Skaven Archcast Campaign making me like Warhammer

[Eldagusto]

https://youtu.be/0dOthHxtS-A

So I just binged this Campaign by a bunch of Youtubers including ShortFatOtaku and Game Mastered by Archwarhammer. And its rather intriguing. Warhammer seems to be somewhere between DnD and World of Darkness with their system and storytelling. And I'm a fan of the Banished Youtubers who you are told not to pay attention to being successful.

So I thought Warhammer was mostly armies vs armies but I guess you can start with just single parties that expand into Armies or something? I never read a Warhammer book but everyone tells me they love Warhammer and 40k.

 

[DiceysDelves]

https://youtu.be/0dOthHxtS-A

So I just binged this Campaign by a bunch of Youtubers including ShortFatOtaku and Game Mastered by Archwarhammer. And its rather intriguing. Warhammer seems to be somewhere between DnD and World of Darkness with their system and storytelling. And I'm a fan of the Banished Youtubers who you are told not to pay attention to being successful.

So I thought Warhammer was mostly armies vs armies but I guess you can start with just single parties that expand into Armies or something? I never read a Warhammer book but everyone tells me they love Warhammer and 40k.

"Warhammer" is an IP, and there's a ton of different games for it.

The Big Army Games
Warhammer Fantasy Battles - Rank and Flank dead game set in the Old World
Warhammer 40,000k - Heroic Scale game set 40,000 years in the future.
Warhammer Age of Sigmar - Heroic Scale game set during the Age of Sigmar - a points of light setting where everything is jacked up to 11 compared to WFB.

Specialist Games
Warhammer Underworlds - CCG Mechanics/Good Minis and good gameplay battle game
Warcry - Fantasy Skirmish game. Can use AoS models or buy the faction ones.
Kill Team - 40k Skirmish game. Can use WH40k models or buy specific ones made for the game.
Blood Bowl - WHFB but everyone plays football. Very old but very popular. Models won't work in other games
Adeptus Titanicus - Battletech but set 10,000 years before warhammer 40k during "The Horus Heresy" - a big civil war. Models are expensive, wont work in other games.
Aeronautica Imperialis - Aerial Dogfighting Beer n Pretzel Game - models are expensive, won't work in other games.
Necromunda - Gangs battle each other for the scraps in a cyberpunk gothic city called Necromunda. Small gangs.
Warhammer Quest - DnD but warhammer
Space Hulk - 1v1 Space marines vs Tyranids wargame where you raid a space Hulk (dungeon) for loot and treasure

Many of these games have campaign systems where you assign stats to a specific model and have it level up (or die). If it dies, you just re-ruse the same model. Saying you can't use the models is more of an official GW tourney thing, not a normal thing, I've run Skaven Blood Bowl guys as Gutter-Runners, because who cares?

There's also an absolutely horrific amount of out of print games, GW seems to just sometimes release games, let them die on the vine and never print(or mention them again).

I literally cannot list them all. There's also a fuckload of tabletop RPG games, WHFRP is extremely popular. There's a bunch of WH40k ones.

Anyway, the Skaven are the best faction in the game.

 

[FritzedProcess]

That would be Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, which is set in the Warhammer Fantasy world, but is a roleplaying game instead of a strategy one; they are only related by the setting and the rules are completely different (the attributes were roughly those of the strategy game equivalent, plus a few extra ones because, and WS/BS were multiplied by 10, but dice rolls were 1d100, so it didn't scale the same way), although there were no rules for Skaven PCs that I remember (in first edition), so I suppose they are playing the latest edition by Cubicle 7 or doing house rules.

If you want to roleplay 40k there are quite a few games (Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, Only War, Deathwatch), but they are geared towards specific occupations in 40k (Inquisitors, Rogue Traders, Imperial Guardsmen, and Space Marines), whereas WFRP is not geared towards a specific occupation (you also do not have to purchase multiple corebooks from FFG, who don't have the license anymore, anyway).

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[Eldagusto]

That would be Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, which is set in the Warhammer Fantasy world, but is a roleplaying game instead of a strategy one; they are only related by the setting and the rules are completely different (the attributes were roughly those of the strategy game equivalent, plus a few extra ones because, and WS/BS were multiplied by 10, but dice rolls were 1d100, so it didn't scale the same way), although there were no rules for Skaven PCs that I remember (in first edition), so I suppose they are playing the latest edition by Cubicle 7 or doing house rules.

If you want to roleplay 40k there are quite a few games (Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, Only War, Deathwatch), but they are geared towards specific occupations in 40k (Inquisitors, Rogue Traders, Imperial Guardsmen, and Space Marines), whereas WFRP is not geared towards a specific occupation (you also do not have to purchase multiple corebooks from FFG, who don't have the license anymore, anyway).

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I think they said they are using some things from the 2nd edition of the game. They also note they preferred older Edition's Chaos Dwarfs, especially their hats.

 

[FritzedProcess]

Ah, yes, Chaos Dwarfs were one of GW's most original ideas and looked like summerian-ashkenazi jewish pimps, but didn't sell well and were phased out by the time 6th edition came out.

Edit: they also used shekels and had a general evil merchant aura about them, so they would have been cancelled today, regardless