Old World, New Rules

With GW announcing recently that they were revisiting the Old Word I was excited. I was hoping for a return to the old Rank & File world, and looking forward to the new iteration of Warhammer Fantasy Battle (WFB). However, I soon realized that this was just nostalgia coloring my thoughts. When I think back on the various iteration of the rules, WFB 3rd edition is what comes to mind with a certain fondness - warts and all. While I would like to see a resurgence of the Old World, I remember that I really do not like the WFB rules.  They are complicated and do not play consistently with the various armies and troop choices, which leaves some flavor out of the game in favor of the ultimate game winning unit or Hero.

While I pondered on the Old World that was, and what could be, I wondered if I could port the Old World into the present and use a system that I like. I quickly decided on Lion/Dragon Rampant as my choice of rules.

I have been slowly building up some new Warbands, as well as rebasing some of the old ones, to fit in with the Rampant basing system. I will be focusing mainly on the 3rd edition world, but will add in some flavor of the new.

With that said, below is my first unit for my Empire Warband - the Sisters of Sigmar. While the Sisters are not covered in the 3rd ed, but I decided I would add them into the Old World as I had the minis for Mordheim, and wanted to start painting something for this project.

I am undecided at this time if I will leave them as a 10 person unit. The Rampant rules have units as either reduced model count, 6 figures, or 12 figures. I have contemplated using 10 figures as this ties in with WFB units being mainly 10 figures, or in multiples of 5, with the leader taking 3 wounds to remove - thus still providing 12 wounds for the unit. I will have to wait to see how gameplay works out - I do not want to have to remember any exceptions as I am playing.