Indeed - Bretonnia have quite a great potential for a competitive 8th Edition army to be made out of them - there’s all sorts of things a writer of an 8th Ed book could do to make them stronger. Not that Bretonnians were bad in 6th and 7th, just that many of their rules could be improved to make them stronger, e.g. Make the Blessing a 5+ Ward (4+ against Strength 5 or above) rather than a 6+ Ward/5+ against Strength 5 or higher. That would improve knights’ survivability against cannons no end. In fact I’ll take up the challenge of writing one, as soon as I’ve completed all the others already listed in the Great Library.
It helps that I’ve been able to find a website with all the PDFs of every GW Fantasy army book and expansion that was ever made, because I’ve been able to download a PDF version of the Bretonnia army book that I can analyse.
Love those knights - that must have taken some real patience to make so much of them out of Green Stuff...