Nippon- Warhammer Armies, 3rd edtion style

[Willmark]

Since I engage in the modeling aspect of the game far more then I play the rules are less important to me.

I've always tinkered with army lists and wrote four back in the 6th edition days. So with that in mind I think I'm going to create an army list for Nippon but using the 3rd edition format. The s more to give me something to base a army on in terms of how to construct it, just like any other army under 3rd.

I think this will be a fairly easy thing to do using the snippets of rules from the WFB rule book and Warhammer Armies Nippon mercenary contingent.

For layout it should be easy to fire up my DTP software and PhotoShop to do the layout (And no this does not mean I'm restarting the Word of Hashut)

Any thought and suggestions are welcome.

 

[Blue in VT]

There may have also been a Nippon list in the 2nd ed Raving Hordes book if I remember correctly...?

I don't have it here to check...

Cheers,

Blue

 

[Chico]

It shouldn't be too hard to stat and cost everything up using the main 3rd rules. But I look forward to seeing what you come up with as I have a few bags full of Nippon bits and bobs I plan to start doing something with at some point this year, and it'll be nice to have some guidelines to help me

 

[Willmark]

There may have also been a Nippon list in the 2nd ed Raving Hordes book if I remember correctly...?

I don't have it here to check...

Cheers,

Blue

Indeed there is!

If you happen to know where *ahem* a pdf copy is, let me know (shifts eyes around)...

It shouldn't be too hard to stat and cost everything up using the main 3rd rules. But I look forward to seeing what you come up with as I have a few bags full of Nippon bits and bobs I plan to start doing something with at some point this year, and it'll be nice to have some guidelines to help me

Anything you're looking to part with?

 

[Zhu Bajie]

There is also Men of the Orient in Forces of Fantasy, it's pretty sketchy like most of 1E, but has Vimto Monks and whatnot, might be a good starting point.

 

[Willmark]

There is also Men of the Orient in Forces of Fantasy, it's pretty sketchy like most of 1E, but has Vimto Monks and whatnot, might be a good starting point.

Is this the same Zhu Bajie from Dragonsfoot? If so, (small) world (wide web).

Thanks for the heads up. I've found the 2nd edition Ravening Hordes Blue mentioned on scribd.com. Read it over, and looks close enough to 3rd edition to pass for my purposes. Still would like to get the 2nd edition Ravening hordes in full...

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Looking it over the rules really fit what I'm looking to do. About the only thing I'm changing is that Nippon can use hobgoblins as mercenaries too. Ogres makes sense I agree, in terms of the geographical location. I might also toy with the idea of the half-orc contingent from the 3rd edition rules. My idea is my general is a scummy mercenary type (fits as I might also look to make them usable as Dogs of War in later editions) so leading ronin, ashigaru, hobgoblins and half orcs would be just his style. And low and behold they can use giants too! Woot!

 

[Niibl]

If I remember the setup of 3rd ed. army lists correctly, the integration of additional races was handled by allies and mercenaries so you would only have to define the access to the appropriate lists.

 

[Zhu Bajie]

Yes, indeed it is I! I guess you are Willmark once sported the Padawan Anakin as his avatar?

IIRC Ravening Hordes dropped the Vimto monks, which is a shame, they are also in the 2E Battle Bestiary.

If you want to look a little further afield for inspiration, Dave Morris and Jamie Thompson (Fabled Lands, Way of the Tiger etc.) wrote a treatment of Nippon for WFRP which never got published, and they released here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B63rIu ... 2ZmIw/view

Alongside carrer-paths for Sumo etc. there is a cool selection of monsters from Japanese folklore, readily stated up for Warhammer (just drop a decimal place and round up for Fantasy Battle) if you wanted to add some special creatures.

 

[Willmark]

Many thanks Zhu. I'll have to check through the link.

Yeah the old avatar was simply something I picked when I joined dragonsfoot, mainly for the yellow eyes aspect. I actually liked RotS. Can't remember what I used back in the day on ulthulan.net the high elf forum for Warhammer) before that. For my blog is more of an inside joke. The avatar here is in a style that we used to use for the admins and mods at chaos dwarfs online.

Funny the anakin one sure gathered me a lot of flack on DF.