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Warhammer Dwarfs, Chaos or vanilla, both feature beards as one of their primary characteristics. It's only in the style of the beards where they differ.

The CD equivalent of the Slayers are indeed called the Infernal Guard (and their more elite brethren, the Infernal Ironsworn). While they feature significantly more armour, including armoured helms, they still feature epic beards... every last one of them.

 

Fair enough. Could have sword I heard somewhere that they were burnt off, but as I can't remember where, I'll assume it a Miranda Effect. Or a friend who didn't know what he was talking about when explaining the setting to me.

 

The flesh of their faces are seared and burnt underneath their iron helms, but the beards remain!

 

That's dedication to keeping their face fuzz!

"My flesh is nothing but scar tissue, but gosh dang it, my jaw shall remain unscarred so that my precious follicles remain free and true!"

Well, that or they've all got beard wigs to pretend like they can still grow beards.

 

To be fair, the fusilier's weapons are based on historical weaponry. I guess it is meant to show that in some ways the citizens of the Cities of Sigmar aren't quite as advanced as the Empire was.

 

*Longbeard worthy grumbling* Trying to bring logic into my grumblings...

Right... off the top of my head, the real-world weapon with the closest comparison to the fusiliers' weapons, would be the original handgun. To my knowledge, those still fired bullets and not artillery shot. But I will concede that a default rule of Warhammer, no matter which form of Warhammer that we speak of, has a rule of "bigger, badder, MEANER" when it comes to size and calibre of weapons, so I suppose I cannot fault the fusiliers for using literal cannons as their handguns by that token.

If you know of a closer fit, or I'm wrong regarding the original handgun, by all means educate me. I'm not afraid of being informed where I have gaps in my knowledge.

That said though... I still don't like them. They look terrible.

 

Oh I am with you on thinking they look terrible. I dislike much of the overall look of the Cities of Sigmar faction, with the exception of using them as a possible basis for DOW or Bret Exiles conversions.

 

Did anything other than Chaos Dwarfs or Tomb Kings catch anyone's eyes?