It is quite funny how life goes. I never really got into the Hobby as a Teenager mainly because of no Money and no close LGS or community. There is only so much fun one can have with a 5th edition Starter Set and the Starter Paint Kit for christmas. Pushing 12 Bretonnian Knights and 24 Peasant Bowmen into 32 Skinks and 20 Saurus Warriors does get dull at some point. It was also a great time for computer gaming and I needed to save up 200 Deutsch Mark for the Quantum Fireball 15GB harddisk, an unfathomable amount of space. You would never need to upgrade your HDD ever again, trust me. You could install Caesar III a whopping 100 times on this bad boy.
In my late student years 2012 I got back into the hobby and wanted to give it a real go this time around. I had a small but really nice LGS around the corner with an even smaller but very committed and loyal Warhammer Fantasy group of players. Living in a small town in a shared flat, also money wasn't a (big) problem. Sure not able to splurge on 2 Battalions a month, but sniping 30-50€ per month off the budget wasn't a big deal and takes you a long way over a year or two. Especially when you get to paint for free for helping around the LGS a little
Turns out the perfect number of Lion Chariots for example was already well established: https://youtu.be/xOrgLj9lOwk?t=83
I moved to a new city and started a job and a try on all of this "adulting" everyone kept talking about, JUST before the book for 8th dropped. What should have been an amazing time with a new book and big city and big playerbase experience came to a screeching halt, as I had to invest a huge amount of time and energy into the job - waking up in the weekend and not knowing if it is saturday or sunday is not great, but happened frequently. Well. Things settled down a bit, but then GW killed Warhammer. So, only having barely scratched the surface of the hobby the 2nd time around, there wasn't enough traction to keep me going. So I gifted my models away, followed a little bit the fan made stuff, but dropped off completly later.
So here we are. I have nothing. No hobby supplies, no models and again no local scene. Time is ok-ish but money is now no problem. Except it is - because I am for damn sure not buying High Elf models for the inflated prices that are going around at the moment. If I were into Brets or TK I might have picked up the starter box + a little. I was always into VC as it is a completely different playstyle to HE and one should have one good and one bad army, right? Since VC aren't coming back at all or at least not any time soon (fingers crossed the Legacy decision will be repealed at some point) I was actually considering the TK, well but everything was sold out in 2,5 milliseconds. So, yeah....
At the very least it is going to be Theoryhammer for me, might as well invest my energy in that. Minimum until High Elves get their full release. Likely even further than that, as I am unwilling to pay scalpers. This is fine. I always liked the theory/strategic part of the hobby the most. Story telling, list building, math hammering, comparing stats, coming up with awesome loadout combinations. etc. (I claim the 373pts "Lion Prince" with White Sword as my invention btw. sue me )
So, for now (Feb 2024)
What you can expect in this thread:
- Storytelling around the House of Evelar - to start - mainly around it's youngest son Aldaír
- Story-based "theoretical" Battle Reports made with Battle Chronicler
- Scenario Instructions for you to replay said battles, kind of a "play-along" experience (of my entirely made up outcome)
- Suggested army lists provided for both sides for each scenario and suggested (rough) deployment of the units.
- Branching story-line (e.g. if you win Scenario 1, continue with 2a, if you lose, continue with 2b)
- Maps of Movement and current events based off of the map here: https://www.theoldworld.com/
- I am not an artist. Any visual stuff will be crude at best.
- I am not an author and English is my 2nd language. I try to tell a good story, not a story well written. If it seems choppy - maybe it is due to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bctjSvn-OC8 or it might be the German in me.
- I am not very well versed in the Lore of Warhammer Fantasy. When I got the 8th Book for High Elves, I didn't even touch the lore pages, where are my points and units and magic items, I want to build lists! I try to better myself in that regard. But expect mistakes.
- I am trying to name characters and places to the best of my ability. I want to avoid using names that already exist, but due to the aforementioned lack of lore, I might accidentally do so, please call me out on that if it happens.
- Actual Battle Reports! I am not playing these games. If you don't know why, please read the disclaimer again
Prologue: Scenario 0 coming up soon!