Reply To: WHtOW – fluff and does it make sense ?

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So it’s a fantasy world and therefore -according to you – anything goes and nothing has to make sense, yet you find Bretonnia ‘anachronistic’ ?

Which is it ? Make up your mind.

Cathay may exist in it, but it’s WAY out of the way of absolutely everyone else  – except Chaos and Ogre Kingdoms (which I find silly, anyway), perhaps. Maybe a High or Dark Elf trading vessel might find its’ way over there every few hundred years or so, but that’s about it. Maybe there are Clan Eshin tunnels under it – good for them. No one else has the slightest reason to have any contact with or knowledge of them. Wood Elves are Elves, but they rarely if ever leave Athel Loren, not even to Bretonnia, which is right next door It’s a LONG way from Athel Loren to Cathay, so until the Cathayans drive their oxcarts (made in Nippon) the several thousands of miles to Athel Loren and start cutting down trees to make magic chopsticks with, there is zero reason for even 1 Wood Elf to give a squirrel’s fart about Cathay.

Silk road, eh ? Yeah let’s. Let’s take a ride down the fantasy version of the silk road, over the World’s Edge mountains (Goblins, Orks), through the Dark Lands (Chaos Dwarfs ? Hobgoblins ?), some Ogre Kingdoms perhaps and who knows what else. That better be some GOOD silk – which, not surprisingly, has, to my knowledge, never been mentioned in any publication about the Warhammer world Even the real silk road in our world got so dangerous that they started sending ships all the way around Africa and into the completely uncharted – except by the Vikings you seem to hate so much, but more on that later – waters off to the west where There Were Dragons….

And no one in the western world knew much of anything about China until the early 20th century, many hundreds of years after Mr. Polo….

Albion is, as already mentioned, RIGHT THERE in the thick of things. All a Bretonnian fisherman would have to do is get just  a li’l bit lost et voilà – there he is. High Elf traders – or Dark Elf raiders – would purposely have to avoid the isle on their way to or from the Old World. If Albion fluff – of which there is precious little, at least not from GW – bothers you, that’s your business, you hate Vikings, so it makes sense that you would hate their Celtic and Anglo-Saxon brothers and cousins as well.

Too bad, because Celtic mythology and history is one of the richest, most colorful and diverse – yes, I went there – in the entire world and I think GW are doing themselves a tremendous disfavor by not taking advantage of that. An Albion army and army book would not only sell like hotcakes and bring a ton of new people into the hobby, it would also lure a lot of the old guard gamers who stopped at some previous edition – or the A$$ of Sickmar, who could blame them – back to the new edition. Even I might buy that, and I haven’t bought any significant number of Citadel models of=r GW products since about 2000 and Battlefleet Gothic. Heck, I’ll go one step further and declare that if the introductory boxed set is Norsca vs. Albion, I’ll pre-order that set , sight unseen.