Re: My Empire Army
Thank you for the compliment
Snickit":333ba5lj said:
I assume you mean as in "Football didn't exist before the Premier League/Premiership?"
Sorry but no, there really was no Empire proper until '92.
The first 3 Citadel Miniatures I bought around 1980 when they were packaged individually in blister packs mounted on blue card and priced at 30 or 40p each from Joseph's in Sunderland were 2 Fighters and a Thief. One of the fighters was a 6th century Viking type barbarian with a horned helmet, fur cloak and an axe and round shield, the other was a 12th or 13th century foot knight in surcoat and mail with a mace and heater shield, with a bit of a chaos warrior vibe going on, but of course there were no chaos warriors back then. The thief wore a doublet and hose and wouldn't have looked out of place in the early 17th century. And that was about it as far as humans went, an anachronistic mix of fighters, adventurers, rogues and militia depicting every historical archetype from the 4th to the 17th century.
Now I don't claim to be the font of all knowledge and I'll quite happily defer to those more knowledgeable than me, but as I remember it. There was no "Fluff" as we know it, apart from the odd character biography or unit history until 1991. In 1991 St Nigel of Stillman wrote Warhammer Armies and gave us the Empire that we all know and love, then in 1992 we got the miniatures in proper units with proper flag wavers, leaders and musicians.
I don't want to be to get anal about this but before '91 there was the odd mention of the The Old World, Lustria, Carthy, Araby et al, but nothing tangible and certainly nothing available that allowed players to build what would now be recognisable human armies. I suppose that 1991 is the end of Oldhammer and the beginning of Middlehammer, but fear not although my toys may be Middle I'm definitely Old.
Once again thanks
Cheers
