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I’m finding it harder and harder to relate to humans, especially after the past 3 years…..

I don’t agree that humans or the Empire were always the sole focal point of Warhammer, at least not the fantasy version, you might say that that is, indeed, true for the sci-fi version, aka 40K.

At least until 3rd, arguably maybe even 4th edition, there really wasn’t any one particular faction that was ‘dominant’ in terms of fluff, background or what have you, and the gaming groups I’ve been a part of were also always fairly evenly divided between the different factions, Dwarfs, Lizardmen, Undead and Chaos being perhaps the most popular ones. In  fact, I would argue that if there is 1 faction that makes Warhammer unique, it would have to be Chaos, because something like that doesn’t exist in most other fantasy game systems. Most of them, on the other hand, do have human factions of one type or another and there are hundreds if not thousands of historical games featuring Medieval/Renaissance Germans……

On a side note, I do kind of wish they would hire someone who actually knows real German and not just cobble ‘Reikspiel’ together from a dictionary and some highly unrealistic movies and TV shows.

And so what if it isn’t Warhammer any more ? There were and are better game systems out there, for example, I’ve always liked Fantasy Warriors by Grenadier, which was, iirc, the first fantasy battle game to have a boxed set with miniatures – Dwarfs and Orcs, iconic models even today  –