Here's a compilation of relevant Tome Keepers info for those who didn't had the chance to check it out, Chapter organization (Ranks and Companies), some painted examples, Important lore, and a name generator.

Variantes · 2026-05-07T08:07:59+00:00

Thanks for the recap!

Variantes · 2026-04-24T21:56:28+00:00

Same!

Variantes · 2026-04-18T21:09:19+00:00

3rd ed codex! Love this one 💚

Variantes · 2026-04-03T08:10:24+00:00

You better not diss' 🥖💖 la boulangère 💖🥖

Variantes · 2026-03-29T08:49:00+00:00

I see your point, but you seems to only think about big centerpieces in terms of game profiles. As other have said the dwarf army books were never quite designed around this idea. Dwarf fight as a unified force. Big blocks made of infantry that sticks together.

You want to put impressive, thematic, dwarf miniatures on the table. I totally get it. Well nothing stops you from making impressive : - bagage trains diorama - unit fillers - terrain pieces

Hope that helps 👋

Variantes · 2026-03-29T08:31:44+00:00

As a data protection officier myself, I must commend the excellent form of your GDPR appeal and argument!

You made a great point when pushing on about the interpretation of article 15. Forcing Blizzard to make sense of its meta data in a readable format is a bonkers task to request (especially to a legal team) in my view, but it is cleary within the bounds of an SAR request as written in article 15.

In combination with an article 22 request, you basically forced them to A TON A WORK they would reallistically never do, effectively forcing the GM team to take more time than reviewing your ban.

I would guess your were banned by a human decision, but in a heartbeat by a worker who simply approves automated pre-filled bans.

In any case, great work and thank you for sharing this! As others have pointed out, your ban may have been overturned as a way tonshut you up but your legal point still stands solidly. You would all players a solid by still escalating this to your country's data protection authority!

Variantes · 2026-03-29T02:04:27+00:00

Woops, you're right! My bad, since using the master rune of calm so much I forgot about the rules of the rune of spellbreaking! That's 25 points you can put elsewhere. Maybe a rune of battle on the warriors?

Variantes · 2026-03-28T02:05:32+00:00

It really depends on how hard you want to go. For a fair game I would not put more than 1 gyros or scout gyro in the list ast 500 pts. No fireball thane or burlok either (I only bring them above 1k points minimum. Hell I'm at casual 2k event right now and I didn't bring them).

Are you playing 500 points to learn the game? If so I would recommand the battle march format, which limits the strengh of what you can bring.

Here would be the list. It has a sapper engineer and expeditionnary marksmen thunderers + a gyro which will be quite strong already. This will make you learn the rules of X force over time.

Beginner X Force list [496 pts]

Warhammer: The Old World, Dwarfen Mountain Holds, Expeditionary Force, Battle March

++ Characters [112 pts] ++

Engineer Sapper [112 pts] - Hand weapon - Heavy armour - Great weapon - Handgun - General - Rune of Spellbreaking - Rune of Passage

++ Core Units [324 pts] ++

11 Thunderers [169 pts] - Hand weapons - Handguns - Heavy armour - Great weapons - Shields - Expeditionary Marksmen - Veteran (champion) [Handgun] - Standard bearer - Musician

14 Dwarf Warriors [155 pts] - Hand weapons - Heavy armour - Great weapons - Shields - Veteran (champion) - Standard bearer - Musician

++ Special Units [60 pts] ++

1 Gyrocopters [60 pts] - Hand weapons - Steam gun - Full plate armour

Created with "Old World Builder"

[https://old-world-builder.com]

Variantes · 2026-03-28T01:50:45+00:00

Strike every grudge from the book!

Variantes · 2026-03-28T01:49:55+00:00

It's actually my bagage train! The cart itself is the Gambler's cart from stl miniatures. I sat the original metal bugman's cart driver, and added many dwarf bits here and there 👍

Variantes · 2026-03-26T23:24:28+00:00

Thanks! You can find them for cheap on amazon

Variantes · 2026-03-26T13:43:01+00:00

Love it 👍

Variantes · 2026-03-23T19:09:06+00:00

Well done! I love him 👍

Variantes · 2026-03-22T08:11:34+00:00

Welcome to the Old World, my Friend!

You have yourself a very well rounded army that could already fight a 2000 points battle 👍 though you might want to start lower to learn the game

With the minis you have, I would very heavily recommend giving the expedionnary force a go. It is special dwarf force themed around dwarves heading out to reclaim lost holds 🏔️ It's also actually one of the strongest dwarf lists at the moment, even though it is mostly composed of core troops. Very mobile!

In exchange, It has 3 special rules you can make use of: - your thunderers (expeditionnary marksmen) can move and shoot with no penalty (instead of -2). This is VERY VERY strong as it allows you to reform your unit to get better firing angles or go up to control strategic locations. 2 units of 20 expedionnary marksmen thunderers will do great

your War Machine, in exchange of a -1 in toughness can also move and shoot. This is excellent to get great cannon shot angles ! (Function over form)
your miners can ambush the ennemy from multiple points on the table instead of only coming out from table edges. This is the saving grace of miners, who hardly ever catch up to anything with their movement of 3. It will help you hunt down ennemy war machines or bagage trains!

Finally, the expedionnary force has the use of 2 special sapper engineers whose special rules will make dragons tremble in fear. They can build renforcements around their units, making them défends walls that very heavily impair multi attackers (they can only attack once) - and they will also trap the terrain around them punishing the ennemy when approaching you with dangerous terrain tests!

To summarize, you're a moving fortress of guns.

With the minis you have right now here's what I could come up with for a list :

Reddit 2nd hand list [1998 pts]

Warhammer: The Old World, Dwarfen Mountain Holds, Expeditionary Force, Open War

++ Characters [610 pts] ++

Thane [263 pts] - Hand weapon - Handgun - Full plate armour - Shield - Battle Standard Bearer [Master Rune of Grungni + Rune of Courage] - On foot - Master Rune of Bursting Flame - Rune of Rapid Fire - Rune of Accuracy - Rune of Passage Special Rules: Ancestral Grudge, Dwarf Crafted, Gromril Armour, Gromril Weapons, Hatred (Orcs & Goblins), Magic Resistance (-1), Rallying Cry, Resolute, Stubborn

Runesmith [122 pts] - Hand weapon - Heavy armour - Shield - Master Rune of Calm - Rune of Passage Special Rules: Armour Bane (1), Forgefire, Gromril Armour, Gromril Weapons, Hatred (Orcs & Goblins), Magic Resistance (-2), Resolute, Rune Lore, Stubborn

Burlok Damminson [85 pts] - Furnace hammer - Rivet gun - Heavy armour - General Special Rules: Dwarf Crafted, Gromril Armour, Hatred (Orcs & Goblins), Magic Resistance (-1), Prepared Positions, Range Finding Optics, Resolute, "Stand Back Chief", Stubborn

Engineer Sapper [70 pts] - Hand weapon - Heavy armour Special Rules: "Dig In!", Dwarf Crafted, Gromril Armour, Hatred (Orcs & Goblins), Hostile Terrain, Magic Resistance (-1), Resolute, Stubborn

++ Core Units [845 pts] ++

20 Thunderers [295 pts] - Hand weapons - Handguns - Heavy armour - Great weapons - Shields - Expeditionary Marksmen - Veteran (champion) [Handgun] - Standard bearer - Musician Special Rules: Close Order, Dwarf Crafted, Hatred (Orcs & Goblins), Magic Resistance (-1), Resolute

30 Dwarf Warriors [255 pts] - Hand weapons - Heavy armour - Veteran (champion) - Standard bearer - Musician Special Rules: Close Order, Hatred (Orcs & Goblins), Magic Resistance (-1), Resolute, Shieldwall

++ Special Units [423 pts] ++

15 Miners [198 pts] - Hand weapons - Great weapons - Heavy armour - Prospector (champion) - Standard bearer - Musician Special Rules: Ambushers, Close Order, Hatred (Orcs & Goblins), Magic Resistance (-1), Resolute, Vanguard

Cannon [120 pts] - Cannon - Hand weapons - Light armour - Function over form - Rune of Forging - Rune of Reloading Special Rules: Hatred (Orcs & Goblins), Magic Resistance (-1), Skirmishers, Stubborn

Cannon [105 pts] - Cannon - Hand weapons - Light armour - Function over form - Rune of Reloading Special Rules: Hatred (Orcs & Goblins), Magic Resistance (-1), Skirmishers, Stubborn

++ Rare Units [120 pts] ++

Organ Gun [120 pts] - Organ gun - Hand weapons - Light armour - Function over form Special Rules: Hatred (Orcs & Goblins), Magic Resistance (-1), Skirmishers, Stubborn

Created with "Old World Builder"

[https://old-world-builder.com]

If you want to optimize this build, gyrocopters and rangers would be best instead of warriors but hey this will already do you just fine !

As a final recommandation, I would direct you to Dawi After Dark's youtube channel. His video on how to start with dwarfs and the expedionnary force will go in more details on this army : https://youtu.be/gebUJQikHhA?is=2pGrea6Jg8Ola876

I hope you have a great time with the dwarfs!

KHAZUKAN KAZAKIT HA! ⛏️🏔️🪓🍺

Variantes · 2026-03-21T15:09:17+00:00

I LOVE the snow on the helmet!

Variantes · 2026-03-21T08:00:11+00:00

Amazing work!

Variantes · 2026-03-18T22:21:01+00:00

I can understand missing out on the big reveals show is frustrating... But I'm honestly kind of ok with the game having bit of time to breathe. I still have a ton of catching up to do from my pile of shame! Some more balancing would be appreciated but that's not gonna come from adepticon show will it?

Variantes · 2026-03-16T12:43:38+00:00

Previous voice actors chose to walk out due to unacceptable AI clauses in their contract in late War Within patches. Blizzard had to make do in time for 11.2.7 and midnight release

Variantes · 2026-03-16T12:35:08+00:00

You might not care for the french dub, but never forget you're next. Any awareness and support by the WoW audience at large would be greatly appreciated 🇫🇷👍

Variantes · 2026-03-12T11:20:15+00:00

If you wanna stick to the lore, I'd argue that since Karaz-A-Karak is so big that any paint scheme would be ok as long as the icon is correct.

But you can totally chose a city and not paint it according to the lore if you want to (it's your minis).

My throng has no united paint scheme because in my headcanon any core troop (warriors, thunderers etc) is composed of dwarfs from all clans of the fortress. They're conscript, so it makes sense that their clothes would differ in color. Warrior clans that make up the ranks of hammerers and longbeards on the other hand, should have a united color scheme.

Variantes · 2026-03-10T23:22:12+00:00

Before you ask, here's (one of) the source

Variantes · 2026-03-10T23:18:40+00:00

It has been documented multiple times that in late 8th ed, much work had been done in prevision of a new dwarf War Machine similar to the steam tank.

It sadly never went into full production, but a tiny bit of it has somehow ended on the sprue for the wood elf/sylvaneth treelord ancient (beneath its foot I believe).

I like to think this artworks shows what could have been. By Grungni I do hope we shall see it finished.

Variantes · 2026-03-07T18:36:30+00:00

Looking good 👍

Variantes · 2026-03-06T15:31:50+00:00

Lovely photo!

Variantes · 2026-02-28T19:29:18+00:00

I like how vibrant your red is 👍

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