Thank you all, this has been really helpful. I knew you could change careers but hadn't realised it was intended to be so easy or commonplace. I was thinking of it more like DnD multi-classing. I think I will house-rule that each race gets some kind of combat related skill, as suggested.

How do the pre-gen characters all seem to have weapon skills that don't come from their race or career? Are they just ignoring the rules to make decent fun characters, or is there some other means with which to advance skills?

Sorry if this is already posted somewhere. I had a good look and couldn't find it. I love the Warhammer Setting, and recently tried DMing a one-shot game. We had a lot of fun role-playing but found some of the Rules a bit odd and that most of our characters just didn't seem to make a lot of sense. O...