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IT’S HERE! The Indy GT Dwarfs of Chaos Army Book

Below you will find the link to the new Indy GT Dwarfs of Chaos Army
Book, a complete, 92-page Army Book in the Games Workshop tradition.
The book—professionally written, designed, illustrated, and thoroughly
play tested—will be legal for use in participating Independent Grand
Tournaments. As of this writing, the Crossroads, Conflict, Colonial,
Destruction Derby, NEWCC, and War Camp GTs will allow the book as
legal, and we expect the number to grow with the publication of the
book.

About the authors
Written by Kevin Coleman. Kevin has been writing background and rules
for Warhammer for well over a decade with his work appearing in White
Dwarf Magazine, the Games Workshop Website and the Citadel Journal
including such articles as Gnoblars Hordes, the Dark Elf City Garrison
army list, Goblin Ecology, Mighty Champions and more. Kevin has also
worked as a games designer and writer for other games and magazines
including Fleer, Inc.’s customizable card game, Ophidian 2350.

Book design by award-winning graphic artist Matt Birdoff. Matt has
been a professional designer working in the entertainment industry for
over 15 years. His recent works include logos for DC Comics, sports
card designs for Topps, Inc., style guide design for Ringling Bros. &
Barnum and Bailey, The 39 Clues book and card series from Scholastic,
among others.

Additional background material and fiction by Justin Hill and Jarrett
Messing. Justin is the author of the Black Library novel Forged in
Battle (as Justin Hunter). His internationally acclaimed first novel,
The Drink and Dream Teahouse, won the 2003 Geoffrey Faber Memorial
Prize and a 2002 Betty Trask Award, and was banned by the government
in China. It was picked by the Washington Post as one of the Top
Novels of 2001. His second novel, Passing Under Heaven, won the 2005
Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Encore Award.

Note that this book is not endorsed in any way by Games Workshop.

Download it HERE!

http://www.filedropper.com/fdwarfsofchaos_1

Cool stuff Matt, congradulations!

Is this the final version? There was a version released in May and this is different than that, correct?

Nice- brillinat work, Kevin Coleman!

Ace production and photos (although some of the best illustrations are hidden later in the book, while cruder stuff got put forwards- imo a wee mistake).

The rules are pretty balanced, with a few welcome streamlinings (like blunderbusses no longer having carefully-measured fire zones) but a few new clunky bits (like the Rare choice tower-thingy's destruction rules and crew shooting).

Most importantly, it doesn't seem too wishlisty, although I only skimmed the magic items. There are a ton of special characters, which seem pretty balanced on first examination.

Perhaps the best part is the modeling section, suprisingly. It's got great advice and examples and an awesome showcase.

Looking forward to trying it out.

Looks amazing, the best fan produced book I have seen.

Having read thru, I was struck by the Special Choice that is the exact same thing to the Dwarf Ironbreakers but have killing blow and cause fear for 1 more point per model. That was the cause of a loss of faith in the book.

I agree Obsidian Guard should be 1 extra point more, based on the established cost of IB. This kind of project was never that simple that 1 person could make a decision in a vacuum. One of the things about having an open playtest is that you get a ton of feedback, from a wide variety of players. The debate on this unit was long, and nobody thought the unit was truly effective, or desirable within the army makeup. I think they are fine, but doubt many will actually field them. They are good, but just not good enough to warrant them for the loss of a special slot. maybe I'm wrong, time will tell.

overall, miscosting a non-core infantry unit by a point or 2 will not make or break any list.

Here is the last debate thread on them, from V4 of the playtest book, if you are curious:

http://warmongers.ziggyqubert.com/wmbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=6980&start=0

Gen. Lee Losing wrote:Having read thru, I was struck by the Special Choice that is the exact same thing to the Dwarf Ironbreakers but have killing blow and cause fear for 1 more point per model. That was the cause of a loss of faith in the book.

you cant really compare them this way.
things like this happen a lot and has more to do with how the units meshes with the army.

Gen. Lee Losing wrote:Having read thru, I was struck by the Special Choice that is the exact same thing to the Dwarf Ironbreakers but have killing blow and cause fear for 1 more point per model. That was the cause of a loss of faith in the book.

Have you considered that dwarf ironbreakers are perhaps overcosted (along with several other elite infantry choices in the game)? At the end of the day the O-guard is still m3 infantry that isn't unbreakable or stubborn, so it's safe to say that they certainly aren't broken or anything.

Chaoslord wrote:

Gen. Lee Losing wrote:Having read thru, I was struck by the Special Choice that is the exact same thing to the Dwarf Ironbreakers but have killing blow and cause fear for 1 more point per model. That was the cause of a loss of faith in the book.

Have you considered that dwarf ironbreakers are perhaps overcosted (along with several other elite infantry choices in the game)? At the end of the day the O-guard is still m3 infantry that isn't unbreakable or stubborn, so it's safe to say that they certainly aren't broken or anything.

...unless you add the special character that makes them Unbreakable- like everyone fielding the unit will. Still, elite infantry are hard to get points back for, so it's probably a wash.

I'm really interested to see how this army plays. It looks like a shooty Dwarf army with a good number of throwaway units to stall incoming enemy forces, which is potentially really devastating. The rampage rules for all the shooty bits and the short range of blunderbusses may balance this out overall, but when luck is in the favor of the BigHats, it's gonna be ugly.

How do folks think this list will play against the current uberlists?

Man, this makes me want to dust my WHFB stuff off. Three cheers for fan-generated material injecting some new life into the hobby, and encouraging innovation!

Arrrgh! The link 404'd on me. THis sucks! I want to see this book! Any other way to get it?

Confused - With the announcement that CD will make their way back to WHFB, is this the new army book, or just a stand in until the new one?

I don't play Fantasy, but I have to remark that this book is presented incredibly well.

Job well done, guys.

Uriels_Flame wrote:Confused - With the announcement that CD will make their way back to WHFB, is this the new army book, or just a stand in until the new one?

This is totally unrelated to any book that GW may produce in the future, it's a fan-made list.

Savnock wrote:...unless you add the special character that makes them Unbreakable- like everyone fielding the unit will. Still, elite infantry are hard to get points back for, so it's probably a wash.!

Err, didn't notice that one, as I happen to skip over the special character sections of whfb-books nowadays.
That said, he's not cheap (being 200 pts), so the guard unit with him may end up costing a lot. It sure makes a good bunker-unit, but I guess even the normal dwarves can make that with hammerers if they really want. I like it when elite-infantry is actually worthwile (as is its with black guard for example), altough I don't fancy too much the concept of 500+ pts units just dozing off in the corner and holding up their points as it may be the case with super-bunker-units.

There's also the issue with tournaments allowing/disallowing special characters as the gw ones have problems, altough I don't know how people will apply it to using fan-made stuff.

An amazing effort - 10/10

I can't get it to download :(

seems like the link still works?

you can view it here, too, in super-awesome "digital book" format

http://issuu.com/mattbird/docs/f_dwarfs_of_chaos?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml&showFlipBtn=true

It's probably the work firewall messing me about. I'll try again when I get home.

Very nicely done. If it was put together in a book, I probably wouldn't have been able to tell the difference.

44.6MB? No wonder the office firewall blocked it.

Am I missing something or is that special hobgoblin the only caster hero?

So for those who don't have the 2/3rd edition models, what are people using for CD?