![]() ![]() ![]() Those 20 years have given me a few grudges to settle – I play Dwarfs as well as Bretonnia, incidentally – and Mortal Empires will finally let me do so. This was what I had been waiting 20 years for.īut it is not my only Warhammer dream. And, indeed, watching three regiments of ranked-up Grail Knights smash into a line of Chaos Warriors at the climax of my Bretonnia campaign, while King Louen Leoncoeur tore Archaon to pieces, will stay with me for a while. Obviously, the fantasy is to command one of the armies in a Lord of the Rings battle scene, but if you were to buythe models you would need to re-enact Helm’s Deep (let alone Minas Tirith), and then actuallydo so under Warhammer rules, you would have more money than Smaug, more time than God, and a bigger tabletop than King Arthur. This can leave your imagination with quite a lot of work to do: shuffling a unit of undercoated models into contact with another, perhaps pausing to reseat an errant knight, hardly has the emotional punch of the charge of the Rohirrim in Peter Jackson’s Two Towers. In Warhammer’s case, it is even more expensive than PC gaming, and in aesthetic terms your experience is a function of your patience and skill with a paintbrush. ![]() I love tabletop gaming but it has its limitations. ![]()
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