Dwarven mounts?

[Marlowe-33]

Can any Warhammer vets tell me why the dwarfs do not have Rams as mounts, i feel they would be perfect with the horns and size?

Seems a bit odd they do not have any cav at all?

[Vacca]

Clearly, dwarfs ride bears. Small bears. Or giant badgers. Whatever the hell. But don't tell anyone.
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But in all honesty no, I don't remember the lore actually talking about dwarfs mounting any warbeast. I guess the Warhammer dwarfs, much like the Tolkien dwarves, like their feet on solid ground all the time.

[Zigg Price]

Dwarves had bear cavalary in an edition a LONG time ago, but since then, they have been very Tolkien esque, which includes hating cavalry. Lorewise, it makes sense.

[Marlowe-33]

Ok thanks for the info both.

[Ysthrall]

Warhammer Dwarfs have no cavalry. Tolkein Dwarves have no cavalry. The only Dwarfs I can think off who ride rams are those in World of Warcraft...

I think of it as an example of their distrust of most thing. Can I rely on my feet? Yes. Can I rely on steel and stone? Yes, "Steel and Stone have always been good friends of the Dwarfs". Then I shall stand on my own two feet, with big steel boots, on solid stone. And trust that none of that will let me down.

They don't like fighting on earth. Or in forests. Or on wooden ships. And especially not while riding something with a mind of its own that could run away at any time.

Note that gyropcopters and the like do not have minds of their own. And while Thorgrim is carried by palanquin, he is thus relying on his bearers, fellow dwarfs, who are honoured to be so trusted.

[[PHNX]Kordarus]

They only ride their warmachines...

[Wendersnaven]

Ysthrall is nearly quoting the Dwarf Rulebook.

Dwarfs on boars would work, but it's an iconic part of the Orc armies. In the model range and lore, Dwarfs use ponies, but don't ride them.

[Marlowe-33]

Thank you all, i now have a much better understanding , it was bugging me alot ) i might get into this warhammer lore it seems pretty deep.

[Warlord]

Originally posted by Limey21:

Can any Warhammer vets tell me why the dwarfs do not have Rams as mounts, i feel they would be perfect with the horns and size?

Seems a bit odd they do not have any cav at all?

World of Warcraft player detected!

[HAF DoomsDay]

In DnD I had a dwarf paladin that rode a celestial rhinoceros.

[Marlowe-33]

Originally posted by Warlord:

Originally posted by Limey21:

Can any Warhammer vets tell me why the dwarfs do not have Rams as mounts, i feel they would be perfect with the horns and size?

Seems a bit odd they do not have any cav at all?

World of Warcraft player detected!

i played when it first started, i was even in the beta, but i quit years ago when it srated to become like a job to raid etc.

[Suburban Killbot]

In the dwarf livestream today, they mentioned that Master Engineer Hero units can get a mount upgrade. They ride an artillery piece.

Skip to 00:31:00 -

https://www.twitch.tv/totalwarofficial/v/66962295

[Ysthrall]

Oh I quite liked WoW, and played it for years. It's a nice setting, with some good storylines. But as an MMO, there's only so many places you can push a storyline before people start looking at it and going "what, really?" And then my friends eventually left to play Elite :p

(Incidentally, Orcs are sometimes catagorised along a spectrum of rage, with Warcraft Orcs at one end, and Warhammer orcs at the other)

I mean, look at Warhammer Fantasy. In an attempt to "drive the storyline forwards" we had the Storm Of Chaos, Lets go die on Albion, Endtimes, and then Age of Sigmar....

Which highlights one of the more amusing bonuses of their 40k setting. The size, which allows for massive summer campaigns to decide the fate of a world(s) (Ichar IV, Third War of Armageddon, Gothic campaign, Fall of Cadia) without having a huge impact on the setting.

[Ultima Ratio Ecate II]

Originally posted by Limey21:

Can any Warhammer vets tell me why the dwarfs do not have Rams as mounts, i feel they would be perfect with the horns and size?

Seems a bit odd they do not have any cav at all?

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
no

you are confusing the hobbit film with warhammer
dwarves have not and never had mounted unit.