Okay, the Fimir as a race disappeared completely just as I started out with Warhammer. Since this is a site dedicated to a race threatened with extinction, I wondered if anyone knew anything about them? Any official fluff would be appreciated, especially pictures/models. I'm thinking of modeling a few just for novelty value, perhaps finding a suitable "counts as" use for them. I'm mainly after things like what did they look like, where were they from, and were they weak or strong, few or numerous? Did they have alot of female warriors in their ranks like the elves? Did they use magic or were they afraid of it like the dwarfs? Thanks in anticipaion, AGPO
They disappeared only from wfb (like squats from wh40k)...
I remember some 'bout them from wfrp, but I have lack of skills in my english, so I only paste this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fimir
Cool, does anyone have any more pics? Some more of the official background would be helpful. The model shown here is nicely distinctive in its look. I might make a concept model and maybe a unit or two as allies of the chaos dwarfs. I'm just not sure whether to go for Ogre size models or man sized. Anyone got anything else?
I remember the Fimir from MB's HeroQuest - these were slightly taller than men-sized, but the GW miniatures look more like they actually belong on 40mm monster bases. You could make a Fimir unit and use them as Ogre mercenary allies in your CD army. Doing a whole army of them sounds... quite challenging, even by Chaos Dwarf player's standards.
Did the Zoats have rocket launchers in WFRB too, as they had in 40k?
If they were slightly bigger, Ogres would be perfect for Fimir. Fimir are the Ogres with Gnoblars as Sheral.
i dont think they will dump 7th ed in 3 or 4 years of running it. i think 8th is a long way off.
New editions normally come once a decade if that - and at £30 a rulebook thank God for small mercies
I was thinking classic Kroxigor but they only have two poses
Or Orcs maybe. They're about that size. Some French bloke used the Beastmen army to represent Fimir.
One still sees service in my BoC army as a wargor/chaos warrior BSB
I did convert three of the Heroquest guys into a command group but I recently stripped the paint off them as the paint job was a particularly vile green - so the BSB is the only painted fimir I have.
I have to add Zoats to this thread as they have been mentioned a couple of times in the same " what happened to them " breath as the Fimir.
WFB seems to have deserted them completely but the Space Zoats were mentioned in the Tyranid book.
I have plans to include a unit of Zoats to my 'probably never to be started' Wood Elf army (using the Treekin rules) as they were traditionally allies of the wood elfs.
The only WFB Zoats that are available are as follows (I think):
The Zoat Mage (mace and orb) and the limited edition smaller Zoat with Staff
Zoat with axe and the Zoat mage again
The urber-rare 'baby zoat'
The Space Zoats
http://www.solegends.com/citcat911/c2105...rzoats.htm
Fimir are cool but Zoats are the Bomb!
(how street am I?)
Zoats look just like Saurus. Look at that second mage in the first picture.
That's true AGPO. Also, Genestealers had no association with Tyranids at all in the beginning, and 40K had no Chaos in Rogue Trader! Some weird things if you look at the old books.
The GW Fimir seem to be ripped from the irish legend of the Fomorians, a mythical race that inhabited Ireland. There are various versions as to what they looked like, but have generally been described as ugly. giant, and sometimes as sea demons.
Their king, Balor, had only one eye - hence the fimir having one central eye.
considering that albion is the warhammer ireland
That's a brave statement -Warhammer Albion looks more like Britian to me (isle of wights at the bottom) and the name traditionally refers more to Britian, England, or Scotland (Alba) rather than Ireland.
The Irish like being associated with the English like the Canadians love being called Americans or we New Zealanders adore being referred to as Australians
People do like to associate the Druids with Ireland but the only reliable pre-Christian records are greek and roman accounts of druids in Britian and Gaul rather than Ireland itself.
The irish accounts are all post-Christian - heavily influenced by pre-christian stories no doubt but also by the roman/greek sources as well.
The Neolithic farmer in me gets pretty cross when I see a group of new age 'Druids' stealing our old places of worship i.e Stonehedge
There's things like the Giant's Causeway as well which is in England
Hate to say it dude but the Giants Causeway is at the top end of Ireland - I've been there (and well worth the trip too).
Legend has it was a bridge to Scotland built by a giant so he could go and fight another giant.
You have to love those crazy giants 
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