Warhammer Fantasy Battle was the game that began it all for me and will always have a special place in my heart! Because of how old I am, when I first got into the hobby, we began playing 4th edition, then switched up to 5th when it came out, and I think I'd more of less moved on by the time 6th came around.
When @The Duke and I dug out all our miniatures a few years back the hope was to have some games of Warhammer Fantasy, however we decided that we wanted to achieve our boyhood dreams of two fully painted armies facing off against each other, and to that end made a rule not to play until our armies (or at least 600pts) were ready. Therefore in the meantime we started playing necromunda, remembered how incredibly cool the Hive is, and soon enough any hobby time went to the 41st millennium and not the dusty plains of the Old World or the hills and beaches of Ulthuan.
However a big old game of elves Vs orcs is still the end goal as far as I'm concerned and therefore, in the spirit of the recently spawned yak threads about epic and the like, I've decided to carve out a little space here for WHFB.
Strangely we decided to play 6th edition, rather than 4th or 5th, after a bit of research. This was for a few reasons. One of the main ones for me is I've got a lot of time for Tuomas Pirinen who is one of the main writers of 6th and liked the idea that the game had been balanced more in favour of troops than heroes (although we were never the kind of players to rely on making super powerful characters).
One of the principal criticisms of 6th, as for most editions, is that as the various army books were released, inevitably the meta game was chewed up as armies released later are often more powerful than earlier ones (perhaps with a hidden commercial agenda). At the time that 6th was released, while people were waiting for their own army books to come out, a suppliment called ravening hoards was published with basic rules for all the various factions. As the ravening hoards present more balanced lists nowadays a lot of people play with ravening hoards rather than the army books. For us however, playing high elves and orcs, we don't need to worry so much as neither of these armies were thought OP.
Therefore we bought the army books from ebay, pirated the various suppliments (the general's compendium etc. - definitely one of the high points of 6th is the way it can accommodate skirmish/ siege and so on), and began making army lists. As already stated progress was severely impeded because of necromunda, nevertheless in an effort to reboot our efforts I make this thread and will post some pics of my waaagh so far
And perhaps the Duke's elves will be forced to show themselves in order to quell the uprising, or other 4th/ 5th/ 6th/ or whatever edition fans will be persuaded to post pics, debate scenarios, or reminisce great battle reports.
When @The Duke and I dug out all our miniatures a few years back the hope was to have some games of Warhammer Fantasy, however we decided that we wanted to achieve our boyhood dreams of two fully painted armies facing off against each other, and to that end made a rule not to play until our armies (or at least 600pts) were ready. Therefore in the meantime we started playing necromunda, remembered how incredibly cool the Hive is, and soon enough any hobby time went to the 41st millennium and not the dusty plains of the Old World or the hills and beaches of Ulthuan.
However a big old game of elves Vs orcs is still the end goal as far as I'm concerned and therefore, in the spirit of the recently spawned yak threads about epic and the like, I've decided to carve out a little space here for WHFB.
Strangely we decided to play 6th edition, rather than 4th or 5th, after a bit of research. This was for a few reasons. One of the main ones for me is I've got a lot of time for Tuomas Pirinen who is one of the main writers of 6th and liked the idea that the game had been balanced more in favour of troops than heroes (although we were never the kind of players to rely on making super powerful characters).
One of the principal criticisms of 6th, as for most editions, is that as the various army books were released, inevitably the meta game was chewed up as armies released later are often more powerful than earlier ones (perhaps with a hidden commercial agenda). At the time that 6th was released, while people were waiting for their own army books to come out, a suppliment called ravening hoards was published with basic rules for all the various factions. As the ravening hoards present more balanced lists nowadays a lot of people play with ravening hoards rather than the army books. For us however, playing high elves and orcs, we don't need to worry so much as neither of these armies were thought OP.
Therefore we bought the army books from ebay, pirated the various suppliments (the general's compendium etc. - definitely one of the high points of 6th is the way it can accommodate skirmish/ siege and so on), and began making army lists. As already stated progress was severely impeded because of necromunda, nevertheless in an effort to reboot our efforts I make this thread and will post some pics of my waaagh so far
And perhaps the Duke's elves will be forced to show themselves in order to quell the uprising, or other 4th/ 5th/ 6th/ or whatever edition fans will be persuaded to post pics, debate scenarios, or reminisce great battle reports.
