Warhammer Melniboneans

[Mathias Corvinus]

Anyone recall any Warhammer (Oldhammer!) stats for Melniboneans? I have the Citadel Journal with the stats for The Eternal Champion(s), but not sure I ever saw unit or troop rules. I've got enough for a small Oldhammer style army...

[Red Orc]

There may never have been any. The Melniboneans were officially Citadel products for Stormbringer, when GW had the licence for UK production. They might not therefore have been given stats for Warhammer at all. It did happen that sometimes minis from other games did get WH stats (I love my 'Giak' army-list from 'Lone Wolf' from the Citadel Journal) but these were always 'officially unofficial' if I understand things correctly.

Which edition of Oldhammer are you playing? For 2nd Ed I'd treat them as 'Old World Northern Kingdoms' (what would become the Empire and Bretonnia). Not so sure about 3rd Ed (though I guess the profiles for the Eternal Champion boxed set that you mention are 3rd Ed?)

[Spooktalker]

I would think Melniboneans would be at least comparable to dark elves. I definitely wouldn't use mere human stats.

[Faust23]

I would think Melniboneans would be at least comparable to dark elves. I definitely wouldn't use mere human stats.

I concur.

[Brummie Thug]

Certainly some form of Elf stats.

[Lordblackwing]

Using the Dark Elf stats works a treat for them. I had a unit that I sadly traded off years ago. Please post pics of them sometime.

[Hobbit]

I'd alsways assumed that the original Chaos Warriors were meant to be Melniboneans - I was thinking about it the other day as someone had just given me the GW edition of Stormbringer with photos of the miniatures in it.

[sukhe_bator]

It was the original citadel Dark Elves that were morphed from Melniboneans. There was a flirtation with them as a seperate Eternal Champios range to coincide with various board and role playing games but they never really took off...

[Moshes]

A little late, but I was on travel for two days.

High Elves. From 3rd Ed. Warhammer Armies.

These are my reasons:

Dragons.
Infantry with two handed axes.
Magic.
No crossbows, but powerful longbows (originally dragonbone).
Ship and Merchant companies.
Bolt throwers from the entrance to Imrrir harbour.
More magic.

The only downside is that original Melniboneans had little use for horses, so keep it scarce.
Mels are describeb as having yellow (bronze like) armour, tall helmets and bright clothes, with little or no mail, and runic wepons, so styles from the high elves of this period tend to mimic this. But otherwhise the models are in line with the books.

And as a side note, Chaos Warriors were not based on Melniboneans, but Pan Tangian raiders, with all the eight pointed star regalia.

Hope you find it useful.