Editing The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy) (section)

===City States===
* '''Altdorf''': A wretched hive of ritual and bureaucracy. The further you get from Karl Franz, the shittier it gets. This includes the inside of his house. Imagine Ankh-Morpork, but instead of being funny, it's just terrifying and German. Politics based on Vienna, but geographically it's Frankfurt. Gets turned into Stalingrad during the End-Times. Red and Blue uniforms, but with incredible [[Hat|extravagance.]]
* '''Middenheim''': Home of the Viking Pope, a fuckton of [[Space Wolves|wolf shit]] and tunnels packed to the gills with horrors. Nearly destroyed by Archaon. Geographically, Berlin or Dresden. Quartered Blue and white uniforms. The city is set atop a mountain called the Fauschlag and heavily walled; despite the priests of Ulric having a low opinion of firearms in general, they seem to approve of their use in sieges. Middenheim is home to an absurdly large cannon, used during the Storm of Chaos and loaded by a giant named Thunderball. (rip)
* '''Nuln''' [[/tg/ gets shit done|gets shit done.]] With more factories, guns, universities, Dwarfs, engineers, and Dwarf engineers than anywhere else in the human Old World, it's practically a 19th century city, with a higher standard of public health and city planning than much of the rest of the Empire. Just avoid the bat-fuck crazy countess and wear a helmet around the Guild of Engineers's outbuildings during exam week. Also home of the greatest Emperor since Sigmar, Magnus the Pious (though Karl Franz is probably actually greater post-Storm of Chaos, and definitely greater as Sigmar reborn when Storm of Chaos got retconned in favor of the End Times). Vienna by geography, economically a mashup of Nuremburg (trade) and Breslau (industry). Almost entirely black uniforms (as if they spilled Nuln Oil on the cloth), with some teeny tiny bits just being of whatever colour the wearer feels like.
* '''Talabheim''': Dirt/tree worshippers. Also the most defensible location on the planet, although that didn't stop Epidemius and the Maggoth Riders from taking it. It is also the single most militarized city in the Empire (Middenheim don't got shit on this), to the point that their entire economy, philosophy, religion and way of life is devoted almost solely to the army, which is why their troops are the most commonly seen Empire army on the tabletop. It sits in a massive and heavily fortified crater into which there is precisely one entrance. Geographically Prague-ish (no, not [[Kislev|that one]]) for lack of a better option. These are the dudes in Red and White that you see on the boxes of Empire models.