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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pangias" data-source="post: 5094313" data-attributes="member: 1354">So, about warhammer,First the setting, it's a germanic type of setting in a renaissance age but with some ingredients from dark ages always present. Namely you have basic firearms but at the same time you still have Knights with heavy armor and double bladed sword.You have a huge human empire, surrounded by other countries you can relate basically to Europe, (bretonnia for French, Kislev for russia....). This empire is under the threat of Corruption and decadence, that could makes him collapse at any moment.You will play a commoner in this universe, that will evolve to become a hero later on. But when we say you start as a commoner, it's actually true. A ratcatcher, a student, ....it's one of the interesting aspect of this game.The other aspect that makes this game unique imo is the fact that all great heroes are tortured souls, with HUGE flaws.(Slayer whose only desire is to die fighting something bigger than him, or a witch hunter who is insane...)The threats are very interesting, you fight chaos, personified by 4 chaos lords, so you have the standard invasion type of story, but the chaos can be very dangerous when he strikes where you don't expect it, namely your friends or peoples inside a city because everyone can be corrupted.Another threat are Skaven, a society of rats that should rules the old world. All those ingredients gives a game very intriguing with a unique perspective. You start thinking you will play a standard fantasy module (ie fight the chaos invasion with my heroic knight) and you ends up playing a story about political corruption inside a city mixed with lust murdering and you try to keep your sanity when you discover your wife murdered by an adept of Slaanesh.Basically you ends up playing a Call of Cthulhu, renaissance style.</blockquote>

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