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Much as the Bretonians have nothing to do with Arthurian legend, Sigmar is not remotely similar to Conan the barbarian, and Vlad von Carstien is in no way related to the vampire Dracula
I would call Ithilmar more akin to Mithril. While all three are considered superior to iron and steel, Gromril armor and weapons are still quite heavy, while equipment made from Ithilmar and Mithril are both strong AND lightweight.
Dwarven Engineer: I have here a schematic for a pumping system which can be used to move water from one place to another. Engineering Councilor: Very well. It's approved for prototyping. Shouldn't take more than about three hundred years for something so simple. Dwarven Engineer: I also have an idea for a larger version which could be used to drain the Black Water. Engineering Councilor: BEGIN PRODUCTION IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE PRIMARCHS, ARCH ! YOU MUST DO THE OTHERS PRIMARCHS, ARCH ! The video about Konrad is so great, every time i put it on i am filled with sadness knowing there's so many of his brothers who haven't being properly taken care of.
@scrin99 I don't want to ruin the story if Arch does plan to speak about it but .... The Nemesis Crown was made by the famous "Alaric the Mad" (who also made the Runefangs) and Alaric was titled "the Mad" for making the Nemesis Crown in the first place. Let's say that Alaric made many "deliberate mistakes" when making the crown.
@@robertnelson9599 The Nemesis Crown story was concluded but the ending was very unimpressive. The conclusion/finish was that the dwarves regained the Nemesis Crown and then locked it up so (supposedly) no-one could ever wear/use it again. So there was a finish but it was a finish where very little changed. A very open ending but GW has never been any good when it comes to campaign finishes.
Adam- But when skaven-fur war-tech boom-exsplodes it kill-kills rivals. It would never Boom-exsplode for us-us, because we is so much skill- better than them-them. So skaven-fur is better.
I wonder whether alchemists, wizards, mages and sorceresses could use the lore of metal (chamon) to transmute other metals into gromril or ithilmar? I'm assuming that it would take a lot of work, power and time but it could probably be done.
With magic, just about anything is possible I'll admit. However it is worth bearing in mind that the High Elves and Druchii both desperately covet the secret of forging Gromril and they are the second most magically adept civilizations in the Warhammer World. If they haven't managed it then I would say such is a feat would require a ritual of the highest order to pull off with all sorts of crazy requirements. The closest I've ever seen of sorcery working with Gromril was in the Nagash books when he had the skaven provide him with several bricks of the stuff which he used as components in a ritual along with a criminally large amount of warpstone to conjure his black armour that helped solidify him as one of the most powerful mages to walk the Warhammer World.
Actually, if I remember right the armor Chaos Warriors and Chosen use is nearly on the same level as Gromril. Maybe the chaos worshippers did find a way to do it or are the only ones with access to the raw magic to get close.
Chaos Warrior armor is made by chaos dwarves is why. The only times they don't get their armour from chaos dwarves is when they kill another warrior and take his or they are given it directly by the chaos gods.
The fact that Gromril could cut through Gromril seems kind of like a moot point though. Even if a gromril weapon was strong enough to maintain its edge when cutting through gromril, you'd never be able to find a human, dwarf nor even Ork with the required muscle-power to actually slice through gromril. Even with an unbreakable weapon and the opportunity to put their entire strength/weight into an unmoving and stationary target, most humans would never be able to cut through metals, even steel. Which means a nigh-indestructible magical metal like gromril would be pointless to even try to dent. So if you were wearing gromril armor, you'd be safe from any cuts or thrusts of any foe even if they had gromril weapons... as long as they weren't either a godling or a giant!
Is Gromril Adamantium but with a different name? I mean just a theory but it does have many similarities with the Imperium's favorite Uber-tough metal.
I like how both the Heroes of Might and Magic universe and Age of Wonders portray the Dwarfs as more Fire leaning than Earth; they still live in mountains or underground but Fire is really their main element. Especially in HoMM, they worship the dragon of fire and they tend to live in volcanoes. It makes sense when it comes to smithing; this affinity and resistance to heat is what lets them use extremely hot forges; which lets them work a wider variety of metals for alloys. I like that its not fantasy bullshit; thats how it really works.Sure extreme fire resistance is fantasy but i like that its uses are developed in a logical way.
Clan Moulder ... Throt MELTED down gromril via warpstone-fuelled forge craft "learned" from a dwarf (Alric the Mad) who had visited with Throt for an unsunny Summer or twenty and then bound the liquid gromril onto the skeleton of a Hell Pit Abomination which, Wolverine-like, lived to go "snikt". Abomirine-snikt-snikt was "born"(?)CREATED.
I'm pretty sure that you right, Ghal Maraz is made out of Gromril. However the hammer is a golden colour while pure Gromril is not, but that is probably just an oversight by the previous GW team. So a pure gromril hammer with golden paint?
maybe not paint. If i remember the Hammer has a part of Sigmar in it, the Gold is probably an effect of beaing the Weapon of God. Or Maybe not... It's been a while since i read the old lore but i don' t remember any mention about Ghal Maraz being flashy gold when the Dwarf Whatsname gifted it to Sigmar
@Azrael-Von-Gruber I was making a joke regarding putting paint on a warhammer. I've haven't read the Sigmar books but the dwarf you mentioned might be Alaric the Mad (he made the runefangs, elector swords), or some/the high dwarf king (possibly Ghal Maraz was the king's personal hammer). I'm not sure what you mean when you said that Ghal Maraz might part of Sigmar inside it. Anyway, if any-one put a knife to my throat and demanded me to explain, I would claim that the flashy master runes made the hammer glow yellow. We can't really be "wrong" currently, consider the "truths" of "current" warhammer fantasy. That is my opinion at least...
This video alone makes my mind spin just imagining the sheer quantity and quality of rare and valuable metals that exist both in and around the Old World, there’s probably a mountain range made entirely of silver if you look around hard enough.
Please excuse the dodgy scholarship of this comment, but I seem to recall reading somewhere-- can't recall if it's fairly obscure canon, a bit of fluff from a licensed spin-off, or shitty "fanon"-- that gromril only occurs in proximity to warpstone. There are two implications here: firstly, that the meteor/asteriod which created Varn Drazh was comprised of some kind of gromril/warpstone composite; secondly, that "gromril" may not necessarily be all that different from other manners of ("generic") space metal found elsewhere in the setting, except that its nature and properties which make it so special are derived from tremendously long periods of exposure to Warp/space radiation. This would further explain the abundance of warpstone in the deeps of Karak Varn which makes present extraction of what remnants of gromril exist, and the nature of the gribbly beasts that inhabit the lake and those places in the old karak's deeps where the boundary between the lake and the hold has been breached. Thoughts, Arch?
It would make a certain amount of sense to me, but then I was pretty late to the party in terms of Warhammer Fantasy. I only really got into the fantasy side of Warhammer about a year before the End Times hit. Arch would have a much better understanding than I do, I'm sure.
Blackwater crater could have been an impact from an object of comprable size to our own apocalyptic meteor, as the strike that wiped out the dinosaurs was a glancing blow and Earth actually only recieved 4% of the impact thanks to the moon fucking with its trajectory. Dunno the value of this besides maybe giving an idea of how much star metal is kicking around in the old world haha
...could you imagine a dwarf mining game where you go deep into the rock to LOOK for that gromril? *wait no that would basically be a Fantasy Deep Rock Galactic!*
6:14 - Yeah, it's probably DROVE him mad in the first place. | 10:16 - So it was hoarded to inflate the price?...oh, THAT'S why. | 11:42 - That explains the Skaven's interest. | What's next, Clan Pestilens? (those beloved of either the Horned Rat or "Papa" Nurgle)
hmm weird, im pretty sure i read somewhare that Gromril was some normal metal that at somepoint in time had been "corrupted" by warpstone...might be a mix-up somewhere...dont know, just a tingeling in the back of my brain
If the High Elves were smart they would secure a large source of gromril and use it to trade for the Pheonix Crown because the Dwarfs still have the orginal Pheonix Crown in Karaz A Karak after the High King Gotrek Starbreaker killed the Pheonix King at the end of the War of Ancients ( also known as the War of the Beards by the High Elves and the War of Vengence for the Dwarfs).
J. H. yeah sure, try scratching a plane outer layer which is aluminium alloy, you will see which broke first, also homogeneous rolled steel, ever heard of it? yeah, the thing they make TANKS with, yup, your garden variant steel is no where near it, and let’s tone back a notch to the high quality rolled steel made in early renaissance/ late medieval that can stop a handgun bullet (not the modern 9mm kind) which is where the termn bullet proof came from (because it leave a bullet ‘stamp’ on the armor). And that’s not considering titanium uranium, rubidium, tungsten, chrome,etc...
J. H. lol, you can spout technicality with me all day, yet you haven’t refute my point about homogeneous rolled steel, reinforced steel used in buildings or the high quality rolled steel used in late medieval armor plates. Alumium is SUPER weak sure, but sure as hell ain’t it alloys, planes are constructed from triple layered aluminium alloyed, to make it super light yet super tough. Also what I mean by garden variant steel is the low quality strel used in utensils which have high carbon content and surface is poorly done so that oxides easily reacts, weakening the surface making easily scratched, try that with the stainless steel used in insulators flask and see how it works out.
Lol, it would just be regular ceramite. Let's not forget, Warhammer Fantasy is medieval fantasy, and 40k is... exaggerated sci-fi. Anything "unbreakable" to fantasy people is what we give to recruits in 40k.
If gromril is so rare and precious how is it that the dwarfs are able to deploy entire regiments of Ironbreakers who are covered head-to-toe in gromril plate armor?
Centuries of accumlation and its likely those armours had been passed down. A young hold if they were lucky to find a source of gromril depending on its size would have no more than 12 warriors in gromril plate. While an ancient or really important hold like Karaz-a-Karak would be able to feild a small army containing several reigments of ironbreakers.
Ask the orks. They know how metal fits into other societies. You take a good swing and then jam it inside with the pointed end forward. Or with even more power and the blunt end forward. Who cares? WAAAAGH!!!!
Luckily Goblins know that in the hand of an orc even a bar of Gromril is good at killing, bypassing the need for having special tools, incantations, runes and other fancy stuff
You say that gromril is unbreakable. Why, then, does every Legendary Lord have weapons that can "sheer through gromril with ease"? Why do trolls and giants have the "strength to crumple gromril"? How does a unit of 80 Ironbreakers ever die? You can't tell me that a horde of dumb orcs are systematically pinning down and stripping Ironbreakers to kill them.
Gromril is unbreakable when forged optimally. Otherwise it is merely space-age alloy level overpowered. Worse, without the proper runes it offers very little protection against concussions. If you hit a guy in gromril armor without runes enough times, he dies. Whenther your using a stick or a magic greatsword is mostly irrelevant. As for magic weapons that break gromril... magic can do literally anything. It's magic, and defies rules by it's very nature. If nothing else, it will bend reality to the point the space connecting gromril molecules breaks and the thing crumples into grommil dust. Not the molecular bonds mind you, the fabric of the space time continuum will break in the area the grommil occupies as the laws of physics undergo a metaphysical blue screen of death and reboot.
Are there any intelligent beings in that version of warhammer capable of breathing underwater,and are they immune to the warp? Finally, are they friendly to the dwarfs? Because that could be very useful in recovering the underwater mines. All they would really have to do is send some heavies along too in order to kill the skaven.
Great vid, but allow me to rant on something only loosely related, and that's for a given value of 'loosely'. It is a shame about the blacklisting as I would love for CA to hear another rant from you about the diplomacy situation in Total War: Warhammer. I'm in yet another Mortal Empires playthrough, this time with the inimitable Kroq-Gar and have been stamping the foul Queek Headtaker on and off for a while now. However upon my latest war declaration (I had to pause stamping to wipe out a troublesome vampire faction to get some Blessed Kroxigors. Priorities) I was informed that their military allies were joining the war. The ally in question? Thorgrim Fucking Grudgebearer. God damn I wish I could hear you unload the salt on CA for this travesty. Rant over, replies not required, I just needed to be angry somewhere and "Old man yells at cloud" is too much of a cliche.
cause smashing the brains of your enemy is easier when you break their armor, a rigid helm may deflect a blow a broken helm will cave and crush the soft bits
@@mdb45424 but smashing the helmey isn't decided by how hard/tough the material in the hammer is, it's up to the strength of the wielder. If the dwarf is strong enough to smash in a helmet, he could have done so with a stone hammer or solid steel hammer, no need to waste precious gromril on it
