Ravening Hordes and 3rd Edition Warhammer

wombat

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Hi All, apologies if this is an obvious question/ answer... What are the general thoughts about using the 1987 Ravening Hordes army lists with 3rd edition Warhammer; instead/ as well as the lists listed with 3rd edition. Thoughts?

Thanks, John.
 
It's designed for WHFB2 so you'd have to do some conversion to fit the 3rd Ed rules. Not sure I see the benefit as the 3rd Ed WH Armies book is pretty comprehensive. Possibly if you are desperate to run a Nipponese army...
 
Yeah, we used it until Warhammer Armies came out, so it works. Can't remember anything that stood out as being 'broken' at the time, but it was a long time ago! Once Armies came out, RH went on the shelf and never got looked at again!
 
Pretty compatible I reckon. Although there's some wild point differences in a few places. Eg skeletons went from about 2 points to 10 as far as I remember.
 
Thanks for replies guys, appreciate it. Still mulling over which army to go for, in the past it's been Goblins and Undead...
 
Playing a Ravening Hordes army with 3rd ed rules, there is no problem at all.

If you want to points-balance a Ravening Hordes army vs. a 3rd Edition army, even loosely, then you'll run into discrepancies with the Hero and Wizard levels - as these are stronger and also over-costed in WFB3 compared to WFB2 and as Scalene points out the Skeletons (and Halflings, and monsters) are inconsistently valued.

If you want to points-balance RH and 3rd Edition Warhammer Armies, you've no hope. WHA is almost completely arbitrary and not even consistent with WFB3 - for example,in the rulebook Javelines and Bows cost 1 point each, but in WHA Goblins armed with one or the other get different PVs, or Brettonian Rapscallions vs Rascals, same pvs and statline, but one gets bows, for free!
 
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