Warhammer Blogpost Contests Warhammer Fantasy was 'Radical' Back in the Day

[Husky_Khan]

Radical opinions of a radical blog post!

When Warhammer Was Radical: The Egalitarian Origins of the Fantasy Battle Game

In its current and most popular incarnation, Warhammer—a brand of tabletop sci-fi and fantasy wargame that has been published for 35 years—is readily associated with alt-right memes of the God Emperor. In this grim universe, fanservice fetish dolls stride across battlefields in bikinis...

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Looks like the Alt Right clearly hijacked poor Warhammer from it's innocent, diverse, radical and socially just roots.

 

[ShadowsOfParadox]

...eh, they were talking about Warhammer Fantasy mostly... and it was honestly pretty weird...

not sure Drucchi females being just as likely to wanna stab you as the males = "positive portrayal of diversity" but eh.

Most of the rest of it makes decent sense taken on the face of it... though, I'm not sure how true the claim that "the strong females disappeared to be replaced with an almost entirely male cast" If nothing else, Morathi and Allarielle are both still there...

 

[Husky_Khan]

Yes and even in the new Total War Warhammer stuff they expanded on extremely minor or supporting female Warhammer characters like Aranessa Saltspite, Repanse de Lyonesse and in the case of Cylostra Direfin and Felicion Heartkeeper making whole new ones to fill out the game lore. Shockingly there hasn't been much of a toxic masculine blowback against any of it!

 

[ShadowsOfParadox]

Admittedly I'm approaching this from knowing Warhammer Fantasy from two places, the Total War games and fanfic, mostly quests... soooooo