#the old world

[voxbelicosa]

Chosen of Slaanesh - sketchbook

#inkart #inkdrawing #sketch #sketchbook #fantasy art #grimdark #warhammer fantasy #the old world #age of sigmar #warriors of chaos #slaanesh

[petterwass]

While it obviously did not happen during Karl Franz's reign, the fact that Vlad Von Carstein, aka the big grandaddy of all Vampire Counts is/was legally an Elector Count will never not be funny to me.

Just imagine Vlad Von Fucking Carstein engaging in normal Imperial politics, making deals in the senate and all those "normal" stuff.

Vlad, in his blood-red vampiric armour, leaving his literally blood-drinking sword, the Wailing Blade to a footman at the door and sitting down to discuss the impact of the current agricultural tax politics on Sylvania's peasant farmers.

#warmongers #Warhammer Fantasy #The old world #Vampire Counts #Vlad Von Carstein

[gameoftravel]

Oldhammmer marauder Dwarf regiment finished this morning. Ready to join my Empire Altdorf themed army. Yay!

#warhammer #whfb #warhammer fantasy #oldhammer #the old world #painting warhammer #miniatures #games workshop #dwarfs

[grombrindal-returns]

Grombrindal Returns

#white dwarf #grombrindal #warhammer fantasy #warhammer #age of sigmar #warhammer dwarfs #fyreslayers #kharadron overlords #the old world #blog name now officially prophetic #warhammer community

[beastofnurgle]

just realized that three of my upcoming planned armies are

-thousand sons

-tomb kings

-necrons

...

this is what happens when a hieroglyphics kid grows up and gets into warhammer

#the hobbyist speaks #warhammer #40k #30k #the horus heresy #the old world #warhammer fantasy

[renegade-chaos-druid]

“Fear me mortals, for I am the Anointed, the favored Son of Chaos, the Scourge of the World. The armies of the gods rally behind me, and it is by my will and by my sword that your weakling nations shall fall.”

-Archaon, The Everchosen (Art by: Karl Kopinski)

#warhammer #warhammer fantasy #oldhammer #the old world #chaos #chaos undivided #Archaon #Everchosen #karl kopinski

[pictor-occidens]

Better pictures to come, but I've finally finished a major milestone in my Old World Bretonnia project - I've gotten all my old models on new bases, touched them up and gotten them table-ready. The paint jobs on my old knights and men-at-arms are starting to show their age, but it would feel wrong to redo them now. Finally I can move on to new knights to ride alongside the old guard.

#warhammer #warhammer fantasy #hobby #bretonnia #feels nice to preserve my old minis and give them the love they deserve #my paintings gotten a lot better in the last ten years or so but I'm still very fond of my old work #the old world

[trollbite]

reinforcements!

#ageofsigmar #miniaturepainting #paintingwarhammer #wargaming #warhammer #warhammerfantasy #miniature painting #mordheim #orcsandgoblins #the old world

[racefortheironthrone]

Warhammer Gaslamp: Introduction

The year is 2725 IC...some two hundred years since the Age of Crisis. The time of Karl Franz I, the "Fourth Deliverer of the Empire," has long past, as has the age of knights and dragons – throughout the Old World, magic itself is a dying art.

The Empire of Man is stronger than ever before, but it is an Empire that runs on coal and iron, held together with roads of steel track, and powered by boiling, thumping hearts that pump steam and gas through the veins of the mightiest industrial power in the world. The forests remain, but they have dwindled in size, cut down to feed the endless hunger of the great metropolises, the mighty smokestacks of Nuln, Talabheim, New Averheim, and greatest of all, the bright gaslights of mighty Altdorf ("The Big Turnip"), and a hundred smaller cities that light the night skies.

The Neüscience of the Imperial Technomancers has increased national prosperity a hundredfold, improved the health and well-being of the common citizens, and helped the Imperial Army, Navy, and Airkorps put the endless hordes of Khaos on the backfoot for generations. In spite of (or because of?) this, Imperial society has become increasingly divided between the elite who profit from the new economy of high finance and heavy industry, and those millions of unskilled and semi-skilled laborers whose endless toil keeps them only ever one step ahead of the breadline and the bailiff. Meanwhile, the mounting toll of industrial pollution, epidemic disease, industrial accidents, and Neüscientific “experiments” running amok raises new questions about the high cost of success.

Politics has become ever more fractious. The Imperial Parliament is divided between the House of the People, where the Farmer-Artisan Party (representing a coalition of the Craft Guilds and their fellow urban workers, and a significant minority of rural laborers and small farmers) holds the plurality, and the House of the Nobles, where the Liberal-Conservative Party (representing both the traditional landed aristocracy and the new monied elite) holds power, and the two clash fiercely over labor rights, taxation, industrial regulation, and social welfare. Holding the uneasy balance of power is Emperor Karl-Franz XIV, his "Iron" Chancellor Ludwig von Ostermark, and their smaller Patriotic Party (largely supported by veterans and members of the civil service), who try to maintain Imperial unity and industrial production in the face of the "Threat from the Black North."

In the streets and on the shop-floors, the captains of industry known as the Great Monopolhauses (allied and often intermarried with the nobility) deploy their legions of spies and private soldiers against the rising strength of the Laborer’s Guild, who are mobilizing in the factories by the hundreds of thousands, and the industrial spies and gunthugs are kept in check only by the still-potent might of the Craft Guilds who fear and resent their industrial upstart rivals but trust the bosses even less.

The religion that once united an Empire today divides it, as Orthodox Volkmarites and Radical Hussites split over matters of class and faith. Although the two factions are still nominally part of the same Sigmarite religion, and the Church of Sigmar is held together by the firm hand of the Emperor, the two factions compete fiercely over theology and dogma, and positions within the Church unto the Grand Theogonacy itself. To the north, the philosophy professor-turned-street preacher Nietzsche von Zarathustein has single-handedly revived the fortunes of the Cult of Ulric with his fiery doctrine of Neo-Ulricism and his best-seller Man unt Wulf-Man. From the great industrial heartland of the south, the radical scholar Mark Karhl preaches the overthrow of the status quo as an inherently exploitative regime, and his pamphlet The Scarlet Platform and his massive three-volume treatise on political economy, Der Gelden (which almost no one has completed), inspire many young radical students and workers to join the revolutionary Scarlet Party and the ranks of the Laborer’s Guild. Are rumors of his secret allegiance to a Tzeenchite secret society true, or mere bourgeois propaganda?

Exacerbating these divisions is the constant threat from Khaos. Up in the "Black North" and their allied territories on the great steppes on the other side of the pole, the forces of evil pervert the laws of science to their mad push for world domination. Khornate breeder-lords select from an unceasing flow of gladiators to produce the perfect warriors; Nurglite bio-priests carefully engineer the next insidious plague to slip past the Imperial Plasmic Survey; Slaaneshi sin-merchants mobilize a world-wide network of Cathayan black tar and warpdust powder (bartered from the Skaven) to corrupt the Empire from within; and Tzeenchite techno-mancers design ever more fiendish mutated F.R.E.A.K.S and the twisted Biomechs.

Inside the Empire, things are scarcely better. Even with the darkness of the forests pushed back to the periphery and the Greenskin hordes banished to the far side of the World's Edge Mountains, the threat of Were-beastmanism and other, more insidious, forces winds its way into every neighborhood in the Empire despite the best efforts of the Imperial Plasmic Survey and the Schwarzmänner. Mutants who cannot conceal their true nature – known as the "Untervolk" - have decamped into the subway tunnels and sewers that form the Undercities of the Empire, waging an unceasing war for survival against “norms” and “ratfolk” alike. From the back alleyways and the salons of the nobility alike, the endless secret societies of Khaos vie to do their masters' bidding, undermining the Empire from within in preparation for the coming war.

It is a time that desperately needs heroes, men and women willing to brave the darkness on the mean streets and the shell-torn battlefields of the Old World alike. Mystery and intrigue, adventure and mad science await!

#warhammer fantasy #warhammer gaslamp #the old world #empire of man

[loreseekergaia]

How old were you when you realized that the High Elf island of Ulthuan resembles the yin-yang symbol within its Inner Sea?

In fact, both the elves and the Eldar have this symbol in a lot of their iconography.

#warhammer #miniatures #40k #warhammer fantasy #the old world #yin yang #aeldari #eldar #high elves #ulthuan #craftworlds #symbols

[tomdaleillustration]

Happy new year!

I was recently approached by a client to create an old world/warhammer fantasy painting for them. The Saurus character was their own creation and backstory, blessed by Huanchi and Chotec and has been recovering lost relics throughout Lustria and from chaos warbands. They are accompanied by a giant armoured ancient salamander.

Both characters had references from Total war Warhammer combined with old world lizardmen and the updated Seraphon range from AoS.

It was a good challenge to bring it altogether, hope you like it!

#fantasy illustration #artists on tumblr #fantasy art #warhammer art #warhammer #gamesworkshop #warhammer age of sigmar #warhammer fantasy #lizardmen #seraphon #dragon art #salamander #saurus #fantasy character #lustria #the old world

[warhammergoldenera]

GORS! Beastmen unit for Old World

#warhammer #oldhammer #warhammer fantasy #warhammer the old world #the old world #chaos #grimdark #beastmen #gors #beasts of chaos #miniatures #conversion #miniature #kit bashing #my minis #painting

[thecrowinggriffon]

successful wild hunt!

#cervitaur #centaur #satyr #faun #wood elf #wood elves #asrai #kurnoth #sylvaneth #oberon #orion #kragnos #fey #feywild #warhammer #warhammer fantasy #the old world #age of sigmar #aos #the ninth age #the 9th age #dungeons and dragons #dnd #d&d #tabletop #wargaming #minipainting #miniatures

[gameoftravel]

The Knight of The Empire. Another Warhammer bit for my Altdorf army

#warhammer fantasy #oldhammer #whfb #warhammer #age of sigmar #warmongers #aos #the old world #old world #empire #miniature painting #fantasy miniatures #hobby #games workshop

[warhammer-painter81]

Norba Miniatures steam tank for my tot empire army

#steamtank #warhammer #the old world #steam tank #empire #tow #norba miniatures #painting #miniaturepainting

[daves-miniature-adventures]

A little test model finished for my Empire army in Warhammer The Old World. I’ve gone with the classic colours of Talabheim, one of the largest cities in the Empire, and instantly recognisable in the Old World lore.

Ever since joining this wonderful hobby almost twenty five years ago, I wanted to build and paint a grand army of Talabheim but never achieved that goal. With the release of The Old World, I figured the time was right to change that, and here is the first painted miniature of the Grand Army of Talabheim!

I still need to decide on a paint scheme for the shield, currently leaning towards a black or painted wood grain front with steel edging and a copper or brass emblem.

Now that I have the scheme nailed down, I’ll be making a start on the next infantry models to complete the unit of Spearmen.

Happy Hobbying!

Dave

#games workshop #model making #painting #tabletop wargaming #scale models #hobby #miniature painting #miniatures #tabletop gaming #tabletop miniatures #warhammer fantasy battle #warhammer fantasy #warhammer the old world #the old world #empire #talabheim #sci fi & fantasy #fantasy miniatures #fantasy #Warhammer #quick hobby update