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Heroic Fantasy

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'''Heroic Fantasy''' is one of the various [[Setting Aesthetics]] you see in... well, pretty much everywhere you look for fantasy media, especially on /tg/. Sharing basic roots with [[Sword & Sorcery]], Heroic Fantasy is generally thought of as the middle point between [[High Fantasy]] and [[Low Fantasy]]; the world is big and stable, not directly caught up in a battle between good and evil (or order vs. chaos), but also magical and strange. Generally speaking, it's a world that focuses on the individual stories of a given [[adventurer]], or party thereof, whilst making it clear that their story is not the ''only'' story going on in the world.

'''Wuxia''' is the [[Oriental Adventures]] equivalent of Heroic Fantasy.

[[Dungeons & Dragons]] is generally considered to default towards Heroic Fantasy, although this depends a ''lot'' on both edition and setting - in [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]], [[Greyhawk]] is more [[Sword & Sorcery]] and the [[Forgotten Realms]] are more Heroic Fantasy, whilst 4th edition defaulted to this genre and emphasized it with its [[Nentir Vale]] core setting.

[[Warhammer Fantasy]] is a weird blending point of Heroic, High, Low and [[Dark Fantasy]]. Whilst mostly associated with Dark Low Fantasy in the form of the actual [[Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay]], the setting itself is more Dark Heroic to High Fantasy in the lore. The [[Gotrek & Felix]] novels are unabashedly Dark Heroic Fantasy, with the emphasis on the Heroic, which is one of the reasons why they are either loved or hated.

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Baldwin Steam Tanks

2018-11-29T06:26:04Z

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[[File:MKII Steamer-Baldwin Tank.jpg|thumb|right|The MKII Steamer Tank, also known as the Baldwin]]

The Baldwin is the staple light tank for the US forces in [[All Quiet on the Martian Front]]. It features a single 4-inch tank gun, providing a decent amount of firepower that is still workable in a confined space. Costing 165 points compared to it's 225 point MKIII variant that features three of the same tank gun, it is only cost effective if used in large numbers, to surround and overwhelm small numbers of targets, whom will only be able to target one tank per turn.

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Land Ironclad

2018-11-29T06:23:40Z

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[[File:US Land Ironclad.jpg|thumb|right|Looks like the WW1 US Military took a leaf out of the [[Battlefortress|Ork's]] book.]]

The Land Ironclad is a heavy vehicle used by the US forces in [[All Quiet on the Martian Front|AQMF]]. The tank features one 12-inch tank gun, a 7-inch tank gun, four 5-inch tanks guns, four 4-inch tank guns and eight machine guns, making it one of the most [[Shooty]] vehicles in the game, and the third most expensive unit at 750 points alone. As the fuckhuge threat that it is, the Ironclad is most effective at being a [[Distraction Carnifex|Distraction]] so you can sneak your smaller units round the back of the Martians.

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