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

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Personally I’ve always thought that the armies of Cathay and Norse were in the army books to allow (probably the writers and play testers of the 1st edition) to game Warhammer with their existing “historical” armies (Japan and Viking) as there probably wasn’t a load of suitable armies worth of fantasy figures available from Citadel at the time (rather than an intentional insertion for the “fluff” for the game at the time). Both those armies (and some other units as well) are more of a legacy from those early editions. GW never bothered doing figures for them at the time because there were already shed loads of figures from the historical side of things already available (plus you can’t copyright history).

 

But now that the Devs over at Warhammer III have added a “fantasy” version of a Chinese army, there’s LOTS of imagery that CAN be copyrighted so we will see them soon (I’ve always wondered if the GW creative team had a hand in designing them/or the Devs for Warhammer III were working from some concept artwork supplied by GW).