cathay. I picture them having many similarities with High Elves and I already have that army.
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Post by rangerdave on Dec 3, 2009 12:15:00 GMT -6
This has been out there for a while. www.warseer.com/files/Warhammer-Armies-Cathay.pdfI'm surprised it hasn't been quashed. GW's been burning witches lately. They've gotten heavy handed with several forums, threatening legal action, demanding evidence of profits. Dave, has Druchhi been hit with a letter from GW legal yet?
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Post by bentherat on Dec 3, 2009 12:29:00 GMT -6
weird, it's not stealing their IP, hell they have never put out a Cathay anything.
Usual GW BS. I'll mention the Cathay one. Ours will be nowhere nearly that involved.
We are looking at building Allied contingents. Our first up is Fimir. Our 1st rough draft has 3 characters, 3 core, 2 special and 2 rare choices.
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Post by zao77s on Dec 3, 2009 13:19:04 GMT -6
Druchii.net hasn't had any problems that I know of. If they have, langmann, the admin hasn't mentioned it to us mods.
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Post by jessegarrett on Dec 3, 2009 14:38:51 GMT -6
I was thinking about doing a halfling army using LM rules anyway.
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Post by rangerdave on Dec 4, 2009 0:57:46 GMT -6
Zoats would let Ben combine rules from LM army books and his Chaos Knights army. Beware! Beware!
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Post by EricL on May 1, 2010 0:34:16 GMT -6
What kind of modeling ideas are you looking for? I have some plastics that I think are supposed to be Fmirs. They've got tails that end in knobs—like a club?
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Post by Eric on Sept 2, 2010 11:40:07 GMT -6
I am still looking for my plastic Fmirs . . . Did any progress happen with this? Did 8th edition sideline it? Somebody should do an Army for obsoleted GW Warhammer figures. For a model to be included it would have to be a GW produced figure that is now useless (un-allowed) in its original (or any other) Army. Examples: - plastic Skinks with bows
- unridden Dragons (once upon a time such things were fielded)
- Manticora (or other monsters that might be intelligent in their own right)
- Fenbeasts
- the plastic armour-less Beastmen that had halberds
- DoW units that can't serve as/don't match anything in any army (like the Skinks that were mounted on lizards or the crossbowmen with plate armour and pavises)
. . . an Army of Monsters and Renegades or Outcasts. Just a thought.
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