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War of the Beard Overhaul [Not updated yet]

Attention: This mod is not updated right now and won't work!

"Hey, people. Very sorry, that I wasn't able to update the mod yet! This mod will receive an update, but I can't promise a date yet. The update will come after we received the major Norsca/foundation-update in may, because this update will change many things and would lead to another major update anyway.

The reason I have stayed away from updating my bigger mods is that my girlfriend had some not so minor health issues this year and therefor I couldn't find the time and especially energy to do much more than to complete my normal works and studies. Now there is good hope that these health issues are solved :) (though we still wait for final results) and I also will finish an important internship these days. So I will soon get back to modding.

I especially apologize for my bad communicating, I should have mentioned earlier that the mods update will still take some time and I should have placed a warning that this mod is not updated."

This mod is a huge campaign overhaul for WH2 Mortal Empires, which recreates the warhammer world in the time of the so called "War of the Beard" or "War of Vengeance" - the "World War" between Dwarfs and High Elves 4500 years before the start of the vanilla campaign. Hundreds of hours of modding, scripting and testing were necessary to create the new factions and legendary lords, to remodel characters and settlements and to overhaul camapign mechanics and some units. WBO aims for full lorefriendliness and includes many lore details from different Warhammer books.
A campaign with this mod will be defined by the conflict between Dwarves and High Elves. Both races however are also threatened on other fronts by Dark Elves, Savage Orcs, Forest Spirits and the first Skaven, who recently emerged in the ancient city of Tylos. Also the Norsii, a group of primitive human tribes, recently renounced their old Chaos Gods and may be helpful allies in the great War.


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- High Elven colonies in Bretonnia, Marienburg, Estalia, Tilea and the Border Princes
- strengthened Dwarfs, now occupying most mountainous areas of the Old world
- Redesigned and renamed settlements, Characters, factions etc.
- 3 new legendary lords for the High Elves, lead by Caledor II.
- 5 new legendary lords for the Dwarfs, lead by Gotrek Starbreaker
- unique Factions like Norsii and Forest Spirits of Athel Loren (will be expanded later)
- only primitive Greenskins, Norscans and Skaven, no other Humans and Vampires
- lore-friendly Military for DWFs: No gunpowder units but huge bonuses to rune magic
- lore-friendly Military for HEFs: No Swordmasters/Loremasters of Hoeth but "real Dragon Princes"
- huge Diplomacy and AI overhaul, to make the War more interesting and challenging
- some changes to make the campaign map visually unique
- Chaos Invasion is deactivated (but you can play as the Chaos Warriors)
Full List of all Changes








Long before Karl Franz’s coronation as Emperor, and before even the time of Sigmar, two mighty empires held the Old World in their grip. It is the age of the Elven realm of Ulthuan, and the Dwarfen Karaz Ankor. Long have the two races dwelt together in peace and friendship, the Elves in their coastal colonies, and the Dwarfs in the mountains.
But now, storm clouds gather over Elthin Arvan. Mistrust and pride have driven a wedge between the Asur and Dawi peoples, as the schemes of an iron-clad tyrant fan the flames of war, culminating in insults that neither realm can forgive. The golden age of peace has come to an end. War is coming and blood will flow, in a conflict that will change the face of the Old World forever.

War of the Beard, in: Lexicanum[whfb.lexicanum.com]
War of the Beards, in: Warhammer Wiki[warhammerfantasy.wikia.com]
If you want to see a short video introduction into the War, I can recommend Epic War's awesome video with TW footage (he uses vanilla WH2 for his video, not this mod!): Link to Youtube

I would like to thank the reddit community and especially Azrubêl in helping me with lore aspects, providing ideas and texts for the mod in general and for factions and characters!


Crynsos Community Modding Framework is necessary for this Mod.
Kelstrs Darker Grand Campaign Mod is recomennded, as I used it as fundament for some of my own visual tweaks.
Asinine Mortal Empire is recommended, until Norsca will get nerfed by patch.

If you want to have more new Dwarfen units to compensate for the unit restrictions in this mod, you can use the following mod, as I have included a compatibility patch automatically deleting all of its new gunpowder units.
Glory Mod: Dwarves

Here you can find a list of other unit mods I can recommend.


WBO is a huge overhaul for WH2. Therefor it is likely that many other overhaul mods are incompatible with WBO. Most smaller mods and Tweaks should work fine.

Popular Mods like GCCM (and other battle map overhauls), Immersive Banners, Crynsos Faction Unlocker, Unique Settlements, Steel Faith Overhaul and Radious Mod are most likely incompatible! A combat overhaul which is compatible is Proper Combat.

If you plan to use WBO with many other mods, you should look at the List of compatible Mods.