Chlof
Her Ladyship
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I'm beginning to think there's a warhammer version of Bloody Stupid Johnson floating around somewhere in the empire.
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It Belongs to a Museum
- Thread starter Boney
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- Fantasy
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- A Pit Of My Own Making
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- He/Him
It seems like there are two hammers on the front, not one.
There are, like, thousands of them. It's just that almost all of them are in the Underempire.
Pretty deep. It's a chonker of a river - it's the sole outflow for half the continent, and it's a mile wide at Altdorf.
"Warhammer version" implies that it isn't the same man travelling through dimensions.
- Location
- Canada
If we assume that the temple is part of the ship, that would make it completely useless as a sailing ship. The building part would block all the winds, so we'd also have to assume that the ship is propelled by Sigmar's farts or something.On the topic of ship designs, I'd like to draw everyone's attention to the Heldenhammer. It is the personal Flagship of the Grand Theogonist and it has some truly wacky stuff.
See that hammer at the front? That has steam engines attached to it to allow it to be used to smash enemy ships. Also the freaking temple on the back. I have no idea what magical nonsense goes into making this thing not sink.
Given that the temple has what appears to be earth underneath it, I instead interpret this image as the ship passing in front of a small and precariously-shaped island that happens to have a temple on it. That still leaves it with a large structure attached to its rear mast, but one that isn't quite as ridiculous.
That would be a logical explanation, but unfortunately the diagram points at the Captain's quarters being in the middle of the cathedral.
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- Canada
The line pointing to the giant statue figurehead stops at one of the hammers, so I assume that they don't all stretch to touch the exact thing they reference, and that the captain's quarters are the still-silly-but-less-so-tower attached right behind the third mast.
Sailing ships are clever machines. Not only do they not need the wind to be pointing in the exact direction they need to go, but they're actually more efficient when they're at an angle to the wind. Now, a ship having about a fifteen degree dead zone when running before the wind that it would effectively have to tack through is far from ideal, but it's not completely unworkable either.
Knowing Empire engineers, I'm not surprised they managed to make it work.
Sinsystems
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That would actually make sense since it is meant to be the Flagship for the Grand Theogonist, so why wouldn't he stay in the Cathedral part?
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- USA
"I like big boats. I cannot lie." -- some pirate lady named Isabella, probably
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
Obviously they go with Option 1.
It gives them extra wind-up when they have to smash down the hammer on some poor unfortunate soul.
- Location
- Germany
I think one of the hammers is just a figurehead?
It's just not warhammer without wacky over the top cathedral ships apparently.
NuclearConsensus
Herald of the Thorned One
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- the Philippines
Now that I think about it, I wonder if the Heldenhammer isn't the result of some shipboard Sigmarite priest seeing the Curse of Zandri chasing down some luckless thief and deciding that the Empire should have one of its own? Replace the massive khopesh at the front with hammers and the pyramid with a cathedral... it kind of fits.
Grand Theogonist: "We have a Curse of Zandri at home".
Curse of Zandri at home:
Lord Kroak is probably really confused every time someone calls some human the "first necromancer"
Does it really count? Even non-mages can return as ghosts.
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Option 3, the hammer (and its steam engine) in the front is just really, really heavy. Heavy enough to balance the ship witht the cathedral at the back.It's not just the weight, it's the fact a whole cathedral is all on the back of the ship, which unless the keel is ridiculously big has to seriously fuck up with the ship's balance. Buildings that big, even wooden buildings, weigh a lot, and judging from the size of the church it alone should have a comparable weight to the whole front half of the ship even counting the hammers.
Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
It is noted to be solid thrice blessed bronze.
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So it is very heavily blessed then
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
Slann Relic Priests aren't actually undead in any real sense, not even Lord Kroak. There's a reason why he went from quite possibly the greatest magic user the Warhammer world has seen to a dessicated husk that can only cast a single spell. Coincidentally the same one he was casting as he died.
It is more accurate to think of them as being so magical that even their inert bodies are using magic the way they used to.