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Kid_Kyoto wrote:

gorgon wrote:

odmiller wrote:It is going to be Cathay, which is why it was added to the map for the first time with the WoC codex.

Good catch. That's the kind of clue that GW likes to leave.

Cathay's been on the map for eons, the High Elf book 4 years back or so had a map of the entire world.

True, but not with the level of internal detail (i.e the wall and names of key battles).

I seemed to me, that the OK book wanted to shift the Focus more towards the eastern continent.

Ok just thought of something. What if they did bring out Chaos Dwarfs, but they renamed them. Some how the gods abandoned the CD. They are still evil and really pissed off at the Chaos Gods. That way you have an anti-chaos army and something different.

Second vote is for an "Eastern" army, but a hodge-podge of Cathan, Nippon, etc... not DOW, but more of forced coalition.

I've posted this before but why not...

A good way to do Cathay would be to use a 'reverse Columbus'.

Historically in the 1300s China was the world's most power state with the world's greatest navy. Zheng He/Chung Ho Admiral, Muslim and Eunich sailed from China as far as Africa.

So in WHFB we can have a fleet of Cathay ships sail all the way to the Olde Worlde and seize control of an island off the coast of Brettonia. Called Fragrant Harbor in Brettonia (or suitibly Frenchy version of that) the Cathayans name their new colony Xiang Gong and use it as a base to forcibly open trade with the Olde Worlde and sell their warp weed

Kid_Kyoto wrote:I've posted this before but why not...

A good way to do Cathay would be to use a 'reverse Columbus'.

Historically in the 1300s China was the world's most power state with the world's greatest navy. Zheng He/Chung Ho Admiral, Muslim and Eunich sailed from China as far as Africa.

So in WHFB we can have a fleet of Cathay ships sail all the way to the Olde Worlde and seize control of an island off the coast of Brettonia. Called Fragrant Harbor in Brettonia (or suitibly Frenchy version of that) the Cathayans name their new colony Xiang Gong and use it as a base to forcibly open trade with the Olde Worlde and sell their warp weed

Do the Bretonns get to sell opium to the Cathay Army?

Another name that was tossed around a lot was Araby, in the Warseer thread.

No matter what happens I hope that the rules are decent, models look good are are good sellers for the company. GW has made some ass decisions of late and could use the help.

Random

edit: Nice, the Iraqi flag pops up on this connection. On my other one I get a Kuwaiti one, cause it is piped in from a Kuwaiti company.

Not to be a totla shill but if you'd like to see plastic Far East there's quite a few proposals at Wargames Factory.

http://wargamesfactory.lefora.com/forum/category/far-east-submissions/page1/

http://www.wargamesfactory.com/league_fareast

That sounds really cool, esp. the ninjas. And I preordered 5 sprues, but what are the chances that they'll really get made? It's only at 8%?

A few years back a friend who owned an FLGS (now closed) claimed he had talked to someone high up and been told that GW was planning three 'new' armies. First would be chaos dwarfs, then Cathay then...... Dragon Kingdoms. Armies made up of nothing but dragons.

Seeing as this is years later, and none of the aforementioned have yet come to pass, it seems highly suspect, but an army of dragons would certainly be cool. Keeping them different then lizardmen would be tricky though. Anybody else ever here of anything like that?

Dragon Kingdoms? I don't buy it. Then again, Ogre Kingdoms.....

I'd love to see the Cd's back.. But I'm not holding my breath for evil dwarve.s...

Come to think of it Araby did get the complete Warmaster treatment.
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat1060134&rootCatGameStyle=

That is a reasonable army build, minus flying carpets though it's a little silly imho.
War elephants could become upscaled Mumak builds. Elementals could act much like dryads for HEs.
Anti-chaos? Araby could be on a crusade to cleanse the land of the unbelievers.

What do you think?

Obliterator Kingdoms. Snooch.

Abadabadoobaddon still exists?
wow...

corpsesarefun wrote:Abadabadoobaddon still exists?
wow...

He'd gone fishing, too.

Araby would be great, especially if they could easily be turned into Tallern Desert Raiders or some other sort of 40K goodness :]

On a side note- I wish GW would just rename some of the Human provinces. I guess it's too late now, but Araby- Ind- Cathay and Nippon are all terrible names/ too obvious/ the actual names for certain places. :/

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Kid_Kyoto wrote:

Now why a species that's too damn lazy to reproduce would get an awesome cool name like bear-cats is beyond me.

Bottle wrote:Araby would be great, especially if they could easily be turned into Tallern Desert Raiders or some other sort of 40K goodness :]

On a side note- I wish GW would just rename some of the Human provinces. I guess it's too late now, but Araby- Ind- Cathay and Nippon are all terrible names/ too obvious/ the actual names for certain places. :/

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And this is bad..... why?

BrookM wrote:Nippon is the Japanese variant in fantasy, Cathay is China.

An army of Nipponese schoolgirls? If it is Chaos Dwarves I could see "War Machines of Chaos" as when I worked for GW the idea behind Chaos was 3 armies. They were Chaos Mortals, Beastmen, and War Machines of Chaos. Then again they put the Demons out....

Nofasse 'Eadhunta wrote:KHEMRI!

That's the new name of Tomb Kings.

thats wrong. there are many cities in nehekhara, not everyone comes from khemri you'know...appearenntly gw doesn't.... i play a tomb king based in quatar.

It would be nice to see another Human army, other than the obviously Germanic Empire and the painfully obviously Frenchy-British Bretonnians. (The tin-cans are still my favorite human army though. Lol.)

I would especially love to see Cathay. I remember back in the time-shrouded era of "use-able GW website", somebody converted a Cathay army. They were counts as Empire, IIRC, and I really liked the rocket-tubes he had in place of cannons.

I've given up on WFB though. My High Elf phase is long past...

yea i remember that. personnaly, i want them to blow the lid of that fantasy genre box. we really need to get out more.

Look, if going for the stupid stereotypes we all so love and adore be sure to include some form of Nippon unit not much unlike the Goblin Doomdiver and give it the special rule "Harbour of Pearls" or "Tora Tora Tora" or something. A great Cathay special rule would be "Eggloll you plick" with their army commander looking like Micky Rooney. Maybe give them a special "magical" breath attack in form of coughing that can be countered by buying breathing masks for your units at x-points per model.

looks back over pages about Cathay n Nippon n Ind n Araby...

erm Albion?


/runs

Albion! The perfect oppertunity to get men in skirts with Millwall brick's on the table top.

Hang on, aren't Orcs and Gobbos the chavs of the warhammer fantasy world to some degree?

So, the "unknown release that will burn your pants off" is no longer Warhammer Quest? That's what I heard last...

Scottywan82 wrote:

Bottle wrote:Araby would be great, especially if they could easily be turned into Tallern Desert Raiders or some other sort of 40K goodness :]

On a side note- I wish GW would just rename some of the Human provinces. I guess it's too late now, but Araby- Ind- Cathay and Nippon are all terrible names/ too obvious/ the actual names for certain places. :/

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And this is bad..... why?

They sound totally uninspired. I guess it's all just a matter of opinion, although I'd be surprised if lots of people liked the names.

The Empire and Bretonnia have more of a catch to them, and are just a fraction more removed from our history to sound more pleasing to me.

Bottle wrote:They sound totally uninspired. I guess it's all just a matter of opinion, although I'd be surprised if lots of people liked the names.

The Empire and Bretonnia have more of a catch to them, and are just a fraction more removed from our history to sound more pleasing to me.

Bretonnia is a cliche of the whole Mort de Artur (sp) stereotype, The Empire is all high gothic renaissance armour and the designers having a hardon for the art of Albrech Durer, they are also geographically superimposed, as is kislev and norsca.

And there is nothing wrong with it, both those kingdoms have been realised extremely well, back in the day the designers had no idea warhammer would get where it's got, that the vaguely sketched out ideas for other areas would be talked about as completeing the entire world, even then we can have invaders from the nearby moons, dimenson jumping, centre of the earth realms etc. The Hobgoblakhan Empire was the one I thought they would have done years ago, it was always mentioned in such awed reverence as the 'greatest single empire the world has ever seen', Ah well.

I would also love to see the Hogobla-Khan empire. I always thought the Dogs or War regiment looked fantastic!

The Empire and Bretonnia are very well realised and I'm sure GW will do a great job of realising other areas of the Warhammer World too. I like all the real world influences in Warhammer, that it roughly follows medieval history but splatters fantasy every where for good measure.

It's just the names of these Kingdoms I don't like :]

- another point:

If they are going to do Cathay or Nippon, does anyone else think the High Elves and Dark Elves already have certain similarities to these places with their technology. I am mainly talking about the armor on a lot of the models, and also their use of bolt throwers. Just something for thought.

Bottle wrote:
If they are going to do Cathay or Nippon, does anyone else think the High Elves and Dark Elves already have certain similarities to these places with their technology. I am mainly talking about the armor on a lot of the models, and also their use of bolt throwers. Just something for thought.

Well, greenskins have bolt-throwers as well, it just requires the model to be suitably themed to the army and given a catchy name. The human civilisations of the East, so the fluff goes, were greatly influenced (and preyed upon in the early times) by the Dark Elves and aided in development by the High Elves.

Ah, thank you.

Overall I am still hoping for Araby I think. Although if Cathay or Nippon get made, I'm excited at the prospect of being able to make a Mordheim Warband featuring the cast of Mortal Kombat!