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Personally i imagine more of a nautilus race with sort of squid-like beings that end in shells with a cthulu thing about them. Of course they could also do the mermaid and mer-men approach to this. Either way it sounds like great fun.

I think it'd be pretty cool, especially of they were Cthulhu/Deep-One-esque, but then GW might try to sue Arkham House or something.

Absolutely.

Warhammer Fantasy is at its best when it's showing off its ridiculous, over the top Fantasy side. A race of entirely aquatic fish-squid monsters would look amazing.

There's nothing that says they have to always be coastall raids. Look at Tomb Kings - going by the fluff, they mostly stay confined to Khemri and Ogres don't really range that far south. But Ogres vs Tomb Kings as a game is perfectly fine.

One way they can even describe it in fluff is with this race having tunneled to, or using naturally occuring waterways leading to, various large inland bodies of water. Boom, there's a reason for them to appear in the middle of the Empire.

 -Loki- wrote:

One way they can even describe it in fluff is with this race having tunneled to, or using naturally occuring waterways leading to, various large inland bodies of water. Boom, there's a reason for them to appear in the middle of the Empire.

There's a whole network of underground rivers/waterways connected to Skavenblight. If Skaven shipping lines use them, who's to say the Fishmen don't use it, too?

 Platuan4th wrote:

 -Loki- wrote:

One way they can even describe it in fluff is with this race having tunneled to, or using naturally occuring waterways leading to, various large inland bodies of water. Boom, there's a reason for them to appear in the middle of the Empire.

There's a whole network of underground rivers/waterways connected to Skavenblight. If Skaven shipping lines use them, who's to say the Fishmen don't use it, too?

Oh crap and thus the lizardmen, dwarven, high elf, dark elf and skaven battles with these fishmen would make total sense now. These underground waterways mean dwarfs and skaven aren't safe. High elves and dark elves are big on sea battles and high elves are particularly in the middle of the ocean. Lizardmen on the other hand have a crap ton of sunken cities. I wouldn't even doubt that these fish men would fight tomb kings as well. O&G will fight anything as would ogres long as it tasted good and i'm sure they enjoy shellfish .

Also, I'd love Fishsquidmen because they'd be, I imagine, pretty similar in aesthetic to Tyranids. All gribbly with carapace instead of armour and using more bone and grown weapons than forged steel.

I love a good gribbly army, it's something I feel WHFB is lacking.

 -Loki- wrote:
Also, I'd love Fishsquidmen because they'd be, I imagine, pretty similar in aesthetic to Tyranids. All gribbly with carapace instead of armour and using more bone and grown weapons than forged steel.

I love a good gribbly army, it's something I feel WHFB is lacking.

Well we do have skaven, undead and orcs & goblins for numbers.

Of course maybe they're not as disturbing as crab people (south park reference)! Still i'd rather not want to face a horde of rat-men that steal my kids and kidnap other people, plague my families, backstab me and have better tech and consider me to be under them. Besides being crushed under the weight of a bajillion rats and then eaten alive after the biggest football tackle ever is not pleasant. You'd probably suffocate under all those rat-men.

What about some models that are like the guys on the Flying Dutchman in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

The fluff could be that this army was a race of men - mostly sailors - who were cursed or transformed by some magic or some other and turned into fish men. There'd be units of various stages in the transformation or perhaps some didn't get as much of the curse as others. I think it'd be a cool unit, with various cool upgrades like "fish hooks" which gave Armour Piercing, or something like that.

Just a thought.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 -Loki- wrote:
Also, I'd love Fishsquidmen because they'd be, I imagine, pretty similar in aesthetic to Tyranids. All gribbly with carapace instead of armour and using more bone and grown weapons than forged steel.

I love a good gribbly army, it's something I feel WHFB is lacking.

Well we do have skaven, undead and orcs & goblins for numbers.

Of course maybe they're not as disturbing as crab people (south park reference)! Still i'd rather not want to face a horde of rat-men that steal my kids and kidnap other people, plague my families, backstab me and have better tech and consider me to be under them. Besides being crushed under the weight of a bajillion rats and then eaten alive after the biggest football tackle ever is not pleasant. You'd probably suffocate under all those rat-men.

I'm not talking about numbers, I was comparing them to Tyranids on aesthetic, hence why I was talking about appearances only.

Warhammer Fantasy is lacking a race emphasising gribblyness. An aquatic race has this potential - tentacles, crab claws, antennae, soft squdgy skin covered in hard, shell-like carapace. Warhammer Fantasy is lacking this type of army, and an aquatic race would fill that void nicely.

 -Loki- wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 -Loki- wrote:
Also, I'd love Fishsquidmen because they'd be, I imagine, pretty similar in aesthetic to Tyranids. All gribbly with carapace instead of armour and using more bone and grown weapons than forged steel.

I love a good gribbly army, it's something I feel WHFB is lacking.

Well we do have skaven, undead and orcs & goblins for numbers.

Of course maybe they're not as disturbing as crab people (south park reference)! Still i'd rather not want to face a horde of rat-men that steal my kids and kidnap other people, plague my families, backstab me and have better tech and consider me to be under them. Besides being crushed under the weight of a bajillion rats and then eaten alive after the biggest football tackle ever is not pleasant. You'd probably suffocate under all those rat-men.

I'm not talking about numbers, I was comparing them to Tyranids on aesthetic, hence why I was talking about appearances only.

Warhammer Fantasy is lacking a race emphasising gribblyness. An aquatic race has this potential - tentacles, crab claws, antennae, soft squdgy skin covered in hard, shell-like carapace. Warhammer Fantasy is lacking this type of army, and an aquatic race would fill that void nicely.

What about daemons and to an extent zombies? Most daemon things seem gribbly.

The coming of the Fishmen is heralded by storms the likes of which most have never seen. Raindrops fall in thick sheets, engulfing the land in a wall of water. It is only then, that the Fishmen emerge from their watery homes, spreading the terrors of the ocean depths to the domain of the airbreathers

So essentially yeah, it rains really heavily, which messes with archers, demoralizes the enermy, and allows mer-men and such to survive on land.

 Dakkamite wrote:
The coming of the Fishmen is heralded by storms the likes of which most have never seen. Raindrops fall in thick sheets, engulfing the land in a wall of water. It is only then, that the Fishmen emerge from their watery homes, spreading the terrors of the ocean depths to the domain of the airbreathers

So essentially yeah, it rains really heavily, which demoralizes the enermy

Unless the enemy has the "English" Special Rule

 The Shadow wrote:

 Dakkamite wrote:
The coming of the Fishmen is heralded by storms the likes of which most have never seen. Raindrops fall in thick sheets, engulfing the land in a wall of water. It is only then, that the Fishmen emerge from their watery homes, spreading the terrors of the ocean depths to the domain of the airbreathers

So essentially yeah, it rains really heavily, which demoralizes the enermy

Unless the enemy has the "English" Special Rule

Exalted

It could be a very fun user created army. I would make it that they get to place a "river" that runs the full length of the table and some of their units could only move through the river or into other water that is on the table.

I've been thinking quite in a quite in-depth way about this recently. I thought perhaps they'd have some ability or character (probably the Signature Spell of their Lore) which summons a small pool somewhere in the battlefield out of which certain units can come on from reserve.

 The Shadow wrote:
What about some models that are like the guys on the Flying Dutchman in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

The fluff could be that this army was a race of men - mostly sailors - who were cursed or transformed by some magic or some other and turned into fish men. There'd be units of various stages in the transformation or perhaps some didn't get as much of the curse as others. I think it'd be a cool unit, with various cool upgrades like "fish hooks" which gave Armour Piercing, or something like that.

Just a thought.

This could be done easily with undead and visually would not look all that different than zombies in a regular undead army.