Arrgh… welcome Lads, you look like you could need a drink…

Well seat yourself…. wait… you lads do have some coin right?

Excellent…. have an ale.. Now let me tell you a few rumours.

Seen those Bretonnians running around in their shining armour… bah.. some arrogant bastards thinking that they are better then the rest of us. But what are they doing here so far from their lands… well I know…

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Bretonnians are the warband which I started to play with. The reason for this is because I play them in normal Warhammer and I had some very nice Bretonnian Foot Knights models laying around (Questing Knight is actually an conversion).

Anyhow this post is more about the story of Bretonnians comming to Mordheim. The Warband rules already mention that Bretonnians are very unlikely to make the long journey trough the Empire to some Gods Forsaken city glowing with corrupting Warpstone. This first article wil primarily look at the change of the Bretonnian background and how this has influenced the Warband rules.

The main problem is that the Warband relies on 5th edition Bretonnian background (also known as fluff), when Bretonnia was actually more ‘good’ and chivalrous’ and peasants were still a bit more respected. There are 4 real differences in rules and background which I noticed. Peasants could still become knights, a village would appoint a potentional young candidate to become a Squire, trough certain deeds he could become a Knight Errant and trough further exceptional deed a Knight of the Realm. His tasks was to protect his village who provided his equipment. Squires are still present in the Warband rules although they no longer exist, one could explain them though that they are even below Knight Errants, so very young noble boys in training with their Knightly tutors. Strange perhaps, but a solution. Second, the Blessing of the Lady is suspiciously similar to the one in the 5th edition (focused on shooting and countering Blackpowder), while now its a more general wardsave. Third, the Questing Knight is not restricted from taking a lance. In the new background Questing Knights make a Vow to lay down their lance until they have proven themself before the Lady.

Finally, the Warband has half competent Peasants. In the armybook Bretonnian Peasants are malnourished, untrained and run from anything that poses half a threat unless a Knight is looking at them. However, this can be explained that the Peasants are already Veterans, surviving the long way to Mordheim forces you to become a bit more skillfull to survive.

Thanks for reading, the next article is for a Questing Knight’s motivation to go to Mordheim and if this has changed with the new Bretonnian background.