"What edition of Warhammer is this?" Topic

I thought it was third edition from 1996, am I correct?

If not what edition is this.

thanks

auction

no its the 5th edition.
3rd edition was the hardback book from the late 80`s

Ok thanks,

yeah thats the 5th ed set
the current set is 7th edition
Dave

Its 5th ed, with Brettonions in the box, 6th had empire and orcs I believe, the third ed box was night goblins and high elves.

4th ed had the Night Goblins and High Elves

First through third came without miniatures.

4th was regular non hooded goblins and high elves, the first ed. I bought, then I bought 5th, then that was it for me…

Spearmen were non hooded, Bowmen were hooded link

Okay, just to recap …

1st through 3rd Editions did not come with minis.

4th Edition came in a box with cover art that featured a big battle between High Elves and Goblins. At the center of the battle is an Elf general riding a Griffon. It came with 104 minis (20 Elf spearmen, 20 Elf archers, 32 Goblin spearmen, 32 Night Goblin archers). It featured a 96 page rulebook, and a separate 96 page Battle Bestiary, and a scenario booklet The Battle for Maugthrond Pass.

5th Edition came in a box with cover art that featured a battle between Bretonnians and Lizardmen. At the center of the battle is a Knight on horseback. It came with 88 minis (12 Bretonnian Knights, 24 Bretonnian bowmen, 20 Lizardmen Saurus, 32 Lizardmen Skinks). It featured a 112 page rulebook and a 152 page Battle Book.

6th Edition came in a box with cover art that featured a battle between Empire and Orcs. At the center of the battle is a Knight on horseback. It came with 76 minis (18 Empire spearmen, 16 Empire handgunners, 1 Empire cannon and 3 crew, 1 Empire general on horseback, 16 Orc archers, 18 Orc hand weapons, 1 Orc boar chariot with 2 crew, 1 Orc general on boar). It featured a full-sized 288 page rulebook with a golden warhammer and shield in the center, and an Orc and Empire warrior fighting.

7th Edition came in a thin box titled Battle for Skull Pass, with cover art that featured a battle between Dwarfs and Night Goblins. It came with 108 minis (12 Dwarf warriors, 10 Dwarf thunderers, 8 Dwarf miners, a Dwarf general, slayer and cannon with 3 crew, 40 Night Goblin spearmen, 20 Night Goblin archers, 10 Forest Goblin spider riders, Night Goblin general and shaman, and a troll).

It featured a "mini rulebook" – 128 pages long – that contained all the rules that the full-sized rulebook (sold separately) contained. It did NOT have any of the hobby material, or any of the race background material, and was missing most of the full-color photography that the full-sized rulebook had.

Thge 7th Edition full-sized rulebook features a golden warhammer, and a skull motif on a red and white shield.

I hope that helps.

Steve
(who bought them all and still has the boxes)!

1st edition comes in an A4 sized white box containing three A5 sized black and white rulebooks.

2nd edition comes in an A4 sized red box containing three A4 rulebooks that have colour covers. This came with an A4 sheet of colour cardboard cut out figures.

3rd edition came as both hard and softback A4 rulebook. This came with an A4 sheet of monochrome counters at the back of the rulebook to cutout and use.

Thanks for that info Bugstomper.

I've never even seen any of the first three editions. I started with 4th edition. Nice to have a fuller picture of what the WFB product line entails rules-wise.

The covers plus a bit more info are pictured here:

link

I own all 7 editions, plus all of the expansions for 1st to 3rd edition (Forces of Fantasy, Bloodbath At Orcs Drift, etc etc). :)

I read the overview/history of Warhammer in WD 339 the other day. In it, Jervis says that "back in the day", the sculptors would create a cool mini, and then the rules guys would write rules to incorporate the mini. Now it's the other way around – the rules guys tell the sculptors what is needed, and the sculptors sculpt it.

Which got me thinking, wouldn't it be cool to give the GW sculptors free rein once in a while, let them create some new, unusual minis for the Warhammer universe (or WH40K), and see what they come up with? Kind of like John Blanche's Femmes Militant.

I'd like to see what Jes Goodwin would come up with.