#harald hammerstorm

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

Holy shit. They put in Harry the Hammer.

[stories-from-the-warp]

Courtesy of Steam user General Nuclear

[warhammer-fantasy-muses]

Harry the Hammer finding out that there's an undead being horny on main;

[sallllltywater]

Finally have this model on art station

[doctas-blog-of-stuff]

I know this is about w40k,but I just want to extend a random part of Warhammer fantasy lore I learned recently:

This is the cover of Warhammer first edition, released in 1983. The cover depicts a character later named Harald Hammerstorm(a.k.a. Harry the hammer), known for his war hammer, vanquisher of the undead.

The guy ended up becoming a chaos champion, and living until the End Times (the lore event about GW ending the Fantasy range[2014]), where he dies against a vampire lord, the only time he dropped his trusty hammer.

Tl;Dr. :Harry the Hammer, wielder of THE Warhammer, dies at the death of Warhammer Fantasy after being part of its lore for 31 years.

(Also go check out the video about Warhammer 1st edition from Codex Compliant, is very good).

People: Warhammer isn't satire. This is a very serious setting. The Setting: Ferrus Manus, whose name means 'Iron Hands' in Latin, Primarch of the Iron Hands, who has actual Iron Hands, is currently flying in his ship the 'Fist of Iron'.

[thetoxicgamer]

Total War: Warhammer 3's latest free hero is Warhammer's original posterboy

Another free legendary hero is available in Total War: Warhammer 3 as part of version 3.1.0. Ulrika Magdova, a Kislevite vampire, was the antagonist the last time; this time, it's Harald Hammerstorm, better known as Harry the Hammer, a Chaos Warrior who specialises in eliminating anything that emerges from the dead. If you didn't already go through this step to unlock Ulrika, to get Harry in your game you'll first need to register a CA account and connect it to your platform of choice. Otherwise, you can skip that process. With that done, the hammer-wielding Kurgan will join a Warriors of Chaos army in any campaign after you complete his quest "The Hammerstorm Cometh", which appears when you get your legendary lord up to level 15. It demands you kill 3,000 enemies in battle, after which he'll spawn beside your legendary lord on the campaign map. Note that he won't join any of the Daemons of Chaos factions, just Warriors of Chaos like those led by Valkia the Bloody, Festus the Leechlord, Azazel and so on. Harald Hammerstorm is a character with a heck of a lineage, going all the way back to the first edition of tabletop game Warhammer Fantasy Battle in 1983. While the Warhammer world didn't exist at that point, the rules presuming a generic fantasy setting, John Blanche's cover art depicting a heavily armored warrior twatting a skeleton with a hammer would be referenced in later editions. Nicknamed "Harry the Hammer" by Games Workshop's staff, he was Warhammer's first mascot. Though later editions would retroactively make Sigmar's magic hammer the Warhammer of its title, as designer Graeme Davis has said, "Sigmar was consciously based on ." Eventually Harry was inducted into the canon, written up as Harald Hammerstorm. A Norse warrior of the Kurgan tribe, Harald was the slayer of the daemon Mathrag Brainmangler and "bane of the undead" capable of making units normally immune to psychology like zombies and vampires flee in fear while himself immune to their own psychological effects. He, quite literally, ain't afraid of no Ghorst. Harald's Total War stats reflect this, with unique skills that improve the leadership of the army he's embedded in when fighting against the undead, make them immune to vampiric attrition, and double their experience gain from defeating undead. Recruiting Harry does mean taking a 20-point penalty to your diplomatic relations with Vampire Counts factions, not that a Warriors of Chaos army is likely to play nice with the leeches anyway. He also disables the effects of the Undead attribute on anyone he faces, making them likely to flee just like he did on the tabletop, as well as disabling effects like vampiric healing. Looks like smashing skeletons is still his thing. The 3.1.0 update also brings a new Immortal Empires endgame crisis related to Chaos Dwarfs called The Will of Hashut, some rebalance tweaks for Bretonnian factions, and more mercenary Regiments of Renown to recruit, like the Boglars of the Mad Marshes, Bandits of the Silver Road, and the Frolickers Bubonic. According to the Total War: Warhammer 3 roadmap, update 4.0 will arrive in summer with another legendary hero, achievements for Immortal Empires campaigns, and the Shadows of Change DLC to bolster the ranks of Tzeentch, Cathay, and Kislev. Read the full article

[ask-jaghatai-khan]

THE TRUTH SHALL BE DECIDED!

[morteos00]

Oh quick thing of note, Ghal Maraz is not THE warhammer... it's actually this guy's warhammer

[warhammer-fantasy-muses]

@skxrbrand

That's his wargear. Harry is S T A C K E D

[warhammer-fantasy-muses]

// So apparently this "Harry the Hammer" guy is a big deal

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

I thought Gal Marries was the Warhammer of Warhammer

Nope. Harry's Hammer, the Hammer of Harry, Harald Hammerstorm, is the warhammer Warhammer is named after. Ghal Maraz (or Gal Marries if you like) is the warhammer most famously associated with the "warhammer" in Warhammer IPs, but it isn't the warhammer that named Warhammer "Warhammer"

Warhammer

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

Who is Harry the hamner

Harald Hammerstorm. He is, on a meta level, the Warhammer guy. Before Ghal Maraz (Sigmar's Warhammer, the Warhammer of Warhammer) was even a thing, there was Harald Hammerstorm, aka Harry the Hammer. The chaos guy with the giga-powerful warhammer. Allegedly the reason Warhammer is called Warhammer. It doesn't have a fancy name; it is the Hammer of Harry.

In lore he's an extremely powerful chaos champion whose whole thing is murdering the shit out of powerful opponents, but especially the undead, who he hates. He's so good at killing them that he actually has the ability to inspire a sense of mortal terror in undead beings.

His hammer is hilariously powerful, too. It's been so utterly tweaked out by all four major chaos gods that when Harry hits something with it, they usually just die or explode. Even if it's already dead. He can slap the soul, or remnants of a soul, right out of something and into the afterlife. It also just... ignores non-magical armour. I cannot overstate how ridiculous the hammer is.

So yeah. Harry the Hammer. Not the loreful reason Warhammer is called Warhammer, but by informal accounts the meta reason Warhammer is called Warhammer.

Warhammer.

[stories-from-the-warp]

Reynald's not a fan of Chaos Warriors, but he might make an exception for Harald Hammerstorm---Bane of the Dead

[ask-jaghatai-khan]

WHEN SHALL HAMMER CLASH WITH HAMMER?

WHEN SHALL THE FOREBEAR BE CROWNED?

WHEN GODS QUAIL AND LEGIONS FALL!

[ask-jaghatai-khan]

// But for real, who is The Warhammer? Sigmar with Ghal Maraz, or Harald Hammerstorm/Harry the Hammer?

[ask-jaghatai-khan]

Benny hill music plays as Harry causes fear in Nagash and his lieutenants as he chases them around.

“GET BACK HERE BITCH! GET BACK HERE BITCH!!”

- Harald Hammerstorm at the Siege of Nagashizzar