Oldhammer Consumption

MichaelStockin said:
Yo, I will tell you what I want, what I really really want, I wanna book that captures day to day life in the Empire.
Mundane encounters and good interactions with people.
I am not interested in saving the world sort of shizzle.
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I have a feeling that most GW books grow into epic scale 'saving the whole world instead of a hamlet' or 'fighting a dragon instead of bunch of bandits' stuff...
Haven't read a whole lot of GW books but, from what I remember of reading 'Witch Hunter' by C.L. Werner some 20 or so years ago, it could be of interest to you if you can find a copy (and don't mind it not being oldhammer). I thought it was pretty decent and had more down-to-earth, somewhat 'The Name of the Rose' kind of detective/mystery novel feel to it. Then again this was 20 years ago, so my memory might be making it feel better than it was... It also had two sequels which I never got hold of for some reason.

Citizen Sade said:
Just looked at eBay and bloody hell! I certainly didn't pay anything near those prices for my copy.
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Blood on the Reik, Witch Hunter's Handbook and Empire in flames are books I bought at the time of their release and never, ever thought they'd be fetching absurd prices like they are these days. Should've bought more copies back then and I'd be making a bank.
 
If you are after ground level Warhammer inspiration, do you enjoy the WFRP books? There is plenty of it out there from any of the editions. Been reading through the current edition Starter Set and it just fires my imagination! :)
 
Eric said:
Blood on the Reik is crazy expensive these days. Never been quite sure, I like those books, but of course they lack any nostalgia for me. Some pages for posterity.

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Has a great journal/scrap book feel.
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It passed me by too, but dang it looks pretty…
Nice flick through here:
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Eric said:
Well in the far future there is only war!


Thanks, but I've read them all. Although I never did get on so well with the "slayer" books, not sure quite why. The house move before the last one was when I parted with a lot of my GW books. All went to good homes, but I must have given away about 30 odd books. I kept those I thought I'd want to re-read and all my "proper old" ones :)

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There are a few others scattered about, but I think those are really the collection now.


I think I like mine a bit dark and fanciful, I like the more gritty and realistic (in an strange way) world of Warhammer/Old World over "high fantasy", but love the imagery of people like Ian Miller and some of Blanche's work that has that sense of the whimsical grotesque to it.

I wonder if we could do with a book thread? Recommendations both "oldhammery" in nature and just good (probably) sci-fi/fantasy, someone want to kick one off with some short reviews!? Of course it'd have to be called Critical Mass in honour of Dave Langford's column in WD.
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Flexing with the collection there @Eric !! :shock:
 
Geroak II said:
^ Say what now?
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Go back to the first page ^_^ I was saying about the Fantasy stories which I read, which is surprisingly few, but include the works of Han Christian Anderson and this one came to mind cause it's a bit.. odd in my mind.. alot of his stories (well.. pretty much all) show his strong Christian beliefs but this one... the hero is kinda the villain in my view..
 
@MichaelStockin I can heartily recommend this podcast. Lewis is slowly working his way through all the 1980s GW fiction.
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The Oldhammer Fiction Podcast

Hobbies Podcast · A podcast of readings and reviews of fiction from the "Oldhammer" era https://ko-fi.com/oldhammerfictionpodcast
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Now you can Oldhammer while you're doing the washing up.
 
Thanks, I am trying to avoid online stuff where possible.

Old issues of WD seem to be the best bet, that and blogs which whilst online are different to being read at* and or the constant mad flow of social media feeds.
Oh and old GW books of course.


*Though I do have some audible books I like.

I am also reading sort of related stuff, Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu, the very obvious inspiration for Hammers' The Vampire Lovers and the Empires Von Carstein family which suits my Stirland/Sylvania project.
I am also reading Bram Stokers Dracula for the same reasons, but he is as slow and laborious a writer as Tolkien, I am expecting a poem about the different shades of tree bark anytime now.

I think I would benefit from an illustrated idiots guide to Medieval Europe...
 
erm.. Carmilla wasn't the inspiration for The Vampire Lovers.. the Vampire lovers was an adaption of Carmilla ^_^ though saying 'inspiration' kinda says 'bad adaption' ^_^; but it was an adaption of the novel. How the two sequels fit in... pass.
 
Ah, right you are. So Oldhammer adjacent reading material?

As you're into your Empire stuff I reckon you'd enjoy Baudolino by Umberto Eco. It's starts in 12th century Europe with Holy Roman Emperor Fredrick Barbarossa kicking off in Italy, but the narrator (who's a proper trickster) ends up travelling into the east and encounters all sorts of weird mythical creatures (if you've ever see the Mappa Mundi - that). It's a ripping yarn with dark humour throughout.

Or have you read The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson? It features nasty elves and even nastier trolls fighting a secret war in Viking Age Britain and had a major impact on Moorcock, who in turn was mercilessly plagiarised by Warhammer.

@Eric +1 for a proper book thread.
 
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