Warhammer
Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play is a role-playing game created by Games Workshop, based in the world described in their tabletop strategy game (see below). It is notable for its "dark and gritty" aspect, its complex system of "careers" through which player characters may advance and gain skills and improve their game statistics, and its background world, which features a culture very like Renaissance Germany crossed with Tolkien's Middle-Earth---with very Lovecraftian Chaos forces just offstage or out of sight.
Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play is more widely played outside the United States than in the US. Games Workshop has alternated between supporting WFRP, licensing it out to other companies, and ignoring it to concentrate on their miniatures-based games.
Warhammer Fantasy Battle is also a tabletop strategy game created by Games Workshop.
The game is played with 'regiments' of fantasy miniatures . It uses stock fantasy races such as humans, elves, dwarves, Undead, Orcs, Lizardmen, etc. Each race has its own unique strengths and flaws. Elves for example have the most powerful archers and magicians in the game but have fewer specialised close combat units.
There also is a Science Fiction Warhammer game called Warhammer 40K and a string of other spin of games based around similar concepts; Battle fleet gothic, Warmaster etc
Warhammer is periodicaly updated and re-released with newer rules and changes to the gaming system to improve playability.
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The models used in this game are often multi-part models and are made of either plastic or pewter. These models are around to be 25mm for a human. Dragoons can be around to 10cm.
They come unpainted and unassembled. The players spend a great deal of time painting and modifying the miniatures so that they represent the army's background. This is reinforced by annual painting competitions held by games workshop known as the Golden deamons. Players compete in a number of catergories to win; bronze, silver and gold golden deamons for painting.
To build an average army one has to buy at least 50-100 miniatures (depending on the army he chooses to play) which makes Warhammer an expensive hobby. However the gaming system is flexible so that players can easily opt to play smaller battles of 30-40 models etc.
The game is played for a pre-determined number of turns and a winner is declared based on a points system.
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The miniatures
The races (or armies)
In Warhammer Fantasy Battle there are the following races:Playing the game
As noted the game is played in turns which are broken down into phases, movement phase, magic phase, and assault phase.