>Game is called Age of Sigmar
>There are multiple beings who are arguably equal to or even greater than Sigmar in terms of influence and power
What gives?
>Game is called Age of Sigmar
>Game is called Age of Sigmar
>There are multiple beings who are arguably equal to or even greater than Sigmar in terms of influence and power
What gives?
>Age of Sigmar is never specified
Did we ever find out how old Sigmar is?
Sigmar is seventeen years and 364 days old, you sick frick.
I unironically find women more attractive when they're 17 years and 364 days vs when they're 18. I wonder if the taboo makes them hotter.
This is coming from the same people who named a game Warhammer 40k.
Names are not their strong suite.
>Game is called Warhammer
>Almost nobody uses warhammers
What gives?
But there is a lot of war
Just not that many hammers
There was a guy who used a warhammer, but he frickin' died.
He's technically Sigmar now. Or Sigmar reincarnated through him.
Not canon
Yeah, he used a hammer not a cannon
>warhammer
>not a hammer of war
>but a ton of wars hammered together... or something
Sigmar uses a fantasy warhammer
Two handed hammers fricking suck in WFRP 4e so bad. They have the slow trait, which means they always attack last in a round. It's pretty funny how consistently the sigmarite monk in my game charges into skeletons (after usually spending 1-3 rounds getting over his fear), only for his slow ass weapon to allow the skeletons tons of free hits on him lol. Ghal Maraz is probably the best weapon started in 4e but it's saved by the insane magical abilities it has though.
You don't get to attack first because you charged or anything like that?
No first strike from charge, but it does grant +1 advantage, which is essentially a pool each side in a combat has that builds up through certain actions or successes and can be spent to gain free actions, get huge bonuses on a specific test, afflict the enemy with a status condition, etc.
Intriguing.
I want to say my group plays 2ed, but we technically started with 1ed and just kept adding house rules to it, then started retrofitting 2ed stuff to work, that at this point I think I can't legally even call it Warhammer anymore.
Still, the way we play it charging means you hit first. Big oof for your pain brother, but points for keeping to theme.
>Game is called Warhammer 40k
>most of the factions have been around longer than 40k years
>Game is called Warhammer
>none of the most powerful characters use a war hammer
>Game is called Magic: The Gathering
>the magic died over a decade ago
>Game is called Yu-Gi-Oh!
>Yugi Muto hasn't been the main character for 99% of the runtime and is barely relevant in the game itself outside of meme cards
>Game is called Dungeons & Dragons
>it's actually about tieflings and townhouses
>Game is called Pathfinder
>it's actually Brand X Tieflings & Townhouses
>Game is called MetaZoo
>it's meta because the "game" is playing the consumer
>Game is called Lancer
>it's actually just a copy of the Communist Manifesto with robots scribbled in the margins by a palsy victim
>Game is called Digimon
>half the time they're neither digital nor monsters, canon keeps changing
>Game is called Cyberpunk
>it's just real life
>Game is called GURPS
>it's exactly as unpleasant as it sounds
GURPSkings win again.
>Game is called Warhammer
>>none of the most powerful characters use a war hammer
This is blatantly incorrect though, Karl Franz is absolutely one of the most powerful characters in the setting and that's in no small part due to the fact that he wields Ghal Maraz, Sigmar's warhammer.
Based on the design they use, I would argue thay Ghal-Maraz is closer to a cavalry hammer or a sledge hammer (depending on artwork) than a war hammer.
It's a dwarfen design, so it's a fricking mallet compared to flimsy h*man hammers
Sigmar is the head of humanity, and the game is made for humans. Humans tend to be the most popular faction or race in almost any setting or game, if not the second most humanlike race. They are also the most prolific race throughout the realms, so there's that.
>They are also the most prolific race throughout the realms
Really? More than Skaven?
There might be more Skaven in total population, but humans are way more widespread. It's why most of the factions are human or derived from humans.
>What gives?
It was a moronic name choice. They should've called it Warhammer: The Mortal Realms or something instead.
>Warhammer: tMR
>Mister Warhammer
Is he married to lady Fourtyke'?
Sigmar is the least interesting and least relevant thing lore wise. Nagash, Archaon, the horned rat, broken and sealed away slaanesh, lord Kroak, all the gods and lords of destruction are better than sigmar.
Age of Lord Kroak just doesn't have the same ring to it
Originally, they were going to call the game 'Age of Archaon'.
But then an army of orks showed up from out of nowhere and beat the crap out of Archaon; when he no-showed the announcement party, they gave the name to Sigmar instead.
I know you don't actually give a frick about AoS lore (totally fair, it's not great) but it's called the "Age of Sigmar" because it's the era in which Sigmar and his fantasy marines are attempting to re-conquer the realms from the forces of Chaos.
are multiple beings who are arguably equal to or even greater than Sigmar in terms of influence
False. Sigmar basically destroyed the balance of power Chaos established