Editing Warhammer Fantasy Battle (section)

==In A World Of War==
[[File:3697970-3704646247-Warha.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Back when [[Power Armor|unnaturally powerful armour]] was exclusive to the bad guys.]]
Warhammer is about peasants living in shit, dying in shit, and the thousands of perils that befall them. Which are often covered in shit. It is not a fun place to be, [[Warhammer_40k|though there are worse]].  You have the standard three races of human, elf and dwarf... and none of them a united front.  Your average soldier of the Empire is armed with a sword, a musket, and maybe a uniform which comes with a cheap piece of armor that couldn't stop an untipped arrow. Thusly equipped, he is expected to go toe-to-toe with a Daemon. Or a 9-foot-tall daemonically enhanced steel/daemon/*insert Chaotic thing* [[Warriors of Chaos|metal clad super Viking]]. Or a giant, many of which prefer to stuff opponents down their pants or [[Ogre Kingdoms|boil you/mash you/stick you in a stew]]. Or a [[Lizardmen|battle-trained whatsit-a-saurus]]. Or a [[Skaven|rat-man armed with a flame thrower and a machine gun while leading a colossal goddamn steampunk frankenstein rodent abomination]]. Or a [[Beastmen|half man/half goat eight-foot-tall killing and raping machine]]… oh, let's just say nothing nice ever comes out of the Chaos Wastes. [[Humanity_Fuck_Yeah|And to top it all off, the madmen actually manage it!]] The one good thing for humanity is that the various factions and races have enough sense to set aside their differences to avoid total annihilation, and succeed at this with stunning regularity. 

Of course, once the threat of turning into some Daemon's bitch passes, the various races get right back to smacking the living shit out of each other.  Throw in lots of undead in Gothic and Ancient Egyptian flavors, ratmen, omnivorous in every sense of the word Ogres, a race of dinosaur-taming lizard precursors, an [[Chaos Dwarfs|evil faction of Dwarfs]], some [[Wood Elves (Warhammer)|neutral nature-loving elves]] and [[Dark Elves (Warhammer)|an evil faction of elves]] and we have our setting.  However unlike their 40k counterparts, the Empire has ties to both elf and dwarf nations and those ties have grown stronger over the centuries. In fact the Elves are the ones who taught humanity to wield magic, while the dwarfs taught them mechanics and engineering, which has resulted in The Empire creating some pretty badass warmachines and devices.

In short, there is a thicker line in terms of Good vs Evil. Sure, it's hindered by mistakes in the history of all three (Man, Dwarf, and Elf) but it's still so much better than the <s>xenophobic</s> righteous alien smashing of 40k.