Warhammer Open System

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   While planning the way to recruit more wargamers into the Historical Wargaming side, I came up with an idea to uniform a single set of rules for both Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer Historical Battle so that there will be no need for the Warhammer Fantasy Battle players to learn and read any additional materials except the army list to play a historical battle using the existing version (7th Edition?) of the Warhammer Fantasy Battle rules but not the current Warhammer Historical Battle rulebook which was based on the 5th Edition? WFB rulebook.

I call this approach to bridge the gap between WFB and WHB, the "Warhammer Open System".  I hope by introducing this new concept, the following objectives can be achieved:

(1) we can use any Warhammer Historical Army to fight any Warhammer Fantasy Army, thus increasing the varieties of the armies that can be used in playing WFB and WHB;

(2) making use of the Chinese translation of the WFB 7th Edition from the Taiwan Wargamers to play Warhammer Historical Battle;

(3) provide an immediate path of conversion for the Warhammer Fantasy Battle player to try the Historical Wargamming without any need to read new rules.

(4) providing an immediate path of conversion for the Historical Wargamer to try Warhammer Fantasy Battle without any need to read new rules.  They can also use their existing Historical Army to fight against any Warhammer Fatasy Battle, thus totally eminating the need to build any new army to play WFB initially.  Of course, they will play WFB and build new fantasy armies if they like WFB. 

(5) Bridge the generation gap between father and son.  For example, the father may have a 20mm or 28mm Historical Early Imperial Roman painted years ago and the son may have a WFB Daemon Army 28mm Army.  They can now play against each other without any need to read any new rules.

The project involves providing new pts values and streamlining some of the rules of the published WHB  army books.  Will keep you posted on my progress.  Of course, you have to buy the Warhammer Historical Army Books and have a copy of the WFB 7th Edition rulebook to try this concept.