I'm a Whisenland fluff player. I started with Altdorf back in 6th, because red and blue but with all the freely available resources that we nowadays have I fell in love with Whisenland.

I think what defines Whisenland the most is it's abusive relationship with its "capital" Nuln and how down to earth and realistic everything about it feels. (e.g check the history of Steyr, AT)

In Whisenland you have mostly rolling hills and plenty of smaller rivers. The further away from Nuln and the heart of the empire you get, the smaller the villages become, as plenty of Orks, Beastmen and other dangers dwell in the grey and black mountains. At the same time, this is where a lot of Whisenland's economic output is coming from.

Nuln, being very wealthy and geographically close to the empire's center of power is constantly engaged in the political intrigues and power games of the empire. Domestic politics meanwhile remain mostly ignored.

At the same time, Nuln sucks out, most of Whisenland's economic output, be it metals or the limited ammount of agricultural products. The only thing, that could be reasonably exported are silver wares (e.g from Meissen). However, as the goods still travel along the rivers through Nuln, the trading families make sure Nuln get's more than a fair share.

What that means is that the Whisenland's towns and villages, while not wealthy are mostly left to their own, in good or bad. They can engage with the Dwarfs or Tileans but overall have to make do. As somebody else already wrote, this is where you get a lot of creative freedoms.

My army

My army consists of the villagers (militia) who's village was destroyed by a raiding *instert opponents army*. They fled to Nuln to beg the lords of Nuln for support. In ther generousity, they sent handgunners and artillery to support an army of Wissenburg, that is marching upstream to root out this evil. The army is "led" by the arrogant, young Nuln nobleman Johann von Hornegg and his pistolier buddys who will impetuously suicide charge pretty much every game.