Osprey have good books on how Early Modern Armies were organized. Those three booklets had a great influence on my understanding of how should be armies of the Empire. - https://ospreypublishing.com/the-landsknechts-pb - https://ospreypublishing.com/armies-of-the-german-peasants-039-war-1524-26-pb -...

Not really related, but a very long time ago, I have made this document (without key, so players could progressively discover it) which superpose the different layers of Castle Wittgenstein, and underline few layer inconsistencies, such as the scale, the wind rose (but that might perhaps be an error...

It's stylistic, with the number of buildings representative rather than literal - like the Hogshead Marienburg map or many historical city maps Alas, it looks like obvious and unhidden that it was done on a graphic tablet. That is my main problem with this map. Many if not most contemporary illustr...

I roughly imagine that the Khazalid "Zaiyon" might be wrote in Klinkarhun by the trigram ᛊᛉᛋ, ZYN , /zajon/, (or made more explicit by the tetragram ᛊᛉᚻᛋ, ZYON ). With the following declension, if Khazalid grammar might be considered as possibly close enough to Khuzdul's: nominative singular: ᛊᛉᛋ, Z...

Archives of the Empire: Volume I will cover "Imperial Dwarfs: While they think of the Karak’s as their true home, many a dwarf has never set foot on ancestral lands, instead living at the very heart of the Empire"
https://www.cubicle7games.com/middenhei ... f-out-now/

Thanks and sorry. I rephrased it.

My feeling is that the Biblical return to Zion isn't the same thing as Zionism (albeit Zionism obviously legitimates itself from the Biblical return to Zion). Zionism isn't simply the willingness to return to Zion. It is more than that. That is why the willingness to return to Erebor isn't necessary...

Okay, I wasn't understanding your suggestion because I didn't even thought about Zionism, which is a 19th-21th century movement (albeit it obliviously have older roots), that I wouldn't thought to establish in an early 16th Century inspired Germanic flavoured fantasy civilization such as Warhammer (...

Even so, artists are responsible for inferences that logically arise from their RW analogies. For example, you can't dress the Imperial Guard in WW2 German uniforms and then claim that any similarity between the Imperium and Nazi Germany is purely coincidental. Noticing you've made our thread reach...

Be honest, which group of occupiers do you associate with "reclaiming Zion"? The Crusader analogy could maybe work in Karak Eight Peaks if the Muslims are Skaven. Romans are a stretch due to the historical period. In fantasy fiction works, we can imagine everything. A people inspired by Aztec, Egyp...

If Zaiyon is analogous to Zion in the Dwarfs=Jews analogy, then I don't see how greenskins could be anything but Muslims (or Crusaders). I feel that is probably because you confuse induction and deduction, which constitute the very significant logical gap that lead to the illogical path you've took...

Plus, if the original Dwarfholds are Zion, does that make greenskins the Arabs/Muslims? There is no logical connexion between "original Dwarfholds are Zion" (which isn't exactly what the text state, by the way) and "make greenskins Arabs/Muslims". Orcs and goblins might or might not be inspired by ...

I agree with you, that The Enemy Within campaign was just a set of possible course of events. In itself, this campaign have a lot of potential ends: Bögenhafen might be destructed or saved... Boris Todbringer might be murdered or saved... His murderer might take the place of late Boris or to fail to...

The first publication that diverge from Empire in Flames is Warhammer Armies: The Empire (WFB6, 2000): "It is the year 2520 of the Imperial Calendar, and Karl Franz is the ruling Emperor." The WFB 4e Empire army book (1993) had Karl Franz as Emperor from 2502 IC. Which is in line with Empire in Fla...

The two are basically different canonical versions of the Warhammer world, in the same way as the events of Empire in Flames don't line up canonically with anything published since. Did it? The first publication that seem to diverge from Empire in Flames is Games Workshop's Warhammer Armies: The Em...

There is also a history to the linking of mythological dwarfs and Jewish stereotypes beyond the question of Tolkein’s inspiration and intentions. The character of Alberich in Wagner’s Ring Cycle is generally agreed to be an anti-Semitic stereotype (as well as one of the more famous dwarfs in litera...

That is not directly related, but when Rick Priestley redesigned Chaos Dwarves for WFB4, he took another Semitic strong source of inspiration: Assyrians.

I feel that is because the first edition Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay created -from a still very rough Battle universe- an universe to role play. Such kind of universe need to be quite socially developed. Dwarves who were conceived were mainly exiled dwarves within the Empire: workers, craftsmen, erud...

Middle Earth Dwarves also dragged their cultural influence on Norse mythological dwarfs (for cultural aspects) and on Jewish mediaeval communities it seems (for cultural aspects and geographical aspects) and on Greek mythological pygmies (for their characteristic size). Warhammer Fantasy inspiration...

I thought it did. It wasn't translated in France (or, more exactly, the French translation which was done never get GW's imprimatur [nor even GW's refusal]). Thank you for your correction. I thought that this outset of a Chaos invasion was the outset of the Storm of Chaos... Isn't Storm of Chaos a C...