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Hi,

I don't actually play Warhammer but I do enjoy the background fluff and cannon around the WHFB Universe. I read a lot of the Black library books based on the Warhammer World and bought the last Rule Book to learn the rules but also for the background stuff.

I heard from a number of people that with the new edition of the Warhammer Rule Book GW were looking to "evolve" the history of the Warhammer World i.e. moved it on a little and write the next xx number of years into the fluff/canon. Can anyone tell me if they have actually done this or if what I heard is a load of rubbish?!!

If so, I would probably buy the new rulebook to find out whats changed but if not I'd probably not bother as I generally play 40K at the moment.

Cheers

Regarding continuity, well Chaos Dwarfs don't seem to appear in the current "unit summary" in 8th ed... but they did appear in a conversion sample-page on the GW website....

No, I would most definitely not pay £45 just to read new fluff if I were you. Basically, all the races are on a war footing and that's about it. The book is good for other reasons, namely for being an interesting evolution of the game.

Cheers for the infor guys

The only thing I really noticed (in the last few years) is that Dark Elves shifted to more cackling evil (beforehand I got the impression that, while evil arses, they started out with good-ish intentions. Now it's all "From the start they used daemons and were evil meanies and did bad things out of dickishness instead of to win the civil war"). That's about it, but then I am not a WHFB fluff expert so I'm likely missing some other changes as well.

Minsc wrote:The only thing I really noticed (in the last few years) is that Dark Elves shifted to more cackling evil (beforehand I got the impression that, while evil arses, they started out with good-ish intentions. Now it's all "From the start they used daemons and were evil meanies and did bad things out of dickishness instead of to win the civil war"). That's about it, but then I am not a WHFB fluff expert so I'm likely missing some other changes as well.

Ya the Dark Elf codex does a much better job of covering the civil war and its real beginnings. Then again GW couldn't possibly have one of its "evil" armies have noble intentions at some point.

Casper wrote:

Minsc wrote:The only thing I really noticed (in the last few years) is that Dark Elves shifted to more cackling evil (beforehand I got the impression that, while evil arses, they started out with good-ish intentions. Now it's all "From the start they used daemons and were evil meanies and did bad things out of dickishness instead of to win the civil war"). That's about it, but then I am not a WHFB fluff expert so I'm likely missing some other changes as well.

Ya the Dark Elf codex does a much better job of covering the civil war and its real beginnings. Then again GW couldn't possibly have one of its "evil" armies have noble intentions at some point.

Main thing is more how Malekith changed his war from "You're all corrupt don't you see?" and wanting nothing to do with the Cult of Slaanesh (to the point that it was banned for some time) to Malekith going "Coo', Slaaneshi dudes. You're in. Oh, don't forget your Daemons. I'll need them to steal power fully." The book is funny, in that it portrays Bretonnians in an almost noble light: It barely even touches on the poverty of the peasants, and when it does it makes jokes more often. Civil Wars are bad, crumbling nobility and a feudal system is good. ;D

Heck, from what I can recall in the BRB, Chaos has more sympathetic characters than many of the other factions.