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Saint Scylla Mar 28 @ 3:31pm
Amazons in the Warhammer lore
I've seen a couple of serious suggestions to add Amazons to WH3. I don't see how that'd ever happen, but I've done my due diligence in investigating. The Amazons make limited but regular appearances in the various games and books set in the Warhammer Fantasy world. Here are the most 'recent' ones:
- there was an Amazon mercenary regiment of Renown in the Dogs of War armybook for the 5th edition of Warhammer Fantasy Battles.
- there were two sets of rules published in Town Cryer to play Amazon warbands in Mordheim.
- and there's a couple of mentions of our warrior women in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Lustria (2023), pasted below. Enjoy the reading!

"Stories of the legendary Amazons, an all-female tribe said to dwell within the jungle depths, have been told since folk from the Old World first arrived in Lustria. In the Old World, the few scholars who purport that Amazons exist tend to claim that these women were outcasts from Skeggi.

This theory was recorded in the Journeys to the Dark Heart, by the brilliant yet notoriously eccentric scholar of Geographic Lore at the University of Altdorf, Professor Stillmensch. Stillmensch claimed that after a series of battles around the settlement had decimated the menfolk of Skeggi, a band of their women set sail for the south. They landed on a swampy island in the Amaxon estuary. The ruins of several Lizardman temples remained on the island, and the women inhabited and fortified them.

When explorers from the Old World explored the island centuries later, they encountered the descendants of the women of Skeggi. They claimed the women had taken up the worship of Lizardman gods, were able to wield powerful weaponry of arcane manufacture, and had even figured out how to spawn in the manner of Skinks.

Other more controversial scholars have written that the Amazons were an entirely separate yet related species created by the gods for a specific divine purpose, although this theory is commonly derided by authorities on such matters.

Regardless, the mythology of the Amazons continues to flourish, and tales of vicious warrior-women wielding strange weapons of power are told in the drinking dens of the world’s ports."
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"Amazon Island is the site of several ruined Lizardman structures. It is protected fiercely by the tribes who live there, and no expedition that has set out to explore the island has returned with charts or artefacts to prove that they have spent time there.
The few survivors who do return tell stories that the island is fiercely and jealously guarded by the Amazons who live there, and that these warrior women wield strange weapons and magical powers.

The Place of Power known as the Temple of Kara is sited on the mouth of the Amaxon River, overlooking the island, and is said to be of great significance to the inhabitants.

Islands to the east of Amazon Island, such as Tabazco and Xocibiki, are uninhabited, though Human visitors who try to settle there are often caught up in battles between the Amazons and Lizardman forces from Tlaxtlan."
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"Lizardmen have a fractious relationship with the Amazons. The feeling is mutual — the Amazons keep Lizardmen away from the Shrine of Rigg just as they do Old Worlders. The Mage-Priests do not understand how the Amazons or their goddess fit into their equations and instruct their vassals to keep away from them."
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Darklordnj Mar 28 @ 6:04pm 
Amazons, along with pygmies, are pretty much dropped from GW. A product of their times, that GW isn’t following through with anymore for appropriate reasons.

At best, they may be done as a regiment or renown for Dogs of War.
Last edited by Darklordnj; Mar 28 @ 6:05pm
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Saint Scylla Mar 29 @ 2:51am 
I'm with you on wishing good riddance to the Pygmies, however the Amazons are very much alive.
It's unlikely that they'll get more attention in tabletop or video games, but they haven't been canceled by GW.
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Lotor13 Mar 29 @ 3:20am 
How about this?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1188790/A_Total_War_Saga_TROY__Amazons/
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Solvem Probler Mar 29 @ 5:51am 
Originally posted by Darklordnj:
Amazons, along with pygmies, are pretty much dropped from GW. A product of their times, that GW isn’t following through with anymore for appropriate reasons.

At best, they may be done as a regiment or renown for Dogs of War.
Oh Im sure CA would love nothing more than making a women only faction. The Pygmies... yea, not so much.

Originally posted by Saint Scylla:
I'm with you on wishing good riddance to the Pygmies, however the Amazons are very much alive.
It's unlikely that they'll get more attention in tabletop or video games, but they haven't been canceled by GW.

BB is separate from the other settings though.
Last edited by Solvem Probler; Mar 29 @ 5:51am
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CrUsHeR Mar 29 @ 6:21am 
Originally posted by Saint Scylla:
I'm with you on wishing good riddance to the Pygmies, however the Amazons are very much alive.
It's unlikely that they'll get more attention in tabletop or video games, but they haven't been canceled by GW.

Isn't Blood Bowl based on 40k?
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Yellowdragon Mar 29 @ 6:25am 
Sounds like human wood elves.
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Gameer4life Mar 29 @ 7:01am 
Originally posted by Darklordnj:
Amazons, along with pygmies, are pretty much dropped from GW. A product of their times, that GW isn’t following through with anymore for appropriate reasons.

At best, they may be done as a regiment or renown for Dogs of War.
I understand the Pygmies but what was so problematic about Amazons
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KoboldUtopian Mar 29 @ 8:37am 
Originally posted by CrUsHeR:
Originally posted by Saint Scylla:
I'm with you on wishing good riddance to the Pygmies, however the Amazons are very much alive.
It's unlikely that they'll get more attention in tabletop or video games, but they haven't been canceled by GW.

Isn't Blood Bowl based on 40k?
Hah no. It's a weird alternate universe where everyone plays American football instead (or in addition to?) constantly warring with eachother.
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chickabumpbump (Banned) Mar 29 @ 8:40am 
There was a mod for WH2 but not for 3 sadly
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drlsword Mar 29 @ 8:53am 
would love a amazon faction please ca
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Fistimus Maximus Mar 29 @ 8:57am 
Well we don't have araby yet, which would add some nice units for say empire being the Knights panther. No halflings either. Issue being not a fan of unit roster for the races that didnt have a existing army already. Cathay missing key lore units and kislev both feel like a jumble of random units.
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nathan24 Mar 29 @ 9:44am 
Originally posted by CrUsHeR:
Originally posted by Saint Scylla:
I'm with you on wishing good riddance to the Pygmies, however the Amazons are very much alive.
It's unlikely that they'll get more attention in tabletop or video games, but they haven't been canceled by GW.

Isn't Blood Bowl based on 40k?
thanks god no
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CupCupBaconBox Mar 29 @ 10:17am 
Can't have Amazons. Progressive people tend to feel really uncomfortable when hot women are presented in a sexually attractive manner. Maybe switch them to men—gratuitously sexualized men are still okay for some reason.
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