Starting a stroll down memory lane project.
Really looking forward to doing a few battle reports for this one.
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a good stroll down memory lane, and great review,
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Nice review. Thatās made me so nostalgic. Iāve got that rule book kicking around somewhere too. Youāve made me want to dig it out and have a read. Frightening that itās 22 years old. Iāll have to see if I can find my 1st and 2nd editions too, see what changed over the years. Iāll report back!
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Found most of them (2nd edition is missing a book)
My god the rules are complicated and surely can only be used for skirmish games? I didnāt realise KOW was so easy to play!?
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I liked WFB in my teens.
I used to have that Mage on Dragon, usually flanked by 2 other Dragons with Mages or Lords, that used the spell āPurple Sunā to destroy entire armies of my opponents all the time. (We usually played 3v3, large battles.) ā¦ and I used that Magic item that ensured I pretty much always got that spell too, at least on one of my mages.
I was having fun ā¦ not sure how much fun my opponents had frankly. But I was 13-16 and didnāt care at that time ā¦ 
Thatās my impression of WFB in retrospect. Potentially lots of fun with friends, but horribly broken at the same time.
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It was a system that had the capacity to be utterly broken and offer your opponent no fun at all.
This is why I think playing with Ravening Hordes is how to enjoy the game. The issues came about due to ludicrously broken army books.
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Thatās always been the thing with any GW game. If you have 4 blokes in a garage with beards as long as their dwarf models youāll have a good time. Each slowly buys new units to counter their opponents new purchases and anything too bad gets shelved because itās clearly busted. As soon as you take it outside of the gentlemanās agreement of the garage meta you bust it so bad itās all down to first turn roll off.
Some games have become big enough to carry shops on their own because GW keeps doing this and always annoys more and more players. 8th ed 40k rolled everything back again, rebalanced it then shortly after released a broken model that went in half the games factions with a hefty price tagā¦ Itās why I always look for clubs or shops with a healthy alternative games scene (like KoW), rarely do you get the same issues and when you do they get a swift errata or the next book releases a couple of good counters.
There is a modern revival of old D&D style games where they take the old rules, rewrite them to be clearer and expand on them with new expansion books. If enough people wanted it there is no reason this couldnāt be done with older Warhammer editions. Horde armies can go back to being 60 models instead of 60 per unit! It could be called battle axe or something suitable for making terrible jokes around.
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This reminds me of buying the wfb box of brets and lizardmen. I dont remember the edition for that one though. I think that was my first dive into fantasy. It had all been 40k up until then (Goff orks with the card ork dreadnought! Woo! Hey squats were still alive back then too)
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That is the 5th edition one. I got that as well back when I started. Then I bought som metal silver helms and was hooked on elves.
These days, 6th is my go to game whenever I play with my brothers and old gaming group back home. I love 6th to death, even if the Helf and Delf books were kinda weak and the later books a bit strong.
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Basically all of my warhammer fantasy gaming was with 6th edition, played it loads and really enjoyed it, along with 3rd edition 40k.
Both great editions of the games in that they got rid of the complexity and terrible balance of previous editions and made a fresh start with the rules.
Of course, it has all been going on the wrong direction since then, something like modern 40k is completely alien to me.
The era also had loads of great specialist games and lotr release and white dwarf was still good. I see it as GWās golden age where they were largely doing everything well and the minis were quite affordable.
These days, blood bowl and LOTR are the only things that are of interest and thatās largely because they havenāt been messed with.
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I think one of the main reasons I play Kings is that when I step back and look at the table, I could be playing 6th ed. Thereās a ācharmā to it thatās quite hard to describe.
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Thought I would share another piece of GW nostalgia that has pride of place in my games cupboard. Those were the days! 
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That was a great rules set - did take a bit of time but, like a number of versions, could be horribly broken if you were that way inclined
Iām pretty happy as long as I can chase a necromancer around a wood with a unit of scours, or pepper orcs with crossbows.