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35 for a captain and 50 for a grandmaster would be fine as the pegasus for the captain is the better choice and really it doesn´t add too mauch except 3 S5 attacks from the beast.

I think there are reasons we do not see that many chars on monstrous cavalry (chaos excluded).

I should hope they'd eventually offer the Greek States as DLC at a later date...

That is a very nice model. IS it mordheim too? I don't recognize it.

Keeping it to around the 9 item mark means we can have more thought out, balanced items without risking game-breaking items, whilst still keeping some great combo's with the items in the brb. White Cloak and Glittering Scales/Fencer's Blades? Runefang & Other Trickster's Shard? We still have combos, but now everyone is on a far more level playing field, and for those who dont tournament it up all the time they can actually have a decent grip on what your opponent might have. I know when I was starting out I had no idea whatsover what all the 30+ magic items from each army were, but now just having to remember basically 5 from each plus the BRB ones you're already familiar with, it has become a lot better for new players as well as the competitive. The new book was a fantastic breath of fresh air IMO.

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Very true - but that doesn't change the fact the current background (for the last three editions, presumably) contains an explicit reference to them being a Sigmarite order. There is no explicit reference in current fluff which contradicts this or denies it (no "they are secular" or "they are not religious" or even "they are not Sigmarite").

No-one has turned up a single reference in any of the first five editions which explicitly contradicts or denies their Sigmarite nature. Even if there was such a reference, a case could be made that the current background supersedes it.

The arguments being made are "I don't agree they are Sigmarite, and if I disregard the explicit references it makes sense for them to be ecumenical or secular" . . . . which is perfectly true and perfectly fine. If someone wants to play Reiksguard as secular or followers of Myrmidia or someone else, that is just dandy - that's the point of the game.

“Emperor Wilhelm,” he began, “as much as any good man of Nuln should detest him, I cannot but admit that his creation of the Reiksguard was a masterstroke. Other emperors had founded knightly orders before, but none of them ever saw their true potential. Other orders…” Herr von Matz waved his hand dismissively. “The Order of the Black Bear want the strongest, the Knights of Sigmar’s Blood want the learned, even our own great Emperor Magnus,when he founded the Knights Griffon, asked only for the most devout. It was only Emperor Wilhelm who ever asked for the eldest. The heirs. More than any of the others, Wilhelm looked to the future; for after ten or twenty years, once their fathers were dead, the heirs were the nobles themselves. And each of them had been taught and drilled to have absolute loyalty to their Emperor. To leave the rule of the Empire to him. To shun politics altogether! Everyone knows that the Reiksguard have vowed to never interfere in the political world. Loyalty, first, last and always, isn’t that right? And an end to civil wars as well, because it is so much harder to shed the blood of one you have called brother.

The oaths of a brother-knight to the Reiksguard and to the order’s rule superseded any others that a warrior might take, whether to family, province, friends or gods, short of those he took to the Emperor himself.

Your ‘gift’ was not our concern, though there are witch hunters and templars enough to burn you for that alone. I would have cared not if you had spent your life where you were, reading commoners’ fates.

I hardly think it is appropriate to call the current army book's words "erroneous"; that book is what is used to determine rules. One could hardly say "In the 4th edition, we were allowed to take Ogres - but in the 6th and onwards the erroneous entry in the army book does not allow this". Erroneous means "in error" - that is, incorrect. That isn't a word to be used to describe the current ruleset or background.

That said; can anyone offer an actually contradictory description of the Reiksguard? That is, something along the lines of an explicit "The Reiksguard are a secular order" or "The Reiksguard are not a religious order"? Or is it just assumed?

On the other subject; Blazing Sun are Myrmidia, so are Panthers. Unlikely to accept a devotee of Ulric into their ranks.

The Grand Order of the Reiksguard
(Possibly a Sigmarite templar order. The fluff and referances are contradictory. However I have been told GW admitted it was a mistake in thier fluff to discribe this order as templars of Sigmar)

Um, is Warmaster 6mm?