7th Ed. What is warmaster?

[Suppe]

Simple question, simple story... I went to Gw's homepage but was to lazy to mouse over the warhammer banner so I wrote saurus warrior in Search product (right side of the screen) and this Warmaster product poped up... what is Warmaster and Bloodbowl?

 

[Craken]

Bloodbowl is football and warhammer smashed together, it acctually has a video game coming out, you can google it if you want looks pretty awesome.

Warmaster is high point Warhammer type battles but on a super tiny scale. I its 10mm scale as a opposed to the 28mm warhammer scale.

 

[strewart]

Yeah I am very much looking forward to the Bloodbowl game. Looks cool.

Both are GW specialist games, so they aren't really supported much anymore but I think you can get the rules for both free on the GW website. Definitely can with BB.

Warmaster has a few differences but is mostly WHFB on a smaller scale so you can have more models on the same sized table, thus a larger battle easier. There is a 40k equivelant as well called Epic.

Bloodbowl... Yeah a very very violent version of American football. A recognised tactic for some armies to win is to incapacitate or kill the majority of opponent players, if they cannot field a team they must automatically forfeit.

 

[Revered_Guardian]

I believe the new term for 40k is Apocalypse battles... and blood bowl looks awesome and reletively inexpensive too!

 

[strewart]

Hmm I don't know if that was sarcasm or not. Apocalypse is massive battles at 28mm scale (normal 40k) which involve mass destruction on both sides, and an entire day depending on how big the battle is. Epic was 10mm scale, the models were much much smaller. For example, they had a blister pack of multiple land raiders.

 

[Aranigej]

Warmaster is warhammer on a larger scale. The models used in warmaster are 10mm high (about 1/3 the size of a normal warhammer model). Having smaller models allowed you to field a lot of units. Warmaster is more similar to napoleonic wargames than warhammer.

Epic is the 40k warmaster equivalent however the scale of the models is even smaller (6mm) which is approx. 1/4 the size of a warhammer figure. As strewart mentioned, in epic you used to have whole armies of tanks and other large models that you only usually field one or 2 in the normal 40k games.

A couple of years back, GW made rules (called Apocalypse) for playing immense 40k battles and here the models were the normal size models we are all used to. Needless to say, it is VERRRYYY expensive to get an army like that.

 

[strewart]

Tough for new players to get into Apocalypse, but veterans of 40k tend to have massive collections, even bigger armies than WHFB veterans. So now they can finally field everything at once. And remember the rules are lapse enough for any alliances to happen, so a group of new players can each bring 1500 points or whatever and still play. I certainly enjoyed fielding my 5000 points of marines along side my friends ~8000 points of guardsmen against an equal number of chaos, partly from my 5000 point chaos army and partly from another friend's.

 

[beardedgecko]

apocolypse also has the benefit of lots of large warmachines that cost 1500-2k points and can mostly be scratch built, so a 5k point apoc army isnt too difficult, unless you play nids.

the liZardmen warmaster models look really nice BTW