Warhammer 3 Faction overview: The Lumbrians

Ingr8

As this is purely speculation, please feel free to present this faction as a definite, absolute certainty for inclusion going forward on these forums!

As Red Dox shared this map:



It is clearly necessary to flesh out the units and the faction for what might possibly is likely certain to be a DLC race in game 3! Unfortunately GW neglected to include the faction in the 8th edition army books; an oversight on their part. Nevertheless the great news is that there are fantastic depictions of many of their units and infantry out there. Please feel free to suggest any units and characters I might have missed.

Infantry:

Amateur 'Jacks

The one handed axe men
Sturdy infantry, no armour so relatively fast, could include a shield wielding variant.

Throwing axes
Short ranged, armour piercing, no armour, relatively fast but limited ammunition. Decent melee combatants.

The two handed axe men
Armour piercing variant. No shields and susceptible to ranged attacks. Strong in melee and relatively fast. Also very cheap as, like the one handed variety, they do not wear armour.

Weapon team - the two man saw
Armour piercing and anti-large. Slower moving than the regular infantry.

Super-heavy infantry
Armour piercing. Anti-large. Causes terror. These are the shock troops of the Lumbrian army and are quite capable of cutting through even the most elite troops of other factions. They wear light armour but are slow moving (health and safety!)

Chariots:
The faction does not employ cavalry but there are several chariot options available to them.

Light chariot
Armoured, skirmisher chariots, fast.

Heavy chariot
Shock unit, powerful charge, armoured

Super heavy chariot with special weapon
I managed to find an original minature of this one!
Armoured, armour piercing, powerful charge, special weapon

Heroes and Lords:
I think that there may be many more to add in this area.

Veiled Assassin
Hero, lurks within the enemy army, adept at taking down individual unsuspecting enemies (duelist)

Wooden Man
A carved effigy of a man, inhabited by the spirit of a wanderer lost within the forest. Missile resistant, armoured, susceptible to flame
"For the matter to be laid to rest, you must destroy that which keeps you alive and be immortal no longer" - Deionarra's prophecy (I had to get something from Planescape: Torment in there!)

Paul Bun'onion (and his Babe)
Faction leader and Legendary Lord
The miniature below is from the 3rd Edition army book I believe
Giant, armour piercing, Melee expert, Bad breath (oniony). Think Skarnik and Gobbla... just massive (and not a spellcaster).

Faction traits:
Bonus damage against treemen etc.
Use fire

And of course:

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AxiosXiphos

As likely as Araby and based on the same amount of warhammer lore as Cathay. Top notch!

yst

I think its great that we can finally bring back sartosan lumberjacks in a reskin kind of way

Frikking TIMBERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Loreguy

I am in.

_Mad_D0c_

Dont forget, we got an first insight from CA before the release of Vampire coast.
Before they realised sartosa lumberjacks would inevitebly overlap with lumbrian ones and must be changed.

Do you think they changed it because of our cries, no it was a small teaser for lumbria.

capybarasiesta89

Quality post, you got me there good Sir

Rasmus242

While we don't have a complete army roster here I think it's very likely as we can't just have a game 3 full of trees and no natural enemy for them.

ShiroAmakusa75

Ah, those are the famous Lumberfoots Kerillian keeps prattling about.

AxiosXiphos

_Mad_D0c_ said:

Dont forget, we got an first insight from CA before the release of Vampire coast.
Before they realised sartosa lumberjacks would inevitebly overlap with lumbrian ones and must be changed.

Do you think they changed it because of our cries, no it was a small teaser for lumbria.

I stand corrected...

MORE likely then araby....

ArneSo

Lumbrians should only be able to conquer regions with the timber resource and as a post siege option they should get the chance to chop all the trees in the region to get a temporary +20% income boost.

In treeless regions like Nehekhara or the Badlands they should get huge attrition, because they have nothing to chop so they start chopping each other’s heads.

Labria

There is enough space for two lost continents in Warhammer World. We already have Atlantis(Uthuan). Where is Lemuria(Lumbria)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_(continent)
We need lumberjacks's paradise. Grimbeorn should be Legendary Lord for them!

FungusHound

Labria said:

There is enough space for two lost continents in Warhammer World. We already have Atlantis(Uthuan). Where is Lemuria(Lumbria)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_(continent)
We need lumberjacks's paradise. Grimbeorn should be Legendary Lord for them!

Lemuria is already in Warhammer. It's where the Giant Pygmies live. I wish I was joking

Wyvax

Until then the modders have got you covered!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1559010020

Draxynnic

Just for amusement value, a couple of LL candidates could be thinly veiled references to this guy and this other guy.

And, since naturally when thinking about possible critters for a faction based on a real-world culture it is imperative to incorporate every creature from that culture's mythology regardless of whether those creatures are friendly or hostile to that culture, we would naturally look to include as many of these as possible.

Blaeys

I really want to know who painted those models. They look so lifelike.

Bonutz

Lol. Make Paul Bunyan a legendary lord. His mount can be Babe the Blue Ox.

Azurian

What have i just read?

Ingr8

Updated. I am not sure about Grimbeorn... he looks rather dwarfish to me. We need to preserve their separate cultural identity to ensure that they remain loreful after all!

The Fearsome Critters feel more like opponents to be faced within the artifact quests.

The roster is starting to come along quite nicely. I don't think that @CA can ignore this faction for long. Pre-order bonus maybe?