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Interlude: Into Dungeons Dark
Let me step back for a moment and talk about how I first encountered the Ratmen. In my 8th year my family made the move from the small suburban town of Kingston, Ontario to the small rural town of...
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Interlude II: Name of the Rat
Recently, on the Oldhammer Facebook group, I encountered for the first time an unusual story regarding how the Skaven acquired their name. The earliest Skaven models were initially identified solely as...
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The Verminous Horde
In 1989 a new wave of Skaven miniatures were released, expanding the range of Clanrats and Skavenslaves to compliment the troop divisions put forth in Warhammer Armies, and introducing models of the...
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The Skaven Issue Part I
White Dwarf #137 was published in May of 1991. The cover painting by Les Edwards features an unhelmed Blood Angel Space Marine captain bearing a "Necromunda"-emblazoned Judge Dredd-style shoulder...
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The Skaven Issue Part II
"So many people down the years have cited it as the thing that got them into Skaven, or even into tabeltop gaming in general that it's quite humbling. I'll go to my grave knowing I got one thing right...
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Rats in Spaaace!
It all started with a single picture on page 116 of Warhammer 40k's Third Edition rulebook, detailing "Other Dangerous Aliens"... Along with several other xenospecies, including an early conception of...
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The Skaven Tongue Part I
I havent posted here in 2 weeks as I've been hard at work on my next post, regarding the Skaven language, in particular the written language of the Skaven. Symbols specific to the Skaven have formed a...
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The Skaven Alphabet
The Skaven writing system developed as a series of runes or pictograms. These grew in number as time went one, now numbering in the thousands, though only a few Skaven can identify more than a few of...
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SKAVENGING: Cheap & Dirty Movement...
I'm taking a break from talking about Skaven specifically to share my method of making budget movement trays that are quick, functional, and still look rather good. This was born out of pure necessity...
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Skaven Magic Cards
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View ArticleThe Rat Ouroboros
It's been a while since my last posting here, and many things have happened, both in my mundane life, and in the world of Warhammer. As I write this, the Old World is no more. The End Times came and...
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The Great Skaven Project
It's all been a pre-amble to this. When I first conceived of this website, the NIMH blog was created with a specific purpose in mind. Certainly, the articles have been fun, and I intend to continue...
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CLAYMORE 9th Edition
Almost from the beginning of the Oldhammer movement the idea of a retro-clone has been entertained. The Oldhammer forum still contains the detritus of the seemingly long-abandoned B.L.O.O.D. project....
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Church of the SUBGIANT
Mock-up cover for the first issue of the magazine that would come to be called simply SUBGIANT, the classic wargames magazine from the publishers of CLAYMORE
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Claymore: The Model Profile
Another excerpt from the Claymore project, this is the general overview of the Model's Profile. The Model ProfileEach figure employed in the Claymore game is defined by a number of statistics which...
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Skaven Spotlight - Jaime Vidal
Though I've largely focused on Oldhammer Skaven up to this point, over on The Skaven Facebook page a fellow by the name of Jaime Vidal has been doing some very impressive customizations of Skaven that...
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Skaven Collector's Guide
It's been a busy year, and I've been a bit more neglectful of this site than I'd like. Hopefully that will change with the start of the new semester coming up. In the meantime, I've not been idle. I've...
View ArticleSkaven Collector's Guide Revised & Updated
Its been quite the undertaking, but after about a year of research, the final version of the comprehensive Skaven Collector's Guide is complete. This should free me up from here on out for some less...
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A Rat By Any Other Name... Part I
While the labyrinthine warrens of the Old World are expansive and populous, it is far from the only Under Empire in the multiverse. Indeed, years before the first bells peeled in doomed Kazvar, heroes...
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A Rat By Any Other Name...Part II
Along with Citadel and Grenadier, the third "big name" fantasy miniature distributer in the 1980s was Ral Partha. Like Grenadier, Ral Partha was established in 1975, and rose to prominence as a...
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