Warhammer Fantasy is a miniatures battle game where you have dirt farming conscripts being lead by gryphon riding dragonslayers.
It's easy to mark the Bretonnian conscripts and Goblin fodder as having 1 level in a crappy NPC class, but how about the gryphon riding heroes with magic swords and meteor dropping wizards? My gut feeling is that the heroes wound be around level 6-7, with greater daemons around level 10 threats. So the level 6 heroes come in groups with magic weapons to raise their effective level.
I mean more in terms of Warhammer Fantasy lore than tabletop rules, 'cause in tabletop rules a large enough mob of peasants can ping a greater daemon to death but in the backstory it's heroes riding monsters and wielding magic weapons that take on greater daemons.
What is Warhammer Fantasy's power scale in D&D terms?
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The Greater Daemon of Khorne is basically a Balor or Pit Fiend. It looks like one, it flies, it breaks people in half. The D&D monsters cast spells, Khorne Flakes simply makes everyone nearby go into a furious rage and can "non-magically" hurl bolts of fire.
On the other hand, the Greater Daemon of Tzeench looks like an oversized Vrock and basically casts as a Sorcerer that focuses in Evocation and Transmutation. It can't do anything that a 10th level D&D Sorcerer can't do, really. I mean, other than grab people and rip them in halfPolymorph lol
Nurgle is a big sack of disease, and immunity to Disease is not exactly difficult to pick up in D&D. Other than that, it brings the same things to the table that a particularly nasty troll does.
The casters of WHFB can generally get to around level 10 (D&D terms). Remember that some of them are shit like vampires on top of being 10th level Necromancers.
On the other hand, the Greater Daemon of Tzeench looks like an oversized Vrock and basically casts as a Sorcerer that focuses in Evocation and Transmutation. It can't do anything that a 10th level D&D Sorcerer can't do, really. I mean, other than grab people and rip them in halfPolymorph lol
Nurgle is a big sack of disease, and immunity to Disease is not exactly difficult to pick up in D&D. Other than that, it brings the same things to the table that a particularly nasty troll does.
The casters of WHFB can generally get to around level 10 (D&D terms). Remember that some of them are shit like vampires on top of being 10th level Necromancers.
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I wouldn't rate bloodthirsters as equivalent to balors and pit fiends simply because they happen to look similar and fit similar organizational roles. It's probably best to think of it as a giant flying bruiser with some ritual magic and give it a cr based on the CRs of its context, probably in fhe 10 to 15 range depending on what you give the elite units like knights and Chaos warriors.