![]() ![]() Basically, the army book was introduced as a series of articles in the wholly-owned company magazine White Dwarf, which like Games Workshop itself had started life as basically Britain's homegrown equivalent to Dragon Magazine, with articles on D&D, Runequest, Call of Cthulhu, etc., and morphed into basically being a Games Workshop-only magazine, full of scenarios, beautifully painted units, rules for experimental units, etc. While terrible in terms of balance, this was really the edition that set a lot of the future Warhammer Fantasy product identity, such as rune magic for Dwarfs, the look and feel of Greenskins (and elimination of Half-Orcs, gnomes, etc.) - and it also involved a complete overhaul and re-skin of the entire Chaos Dwarf concept. Then came 4th edition 1992 - the infamous Herohammer edition, where battlefields tended to be dominated by expensive, overpowered characters. The whole Dwarf-mutants-fallen-to-Chaos thing was solidified in the infamous Realms of Chaos books (1989/1990) as Chaos Dwarf Renegades and.well, they were just part of the vast set of mutants and weird shit that Chaos could field.Īnd yes, this means there were even potentially Chaos Squats. This was expanded upon in Warhammer 3rd Edition which introduced these Chaos Dwarf mutants as an "Ally contingent," as well as introducing a new type of gobbo, the Hobgoblin. At the tail end of 2nd edition (1986/1987), in Ravening Hordes the Chaos Army list had a line for Chaos Dwarfs - these were dwarfs that had fallen to Chaos, as mutants and really short Chaos Warriors and suchlike. I played seldom, lost constantly, and superglued my fingers together so often I lost count, but I had fun.īefore we get into the thick of it, however, let's run up some preliminary background. I actually spent quite a bit of time working on the Chaos Dwarfs Wiki in college when I had copious spare time, and wrote a series of fan-articles called "Earthshaking Canon" for their fanzine, The Word of Hashut. They are the red-headed bastard children of the Warhammer Armies, and that endeared me to them when I was young and didn't know any better. I'm gonna start out with saying that I have more than a soft spot for Chaos Dwarfs. Hopefully it'll be fun for everybody! Even my poor, oft-broken lil' Elfbois.This review was inspired by Koumei & Frank's OSSR of Warhammer 40K, 3rd edition, and is something of a spiritual sequel to my long-ago Dwarfs vs. Amazons, Norse, and other latecomers don't get reps in the studio proper for now. I *think* that covers all of the original teams but Skaven and Undead (tho the Vampire *almost* counts) but if I'm missing any from the original box game, let me know. ![]() Because someone has to be the dork who gets bowled over, quivers in fear form the minotaur, or reviews the stadium food where it's nice and SAFE for once. Pudge McSnakken – Halfling comedic sideline interviewer. "Ve hope to see more casualties next week. Because I want to do a dumb Dracula impression. Jimmy the Meek – Goblin bookie - SHifty-eyed, laden with jewelry, lays out odds for games (and obviously supports cheaters)īaron von Bludd – Casualty counter. These two do sideline interviews with players and coaches, with one being a bit more snide and biting, the other being a bit more supportive. Holly Branch - Sideline interviewer (Wood Elf of Purity) ? - Dark Elf Sideline interviewer (former Jeerleader, “The Skirt with the Dirt”) VERY angry Chaos commentator - Even MORE into hitting! tends to one-up the Orc and they routinely get into arm-wrestling, normal wrestling, or other "MANLY MAN!" contests with one another. Grumpy Dwarf coach - Give sinsights on playcallingĪngry Ork Blitzer - Wants more hitting and mocks dodging team. High Elf Catcher (retired)(Haughty, bored, quite good at his job when he feels like it) ![]() I will *happily* take suggestions! The rough first draft looks like so:Ĭo-Host - Chip Throwdown – Human Thrower (retired) A host, a co-host, several ex-players and experts to weigh in, a tally of the league's leading throwers, scorers, casualty-causers (needs a name!) and killers, plus bits and bobs form the players … brag about your team, boast about beating someone, threaten to get revenge on a team that beat you, etc.Ĭurrently trying to get good names for a few of the crew. It start sin a week or two, and uses the new Season Two rules, with a few tweaks (mercenary players are so much bette rthan the standard book rules!) … and, being a mad lad, I've decide dto A) play a bad team (High Elves, who are just awful in the current ruleset) and I want to run a weekly newsletter, done up as an in-world sportscast akin to This Week in the NFL or the like. ![]() I've wound up falling into a Blood Bowl league at one of the local game stores. ![]()
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