We learned much from our time in Stirland, after all
We learned much from our time in Stirland, after all
Everybody expects Grey Wizards to be stealthy, quick assassins, teleporting in for a lighting-fast knife-stab...or with Battle Magic, to use the razor's edge of transitions and ambiguities of space and time.
Nobody expects a greatsword to the face, appearing instantly from thin air.
I can only imagine Regimand's thoughts as he went from seeing Mathilde starting to bloom into a spymistress in Stirland, to seeing her emerge from reconquest in the mountains with a magic greatsword that she cuts Warbosses in half with and a revolver she has a penchant for assassination-via-headshot-in-front-of-everyone with.
I have the book and this reads a lot more to me like they're finding methods to put runes on the weapons rather than inscribing the runes themselves. It's also, like, half a sentence, so I really wouldn't read that far into it.Thanks, I hate it. Especially the bits involving all the changes to the Engineers. Seriously, having them create their own runes makes zero sense. Shameful work, this is.
Daemons of Chaos is wrong about that. Morrslieb can be full at other times of the year, and it isn't an unusual thing. There's consecutive days where it was full in WFRP 4e: Enemy in Shadows, and that was nothing special to people who saw it. Even outside of 4e, I've seen lore here and there with Morrslieb full outside of Hexensnacht and Geheimnisnacht. It's nothing special.'[Geheimnistag] occurs when the twin moons Morrsleib and Mannsleib are both full in the sky. This occurs only once per year'
2e Tome of Salvation
'The dark moon Morrslieb is full only twice a year, and one of these occasions marks its perigee.'
8e Daemons of Chaos army book
I feel literally everything about the chaos moon being contradictory and uncertain, even the simple fact of whether it is uncertain and contradictory.WFRP 4e is the one true path to lunar clarity and calendarial consistency. Disregard all false idols. I am not biased.
I dig the horological pettiness of reacting to a floating holiday by having a very clear spot in your calendar for where it should go.
Grey wizards not beating the Gandalf allegations.Just as you were wondering if you might be early or late, "galri hadri," comes a voice from nowhere
If by half a sentence you meant the whole introductory paragraph to the section, sure. And you describe the problem. Why are engineers the ones discovering methods to inscribe runes upon crossbows and guns? Rather than, you know, runesmiths. And how did Engineers even get that knowledge?I have the book and this reads a lot more to me like they're finding methods to put runes on the weapons rather than inscribing the runes themselves. It's also, like, half a sentence, so I really wouldn't read that far into it.
Many a young Dwarf Engineer has dedicated a great deal of their time to devising ingenious and effective ways to inscribe runes upon hand held weapons such as crossbows and handguns. Much to their chagrin, and in affirmation of their elders' warnings, most such endeavours end in failure, but a few noted exceptions exist.
Thanks, I hate it. Especially the bits involving all the changes to the Engineers. Seriously, having them create their own runes makes zero sense. Shameful work, this is.
Yeah, that is the main impression I got. It's completely baffling because I have no idea how they managed to do it. It's like the earlier interview comment about this being a golden age for the Empire. That they could build steam tanks.They do seem to be extremely confused between runesmiths and engineers. A shame.
Which was, of course, immediately contradicted by the actual books when they were published:It's like the earlier interview comment about this being a golden age for the Empire. That they could build steam tanks.
-The Old World: Forces of FantasyOnly twelve Steam Tanks were originally built, and those that remain are carefully maintained by the College of Engineers. Should one be destroyed in combat, all efforts are made to recover and, wherever possible, rebuild the machine. However, many of the secrets of their construction have been lost, and the surviving Steam Tanks are becoming increasingly unreliable and inefficient.
It's simple: they think the Old World is the Horus Heresy of Warhammer Fantasy.
Hence them talking about how the Empire is in a Golden Age, Kislev stretching all the way to Cathay, hyping up Asavar Kul's victory at Praag as some kind of pivotal setting-defining moment, and the dwarfs reclaiming ancient technology like they're AdMech.
The hell. Games Workshop is Games Workshop, but how did that happen? I don't recall any differences like that between the interviews and the content for the Tomb Kings or Bretonnian arcane journals. I haven't read the greenskin arcane journal. But I can think of an inconsistency like that in between the Dwarf arcane journal and interview. They changed up Alriksson's name, though upon rereading the interview could be taken as saying Ungrim is married. Unlike what I initially thought.Which was, of course, immediately contradicted by the actual books when they were published:
-The Old World: Forces of Fantasy
It's simple: they think the Old World is the Horus Heresy of Warhammer Fantasy.
Hence them talking about how the Empire is in a Golden Age, Kislev stretching all the way to Cathay, hyping up Asavar Kul's victory at Praag as some kind of pivotal setting-defining moment, and the dwarfs reclaiming ancient technology like they're AdMech.
Marketing teams (like WH community) are Main Studio, and Old World is Specialist studio apperantly. Water Cooler talk has it that they have issues with marketing not getting the facts straight.We know that there is a slapfight between the 40k, AOS, and TOW divisions of GW about allocation of resources. I can't help but wonder if there's a slapfight going on in the TOW division about what they want to do with it.
Perhaps, but it makes no sense to me that Kislev was able to maintain an enormous empire that stretched all the way to Cathay as described in the TOW Core Rulebook, somehow snaking past the Chaos Dwarfs, Hobgoblins, Ogres and Kurgans, with zero natural barriers to protect it from these enemies on all sides when Cathay right next to them needed the Great Bastion to survive.To be fair, Kislev having provinces on the other side of the World's Edge Mountains is a call back to their original appearances in the setting.
Which is, of course, utter bullshit, the "Horus Heresy moment" in WHF was the Sundering. But GW hates elves, and it wouldn't let them recycle all of the old minis, so they would never go for it."What was the Horus Heresy moment in the Old World? What was the Siege of Terra moment?" The conclusion we came to was that the Destruction of Praag and the Siege of Kislev were pivotal – the rise of Asavar Kul represented the true return of Chaos to the Old World.
Ever since the days of Sigmar, mighty champions of Chaos have risen every few centuries to claim the title of Everchosen and lead grand incursions from the Northern Wastes to further the power of Chaos. The Everchosen prior to Kul was possessed by Be'lakor and destroyed, so he didn't achieve what the Ruinous Powers had hoped, which left Chaos with weakened influence in the years that followed. It's Asavar Kul who rises up and destroys Praag, bringing Chaos back into the world. He's defeated at Kislev, but while the nations of the Old World think that means Chaos has been driven back, the reality is that it's a tipping point – something has changed in the world, and from that point on, it is doomed.
A suspicious person might take a look at the historical blurb of 'the Dwarves introduced gunpowder to the Empire around the 1900s', link that to how there were in fact three 'Empires' at the time, and wonder if somebody was playing kingmaker to try to bring the Time of Three Emperors to an end before it sunk the Silver Age. Especially since the eventual triumphant renovatio imperii Sigmar originated in Nuln, the city that had most wholeheartedly embraced the technology.
Then one might turn their eye to the turnover of claimants, and note that the date most often cited for the introduction of gunpowder to the Empire, 1991, is around the same time that the titular 'Three Emperors' was reshuffled, with the Elected and Wolf Emperor positions in the triarchy being replaced by the Marienburg and Reiklander Emperors.
Are we assuming here that the Sigmar novels are non-canon, then, given there's a couple disconnected cannon deployments in them? Or do we count that as the dwarves giving us one time exceptions that got forgotten or paved over by 2000 years of history or so?
That's always the most blatant example, but my favorite is how Lancelot, one of the most famous figures in Arthurian legends, is effectively an Original Character (do not steal!) who has incredible martial skill and a tragic story that directly intersects with Arthur's.Just like you have stories about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table that have them jousting in full plate armour before it was invented.
Cannon deployments by humans or Dwarfs?Are we assuming here that the Sigmar novels are non-canon, then, given there's a couple disconnected cannon deployments in them? Or do we count that as the dwarves giving us one time exceptions that got forgotten or paved over by 2000 years of history or so?
At least a cursory ctrl-f search through the Sigmar novels does not find any mention of cannons, other than Sigmar's fist "cannoning" into someone's face, which appears to be just an anachronistic turn of phrase.