I love this kind of threads, because each of us
made Warhammer the amazing experience most of us dearly recall.
I am going to post of my own stuff. It's basically the EU Warhammer's story. I have been in true love with Warhammer since beta. I was there at day zero and when the last server shut down. I have had an amazing experience with some of the best and / or friendliest guilds on my servers.
Here's day zero: two hours long queue just to log in!
In the next days it got better:
My first guild:
My server was simply epic: it was Eltharion, where legendary, ancient guilds like "Server Police" and "Nagarythe Corps", "Deathrow" and "Greenpeace" were predominant.
Some of the players in my screenshots are probably still remembered by somebody, they were awesome guys in all regards and it has been an honor playing with them.
Here is the first "server event", they gave out masks:
Getting to 40... good times
At a certain point I joined Nagarythe Corps, an awesome guild of old. We are talking about the early times, before the end game changes due to massive lag etc. Gameplay was epic. It was a continuous warband vs warband fight and some of the prominent guilds fielded more than one warband!
But Warhammer was fatally flawed at its very core: the RvR end game. Mythic attempted salvaging the game. As a beta tester I kept sending them feedback (both in form of pictures and videos). They took some of it and ignored some of it. Here are a pair of the pictures, relating to fortresses issues including AoE induced problems:
We know how it ended up. A massive amount of players quit the game. All my guilds and friends quit as well. I quit for some time too.
Fast forward and Warhammer is down to fewer and fewer servers. I got moved to Karak Norn. I joined a very good guild called "Unnamed":
Sadly, nothing lasts forever. Warhammer was waning as well. The guild lost people and split. Part of the surviving Unnamed members joined an alliance, "social" guild called Moonlapse. Whereas they were not exactly focusing on high skill gameplay, they stubbornly held to the original Warhammer "warband size epic battles" mission. We were one of the last guilds on the server to field a full warband, when most called "zerg" going around with a 6-12 men team.
When I felt like turning up difficulty and fun up a notch, I joined one of Luranni's awesome groups. Just one evening with those guys made worthwhile the effort getting to RR100 and playing at that RR level for so much time without getting bored.
I really enjoyed playing my sorceress. I tuned here to the best I could.
With some quite nice kaboom results!
And killer fancy parties like this 3 sorcs + gobbo "vs anything" group:
Sadly Warhammer came to an end. The last day is unforgettable. We all fought and finally just "met" in Praag for a final, touching goodbye: