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Warhammer-Empire Website => Welcome to the Empire - Guides, Help, Introductions, and Rules => WFB Empire Provinces => Topic started by: Midaski on May 05, 2007, 03:31:34 PM
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Reikland is the westernmost province of the Empire with access to the sea via the great river Reik, and has fertile farmland, vineyards and a dairy industry, as well as mines in the Grey Mountains. The relatively safer Reikwald Forest is a valuable source for timber for the boat-building industry.
Library Link: http://warhammer-empire.com/library/aisforaltdorf/the-grand-principality-of-reikland/
Current Ruler: Emperoro Karl Franz
Capital: Altdorf
Main Trade: Exports of Wine, Textiles, Precious Metals Iron Ore and Cheese.
Province Colours: White (Often pale grey or fawn)
Map Link: (Colour) http://www.fys.ku.dk/~blicher/Reikland_v2.jpg
(Black & White) http://www.fys.ku.dk/~blicher/Reikland_v2_bw.jpg
Notes:
Altdorf is the home of the Reiksgard Knights - the Emperor's personal bodyguard.
The large town of Bogenhafen (with its own colours of purple and cream) is situated in Reikland.
Valten came from the Reikland village of Lachenbad.
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Hi first i want to say good work!
A question came to my mind:
Shouldn't there be standing something about the city Carroburg under The Province of Reikland?
- I know its located in Middenland, but Carroburg (IMO) have better relations with the Reikland than Middenland.
>Melvin
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I would actually like to know more about Melvins questions as well. Specifically would it be to far fetched to have an ulric themed army of Carroburg?
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Is carroburg in Middenland or Riekland? (or both)? I've been treating it as if its in in the latter.
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Carroburg lies in Middenland but was aided in a Middenland civil war by regiments of Reikland soldiers, including a greatsword regiment that renamed itself (and reset its heraldry) based on the events of battle - hence, the Carroburg Greatswords are Reiklanders, but the town is in Middenland. That said, I think that's relatively new...Carroburg may, in the past, have been part of the Reikland proper.
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Im very happy about the fluff from Reikland, which gives all choices from the armybook.
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the knights griffon are based in altdorf too :blush:
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Hey folks, my Reikland army has really started to take off now that I've devised a scheme for it. However, I do have one (slightly pedantic) question.
I plan to have Greatswords in my army, more for character than battlefield performance, but had a question about the much-discussed Carroburg Greatswords. Now I assumed the Greatswords were a Count's guard, and thus since no elector lives at Carroburg, they would have no one to guard.
However, my alternative suggestion was this - the Carroburg Greatswords ARE the count of Reikland's guard - they were sent to help Carroburg all that time ago, and gained their reputation and colours defending it. This proud heritage would be continued in their livery, even though they still serve the count of Reikland and serve at his court rather than in Carroburg.
Any ideas? Would it just be cool to have the Carroburg Greatswords in my Reikland force anyway, if only to break up that sea of white with a real splash of colour?
Rob.
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Carroburg was the capitol of Middenland before it was merged with Middenheim and Midenheim is the capitol. Carroburg Greatswords are just your average Greatswords that Reikland sent to help one of the pretenders for the post of the count of middeland during a seccession crisis. As a result of the battle they got renamed in honour of the town they helped to protect. As far as I know they are just another Reikland greatswords regiment with an odd name and different colours.
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For those (potential recruits?) who are interested in looking at a fully-painted Relikland army, here's a link to mine:
http://www.seandeitrick.com/?page_id=15
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Greetings my Reiklanders.
I've discovered a special sight that is in Reikland. Reading through the last of the Mathias Thulmann books there is mention of a grand and fearsome prison called The Reik's fangs. It is based on Rock formations in the River Reik and is a large dungeon which holds some of the worst criminals and heretics of the Empire. The only way out there is by a small boat. Once you arrive, you will state your name and your buisness there, while being pointed at with a blunderbuss. The guards will then put a message in a bottle and send it to the officer in his cabinet inside, via ropings. A response will come and they will be allowed inside.
The cells are located down in the earth and you get there by stairs, leaving the prisoners in total darkness.
I cant remember more of it, but i could find it some time.
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I've been working on a Reikland army for some time now. I was surprised to see I've never posted here.
My Blog :
http://www.warhammer-empire.com/theforum/index.php?topic=16132.0
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Quick question to all the reikland players,
when you paint your troops what are the secondary colours your use for the feathers, shield and what not?
i know warhammerlord_soth uses light blue and anthoer player uses bleach bone white with red.
what do your uses?
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Well, you can pick any colour, but to me, the important bit was not starting to look like another province.
So watch out with red (Talabheim), dark blue (Middenheim), black (Ostland) and grey (Wissenland).
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Not to mention green (stir river) and purple (bogenhafen)
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true, the men under the banners of the reik certainly need to have white/off white jump suit. but when it comes to the shield and the banners and feather and etc, etc, what do you use?
i am only asking this because i am deeply thinking of repainting my army from that of bleach bone jumpsuits with red shield and feather for.... i don't know... maby dheneb stone jumpsuits from the citadel foundation line with chaos black Shields and feather? :eusa_wall:
Maby I'm just taking this hole thing to seriously and should just have fun playing and paint?
:::cheers:::
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true, the men under the banners of the reik certainly need to have white/off white jump suit. but when it comes to the shield and the banners and feather and etc, etc, what do you use?
i am only asking this because i am deeply thinking of repainting my army from that of bleach bone jumpsuits with red shield and feather for.... i don't know... maby dheneb stone jumpsuits from the citadel foundation line with chaos black Shields and feather? :eusa_wall:
Maby I'm just taking this hole thing to seriously and should just have fun playing and paint?
:::cheers:::
Holland,
If you look in the book they mix it up with a white feather with a red tip for inf an blue tip for missle fire. using that as a bases i do all my inf with red tips/stripes but its always red, missle fire bule, cav combo red white (lots of feathers), Pistoleers Red and Blue. just as long as yhou have a scheme thats all that matters.
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I just thought I'd throw in my lot here as well. I've been playing empire since about 2003 or so. I started with a Reikland Provincial army and when the 7th book came out I decided to revamp my army and start all new units and changed the scheme to be Bogenhafen. So now I've got half of my army with each scheme. I just hope I don't change my mind soon to add another scheme...
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Greetings from Bogenhafen and Ravenswood,
As the Reikland is our home, I thought it fitting to say
"Hail Karl Franz!!"
This is a great site, glad to be a new member, and I look forward to talking with you all.
My name is Nikolai, I am an avid collector of Warhammer stuff, with too many armies, but one of my main loves is my Empire army. I am in the process of making scenery based in and around Bogenhafen, the home of 1/2 of my Empire army, and will be posting pics on my web site as well as around here.
Nice to meet you all!
-Nikolai
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Can I ask something? Can I have an army that has both white and regal blue as the dominant color scheme and still call it Reikland? White has to go with something, and I liked regal blue. The problem is that others may mistake it for middenland instead.
But I prefer it to be Reikland because I like Reiksguard. :-D
Its just not so colorful painting the entire army different shades of white! I will post up pictures when I can. But my concern now is that people will think my army is a middenland army and that my knights are knights of the panther instead of Reiksguard. :-(
But I painted my army already (more than 80 models!) and I like their current color scheme.
What's more, I actually have gotten a Kurt Helborg model and painted him in the same color scheme as my army too (white with regal blue). And Kurt definitely belongs in Reiksguard! :-)
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There's nothing wrong with that. White is the predominant color, but to give it a contrast there needs to be some other color to make it striking.
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Greetings commanders of the Reik
This is a little update of my army.
Previously i've been having my army themed around the Carroburg-fluff, but i have changed it to be strictly Reikland now. Fits me more i think.
After i have laid low for a while i have been rethinking my army, and also seen combat with my army.
Recently i have laid my hands on an old war altar model, and i am also atm converting a captain on foot (with witchhunter theme even my army isnt witchhunter - just a good conversion-project).
My theme is a Reiklander Force lead by a general/captain, but often attached with some sort of religious contigent of either a Sigmar priest or maybe even an Arch Lector and their bodyguards represented by Greatswords. Furthermore my Army also have small contigents from the formidable Reiksguards order.
We all know the coffers of the Emperor is rich, therefore my army often also are accompained with a unit of Ironguts - they take crown of the Emperor and also get feed by cheap ale and horsemeat. They havent done much yet on the field, but i think its a nice touch and the enemy are often distracted by them :laugh:
Also the Emperor can afford a pegasus mount for the captain - flowen in from a bretonnian breed :D (Bretonnia model mixed with the general set - also a conversion project on the scheme)
Hopefully i soon get things primed and painted
/Von Bildhofen
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Does any one wont to lay claim to any part of Reikland as of army fluff development?
I don't wont to step on any ones tows as I develope more town any its surrounding county.
:::cheers:::
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Seeing as this thread isn't the most active one you're free to choose any town you want! Besides, wouldn't it be nice to share your fluff with somebody else? Could make for some interesting "grudge matches". :icon_biggrin:
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the color map is only half loading FYI :ph34r:
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Loads fine for me - either from the link in the first post, or from the link at the bottom of the library page linked to above too.
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Does anyone have the old empire book with Reikland foot guys? Was wondering if they could paste some background + stats + options on them!
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Whilst not strictly a Reikland army as such, it's where I've decided to place the main Chapter House of my Knights Encarmine.
I found their initial fluff listed in the list of secular Knightly Orders and have expanded it to give it more of a Tilean feel based on nothing other than the name of the founder and the red, white and green colours of the knights plumes!
Here's the background if anyone is interested:
Founded by the rich dilettante Frederici Tolscano in 2310, the The Knights Encarmine are a flamboyant, foppish band of warriors. This may have something to do with the fact that the Order is comprised entirely of the rich and privileged. Still, wealth alone isn't a guarantee of entry, as there are very strict and rigid guidelines concerning who may actually join the knightly order. Being a collection of rich and generally powerful individuals, the Knights Encarmine hold much political clout. As such, they have the option to choose which campaigns they will take part in — often the ones which require little actual dirty work to attain the most glory.
Each member of the order maintains a brilliant suit of red armour topped by tricolour plumage of green, white, and red. As the paint coating the armour chips away easily, the suit must be constantly repainted in order to maintain appearances. Members of the Knights Encarmine eschew the lowly shield as it is a "commoners defense" to hide behind a metallic barrier in battle. Instead, the Knights Encarmine practice a secretive two sword combat technique. One sword acts as a deflection tool, while the other strikes the deathblow.
Despite their often intolerable nature, the Knights Encarmine are very welcome when battle is finally joined. As the members of the Order incessantly hone their two-sword technique, they are masters of the blade. Foes fall in droves as the red-armored Knights plow through ranks of foot troops and mounted warriors alike. As long as a general can stomach the tales of highly exaggerated bravery afterward, the Knights Encarmine are a valuable asset to any army of the Empire.
The Order of the Knights Encarmine is where any aspiring noble son of Tilea is sent to earn his spurs. Favouring the dashing two-sword combat technique inspired by the Tilean duellists of old, they make a marked contrast to the somewhat solid Empire knights. Indeed so ingrained is the swashbuckling ideal that it permeates all the way down to the lowest foot soldier of the order, many of whom accompany their aristocratic masters from Tilea into the orders service.
The Tilean influence runs heavily throughout the Order and, despite being extremely wealthy, they have few firearms and the crossbow is considered king. The money of the order is often spent on new and experimental Tilean crossbow variants including a repeater-style weapon and a few large hand-held siege crossbows.
The main Chapter House of the Order is based in the prosperous market town of Schilderheim, a day’s travel to the west of Altdorf. Whilst the order themselves claim to be here so that the knights can easily travel to wherever they are needed, other claim it is so they have easy access to the capital at Altdorf and all the delights therein. It also gives allows the Cardinals of the Order the chance to visit the markets and worship at the temples of Mercopio, the god of merchants, prosperity and trade. The proximity of Schilderheim to Brettonia also allows the Order to buy in some of the finest warhorses of that country, whose luxurious barding singles the knights out on the field of battle so all may see their glorious deeds.
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Ok, you've GOT to check out this map! It blows away any I've seen before, and I'm willing to bet it will blow away future maps provided by GW, BL or FFG: http://www.hapimeses.com/Gallery/displayimage.php?album=1&pos=7
Andy Law is maping the entire Empire in this style and you can follow the progress here: http://www.hapimeses.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=213&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
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Hmmm, I'm a bit underwhelmed by this close-up, because I believe he's getting things wrong.
When looking at my beloved Bögenhafen (going from my WHFRP Shadow over Bögenhafen material) the city seems to be situated wrong. IIRC it should be situated on the road to Helmgart, not to Castle Drakenburg!! One does not become a great trading town by shipping goods to vampires, shipping to Bretonnia on the other hand....
I'm also missing Castle Grauenburg, though there's a Castle 'Graunenberg' on the map.
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I prefer these maps much more.
http://www.windsofchaos.com/?page_id=27
There is even a massive map of the Empire and Kislev made out of all these maps scaled and then put together which I'll try and find.
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Nice, and at least it has Bögenhafen in the right location!
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As you can see by my avatar, I shall officially throw in my lot with Reikland. :eusa_clap: Nice maps btw, I like the topographical ones especially. :biggriin:
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Those topigraphical maps seem to have some things in different places than what has been usually seen.
For you Reikland fans, please excuse the following example ... in Averland, Beiswang and Averheim have flipped from east to west and vice versa.
The cartographer seems to play Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying so I wonder if that's the reason or maybe he's just deciding to draw the map in his own way (perhaps because he doesn't want to get in trouble with GW)?
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I like Reikland... it's relatively peaceful and a sign of the Empire's might... It was the lands Sigmar was born in as well as Valten...
also the color scheme is nice... white with varying accents....
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Humm. I'm in a bit of a pickle regarding the province I want to collect. As my avatar reveals, I have a strong liking for Wissenland, but lately Reikland has caught my attention. Their appearances, including colors and insignia are what I'm most drawn to: the eagle of Reikland and the lion of Wissenland. The color schemes are quite similar, the notable exception being Wissenland's use of grey along with white.
Additionally, I'm a fan of Reikland in particular because of its Holy Roman Empire feel, along with the Reiksguard. I think the professional, imperial look and feel is very neat. As for Wissenland, I mainly like its insignia and backstory involving Solland, along with its poorer background in contrast to elsewhere in the Empire. I believe the Knights of the Broken Sword are based around Wissenland/ex-Solland and I don't see many of them painted up; they may be unique to use. I like to be original with my armies and refrain from duplicating other hobbyists' work.
What do you think?