I mean, you're already bragging about how Orcs are going to invade the Empire. Okay, fine... Reading on... Ah, and then you say they've already captured Solland. Ah? Didn't know that, though, but could be me... He mentions a Gazzgurk I've never heard of (could be me again), and then mentions Grimgor's horde is still roaming about in the northern empire. Again, I thought we'd won the Shower of Chaos? What's that guy still doing there? I don't know about yours, but my NEB doesn't mention anything about an entire Orc invasion force still in the Empire. Okay, I realise this is just a rant, but it's just to state my opinion that while fluff influenced by players and campaign participants is fine, it should never be one-way-only, ie both player groups should have their input. Not just the one that can shout the loudest.
The Orcs captured Solland a razzed the city of Helstrum in the Canadian Battle of the Bosses Campaign (which ended just a few weeks ago), this is official GW fluff which we were told would have a large effect on the Nemesis Crown. Gazzgurk is the Great Orc Shaman we led this WAAAGH! through Solland, after razzing Helstrum he began moving his forces north to meet up with Grimgor.
Chaos lost the SoC, no one else really won, the Orcs killed (sorta) Archeon and the chaos invasion was pushed out of the Empire. The Empire never touched the Orc forces, so yes, Grimgor is still there. He moved the majority of his WAAAGH! back to Karak Ungor, but Grimgor always moves to where the bloodshed is. (This is in the Orc Army book)
You say that a campaign should have all player groups input, well it does, the Empire players are just choosing to complain about how this campaign is stupid instead of actually taking part. Whereas the O&G input is a bit more useful as we're writing serious fluff and preparing to take part in the battles. We proved with SoC that players can change the fluff (see my earlier post), so we're certainly going to try and carve this campaign the way we like it, and with the Empires general lack of resistance it shouldn't pose too much of a difficulty.
Uh, aren't you aware that the greenskins were entirely exterminated from the face of the warhammer world during this site's war of the wombats campaign? You need to find another army.
War of the Wombats is not official GW fluff, so it will have no effect on this campign (plus I believe Battle of the Bosses was not only official, but more recent, so we do, in fact, hold Solland.)
Da Warpath also hosts our own campaigns (know as
Animosity), but it has no effect on fluff.
What's that saying? Vote with your wallet? If we, as the Empire, decided we'd have nothing to do with this Nemesis Crown business, then could that not have the same effect? If Nemesis Crown flops due to a lack of player interest, GW will figure out that they're doing something wrong, or so I would hope.
But that won't work either, as you can see from all the Orc hype there's no way this campaign will flop if the Empire decides to abandon it.
You know full well they won't do anything like that. GW won't dare change the status quo. Just like Storm of Chaos, we're going to see lots of hyperbole and ravings about how important everything is and how the world is doomed and so on, and just like Storm of Chaos, none of it will be worth a skaven's backside.
So, count me out. I respect the Empire more by not participating.
SoC proved to be worth a fair bit to O&G players, because we proved that GW can't just created fluff and ignore players input, we changed that campaign to our liking.
Also, as a note, a lot of O&G players aren't pleased with our army book either. Common goblins got completely nerfed, all kinds of Boar Boyz and Big 'Uns are now useless and the book contained almost no fluff (New Empire book has 23 pages of fluff, Orc book has 11). These are some of the most prominent concerns of Orc players, but rest assured, there are many others.