All, I encourage you to take a look at these WFB books on each of the subjects. They should give you more than enough information to advance into other regions:

http://battlereporter.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/huge-warhammer-fantasy-army-book-update.html

At the bottom of the post you can download them directly (as opposed to wasting your time on ISSUU.

Very neat.

Are they all collected from canon? For example, the text for Panther Knights is pretty much exactly what is in the Career Handbook (which is a bit of an IP violation).

I had never heard of Amazons in the Old World before, is that totally fan-based or a "lost bit of fluff from edition transitions" etc.

Most of what is in there is as much as they could gather from other sources as possible (evidently). Probably not much of it is original writing. The Fimir stuff, for example, was supposedly heisted from Warpstone and is a subject of much discussion at the StS forums.

In any case, the Estalia and Araby stuff should come in handy for some ideas.

Most of what is in there is as much as they could gather from other sources as possible (evidently). Probably not much of it is original writing. The Fimir stuff, for example, was supposedly heisted from Warpstone and is a subject of much discussion at the StS forums.

There's no supposedly about it. It's flat-out cut-and-paste, albeit with some bits missed out here and there. The guy behind it agreed to try to create something original of his own to replace it, but he doesn't seem to be getting very far...

Cheers

Sparrow

It looks like he updated the artwork, but I'm not familiar with the text comparison.

It looks like he updated the artwork, but I'm not familiar with the text comparison.

Interesting - he has indeed cut out a sizable quantity of the Warpstone text. There's still stuff from Warpstone in there, including art, but he's clearly made an effort to correct the situation.

Cheers

Sparrow

Potential IP violations are moot point as far as I as a customer am concerned - in fact I much appreciate it being synchronized with other canonical sources (such as the Warpstone Fimir article) and official source books which I own anyhow.

I was unaware that the Fantasy Battle crowd had similar die-hard fans. :-)

Potential IP violations are moot point as far as I as a customer am concerned - in fact I much appreciate it being synchronized with other canonical sources (such as the Warpstone Fimir article) and official source books which I own anyhow.

I was unaware that the Fantasy Battle crowd had similar die-hard fans. :-)

The issue was that almost all, if not all, of the text was plagiarised (i.e. copy/pasted word-for-word) without crediting the sources. That goes beyond IP violation into artistic integrity territory IMO, especially when the compiler credits only himself.

Agreed re the wholesale copying/no crediting, which is also important when tracking edition changes etc.

I tracked down that amazons were part of a very early wfb version later lost (in part by finding a site with info on it that also amusedly rants about WFRP 3 being announced - a bastardized boardgame etc. etc.)

I had never heard of Amazons in the Old World before, is that totally fan-based or a "lost bit of fluff from edition transitions" etc.

The Amazons appear to be a team in Blood Bowl , one of Games Workshop's "specialist games", which is a Warhammer spin-off with a rather silly premise. I know nothing more about them, but since both the models and artwork for BB look very outdated, I would indeed think that they are derrived from an older version of the setting.

EDIT: I see that you already figured that out for yourself. Nevermind, then.