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Post by knoffles on Jan 17, 2019 18:17:14 GMT
A chap called Matt Charman has written an alternative ending to the end of times and some further supplements to expand the story. He fully intends that they should be used in conjunction with some of the Matthew Ellis Army Project books. I’ve found them very enjoyable reads (if needing a bit of proof reading) and I think most here would enjoy the fan fiction and alternative ending! He’s even thrown in rules for a new unit or three (though some of these need a bit of clarification and he has stated some are not for competitive play). They can be found on his blog and he’s also set up a FB page. theimperiumofmatt.blogspot.com/2018/10/warhammer-fantasy-age-of-rebuilding.html?m=1 |
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Post by lordofskullpass on Sept 17, 2019 10:09:35 GMT
A chap called Matt Charman has written an alternative ending to the end of times and some further supplements to expand the story. He fully intends that they should be used in conjunction with some of the Matthew Ellis Army Project books. I’ve found them very enjoyable reads (if needing a bit of proof reading) and I think most here would enjoy the fan fiction and alternative ending! He’s even thrown in rules for a new unit or three (though some of these need a bit of clarification and he has stated some are not for competitive play). They can be found on his blog and he’s also set up a FB page. theimperiumofmatt.blogspot.com/2018/10/warhammer-fantasy-age-of-rebuilding.html?m=1An interesting set of reads, but there are some things I'm not a fan of: - Firstly, the way he's kept the lore biased towards the Empire is annoying. That is probably the only thing about the Warhammer Fantasy setting, especially 8th where the lore bias was heightened, that generally winds me up. The Empire seem to be portrayed as if they are the only human nation around, like the Imperium in 40K, when they are just one of many, and that they can do no wrong when they in particular are still fractious and squabbling amongst themselves when some of the other nations like Bretonnia and Estalia are unified. Bearing in mind that the Empire were one of the two main factions right on Chaos' doorstep (and thus one of the factions to get trashed first in the End Times), surely the Empire would have been utterly annihilated given that the Dwarfs and Elves could not help them because of their own problems? Yet somehow that irritating Karl Franz manages to save the day yet again and protect the last of the Imperial cities from being mulched. How original. Surely he could have done something more interesting and used the events in the End Times to bring about something actually new, rather than the rebuilding of the old? Of course there is the need to keep all the factions in the game so as not to do a GW, but he's quite happily killed off Bretonnia and Tomb Kings, and there's no mention of whether the Dwarfs survived.
- The idea of the warriors of Albion launching an invasion of the Old World to gain more territory while the main human factions are weak from being trashed by Chaos is good, but personally I think he's followed too closely to Matthias Eliasson's Scottish version of Albion for my liking. When anyone hears the word 'Celt', is all that they can think of seriously a mixture of Braveheart and Conan the Barbarian? Because that's a pretty poor way to remember our Celtic ancestors. The area now known as Scotland wasn't even Celtic until after the Romans left Britain and the Scoti tribe (from IRELAND) settled on the west side and eventually conquered the Picts (a completely different culture, possibly a relic from the Bronze Age). Furthermore, the Irish and their diaspora in Scotland and the Isle of Man were a different and less advanced breed who were still stuck squabbling in family-based clan wars, compared to the Ancient Britons who had develped larger, more structured kingdoms and were rapidly advancing further to survive in a world dominated by the 'more civilised' Mediterranean nations. I know that because GW never developed anything official for Albion, what they are actually based on is up for debate, but I would like to think that they had a more civilised edge and a hidden desire to make the world a better place and were not simply Scottish versions of the Norse. I don't know if you've seen admiral's thread about Matthew Klaas de Witte's Albion art, but it really conjures an alternative version of Albion that was much more what I have been imagining.
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