Alternate fan-made armies

[Sir Geheimnisnacht]

What's the point of the fan books if not for the fluff? Just to mix it up with different rules?

 

[jbizzle113]

I guess alot of you will already know these Fanmade books by Matthias Eliasson but some also might not.

Ive had knowledge of their existence for quite a while now and looked through them several times, although it would be better qualified as 'glancing through'. Taking in the major rules and looking at unit statlines but not going in much deeper.

Alot of them seem quite alright, definately not overpowered in a general sense. No one can contest the fact that he has put in alot of work and effort into creating armybooks (updated to 8th edition) that reflect the style and content of all the regular GW-armybooks.


Now what i would like to know is;
Has anyone here actually played with any of these armies and tested it for its viability. IF so i would love to see nice long posts with your experiences in it and which armies you have played.


One that has my real attention is Nippon (being a fan of feudal japan)i really like the rulesets he has created, it kind of tends towards Vampire/undead rules tbh


Here are the two links for good view/download possibilities. First is his own blog, second is scribd (obviously)
http://warhammerarmiesproject.blogspot.nl/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/33025584/Warhammer-Nippon

i know this is kinda late but i have played a nippon army. My brother made the army and he even posted the battle report on youtube. it was fun to play against and i'm starting my own Araby army hope to have them complete in about a month or two.

 

[jbizzle113]

yea im aware that its not orthodox and i understand what you say about it not being official and therefore might raise alot of suspicion.
But, with official books, you also dont have a say in it how they turn out.
The fact that you want to change things about VC has nothing to do with a group of people trying to create an Armybook about a race that exists only in rare fluff and adding it to the World of Warhammer. Something which you can be sure GW will never be doing.
Like an AB from GW, you will simply have to trust them to make it as balanced, fair and coherent as possible.


What i really would like to achieve with a post like this, is bringing these AB under more popular attention and hopefully acceptation as being a fair, playable races that do fit into the choices we already have.


I approach these AB as a mod made by fans for computergames. The best games ever made are either mods or professionalised versions of a mod (counterstrike and the entire fps community, dota and the entire spinoffrage, dayz and the entire survivalhorror gaming), the list goes on about fanmade games that prove to be more fun than the original one.

Ofc it is a bit different but my point is that, reading through these fanmade codexes.... they just really look good and wellbuilt. I just hope that people can put aside their predetermined mindset about fandex and approach it as a true AB made by people that really want to serve the community and give something extra.
Looking down upon fandex simply because its fandex makes little sense imo, GW doesnt do a good job at writing books (Tombkings being the major example amongst others)

a couple of the people in my area are trying to do at least one army a piece. i really like them. I have all of the books saved also. I myself really like to Araby army. i also would like for these books to be more accepted. No book i've read seems to be OP. and i also like the fluff

 

[Skittelz1981]

a couple of the people in my area are trying to do at least one army a piece. i really like them. I have all of the books saved also. I myself really like to Araby army. i also would like for these books to be more accepted. No book i've read seems to be OP. and i also like the fluff

thanx, this is exactly my point, matthias eliasson and his team have written fantastic fluffy armybooks that are well designed and fit in perfectly with all other 8th ediion AB.
None of them are truly overpowered. theyre just exceptionally well done.
Giving them more attention and broad support would be great, it would actually be a true support of your own fanbase in whfb.

 

[jbizzle113]

thanx, this is exactly my point, matthias eliasson and his team have written fantastic fluffy armybooks that are well designed and fit in perfectly with all other 8th ediion AB.
None of them are truly overpowered. theyre just exceptionally well done.
Giving them more attention and broad support would be great, it would actually be a true support of your own fanbase in whfb.

the video of the battle report my brother did is under TheKinghtKage if you want to see. he also has a battle against beastmen. its about 6 of us who are going to do a army and come up with a campaign for the armies.

 

[Skittelz1981]

Awesome. I convinced 1 in my meta to proxy these armies.
Now i need to convince the others